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For when it is said that a good wife is of God; we are not so to conceive it, that we are in such cases to use no means at all; but we are to use none but good and lawful means, such as God hath appointed, either prescribed or permitted.^k The wife is bound, saith the Apostle, while her husband liveth: but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to marry where she will, but yet, ^lin Domino, in the Lord.

For when it is said that a good wife is of God; we are not so to conceiue it, that we are in such cases to vse no meanes at all; but we are to vse none but good and lawfull meanes, such as God hath appointed, either prescribed or permitted.^k The wife is bound, saith the Apostle, while her husband liueth: but if her husband be dead, shee is at liberty to marry where she will, but yet, ^lin Domino, in the Lord.

1. k1. Cor. 7. 39.
2. l[Greek or Hebrew].〈non-Latin alphabet〉.

Wherein they offend, either that go too near, matching within those degrees that^m God hath inhibited: or that go too far of, matchingⁿ with such as they are by religion prohibited to marry; and so transgressing those rules and directions that the word of God giveth.