MARRIAGE CONSENT

Of Domesticall Duties. The Fifth Treatise. Duties of Children.

§. 16. Of parents consent to the marriage of their children.
II. That children ought to have their parents consent unto their marriage is without all question evident. For:
1. God himself has given us herein a pattern: He first brought the woman to the man (Genesis. 2. 22.) whereby he would show that he who gave a being to the woman, had a right to dispose her in marriage: which right parents now have: for from them under God, children receive their being. In this case parents stand in Gods room, and are as it were Gods hand to join their children in marriage.1

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