The answer of several ministers in and near Boston, to that case of conscience,…

4. Learned Divines have with a great concurrence testified against such Marriage as unlawful. Zanchy observes, that all the Ancient Fathers Witnessed against it. So have our Protestant Divines: Particularly Beza, Junius, Gerhard, Polanus, Bucanus, and the Geneva-Divines: Also, Zepperus, and Voetius: And of our own Nation, Mr. Perkins, Dr. Ames, Dr. Hall, Dr. Willet, Dr. Hamond. Likewise the English Annotators on Lev. ⟨p. 7⟩18.16. And Mr. Poole, and Mr. Clark in their Notes on that place. Yea, the Assembly at Westminster (in which were many Eminent Persons) in their Confession of Faith, Chap.24. Sect.4. have these words. Marriage ought not to be within the degrees of Consanguinity or Affinity forbidden in the word: Nor can such Incestuous Marriages be made lawful by any Law of Man, so as those Persons may live together as Man & 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 than of her own. These are the words of that Renowned Assembly. Moreover it is well known that such Marriage was Condemned as unlawful, by the Universities of Europe in the days of K.Henry 8

4. Learned Divines have with a great concurrence testifyed against such Marriage as unlawful. Zanchy observes, that all the Antient Fathers Witnessed against it. So have our Protestant Divines: Particularly Beza, Junius, Gerhard, Polanus, Bucanus, and the Geneva-Divines: Also, Zepperus, and Voetius: And of our own Nation, Mr. Perkins, Dr. Ames, Dr. Hall, Dr. Willet, Dr. Hamond. Likewise the English Annotators on Lev. ⟨p. 7⟩18.16. And Mr. Poole, and Mr. Clark in their Notes on that place. Yea, the Assembly at Westminster (in which were many Eminent Persons) in their Confession of Faith, Chap.24. Sect.4. have these words. Marriage ought not to be within the degrees of Consanguinity or Affinity forbidden in the word: Nor can such Incestuous Marriages be made lawful by any Law of Man, so as those Persons may live together as Man & 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 than of her own. These are the words of that Renowned Assembly. Moreover it is well known that such Marriage was Condemned as unlawful, by the Universities of Europe in the days of K.Henry 8