Page:Forma breve de administrar los sacramentos a los Indios, y Españoles que viven entre ellos (1635).djvu/26

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Admonitions

4 Nor may one marry the Mother, nor Grandmother; Daughter, nor Granddaughter; Sister, nor Niece; Aunt, nor Cousin of the woman with which one fornicated, being married or single; that is, his wife or that of someone else. (And these are the impediments that we call affinity.)

5 The spiritual kinship established during Baptism or Confirmation, between one who baptizes, or confirms, with the baptized, or confirmed, and their Father or Mother. And that is the same as that of the Godfather, or Godmother with the one had in Baptism, or Confirmation, with their Father, or Mother: this does not reach, nor should this be extended, to any other.

6 There is another major impediment, which is that if any of those who want to be married was married, and left their living spouse, although they are far, and have much that they left, advise me, that I may know if the first marriage was done well or not, because if it went well at first, it is grounds to return to the first one if they are Christian; and even if they are not, if they want to be, and