churches, by contrast, have not been happy with the concept of marriage as a sacrament, and with the idea that marriage is absolutely indissoluble. The Reformers, like Luther and Calvin on the continent, and Archbishop Cranmer and Peter Martyr in England, believed that this was going further than the Bible did. They also objected to the growing and ever more complicated procedures of dispensation and annulment by which burdensome marriages were being all too easily dissolved in fact by overcoming