Note 1168 — Chapter IX · THE PROTESTANT CONCEPTION OF MARRIAGE
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The passages of Luther's works on parental consent, with an introductory note, are collected in Strampff, 299-325. Compare Beust, De spons. et mat., 201-10; Melanchthon, "De conjugio," Opera omnia, I, pars ii, 231; Bullinger, Der Christlich Ehestand, lvs. 11 ff., 14, 15; Kling, Tr. mat. causarum, foll. 77 ff.; Schneidewin, De nuptiis, tit. x, "De nupt. licitis," pars ii, secs. 29 ff.; Brenz, "Wie yn Ehesachen ... zu Handeln," in Sarcerius, Vom heil. Ehestande, foll. 69 ff.; Mentzer, De conjugio tr., 136-50, 153; Bidembach, De causis mat. tract., 3 ff., 15 ff.; Forster, De nuptiis, 145 ff., 149 ff. (the law of Saxony requiring); Brouwer, De jure connubiorum, 71 ff., 76 ff., 80 ff.
All authorities, seemingly, are agreed that a parent may not rightly force a child to marry; see Bullinger, Der christlich Ehestand, lvs. 15, 16; Schneidewin, De nupt., tit. x, "De nupt. licitis," pars. ii, secs. 41, 42; Sarcerius, Vom heil. Ehestande, foll. 73 ff.; 96 ff. (Luther); Mentzer, De conjugio tr., 253-55; Bidembach, De causis mat., 25-27; Boehmer, De mat. coacto; and the literature on parental consent described in Bibliographical Note IX.