Westminster Confession of Faith (American revision, 1788), Westminster Assembly and Synod of New York and Philadelphia · PDF
Chapter 24: Of Marriage and Divorce
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. The man may not marry any of his wife’s kindred nearer in blood than he may of his own, nor the woman of her husband’s kindred nearer in blood than of her own.
Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 24.4
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. The man may not marry any of his wives wife’s kindred nearer in blood then than he may of his own, nor the woman of her husband’s kindred nearer in blood then than of her own.
Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 24.4
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. The man may not marry any of his wives kindred, nearer in blood, then he may of his own; nor, the woman, of her husbands kindred, nearer in blood, then of her own.
Westminster Confession of Faith (American revision, 1788), Paragraph 24.4
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. The man may not marry any of his wife’s kindred nearer in blood than he may of his own, nor the woman of her husband’s kindred nearer in blood than of her own.
On Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 24.4, which this paragraph revises
Is Marriage between one man and one woman? Yes. Is it lawful for all sorts of people to marry, who are able with judgement to give their consent? Yes. Ought marriage to be within…
On Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 24.4, which this paragraph revises
We have here affirmed very strongly and distinctly the principles which those maintain who oppose what is known as the Marriage Affinity Bill. The Free Church of Scotland has by…
