pendent in all things on the one erected and established in the [episcopal] city.
Lastly, if, either upon occasion of the said unions, or the taxation, or assignment, and incorporation of the said portions, or from some other cause, any difficulty should happen to arise by reason of which the institution, or maintenance of the said seminary may be hindered or disturbed, the bishop, with the deputies as above, or the provincial synod, according to the custom of the country, shall have power, according to the character of the churches and benefices, to regulate and order all and each the matters which shall seem necessary and expedient for the advancement of the said seminary, even so as to modify or enlarge them, if need be.
INDICTION OF THE NEXT SESSION.
Yet further, the same sacred and holy Synod of Trent indicts the next ensuing session for the sixteenth day of the month of September; in which it will treat of the sacrament of Matrimony, and of such other matters, if there be any, relative to the doctrine of faith, as can be expedited, as also touching provisions for bishoprics, dignities, and other ecclesiastical benefices, and divers articles of Reformation.
The session was prorogued until the eleventh day of November, mdlxiii.
SESSION THE TWENTY-FOURTH,
Being the eighth under the Sovereign Pontiff Plus IV., celebrated on the eleventh day of the month of November, 1563.
DOCTRINE TOUCHING THE SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY.
The first parent of the human race, under the instinct of the divine Spirit, pronounced the bond of matrimony perpetual and indissoluble, when he said; This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. Wherefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be two in one flesh [1]
But, that by this bond two only are coupled and joined
- ↑ Gen. ii. 23, 24.
