Because the estate of marriage consists essentially in consent having been freely and previously given one to another and God is wonderfully merciful in all his judgments, I will leave it all to the care of God. The generally accepted formula is “I am yours, you are mine.”31 Though some hold to this [wording] most strictly, and believe that it is not enough when they [a couple] say, “I will take thee” or “I am willing to take thee”32 or use some other form of words. Nevertheless I would still prefer