Conformity of the ecclesiastical discipline of the Reformed churches of France with that of the primitive Christians written by M. La Rocque ... ; render'd into English by Jos. Walker.

CONFORMITY.

We have already seen on the First Article, That Children under Power of Father and Mother, cannot lawfully contract Marriage without their consent. In this there is mention of those which have already been marryed, and who being desirous to marry a second time, ought in civility to impart it to them. St. Ambrose in the Ninth chap. of the First Book, touching Abraham requires that the Widow Woman which intends to re∣marry, should refer to Father and Mother to make choice of the Person which she ought to marry. Balza∣mon and Zonaras explaining the 42 Cannon of St. Basils second Canonical Epistle, distinguishes Widows which are under the power of any Relation, from those which depend only of themselves; And for these last, they pretend they are at liberty to marry to whom they please, so it be in the Lord, and according to the Laws and Cannons; but as for the others, they think they ought to have the consent of those under whose Tuition they are, and who, without it, have right to dissolve the Marriage. There is in the Third Tome of the

Councils a Decree Attributed to some Council of Arles, * 1.1 where there's mention of the Marriage of Wi∣dows, and of the consent of Fathers and Mothers.

Notes

• * 1.1

  pag. 823.