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The confession of faith

Chapter 228

I. ^ Gen. i». 24. Therefore shall

man leave his father and h;« kIr.-, and shall clejve u:no his f e : and they shall be one flesh, lattb. xix. .5. And said. For tliis ttse shall a man leave father and other, and shall cleave to his and they twain shall be one »h. Ver. 6. Wherefore they rre more twain, but one lieJi. hat therefore God baih joined ^c'her, 1ft not man p.ut asunder, ov. ii. 17. Which fofsaketh the ide of her youth, and forget- h the covenant of her God. H. I' Gen. ii. 18. And the Lord
id said, It is not gcod that the n should be alone : I will hxzLq 1 W hdp vsktt:t fur hico.
^ Mai. ii. 15. And did not he make one ? Yet had he the residue of the Spirit. And wherefore one f That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against tlie wife of his youth.
^ 1 Cor. vii. 2. Nevertheless, to avoid forniaition, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband, Ver. 9, But if they cannot contain, let them narry ; for it is better to marry thnn to bum.