shall enjoy the full, free, and unquestioned liberty of discharging every part of their sacred functions, without violence or danger (Isa. xlix. 23). And, as Jesus Christ hath appointed a regular gov ernment and discipline in his Church, no law of any commonwealth should interfere with, let, or hinder, the due exercise thereof, among the voluntary members of any denomination of Christians, according to their own profession and belief (Psa. cv. 15; Acts xviii. 14-16). It is the duty of civil magistrates to protect the person and good name of all their people, in such an effectual manner as that no person be suffered, either upon pretence of religion or infidelity, to offer any indignity, violence, abuse, or injury to any other person whatsoever and to take order, that all religious and ecclesiastical assemblies be held without molestation or disturbance (2 Sam. xxiii. 3; 1 Tim. ii. 1; Rom. xiii. 4).]

IV. It is the duty of people' to pray for magistrates, to honor their

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IV. Debet populus pro Magistratibus preces fundere,' personas eo

persons, to pay them tribute and rum honore prosequi, tributa aliaother dues, to obey their lawful que eis debita persolvere, obtempecommands, and to be subject to rare licitis eorum mandatis, ac proptheir authority, for conscience' ter conscientiam subjici illorum ausake. Infidelity or difference in thoritati; quæ si justa sit ac legireligion doth not make void the tima, non eam illorum infidelitas, magistrate's just and legal author-non religio diversa cassam reddit, ity, nor free the people from their neque populum liberat a debitæ illis due obedience to him: from which obedientiæ præstatione, qua viri quiecclesiastical persons are not ex- dem Ecclesiastici non eximuntur,' empted; much less hath the Pope multo minus in ipsos magistratus, any power or jurisdiction over them intra ditionem suam, aut ex eorum in their dominions, or over any of populo quemvis potestatem ullam their people; and least of all to de- habet aut jurisdictionem Papa Roprive them of their dominions or manus, minime vero omnium vita lives, if he shall judge them to be illos aut principatu exuendi, si ipse

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1 [Am. ed. reads of the people.]

21 Tim. ii. 1, 2.

1 Pet. ii. 17.

Rom. xiii. 6, 7.

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Rom. xiii. 5; Tit. i. 3.

1 Pet. ii. 13, 14, 16.

'Rom. xiii. 1; 1 Kings ii. 35; Acts xxv. 9-11; 2 Pet. ii. 1, 10, 11; Jude 8-11.

heretics, or upon any other pre-scilicet eos hæreticos esse judicaverit, vel etiam alio prætextu quoviscunque.'

tense whatsoever.'

CHAPTER XXIV.

Of Marriage and Divorce. I. Marriage is to be between one man and one woman: neither is it lawful for any man to have more than one wife, nor for any woman to have more than one husband at the same time.'

II. Marriage was ordained for the mutual help of husband and wife; for the increase of mankind with a legitimate issue, and of the Church with an holy seed; and for preventing of uncleanness."

CAP. XXIV.

De Conjugio et Divortio.

I. Conjugium inter unum virum ac fœminam unam contrahi debet; neque viro ulli uxores plures, nec ulli fæminæ ultra unum maritum eodem tempore habere licet."

II. Conjugium erat institutum, cum propter mariti uxorisque auxilium mutuum,' tum propter humani generis prole legitima, Ecclesiæqeu sancto semine incrementum,* tum vero etiam ad impudicitiam declinandam.

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III. It is lawful for all sorts of III. Matrimonio jungi cuivis hopeople to marry who are able with minum generi licitum est, qui conjudgment to give their consent. sensum suum præbere valent cum Yet it is the duty of Christians to judicio; Veruntamen solum in marry only in the Lord." And, Domino connubia inire debent Chritherefore, such as profess the true stiani;' proindeque quotquot religireformed religion should not mar- onem veram reformatamque profiry with infidels, Papists, or other idolaters: neither should such as are godly be unequally yoked, by marrying with such as are notoriously wicked in their life, or maintain damnable heresies."

tentur, non debent Infidelibus, Papistis, aut aliis quibuscunque idololatris connubio sociari; neque sane debent qui pii sunt impari jugo copulari, conjugium cum illis contrahendo qui aut improbitate vitæ sunt notabiles, aut damnabiles tuentur hæreses.®

jugia quavis aut humana lege, aut consensione partium fieri legitima, adeo ut personis illis ad instar ma

IV. Marriage ought not to be IV. Connubia intra consanguiniwithin the degrees of consanguin- tatis affinitatisque gradus in verbo ity or affinity forbidden in the Dei vetitos iniri non est licitum ;1 Word; nor can such incestuous neque possunt ejusmodi incesta conmarriages ever be made lawful by any law of man, or consent of parties, so as those persons may live together, as man and wife. The riti et uxoris liceat unquam cohabiman may not marry any of his tare. Non licet viro e cognatione wife's kindred nearer in blood than he may of his own, nor the woman of her husband's kindred nearer in blood than of her own.'

uxoris suæ ducere, quam si œque seipsum attingeret sanguine, ducere non liceret; sicuti nec fœminæ licet viro nubere a mariti sui sanguine minus, quam a suo liceret, alieno.'

