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we enter on the argument, it may be proper to notice two things in the Puritan.

1. "We profess," he says, (p. 3,) "to present, with such brevity and clearness as we are able, the reasons which have convinced us that such marriages are prohibited by the law of God. The argument brought against them from Scripture is contained in a nut-shell, and is easily sifted."

Allow our brother the privilege of framing for us the argument, and he may bring it within so small a compass. We prefer framing it ourselves. Two things are plain: 1. His argument in refuting it, spread as it is, with that of