Marriage by the morall law of God vindicated against all ceremonial laws of popes and bishops destructive to filiation aliment and succession and the government of familyes and kingdoms

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Title: Marriage by the morall law of God vindicated against all ceremonial laws of popes and bishops destructive to filiation aliment and succession and the government of familyes and kingdoms
Author: Lawrence, William, 1613 or 14-1681 or 2.
Publication: [London? :: s.n.],; 1680.
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Subject terms: Marriage -- Early works to 1800.
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(2.) It gives the Bishop the Monopoly of all Women, and their Goods.

For he claiming to be Judg of Marriage and Divorce above Appeal, the greatest part of the Year and fittest for Marriage, they cannot Marry without his License, for which they must pay Money: and when Marri∣ed, they lie at his Mercy whether he will part them again or no; for what he doth, there is thence no Appeal; if he do admit them to live together and death part them, yet no Jointure, no Divorce, no Thirds, no Aliment, unless he will vouchsafe his Certificate, for which they must pay Money; and this they get if they obey his Canons, and are Married by a Ceremony of a Priest in a Temple; if they come not to yoak them∣selves by his Ceremonies, then he calls them Whores, and exacts from them Money by Penance, seeing they would give none for Fees, and sets what Rates and Taxes by Fees or Penance as he pleaseth; so by his Power of Compulsion to this Ceremony, he Levieth his Rents on Obedients and Disobedients, and sheers both his Sheep and his Goats by having the Power of Compulsion of them to this Fold of his Temple; and without it, the same could not be done.