Although the corruption of man be such as is apt to study arguments, unduly to put asunder those whom God hath joined together in marriage; yet nothing but adultery, or such wilful desertion as can no way be remedied by the church or civil magistrate, is cause sufficient of dissolving the bond of marriage: Wherein a publick and orderly course of proceeding is to be observed; and the persons concerned in it, not left to their own wills and discretion in their own case.
Changes from Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 24.6
Although the corruption of man be such as is apt to study arguments, unduely unduly to put asunder those whom God hath joined together in marriage; yet nothing but adultery, or such wilful desertion as can no way be remedied by the church or civil magistrate, is cause sufficient of dissolving the bond of marriage: Wherein a publick and orderly course of proceeding is to be observed; and the persons concerned in it, not left to their own wills and discretion in their own case.
Although the corruption of man be such as is apt to study arguments, unduely to put asunder those whom God hath joyned together in marriage: yet, nothing but Adultery, or such wilful desertion as can no way be remedied, by the Church, or Civil Magistrate, is cause sufficient of dissolving the bond of marriage: Wherein, a publique, and orderly course of Proceeding, is to be observed; And, the persons concerned in it, not left to their own wills and discretion, in their own case.
Westminster Confession of Faith (American revision, 1788), Paragraph 24.6
Although the corruption of man be such as is apt to study arguments, unduly to put asunder those whom God hath joined together in marriage; yet nothing but adultery, or such wilful desertion as can no way be remedied by the church or civil magistrate, is cause sufficient of dissolving the bond of marriage: Wherein a publick and orderly course of proceeding is to be observed; and the persons concerned in it, not left to their own wills and discretion in their own case.
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