By like holy promise the Sacrament of Matrimonie knitteth man and wife in perpetuall loue that they disire not to be separated for any displeasure or aduersitie that shall happen.

An euident place to shew what they intended who pend that Homily, taking the word Sacrament either particularly for a solemne promise vowed, or generally for a holy state ordained of God, as Doctor Whitakers noteth Saint Austin tooke the word, who honested Mariage by the name of a Sacrament,* when against certaine mens false criminations he defended the dignitie thereof, as he did in that Booke most learnedly and holily. That which was done learnedly & holily in Austin his booke, we liue to the times to heare it censured, & condemned as done corruptly in the booke of homilies. Chemnitius could be content Mariage were called a Sacrament so it might be an aduertisement of she whole doctrine thereof against the doctrine of the diuels, and of the heathen, if this were intended we might easilie yéeld to the name. The confession of VVittenberg saith. Because Mari∣age is a holy kinde of life ordained of God and commanded by him we willingly giue it the name of a Sacrament. Take we first or last of these interpretations, we shall easily frée these words in the Homily of that waight, with which some delight to burden it withall.