comfortable walking-withGod 237 beto the wife*. as aooveringof hereyes, that thee lift--them not Gen. 30.16. upamoroufly up9n_any.man : and the wife to the husband, the pleafureofhis eyes, that he may ftill looke upon her with Erete.3¢. 1¢: fober and fingular delight. Otherwife they will findebut cold comfort in that counfell and commandementofSàlomon, Prov. 5.18.19. Re Joyce with the rvifè ()Plyyouth. .Lether be -asthe loving Hind,andpleafatat Roe :let her breathfatisfie thee at all times, and be thou ravifht alwayes withher love. Without this mutuall corn placency, that Imay fò fpeake, and loving contentment each in other, I doubt whetherIfhould encourage any toproceed. And yet why fhould not a comfortable concurrence of grace onboth fides,confent of Parents, meetnefle in feate, feature, , birth, yeeres, and all other regulatesbetides, create in amor- tified heart,tnatrimoniall affe&ion ? And- yet Lwould byno means caufelefly confine and enfnare any. And yet I would... not have an invincible Antipathy, and * Icannot love, but * `Non am, r. I know not why, pretended, when as perhaps indeed and "id' truth it is onely carnali curiofity whichbreakes a convenient match. 3. In going about fuck an' important buhnefie, -plië, the ThroneofGrace with extraordinary importunicie and fer-. vencieof Prayer ; p;effe upon, and wreak, as is were, with . God in dayes ofmore fecret and folemne humiliation for a bleffingin this kinde, andwith thacfincerity; that thou doe heartily defirehim, whatfoever thy conceits, and expeìati-. onoffuture comforts, andcanveniencies may. be.; yet ifit be, not withhis liking, and tohis-glory, he would be pleafed to dais itquite. Agood wife is a more immediate gift of God :, Haute and riches, faith Salomon, are the inheritanceoffathers; a eßicitrr but a prudent wife is from the Lord, a And therefore fucka rare freciali quadam and precious jewell b is tobe feed and_.fought for Gods porn vn tea °co Mercy feate, with more extraordinarie earnefineffe, import =em piam &vrn- tunitie and zeale.And methinks,that wife,child,or whatother dentera 9uærep- dam tlfe.áart N.iA good thing is procured at Gods . merciful! handby prayer sip 9ñ0á' boaum vim profuturum preciburà Deo &voti,petitur:maximd petcnda efluxor bona,redditura & tesprof- perasIztiores, &levtoresadvcrfas ;contra v ròtnala &fecundisinfolefce -, &triQibus defpondebit ammum..1 very Tapiff givesehticodnpü ;teeit not :bon becontemned.at toopreeife. VivodeOtbc` M2riti.cap.,a.pag. aa. b See Genet.34. i;2.63. áhould:1 w
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