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Epbe¡fana,
ChapoS.
V
E
R.
3G
wives; and
further, you
wives
be not onely fubjedl,but learne
in
your
hearts
to
feare
your husbands.
Now
before we can come
to
open
the
dodtrine, we
muff
refute the
falfe
interpretation which
is
made,
and conclufions which
arededu-
ced from the former verle.
The
Papifts
who
forge Matrimonie
fora
Sacrament, will
hence prove
it,
and
therefore
make this
the
fènfe
;
This I
faid
of
a
man and
woman
is
a
great Sacrament
,
in as
much
as
it
is
ordained
to
lignifie
Chrift and
his
Church;
and
they
underprop
this
Conftrudtion with three
reafons.
1.
From the
firft
word,
this,
which
is a
word that doth
point
you
(fay
they) to that whichgoeth before next
of
all.
z. From the argument ; for here
is a
new argument
fay
they
that therefore they
should live
holily,
be
in
love,
becaufe
their matrimony
is a
holy thing,
a
great Sacramenr.
3. Becaufe
the Apoftle interpreteth, how Matrimony
is a
Sa-
crament
in
the
laft
words.
a/ttfw.r.
The
relative
doth not
alwayes point
to that
which goeth
next before,
but
is
often referred to that which
is
further
off,
Gen.
s
o.
11,12.
2
Sam.z
r.19.
Heh.9.
But
if
it may ferve
tither
why
doe
you take
that
which
is
further off
rather!
vAnfw.i.
Becaufc in
the
marriage
of
a
manthere
is
no fuch great myfterie. 2.
Becaufe
in
the
end
the Apoftletelleth what this
hee affirmeth to be
a
myftery,
viz.
that
he
faid
of
Chrift
and his
Church.
But marke
this,
if
[this]
be re-
ferred
to
the conjundtion
of
man
and woman
,it
is
nothing
for their
Sa-
crament, which
is
not the bond or conjnnáion
:
this the heft
of
them
fay
is
aneffedt
ofit,but
the Ceremoniall
handfafting
with
thefe words
or l,gnes
of
equal' force, I
take
thee,&c.
of
which the Apoftle
never
fpake
word.
s.
For
the
fecond you mull
remember, how the argument lyeth,
for
this is
but
the commending
of
that former point
of
Chrift
and
his
Church,
which hewould not
now
follow from the
fecrer fpeculation
infolded
ink,
that
fo
they might ponder
it
with
more attention.
And
for
the
third
it
is
plaine,
that
the Apoftle doth not tell
us
how
Matrimonie may be
a
Sacrament,
but what that
is
which
is
affirmed
to be
a
greatmyftery.
If
a man
looke
through
a
fpedtacle
of
grcene
glaffe, all
is
greene, and when
the
eye
of
the mindc
bath before
it
a
forged Sacrament,
all feemeth
to
make for
it, when
if
we come
with.
out fuch prejudice thefe
words
are moft plaine.
This
I
told
you before
is a
great fecrecy, but
I
fpeake
not
of
man
and
woman, but
of
Chrift
and his
Church.
But fay it
were fo
as
they fay,here
is
no proofe for a
Sacrament properly
fo called
:
Marriage
is
amyftery,
therefore
a Sa-
crament
:
we may
as
well reafon,
a
beaft
is
a
creature, therefore
a
man:
for
the
word
[
myftery]
is
far more large
then the
word [Sacrament]
as
we fpeake in
Englifh, or
as
they
take
it
,
when they
fpeake
ofa
Sa.
crament properly
fo
called.Concerning Matrimony bythe
way I
will
fet downy three
thingswhich we
may
hold,
andone
which wee
may
not.
1.
That