g-heChurches Marriage. ·be did oris, all is ours : and againe, a covenant J on our parr, to give up our felves to him ,and this ' for ever, and all that is ours : as ·our finnes are made his, ·foall the good we receive from him, we promife to imploy to his fervice. Now, this is but as the Efp1u[AI1. . The fourth is that union ,that foil-owes upo~ this, and the folemne ·celebration of the Mar– riage which is done in baptifme, whenyou were asked this queilion, even as it is in ordinary mar.. riage, Will you have this man to your wedded . husband' will you take him for better and for worfe, will you be content to renounce all others and to be alone to him, to ferve and obey him ?. fo ·in :Baptifme it wa5 ask't, Will you be content to deny ungo.dlindfe, and worldly lufts, to re– nounce the world , the fleih and the Devill, &c. When men were of riper yeeres and converted, · this was anfwered to by word ofmouth from the party~imfelfe, and now when you are baptized young, it is·even as it ,is in marriages which are · made when the parties are under-age , which when they come to age they ufe not to difavow, but are obliged to confirme it: of that force is Baptifme unto us. This I fay, is the folemnizing as it were ofthe nuptials betweene Chrifl: and us, when we are baptized into his Name, when wee leave the former name that wee had before as a · wife cloth; wee forfake father and mother and cleave ro him, fo that a man _is no,more Sui juru, but i~ given up to this Husband, to live after his will , .to be fubjefrto him in all things, and take Aa 3 · him 1 4
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