Note 1286 — Chapter X · RISE OF CIVIL MARRIAGE
Reading edition
Bucer, Script. anglic. basil., 1577, Censur. in ordinat. eccles., c. xx, 488, 489: Whitgift, Works, III, 353, 354, note. Bucer is the great Protestant authority on the question of marriage and divorce. Milton calls him the "pastor of nations" (Works, III, 285), and congratulates himself on having independently reached similar conclusions (ibid., 282 ff.). See especially Milton's "Judgment of Martin Bucer concerning Divorce" (ibid., 274-314), being a partial translation of the second book of Bucer's De regno Christi, addressed to Edward VI.