For as we are every one members one of another, it is better that we should be saved without some one of these members, than that we perish together with them. Or, it is better that we should be saved without one good purpose, or one good work, than that while we seek to perform all good works we perish together with all.
31. “It hath been said, ‘Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:’
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