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Now in this choice are two questions.¹ First, whether children may marry without their parents consent: Second, whether they may marry with Papists or Atheists, &c. Touching the first,² God saith: Honour thy father and thy mother. Now, wherein canst thou honour them more, then in this honourable action, to which they have preserved thee, and brought thee up, which concerneth the state of thy whole life? Again, in the first institution of Marriage, when there was no father to give consent, then our heavenly father gave his consent:³ God supplied the place of the Father, and brought his daughter unto her husband, and ever since the father after the same manner, hath offered his daughter unto the husband.

Now in this choice are two questions.¹ First, whether children may marrie without their parents consent: Second, whether they may marrie with Papists or Atheists, &c. Touching the first,² God sayth: Honour thy father and thy mother. Now, wherein canst thou honour them more, then in this honorable action, to which they haue preserued thee, and brought thee vp, which concerneth the state of thy whole life? Agayne, in the first institution of Mariage, when there was no father to giue consent, thē our heauenly father gaue his consent:³ God supplied the place of the Father, and brought his daughter vnto her husband, and euer since the father after the same maner, hath offered his daughter vnto the husband.

1. 1Parents consent in Marriage.Parents consent in Mariage.
2. 2Exod. 20