comfortable walkingwith God. 255 brancer to him, to keeps his turnes and times ofillightning and informing the ignoarnt, darke and earthy hearts oftheir people. But in his abfence comes her courfe , when her graces ofknowledge andprayer, &c: ought to Phew forth thcmfelves , and Chine' upon them , to preferve them from coldneffe , and that dreadfull curie which hangs over the head ofthofe that know not God, and ihall certainely fall upon thofe Families that call not on hisName. See Ierem. 25. Forconclufion ofthepoint, and crowning of the marri- age-flare with found and Jailing comfort in the tneane time, and with everlafling peace and pleafitres at tail : Let man and wife joyntly labour to fweetenand fanaifie their mutual' car- riages, both common and feverall duties each to other, with often and conflant meeting together inprayer. For perfwafi- on to which praetife : Confider fuch placesas thefe , a Gen. a TrItoN 25..21. b I.Cor.7. 5. c Y . Pet. 3.7. That precife paffage in112i7 d Arnbrofe : You nodfi both ( fpeaking ofmarried couples ) .1?}Zitrnntfa77. rife in the night to prayer , and God id to bee intreated ofyou i R LS --X. - oxtor.. with joynt finpplicationt.c Continttally, faith Chryfoflome, teach gmb.vscorem, i. e. her profitable things, andpray together. If befide Family-prayers, wherein the more generali af- icpaurnmadtence u arrnss man and wife make confcience alto of this more private duty faires ofthe houfehold are to bee commended unto God, te:imitenhe:rorniaedi(froonsitefeb they to;etber betweene themfelves, wherein many particulars are to bee petitioned, onely proper and individual) to that neere rode-tic:is mg" ty; I fay,ifthey let themfelves unto it with fincerityof heart, b Loquitur, faith it may bee a notable helpe , and by Gods bleffing proove al:Cgteu:risrl foveraigne antidote againfl any roote ofbitterneffe, heart-ri- tionibus,qux pub- fiEg,diffention, or difcontent betWixt them (wrath, and ill- lignEocycelipfifivainto- will towards any, lurking in the heart , doth utterly damps and empoyfon thepower and comfort ofprayer, much more ttruir, eti towards one tyed unto thee with fo many deare andperpe- Pi debenc ente calainit.,te A veinegotio aliquot arduo publics aut privacim incumbente. c Alloquitur quidem Perrus mariturn &vxorem clum jubec concordeo cfre, ut fimul Deum uno animo precentur. Calv. Maritus & uxor preces quotidie uni de. bent concipere, ad impetrandum a Dco omnis generis bona. d Simul ad orationemnone vobis fur- gendum eft, &conjunetis precibus obtecrandus-Deus, De .Abraam Patriarcha. cap. p. c Continq qua mtilia funt dose, fint vobis preccs Communes. Chryfr. Sean, so. in 64ad .pher: tuall
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