LBCF1689 25.1
Marriage is to be between one man and one woman; neither is it lawful for any man to have more than one wife, nor for any woman to have more than one husband at the same time. 1
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Confession Library / 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Marriage
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LBCF1689 25.2
Marriage was ordained for the mutual help of husband and wife, 1 for the increase of mankind with a legitimate issue, 2 and the preventing of uncleanness. 3
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LBCF1689 25.3
It is lawful for all sorts of people to marry, who are able with judgment to give their consent; 1 yet it is the duty of Christians to marry in the Lord; 2 and therefore such as profess the true religion, should not marry with infidels, or idolaters; neither should such as are go…
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LBCF1689 25.4
Marriage ought not to be within the degrees of consanguinity or affinity, forbidden in the Word; 1 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. 2
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