Westminster Confession of Faith (modernized) · Chapter 24

Of Marriage, and Divorce

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6. Although the corruption of man be such as is apt to study arguments, unduely to put asunder those whom God has joined together in marriage: yet, nothing but Adultery, or such wilful desertion as can no way be remedied, by the Church, or Civil Magistrate, is cause sufficient of dissolving the bond of marriage:^a Wherein, a public, and orderly course of Proceeding, is to be observed; And, the persons concerned in it, not left to their own wills and discretion, in their own case.^b

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