VI. Although the corruption of man be such as is apt

to study arguments, unduly to put asunder those whom God hath joined together in marriage ; yet nothing but adultery, or such wilful desertion as can no way be re- medied by the church or civil magistrate, is cause sufficient of dissolving the bond of marriage " : wherein a publick iand orderly course of proceeding is to be observed, and the persons concerned in it not left to their own wills and dis* :crelion in their own case ^
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'"Mat. V. 31. It hath heen said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, Jet him give her a v/ritiiig of di- vorcement: Ver. 32. But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away •his wife, saving for the ciAise of for- nication, causeth her to commit adul- Xery : and whosoever sb.all marry her «hat is divorced, committeth adultery.
^ Mat. xix. 9. And I say ynto you. Whosoever shall put away his v/ife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth aduhery : and Vk'hoso marrieth her wliich is put away, doth commit adultery. JRom. vii. 2. For the woman which hath an husband, is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth ; but if the husband be dead, f^e is loosed from the law of her husband. Ver. 3. So then, if while her husband liveth she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; hut if her husband be 4ead, she is free -from that law ; so that she is no adulteress, though she tje married to anotlier man.