# Xii. Of The State Of Matrimony.

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We confess that there is in the church of God an
honorable state of matrimony, of two free, believing
persons, in accordance with the manner after which
God originally ordained the same in paradise, and
instituted it himself with Adam and Eve, and that
the Lord Christ did away and set aside all the abuses
of marriage which had meanwhile crept in, and referred
all to the original order, and thus left it. Gen.
1:27; Mark 10:4.

In this manner the apostle Paul also taught and
permitted matrimony in the church, and left it free
for every one to be married, according to the original
order, in the Lord, to whomsoever one may get to
consent. By these words, in the Lord, there is to
be understood, we think, that even as the patriarchs
had to marry among their kindred or generation,
so the believers of the New Testament have likewise
no other liberty than to marry among the
chosen generation and spiritual kindred of Christ,
namely such, and no others, who have previously
become united with the church as one heart and
soul, have received one baptism, and stand in one
communion, faith, doctrine and practice, before they
may unite with one another by marriage. Such are
then joined by God in his church according to the
original order; and this is called, marrying in the
Lord. 2 Cor. 7:2; 1 Cor. 9:5; Gen. 24:4; 28:2;
1 Cor. 7:39.



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