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and remains the alone enduring
foundation of human government,
social order, and domestic bliss.

It is under the aegis of both di-
-vine & civil law. It can not be dis-
-honored without peril. Whenever its
laws are violated, there enter aliena-
-tions, strifes, & jealousies into families;
the obedience, education, & happiness of
the rising generation are neglected; the
sanctions of private & public virtue
are impaired; and the bonds of
duty, order, & law are broken and
scattered.

In respect to the parties more
immediately concerned the marriage
relation is one, which, like the union
between body & soul, is properly broken
only by the hand of death. It shou ought
not therefore to be lightly or hastily
contracted. That it may last, and
beautifully fulfil [fulfill] its design, true
marriage must grow out of mu-