Notes to Chapter 1iugo (tale enim est coniugium si abest amor) a viro neque amante neque amico
acerbissima lege retineri, ea demum durities est omni divortio durior” (CM XV, 164).
Cf. Doctrine and Discipline, “to retain still, and not be able to love, is to heap up more
injury... not to be belov’d & yet retain’d, is the greatest injury to a gentle spirit”
(CPW II, 253).
147 Page 395. Cf. PL 11.1,125–31; 12.83–90.
148 See chapters 6, pp. 178–9 and chapter 7, pp. 202–3.
149 In Documents of the Christian Church, ed. Bettenson, pp. 66–8. Cf. Philippians 2:6–8.
150 Pages 421–3. Hieronymus Zanchius, “De Incarnatione Filii Dei,” Opera Theologicorum,
8 tom. (Heidelberg, 1613), VII, cols 114–44.
151 For example, Docetism, Apollinarianism, Theopaschitism, Nestorianism, etc. For dis-
cussion of these in relation to Milton see Lewalski, Milton’s Brief Epic, 148–57. For
Socinianism, see note 116.
152 Page 436. See chapter 11, pp. 384–5; PL 12.566–9.
153 Pages 438, 440. Cf. p. 270.
154 Adam’s repentance exhibits some of these stages: see PL 10.829–33, 1,099–105.
155 Page 512. He refers to and summarizes passages from the “Defensio sententiae
Remonstrantium circa Articulum V de Perseverantia,” Acta et Scripta Synodalia Dordracena
Ministrorum Remonstrantium in Faederato Belgio (Harderwijk, 1620), 323–4.
156 A cross-reference in chapter 13 points to chapter 27 as containing a discussion of
eternal death, but that subject is now treated in chapter 33. Milton evidently intended
to follow his chapter on Imperfect Glorification with a brief one on the Covenant of
Grace (26), followed by the treatment of Perfect Glorification and the punishment of
the damned (27), but then decided that issues pertaining to the Covenant of Grace and
Christian liberty required several chapters that should properly come before the treat-
ment of last things. He forgot to change the cross-reference.
157 See Of Civil Power (CPW VII, 271), and chapter 11, note 119.
158 Pages 533–4. See, for example, Ames, Morrow, xxxix, 9, 176, and Wollebius, Abridg-
ment, 73. Milton found one theologian who agreed with him, Zanchius, but says that
he confused the issue by admitting “a whole host of exceptions” (533). See Zanchius,
Commentarius in Epistolam Sancti Pauli ad Ephesios, Opera Theologicorum II, Tom vi, 91.
159 CM XVI, 124, my translation.
160 As before he cites Matthew 22:37–40. See chapter 6, p. 168, and Colasterion, CPW II,
750.
161 Pages 532, 535. Joan Bennett, in Reviving Liberty: Radical Christian Humanism in Milton’s
Great Poems (Cambridge, Mass., 1989), 97–109, distinguishes between “voluntarist”
antinomians at whose fringes were the Ranters, and a “humanist antinomianism”
founded on an Arminian belief in free will, and an appeal to the law of nature appre-
hensible by the “strenuous efforts of the regenerate moral reason.”
162 Pages 536–8. See chapter 11, pp. 383–5.
163 “It is not the Universities... but God who has given us pastors and teachers,” 572.
Cf. Likeliest Means CPW VII, 315–16; and chapter 11, pp. 388–9.
164 It has been so regarded, because it comes between the chapter devoted to the visible
church, and that devoted to particular churches.
165 Pages 583–90. Cf. Of Civil Power, CPW VII, 242–3.
166 Pages 598–9. Cf Likeliest Means, CPW VII, 281: “our English divines, and they only of
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