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# Title: Leibniz-Handschriften zu Deutschland LH 12, 3, 4
# Folio 37r, page id 00068778:0073
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sed hi leges praescribere possunt subditis suis de
contrahendo matrimonio, quas servare teneantur,
Maior, inquit, est certa;nam fides Christiana pote-
et
statem principum non imminuit. Nimirum matri-
monium noritantum est sacramentum, sed etiam
contractus ciuilis, qui aDeo eleuatur ad esse
saccamenti; ergo potest Legislator statuere, ut ma-
trimonium, quatenus est contractus, certo modo
aut cum certis circumstantiis ineatur; quae si o-
mittantur ratum nor sit. Idem etiam ipsi Itali
Theologi tuentur, de quo videri potest vincentius
Sancredus Panormitanus, in opere de matrimo-
nio. Ft vero hanc D. Thomae sententiam, a
Sanchesio illustratam, certatim omnes casuum
conscientiae scriptores secuti sunt, qui post san-
chesium scripsere, ut Rebellus lib. 3. dematrim.
quaest. L. num. Z. Beginaldus lib. 31. cap. 8. num.
5B. Coninck disp. 31. dub. 1. Fillikecius 2. part.
de saciam. matrim. C. 1. num. 3. quihis expressis
verbis otitur: non obstat autem, quod matrimo-
nium sit sacramentum, quia materiaut diximus
est contractus ciuilis, eaque ratione potest illud
itritum reddere (Legislator) perinde acsi sacra-
mentum