Lord’s Day 41, Chapter 2: Divorce and Remarriage (2)

But the grace which might perfect that natural love, and confirm that indissoluble union, and sanctify the married, Christ Himself, the institutor and perfecter of the venerable sacraments (according to the Roman Catholics, marriage is a sacrament, something with which I cannot possibly agree, H.H.), merited for us by his passion; as the apostle Paul intimates, saying,Husbands love your wives, as Christ also loved the church, and delivered himself up for it; adding shortly after, This is a...