Note 1288 — Chapter X · RISE OF CIVIL MARRIAGE
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Thus in his "Defence of the Answer" (Works, III, 355) Whitgift apologizes for the use of the ring, seeing the "church hath thought it convenient," and since it is likewise "void of all manner of superstition, necessity of salvation, opinion of worshipping, and all other circumstances, that should take away the lawfulness of using it."