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A49780 Marriage by the morall law of God vindicated against all ceremonial laws of popes and bishops destructive to filiation aliment and succession and the government of familyes and kingdoms Lawrence, William, 1613 or 14-1681 or 2. 1680 (1680) Wing L690; ESTC R7113 397,315 448

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Year after his being wounded or beaten punisheth only the Event of an unlawful Act of wounding or beating not of lawful which Event is subsequent and not preceding to the Act. So likewise the Scripture useth the word Event for what follows and not for what precedes as Eccles 2.14 One Event happeneth to them all And Eccles 9.2 There is one Event to the Righteous and to the Wicked And Verse 11. Ireturned and saw under the Sun that the Race is not to the Swift nor the Battel to the Strong neither yet Bread to the Wise nor Riches to men of Vnderstanding nor yet Favour to men of Skill but Time and Chance happeneth to them all Man purposeth but God disposeth Events are only in the Power of God Ceremonies and Circumstances in this agree 1. That they are both accessary and not the Principal Acts. 2. That when single they may be neither good nor evil but when join'd with another Act they may become either good or evil 3. They may be in some junctures each the Principal and in other the accessary Act. 4. In some junctures each may be good in other evil and in a third neither good nor evil that is neither be Ceremonies nor Circumstances 5. In this Ceremonies and Circumstances agree that they have been used and abused in all Affairs and Acts both Civil Military and Religious but I shall here only insist on such Ceremonies as have been abused and compel'd by Pagan and Episcopal Canons in relation to Marriage Ceremonies and Circumstances in this differ 1. Ceremonies and Circumstances differ That Marriage and other Acts are impossible to be done without Circumstances but the same is possible to be done without Ceremonies 2. Ceremonies are always Acts external and made the objects of the external Senses of Witnesses and are of no Use in Marriage but the gains of the Priest where Witnesses are unlawful as in Carnal knowledg or impossible as in Filiation as is already proved P. 104 105. But Circumstances of Marriage may be both external or internal and invisible External as Youth Age Sexes Health Sickness Plurality Unity Internal and Invisible as Religion Conscience Vertue Vice Love Hatred and the like Ceremonies make Acts gawdy which they call decent or deformed before men but Circumstances only make them so before God 3. All Ceremonials are Artificial and not Natural but Circumstances may be both Artificial and Natural 4. No Ceremonies in Marriage are Commanded or Prohibited in the Moral Law of God but many Circumstances are Commanded and many Prohibited in the same Moral Law 5. God is the Author of all Natural and Moral Circumstances which make Marriage lawful or unlawful but the Devil is the Author of Ceremonies where is no Miracle or sign of Mission from God And it hath been before shewn the compulsion to Ceremonies of Marriage came from Daemons and Priests of Priapus and Venus and such as judg Marriage by such Ceremonies come not from God 6. Ceremony is a matter of Formality in Judgment but Circumstance if any is the matter of Substance To conclude it is a thing so absurd to judg by Ceremonies above Circumstances and by Formalities above Substance that never any Lawyer was so shameless to maintain in writing or lay any such Principle in judicial Proce●dings to be equal though by the Corruption of Practice not only in Marriage but in all things else The Truth and Substance of Religion and Justice hath been utterly lost and destroyed in an heap of Ceremonies and Formalities invented only for the gains of such Judges as would for that end with such Empty-nothings pretend to w●igh Right and Wrong For the Law of man can not make any Ceremony or other matter to be Substance which the Law of God and Nature hath made an Accident or make that Moral which God hath made to be only Ceremonial or make that Act Good or Evil in it self or to affect ano●her Act with Good or Evil for to make Moral Good or Evil or a Law for it belongs only to Supream Power Isa 45 7. I form the Light and create Darkness I make Peace and create Evil. Otherwise he were not Legislator of the World Of the manifold Mischiefs which insue by Compulsion to Marry by the particular Ceremonies of a Priest or a Temple It is not here affirmed That 't is unlawful to Marry by a Priest or in a Temple but it is only affirmed That 't is unlawful to compel any so to do by Penalties and especially by so unjust Penalties as is done by the Popish and Epls●opal Canons of making Marriages Null or illegitimating the Children and that 't is unlawful for Bishops to judg Marriages Null or make Certificates of Ne unques accouple in Loyal Matrimony concerning the Parents or of illegitimation of the Child for no other cause than the omission or defect of so frivolous a Ceremony as a Priest or a Temple and that such affirmance is not without cause may appear from the manifold mischiefs which follow Compulsion of the same 1. It compels to enter into an indissoluble Obligation before the Parties can know each other whether they are fit for Marriage or no. Mischiefs of Verbal Espousals before Real Knowledg Proh Deum a●que hominum fidem quae haec contumelia est uxorem decrevit sese dar● mihi hodie nonne opor●et prascisse me ante nonne Communicatam oportui● Ter. And. 1. Act. Scen. 5. Oh the Faith of Gods and Men what a scorn is this He hath Decreed to put a Wife upon me to Day should I not first know her should I not first talk with her This Custom of Verbal Precontracts was in ancient time much used amongst the Jews and Marriage delayed a long time after as Jacob's was with Rachel for Seven Years But the later Rabbles finding many great inconveniences in the same injoined if it were at all the same should be a very little while before the Marriage In like manner the Armenians who are of the Greek Church Contract and Espouse together their Children at two or three Years old yea often times the Mothers agree a Marriage between their Children if one happen to be a Male and the other a Female while they are in their Bellies Tavernier Woman deluded This Custom of Precontracts and Espousals is likewise used though not between Children so young as with the Armenians by the Canon Law and most wickedly allowed to be a sufficient Cause of Nulling a Marriage Consummate by Carnal knowledg and Birth of a Child and illegitimation of the same Child of an innocent Person altogether ignorant of such Precontracts Vid. plus of Precontract before P. 88 94 95 c. 1. The inconveniences of Precontracts and Espousals is that when Contracted the one especially the Man delays and deludes the other so long that one chief end of Marriage which is prevention of Fornication is defeated and many times Women are kept along with Promises all their life time and the Man in