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The gold[n] book of christen matrimony most necessary [and] profitable for all the[m], that…The golde[n] boke of christen matrimonye moost necessary [and] profitable for all the[m], that…
The gold[n] book of christen matrimony most necessary [and] profitable for all the[m], that intend to live quietly and godly in the Christen state of holy wedlock newly set forth in English by Theodore Basil.The golde[n] boke of christen matrimonye moost necessary [and] profitable for all the[m], that entend to liue quietly and godlye in the Christen state of holy wedlock newly set forthe in English by Theodore Basille.
London: printed for Joha, 1543London: printed for Ioha, 1543
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¶ The fifth Chapter.
¶ The fyfth Chapter.
To a right marriage, must children also have the consent of their parents.
To a ryght mariage, must chyldrē also haue the consent of theyr parentes.
Moreover like as God & faith should not be denied or forsaken with the marriage, even so they which are next to god (as father & mother ought not to be neglected & 1despised. For though God said: A man shall forsake father & mother, & keep him to his wife, yet those his words in the same place, are concerning marriage that is made already (what duty they ye are married owe the one to the other) & are not touching the contracting of wedlock, that children may marry, without the respect, knowledge or consent of their parents, under whose authority & jurisdiction they be. And I wonder what the papisti call books & learned men did mean, when they ⟨image 29⟩taught that the consent only of both the parties doth fasten the matter, & coupleth them together in marriage: The consent of the parents also, say they is good with all, but when they two have consented, and one hath taken the other, the knot can not be unknit, neither may the parents separate them from a sunder Where as laws both natural (divine specially) and civil, require the parents consent to the children's marriage: In so much that they judge the promise to be of no value, which is made without the knowledge of the parents yea & that also in those children, which as yet are not come to their years, & are yet under the tuition of their elders. For in as much as the children are not yet come to perfect discretion they can not contract marriage which requireth understā ding, yea they can nether counsel nor help them selves. So y in this behalf y consent of their parents is not only necessary but also good & pro fitable for them, As for privy contracts which are not made according to the laws, they have ever been rejected, neither were they acceptable to any