V. Adultery or fornication, com- V. Adulterium aut scortatio si mitted after a contract, being de- admittatur post sponsalia, ac ante tected before marriage, giveth just conjugium detegatur, personæ innooccasion to the innocent party to centi justam præbet occasionem condissolve that contract.* In the tractum illum dissolvendi; quod si case of adultery after marriage, adulterium post conjugium admittait is lawful for the innocent tur, licebit parti innocenti divortium party to sue out a divorce, and lege postulare ac obtinere; atque after the divorce to marry anoth- quidem post factum divortium coner, as if the offending party were jugio alteri sociari, perinde acsi dead." mortua esset persona illa quæ conjugii fidem violabat.

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VI. Although the corruption of VI. Quamvis ea sit hominis corman be such as is apt to study ruptio ut proclivis sit ad excogitanarguments, unduly to put asunder dum argumenta, indebite illos quos those whom God hath joined to- Deus connubio junxit dissociandi; gether in marriage; yet nothing nihilominus tamen extra adulterium but adultery, or such willful deser- ac desertionem ita obstinatam, ut cui tion as can no way be remedied by nullo remedio, nec ab Ecclesia nec a

Lev. chap. xviii.; 1 Cor. v. 1; Amos ii. 7. * Mark vi. 18; Lev. xviii. 24-28. 3 Lev. xx. 19-21.

Matt. i. 18-20.
Matt. v. 31, 32.

Matt. xix. 9; Rom. vii. 2, 3.

the Church or civil magistrate, is Magistratu civili subveniri possit, cause sufficient of dissolving the sufficiens causa nulla esse potest conbond of marriage;' wherein a pub- jugii vinculum dissolvendi. Atque lic and orderly course of proceed- hac quidem in re procedendi ordo ing is to be observed; and the per- publicus et regularis est observandus, sons concerned in it, not left to nec personæ illæ, quarum jus agitur, their own wills and discretion in sunt suo arbitrio judiciove in causa their own case.' propria permittenda.

III. Unto this catholic visible

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Church Christ hath given the min- sibili dedit Christus ministrorum istry, oracles, and ordinances of ordinem, oracula, ac instituta Dei God, for the gathering and perfect- ad sanctos usque ad finem mundi ing of the saints, in this life, to the in hac vita colligendos simul et end of the world: and doth by his perficiendos; in quem finem præown presence and Spirit, according sentia sua, spirituque secundum to his promise, make them effectual ipsius promissionem, eadem reddit thereunto.' efficacia.1

IV. This catholic Church hath IV. Ecclesia hæc Catholica exbeen sometimes more, sometimes titit quandoque magis quandoque less visible." And particular minus visibilis." Ecclesiæ autem churches, which are members there- particulares (quæ sunt illius memof, are more or less pure, according bra) eo magis minusve puræ sunt, as the doctrine of the gospel is qui majori aut minori cum puritaught and embraced, ordinances tate in iis docetur excipiturque administered, and public worship Evangelii doctrina, administrantur performed more or less purely in divina instituta, cultusque publicus them.❜ celebratur.'

V. Purissima omnium quæ in terris sunt Ecclesiæ, cum mixturæ tum etiam errori sunt obnoxiæ,* eousque autem nonnullæ degenerarunt, ut ex Ecclesiis Christi facta demum sint ipsius Satana Synagogæ; nihilo

V. The purest churches under heaven are subject both to mixture and error; and some have so degenerated as to become no churches of Christ, but synagogues of Satan. Nevertheless, there shall be always a Church on minus tamen nunquam deerit in terearth to worship God according ris Ecclesiæ, quæ Deum colat secunto his will."

VI. There is no other head of the Church but the Lord Jesus Christ: nor can the Pope of Rome, in any

dum ipsius voluntatem.®

VI. Ecclesiæ caput extra unum Dominum Jesum Christum nullum est; nec ullo sensu caput ejus esse

1 1 Cor. xii. 23; Eph. iv. 11-13; Matt. xxviii. 1 Cor. xiii. 12; Rev. chaps. ii. and iii.; 19, 20; Isa. lix. 21.

Matt. xiii. 24-30, 47.

* Rom. xi. 3, 4; Rev. xii. 6, 14; [Am. ed. Rev. xviii. 2; Rom. xi. 18–22.

Acts ix. 31].

'Rev. chaps. ii. and iii.; 1 Cor. v. 6, 7.

* Matt. xvi. 18; Psa. lxxii. 17; cii. 28; Matt. xxviii. 19, 20.

7 Col. i. 18; Eph. i. 22.