III. *^ Heh, xiii. 4. Marriage t«

honourable in all, and the bed un- defilcd : but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. 1 Tim, iv. 3, Forbidding to marry, and com- manding to abstain from meats, which God hnth crep^e,d to be receiv- ed, with thi'.nksgiving of them which believe and ki>ow the truth. 1 Cor. vii. SG. But if any mail think that he behavfeth Ijimwlf liiicomtly t^^wards his virgin, if slie p;is3 tne Uower of her age, ajid need so require, let him do what h^ will, he sihneth not: let them marry. Ver., 37. Nevertheless, he that standeth sted- fast in his heart, h.vving no neces- sity, but hath power over his own will, ftad hiiix so decreed in his G he 'Alt
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^uty of Christians to marry only in the Lord^ And therefore such as profess the tnie reformed religion should not marry with infidels, Papists, or other idolaters : iieither should such as are godij be unequally yoked, by marrying with such as are notoriously wicked in their life, »T maintain damnable heresies ^,