2._____ Marriage was ordained for the mutual help of husband and wife,
for the increase of mankind with a legitimate issue, and the preventing
of uncleanness.
(
Genesis
2:18; Genesis
1:28; 1
Corinthians 7:2, 9 )
3._____ It is lawful for all sorts of people to marry, who are able
with judgment to give their consent; yet it is the duty of Christians to
marry in the Lord; and therefore such as profess the true religion, should
not marry with infidels, or idolaters; neither should such as are godly,
be unequally yoked, by marrying with such as are wicked in their life,
or maintain damnable heresy.
(
Hebrews
13:4; 1
Timothy 4:3; 1
Corinthians 7:39;Nehemiah
13:25-27 )
4._____ Marriage ought not to be within the degrees of consanguinity
or affinity, forbidden in the Word; nor can such incestuous marriages ever
be made lawful, by any law of man or consent of parties, so as those persons
may live together as man and wife.
(
Leviticus
18; Mark
6:18; 1
Corinthians 5:1 )