therefore God hath joyned together, let no man put asunder. They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a Writing of Divorcement, and put her away? He saith to them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your Wives; but from the beginning it was not so.
Deut. 24.4. Her former Husband which sent her away, may not take her again to be his Wife after she is defiled.
1 Cor. 7.28. If thou marry thou hast not sinned, and if a Virgin marry, she hath not sinned.
1 Tim. c. 4.1. Now the Spirit speaketh expresly, That in the later times some shall depart from the Faith, Giving heed to sedu∣cing spirits and Doctrines of Devils speaking lies in Hypocrisie, hav∣ing their Consciences seared with an hot Iron, forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats.
Mat. 19.9. According to the Original Greek is, Who∣soever shall put away his Woman, except it be for carnal Ʋnclean∣ness, and shall marry another, committeth Adultery.
1 Cor. c. 7.2. To avoid Fornication, Let every man have his own woman, and every woman have her own man: Let the man render unto the woman Due Benevolence, and likewise the woman to the man. The woman hath not Power over her omn Body but the man, and likewise also the man hath not Power of his own Body but the woman. And Vers. 9. It is better to marry than to burn.
1 Tim. 2.15. She shall be saved in Childbearing, if she continues in Faith, and Charity, and Holiness with Sobriety.
1 Tim. 5.14. I will therefore, That the younger woman marry, bear Children.
On these Foundations therefore premised, Of Acts of Par∣liaments, Laws of Nations, and above all, the Moral Law of God in Scriptures and in Nature, if the Lady Companion in this Statute as is said, Cant. 8.9. Be a wall, we will build upon her a Palace of Silver, and Prove,
That Carnal knowledge between persons not Prohibited by the Moral Law and Chastity and Childbirth of the Woman without Contract, Banns, Licence, Witnesses, Priests, Temples, or any other Ceremony is a Marriage and Ma∣trimony De Facto & De Jure Lawful, Holy and Indissolu∣ble, according to the Law of God.