matrimony perpetual and indissoluble when he said : MARRIAGE AS A SACRAMENT 51 is the dispensation of another's bounty, yet is it not a This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh ; seriously and absolving truly he is nevertheless truly The first parent of the human race, under the influ- alone. [Chap. 6.] erroneous who contend that this power exists not in think that even though there be no contrition on his wherefore a man shall leave father and mother, and THE SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY as the ministers of Christ, and that their sentiment is bad priests. But although the absolution of the priest flesh. But, that by this bond two only are united and joined together, our Lord taught more plainly when, one flesh ; and straightway confirmed the firmness ought not so to confide in his own personal faith as to ence of the Divine Spirit, pronounced the bond of and in God's sight absolved on account of his faith rehearsing those last words as having been uttered by part, or no intention on the part of the priest of acting of a judicial act, whereby sentence is pronounced by God, he said : Therefore now they are not two, but shall cleave to his wife, and they shall be two in one or of declaring that sins are forgiven, but is in the nature bare ministry only, whether of announcing the Gospel, the priest as by a judge. And therefore the penitent