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Rh scripture intimations of duty on this subject. Against the marriage of parents and children God's will is intimated, in that a man shall leave his father and mother when he cleaves to his wife." (P. 5.) Now, if the Puritan had informed his readers that this intimation is recorded by Moses in Gen. 2:24; that our Redeemer quoted it, in a conversation with the Pharisees; and that it is recorded in the New Testament by Matthew, chap. 19:5, he would have furnished them with a proof from Turrettin's third test, (p. 4,) that this Levitical law is binding on Christians. But more of this hereafter.

It appears, then, that the Puritan thinks he has proved,

First, that the law in Levit. xviii. is repealed, and is not binding on the Christian Church;

Secondly, that it has no reference to marriage at all, and. Nor does he produce any scriptural prohibition against such marriages in the Old Testament.

What follows from these positions?

1. If they be true it follows, as a necessary consequence, that the Church of God under the