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Paragraph 1. Marriage is to be between one man and one woman; neither is it lawful for any man to have more than one wife, nor for any woman to have more than one husband at the same time, (Gen 2:24; Mal 2:15; Mat 19:5-6).
Paragraph 2. Marriage was ordained for the mutual help of husband and wife, (Gen 2:18); for the increase of mankind with a legitimate issue, (Gen 1:28); and the preventing of uncleanness, (1Co 7:2, 9).
Paragraph 3. It is lawful for all sorts of people to marry, who are able with judgment to give their consent, (Hbr 13:4; 1 Tim. 4:3); yet it is the duty of Christians to marry in the Lord, (1Co 7:39); and therefore such as profess the true religion, should not marry with infidels, or idolaters; neither should such as are godly, be unequally yoked, by marrying with such as are wicked in their life, or maintain damnable heresy, (Neh 13:25-27).
Paragraph 4. Marriage ought not to be within the degrees of consanguinity or affinity, forbidden in the Word, (Lev 18); nor can such incestuous marriages ever be made lawful, by any law of man or consent of parties, so as those persons may live together as man and wife, (Mar 6:18; 1Co 5:1).
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