Here is a tabular comparison of the 1689 and WCF. I am intrigued by why the 1689 framers deleted some sections of the WCF on marriage: http://www.proginosko.com/docs/wcf_lbcf.html
Why would they feel the need to purposely delete these sections? Particularly the end of paragraph 4, and the totality of paragraphs 5 and 6.
Why would they feel the need to purposely delete these sections? Particularly the end of paragraph 4, and the totality of paragraphs 5 and 6.
The man may not marry any of his wife's kindred nearer in blood than he may of his own, nor the woman of her husband's kindred nearer in blood than of her own.
5. Adultery or fornication, committed after a contract, being detected before marriage, giveth just occasion to the innocent party to dissolve that contract. In the case of adultery after marriage, it is lawful for the innocent party to sue out a divorce, and after the divorce to marry another, as if the offending party were dead.
6. Although the corruption of man be such as is apt to study arguments, unduly to put asunder those whom God hath joined together in marriage; yet nothing but adultery, or such willful desertion as can no way be remedied by the Church or civil magistrate, is cause sufficient of dissolving the bond of marriage; wherein a public and orderly course of proceeding is to be observed; and the persons concerned in it, not left to their own wills and discretion in their own case.