The unsaved can be married, after all. Should ministers need to perform these marriage then, or can civil magistrates?
Page 220 of Howard Davies, The Worship of the American Puritans claims, “The Puritans followed the English Separatists Greenwood and Barrow in believing that marriage was a civil, not a religious or ecclesiastical ceremony, and in the conviction that there was no biblical warrant for a church ceremony.”
Should marriage be a church affair and done by pastors? Or is the civil magistrate enough?
Page 220 of Howard Davies, The Worship of the American Puritans claims, “The Puritans followed the English Separatists Greenwood and Barrow in believing that marriage was a civil, not a religious or ecclesiastical ceremony, and in the conviction that there was no biblical warrant for a church ceremony.”
Should marriage be a church affair and done by pastors? Or is the civil magistrate enough?