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Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · XXI. Of the Marriage of Ministers

The ministers of Christ are not commanded by God’s law either to vow the estate of single life, or to abstain from marriage: therefore it is lawful for them, as for all other Christians, to marry at their own discretion, as they shall judge the same to serve best to godliness.