any other kind of hypocrisy."[262] Hence, where such society does not exist, where mutual affection has given place to deceit, the legal bond of the sham wedlock ought to be dissolved. [Footnote 256: His four principal works dealing with divorce are the "Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce" (_Prose Works_, III, 169-273); supplemented by "The Judgment of Martin Bucer" (_ibid._, 274-314); "Tetrachordon" (_ibid._, 315-433); and the "Colasterion" (_ibid._, 434-61). See also _Prose Works_, IV, 243-49; I, 259.] [Footnote 257: MILTON, "Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce," _Prose Works_, III, 241, 242.] [Footnote 258: MILTON, "Colasterion," _Prose Works_, III, 423-33, where the views of many reformers are quoted; and "Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce," _ibid._, 251-58, where Jesus's words are examined.] [Footnote 259: MILTON, "Colasterion," _Prose Works_, III, 425.] [Footnote 260: MILTON, "Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce," _Prose Works_, III, 185.] [Footnote 261: The doctrine of indissolubility compels uncongenial minds to "fadge together, and combine as they may to their unspeakable wearisomeness, and despair of all sociable delight in the ordinance which God hath established to that very end.... All which we can refer justly to no other author than the canon law and her adherents, not consulting with charity, the interpreter and guide of our faith, but resting in the mere element of the text; doubtless by the policy of the devil to make that gracious ordinance become unsupportable, that what with men not daring to venture upon wedlock, and what with men wearied out of it, all inordinate licence might abound."--"Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce," _Prose Works_, III, 181.] [Footnote 262: _Ibid._, 210, 211, 195. For similar expressions see _ibid._, 181, 182, 185, 267.]