# Of Marriage.

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Source: Martyrs’ Mirror. Original heading: OF MARRIAGE.



Marriage we hold to be an ordinance of God,
which was first instituted by God in paradise, and
confirmed in our first parents, Adam and Eve, who
were created after the image of God, male and female,
while they both were yet in favor with God.
Gen. 2:22; 1:27.

In accordance with this first institution, and agreeably
to Christ’s ordinance, Matt. 19:5, the marriage
of children of God (who are not too nearly
related by consanguinity) must be entered into,
after prayer, and kept inviolable, so that each man
shall have his own, only wife, and each wife her own
husband; and nothing shall separate them, save
adultery. Lev. 18; 20; 1 Cor. 5:1; Matt. 19;
Rom. 7:2; 1 Cor. 7:2; Matt. 5:32; 1 Cor. 9:5.

Thus, it is lawful for a brother, to take a sister to
wife; a sister, also, may be married to whom she
will, only in the Lord, that is, according to the
ordinance and pleasure of the Lord, as mentioned
before. But we do not find, that God has anywhere,
through his word, ordained or instituted, that
a believing member of the church should enter into
matrimony with an unbelieving, worldly person; on
the contrary, we find, that God the Lord was very
angry with those who did so, and declared that they
were flesh, who would not be led by his Spirit;
therefore, we reprove all those who follow herein
the lust of their flesh, in the same manner as we do
other carnal sinners. 1 Cor. 7:39; Deut. 7:3; Neh.
10:30; 13:25–27; Gen. 6:6.





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