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VirginiaHuguenot · #10 (**permalink**) 01-14-2008, 09:34 PM

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Originally Posted by VirginiaHuguenot

An additional resource worth consulting is Thomas Vincent's sermon, The Popish Doctrine, which Forbiddeth to Marry, is a Devilish and Wicked Doctrine, in The Morning Exercises at Cripplegate, Vol. 6, p. 337ff, which is available online here.

Also in the same volume is Matthew Sylvester's sermon, There Are But Two Sacraments Under the New Testament, in which he states (pp. 435-436):

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(3.) As to matrimony. -- Who made it a sacrament under the New Testament? Or what is there in the ordinance to make it answerable to the thing? And if it be a sacrament, yet it is but economical. And it is no more divine than as it is an instituted relative state by God; and so is the covenant betwixt masters and servants; and thus the inauguration of a king may be a civil sacrament. But a sacrament of the covenant of grace is made compatible to all believers; but this is not so, but the priest must be barred from this sacrament, lest it impair his purity. But they allege, "It is called 'a mystery.'" (Eph. v. 32.) And have not the woman and the beast the same name? (Rev. xvii. 1, 5, 7.) Yea, doth not Cajetan affirm this place no argument that matrimony is a sacrament? Aware, it is likely, he was of that which follows closely in the text; namely, "I speak of Christ," &c. What trifling subtleties do they (the Papists) use to amuse the world! as if they did design to be more studious to walk in darkness, than to prevent or heal the wounds and breaches of the church.