All dispensationalists view the dispensations as chronologically successive. Within dispensationalism, dispensations are a series of chronologically successive dispensations of Biblical history. Therefore, for traditional dispensationalists, the only relationship between the dispensations is chronologically successive. Even the Westminster Confession of Faith noted "various dispensations" in 1646. Dispensationists divide the Bible into varying numbers of separate dispensations or ages. But NCT rejects the idea that the Bible can be divided into dispensations or ages. Both were given special dispensations for studying law at the University of Marburg. The term "progressive" comes from the concept of an interrelationship or progression between the dispensations. The old people will in their hearts murmur at these moving dispensations. The number of dispensations vary typically from three to eight. Innocent gave some dispensations as the crisis progressed. The number of dispensations held are typically three, four, seven or eight. Dispensations are granted to those who are ill. Dispensations of more than a year are reserved to the Holy See (Can.