| ### QUESTION 41 ### OF THE SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY AS DIRECTED TO AN OFFICE OF NATURE ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### In the next place we must consider matrimony. We must treat of it (1) as directed to an office of nature; (2) as a sacrament; (3) as considered absolutely and in itself. Under the first head there are four points of inquiry: #### (1) Whether it is of natural law? #### (2) Whether it is a matter of precept? #### (3) Whether its act is lawful? #### (4) Whether its act can be meritorious? ####  |