43° Chaps. Of Marriage. Com,7.. ti lied as the fand of the Qa,and likethe dull of the earth, and like the fiats ofHea- pfal.24.z ven. It was needful, when the earth was :nano b vacua,empty,not now,whenthere Efa.7.20 is terra & plenitudo ejms:an earth full of Inhabitantss and fo full , that it needs ra- Gena.28. they tonfuram, the (having, which the Prophet (peaks of , then the command of 9' 1 replete terram,replenifh theearth, or crefcite &multiplicamini, be fruitful and mul- tiply. Sol. Yes it is fill bonum, good to the worldsend , and neceffary- For though Mores faith is good to marry, and St.paul to abflain ; yet if we diftinguilh the perfons, Mat 59z we (hall reconcile theplaces ,all the difference is in hominiand effe. I Cor.7.7 It is true, that there are Come perfons exempt : as Eunuchs, and every man that 9.5 bath his proper gift. 'Yet to others not fo qualified a wife is permitted , it is ba- r Tim.3.2 for others to marry , either for propagation of Children , to encreafe Gods Gen.3o t Church, or for comfort, or to avoid incontinence. The three reafons before men- ; Kin. r.2 tioned. EccL3,5 There arealfo timesof forbearing ; a tima to refrain in-bracing, as the Preacher Mat.24.19 tellsus : as in times of dilirefs, in fad times. But again, at other times it is good I Cor.7.26 for man. All relis in this, that whichcoterie foever we take, we do adberere Deo, Joe.2.16 draw nearto God ; andaccordingly it mutt be meafured and taken as bonarm or I CO73,2 PfaLg3.z8 not. Wemuff not ufe this liberty for acloakor veil ; nor for wantonne s, noxr for I Pet. 1.16 a (hare. I Tim.S.tr. Thereforefor the avoiding of the inconvenience of folitarinefs, God thought I Con/.35 fit to make another to keep man company , yet this one was to be meet for him: for aman were as good tobe alone ; as never the better for company. He made not that one .1. Either tomoleft or trouble him, fuch a one as Solomon fpcaks Pro.21. t9 of:' that it were better for him to dwell in the wildcrnefl than with her acontentious ov.329 1.12, andangry one. Nor an unprofitable one, agadder. But one that fhould be able todo ov. 26, bim good ; tobe a helper tohim. I. Inpietate, a woman that fcareth the Lord, 30 not a jezabel to draw him from his religion, but fuch a one as may fave him : that t Kin.I6.3 t maywin him to goodnefs by her lifeand converfation. z. In prole , the Prophet i Per.7 16 asks the queftion, why God made this one ? and anfwers himfelf that he might Mal.2á5 Peek a godly feed. 3. In oeconamia, to help him , in guiding and ordering I Tim.2.10 things, belonging to houfhold. To ad Sarah; part in making provifion. To pfo 3127 look well to the waies of her houfhold, and not eat the bread of Idlenefs. I Tim.5 t4 The Apoftle tells us , that one part of her help muff be in guiding the houfe. , Lafily, God did not think every help meet forman. r. Not beaffs , they are ju- menta helps : but they are too low; under our feet. 2. Nor, Angels , and they are helps too,'but toohigh, above our heads. 3. But a woman in the mid way, collate- ral, a.latere out of the fide. Like , conformable, in fhape , fpeech, and reafon, quaff aliter ipfe, imago ip¡us, as another himfelf, his own image. And all this is a Eph.5.30 myflery fignifying the unionof Clair( and his Church. The Apoltle faith , we are Ai Cor.6. 17 members of his body, PA and bones, we are joyned to him. Saul was told that his ft.9.4 perfecutionof the Saints, was the perfecutionof_Chrifl. And as man is to do for the woman, and the for the man, to leave father andmother, fo Chrift tells us, we Luc.t4.6 muff dofor him. We fee it plainly,that all muff be left, neither father nor kindred peut.33 9 muff be owned, if they come in competitionwith Chrift. - There are in this law two words which every man is bound to obferve. Firft relinquet, he fhallleave; whommuff he leave. And fecondly,Adharebit, tp whom he muff cleave. Déut.32a t r. Relinquet, he muff leave all for his wife. Thiskerns tobe fomewhat unnatural: Nah.2.11 for the bond of nature workethmuch downward. Mgfesip his long , defcrjbes the Jer.4.3 tendernefs of the Eagles to theiryoung ones, and the Prophet tells usof the love of Efa.49t5 Lions to their whelps, and the Prophet Jeremy of the care of Sea-monfters, to their Exod.zo. tz young,and theProphet Efay makes it as a thing unpplfjble that a woman fhould for- Exod. °'17 get the fon of her womb; yet isfhe within this law of relin uet ; again, we fee the Exod21.t-7 g 9 g bond upward is greater. God commands love Parents, and the cenfure of the unnatural, is heavy. The ravens of the valley (hall pick out their eyes. Nay even deathis tobe infli6ed on them, this affedion is zealoully expreffed by Ruth, file would not leave her mother, though but a mother-in-law. Y.
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