The whole of the proceedings in the Arches-Court of Cantherbury : in a cause between the Hon. Mrs. Catherine Weld, daughter to the Lord Aston, and Edward Weld esquire, her husband ... to which is prefixed, a preface / by the author of the tryal of F. Girard and Miss Cadiere.

  • Weld, Catherine Elizabeth, 1708?-
Date:
1732
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Credit: The whole of the proceedings in the Arches-Court of Cantherbury : in a cause between the Hon. Mrs. Catherine Weld, daughter to the Lord Aston, and Edward Weld esquire, her husband ... to which is prefixed, a preface / by the author of the tryal of F. Girard and Miss Cadiere. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Canon-Law doth not in its Definition differ from that of Juft ini an, which 1 have cited, except in its adding thefe Lords; Cum divhii & hnmani Juris communications* The Ganonilis accounting Matrimony a Sacrament, and dwelling much on the Myfteries ihrouded under it, as that of the Union between CHRIST and the CHURCH, &c. have carried every thing relating to it to the greateft Height, diftinguilhing between the temporal Concerns of married People, which they leave to the Determination of the Civil Law • and the more abftradted and religious Part of Matri¬ mony, viz. the Nature, Extent, and Obliga¬ tion of its Vow, the Explanation and Direction of all which they are for referving to them- felves. Yet in the Lyons Edition of the Inftitutes- of the Canon Law, printed A. D. 1588, by the Auth: rity of the Pope, and with the King of France’s Privilege, the Glofs is very full on thefe iVords, Viri & Mulieris conjmSio, wherein It is obferved, that a Difference and a Potency in both Sexes is required in Marriage ; for, as is there fMd, though Nero, the mod lewd and infamous of the Roman Tyrants, publicldy own’d himfelf efpoufed to Sporus a Eunuch and a Catamite- yet fuch a thing could not be, bccaufe ir is direftly contrary to the Laws of Nature and of Society : Where alfo his well obferv d, that at the Creation, the Wifdom of God’s Providence provided for a right Inftitu- tion of Matrimony, bv not making two Men or two Women, but firft Adam, and then Eve * from whom, in the ordinary Method of Propa- all the reft of Mankind are descended. . Through*