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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62978	Mixt marriages vindicated: or A discourse of mixt marriages by way of dialogue between A. and B. Who are of the same profession in matters of religion: but of different apprehensions in the point of marriage. First, shewing, that for persons to be joyned together in marriage, who differ about institutions in matters of religion, is contrary to no law; and therefore lawful. Secondly, that in case such marriages were the breach of a law, yet there is no rule left for the church to excommunicate persons for so marrying. By Stephen Tory.	Tory, Stephen.	1680 (1680)	Wing T1943A; ESTC R34668	40,517	65

the Fall and not tainted with Sin by Adam's transgression And if they were such persons it 's then no wonder that God was provoked thereby To see Man pure and uncorrupt Innocent and as yet Immortal to debase himself and accompany with corrupt and fallen Women only because they were Fair and Beautiful And also to learn the manners of fallen Man and to walk in his depraved wayes As appears they did by the whole tenor of the Chapter Gen. 6. But again supposing what hath been said to be but a Dream and that Justin Martyr and others of his mind were mistaken in their Notions also Nay allowing you that these Men were the Sons of Seth and the Women were the Daughters of Cain or that the Men were Members of the Church of God and the Women the Daughters of carnal and worldly Men yet this would not prove those Marriages sinful or that the World was drowned because of the sin committed by those Marriages For First if those Marriages were sinful then they were the breach of some Law which I pray you to shew in answer to these Quaeries at some other time 1. What Law they broke 2. When that Law was given 3. By whom it was given 4. To whom it was given 5. Where it was given 6. The penalty for breaking it 7. The reward promised to those that kept it Further Consider that the Act of Marriage might be lawful and yet the Accident that might follow unlawful As may appear by these instances following First It 's lawful for a man to kindle a Fire in his own House for his lawful occasions but by ill management he may set his own House on fire and thereby destroy both his own and his Neighbours also which is unlawful to be done Secondly A man may travel an hundred Miles into the Country with his Neighbours Wife lawfully but having opportunity and by giving way to temptation they may commit sin which is unlawful Thirdly It was lawful for Dinah to walk abroad and view the Daughters of the Land but what followed thereupon was unlawful Gen. 34.1 2 3. Fourthly It was lawful for David to send his Daughter Tamar to make Amnon a Cake and both lawful and commondable in her to go but what followed was unlawful 2 Sam. 13.7 c. And this might be in the Case of these Marriages for ought you or I can perceive But further It 's hard to conceive that these Marriages were sinful if we consider that God blessed them with a great blessing in giving them an honourable Off-spring as in Gen. 6.4 When the Sons of God came in unto the Daughters of men and they bare Children unto them the same became mighty men which were of Old men of renown And further if these Marriages were sinful yet not the Sin for which God destroyed the Old World As will appear if we consider what follows First These Marriages if unlawful yet could they not be universal And God doth not punish severely and universally for the sin of a few as is plain in the case of Sodom Gen. 18.3 If ten righteous I will not destroy it for ten 's sake Secondly The sin for which the World was drowned was not only great but universal Gen. 6.12 God looked upon the Earth and behold it was corrupt for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth Vers 11. The earth was also corrupt before God and the earth was filled with violence Vers 5. God saw the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every imagination of the thought of his heart was only evil and that continually Vers 6. And it repented the Lord that he had made man and it grieved him at his Heart And the Lord said I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth So that you may see their sin was not one single Act but the whole course of their Lives was wicked and that not of some few men only but the whole mass of Mankind Lastly If all be true as you suppose both as to the persons and sin with the punishment thereof yet your business is not done you have yet no Rule to excommunicate your Members that marry out of your Church from any thing done in this Case For here God is both Judge and Executioner himself whose Example you may not follow without a Precept And Precept you have none And therefore be pleased to descend to something more plain and familiar if you have any thing to offer B. I shall A. But if you please let us agree upon a plain question that may reach our case and proceed accordingly B. Content A. The Question then shall be this if you please Whether a Contract of Marriage made between two persons of different perswasions about Institutions in matters of Religion being performed and continued in be lawful or unlawful B. I pray you explain what you mean by Institutions A. By Institutions I mean that part of Religion which is no way our duty nor we in a Capacity to know any thing of it without a Command And of this kind are divers parts of our Duty both under the Law and also under the Gospel under the Law there is the Law of Circumcision the Passover the Law of the Nazarites with diversother things under the Gospel there is Baptism the Lords Supper and laying on of Hands Now whether a Contract of Marriage made between two persons differing in their Perswasions about these or such like things and this Contract performed and the parties live together as Man and Wife Whether this Act be lawful or unlawful B. Vnlawful and that I shall prove First By the care the Vertuous had to avoid such Marriages Secondly By the command of God forbidding such Marriages Thirdly By shewing the punishment inflicted upon such that so married First for the care of the Vertuous to avoid such Marriages see Gen. 24.3 Abraham sent his Servant to his Fathers House to take a Wife for his Son Isaac And Isaac sent Jacob to take a Wife of the Daughters of Laban his Vnkle to prevent his marrying with the Daughters of the Land Gen. 27.46.28.2 Now why should these good people put themselves to this trouble had it been lawful to have married with the Daughters of the Land which they might have done both with Honour and Profit had it been lawful for them to have done it A. Good Men have done things for Ensamples to others as Paul 2 Thes 3.8 9. 1 Cor. 9. from ver 1. to the 9th And as Nehemiah did Nehem. 5.15 And Vriah 2 Sam. 11.11 All which did refuse to do those things they might lawfully do to make themselves Ensamples to others Secondly They might do these things for the Love they had to their own Kindred and the Honour of their own Family a thing dear to the most of men Thirdly The Disesteem they had for the unnurtured Canaanites As many in England at this day do not approve of marrying