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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92764	The godly mans choice, or, A direction how single godly persons, who intend marriage, may make choice of a fit and meet yoak-fellow being the meditations of Caleb Grantham in his single state, as a rule and guide for himself to walk by, and since his death perused and published with some profitable directions how persons should live as becometh Christians in the married state / by Henry Scudder ...	Grantham, Caleb.; Scudder, Henry, d. 1659?	1644 (1644)	Wing S2138B; ESTC R42507	34,805	158

these concern Husband and Wife mutually some concern each peculiarly 1. When God hath joyned you in so neer a relation you are first to see God and to acknowledge him in this your match It was God who joyned you together 2. All things come to pass by his providence which is to be taken notice of but marriages are made by the speciall hand of his providence House and inheritance are of the fathers but a prudent Wife and so a good Husband are of the Lord yea every good Husband and Wife is of the Lord 3. The seeing and acknowledging of God in your marriage as it will cause you to be thankfull to him so it will arm you against all the troubles in the flesh which you shall meet with in that estate It will keep you from repenting of your match and from wishing that you had not married this person and from wishing that you had married such and such you cannot now say unto or twit one another with this that I might have had such an one so beautifull so personable so rich so well qualified no now you see you could have none other this is the man this is the woman that God hath given me you must say I will therefore thankfully and contentedly satisfie my self in this my lot and portion 4. Now you are married consider what you then did you then entred into a neer covenant one with another yea into a Covenant with God to be one anothers and to be faithfull to each other Now you are no longer two but one flesh not your own but one anothers self So that if you break covenant one with another you break covenant also with your God 5. You must love each other as your own souls with a Christian pure tender abundant naturall and matrimoniall love 6. The foundation that must bear up this love and the spring which must feed and nourish this love is not only or chiefly the commendable parts and endowments that are in each of you but the neer relation into which you are entred being now no more two but one flesh and bone of each others bone and that it is now from God that you are thus made one and that it is his will and pleasure that it should be so 7. When your love is thus ●rounded it will be constant to each other as well in one condition as another You must therefore love her as before you are taught because God hath made her your wife And you must so love him because God hath made him your husband Although it may happen that there is not in your yoke-fellow that personablenes beauty wit vertue and good qualities that are in many others yet the own husband and wife must be the object of your choycest and singular love and you must esteem of each other so as to be endeared one to another above and before any other in the world 8. This love must shew it self in the fruits of it and first to the better part to the souls one of another True love edifieth not only a mans self but others also 9. You must therefore pray one for another and one wth another you must further one another in holiness and righteousness The godly and unblameable conversation of man and wife doth much conduce to the conversion and building of one another up in their holy faith being accompanied with instructing exhorting and comforting and as there shall be cause admonishing in the Lord It is no usurpation but love and duty in a wife as well as in the husband to perform to each these Christian offices provided always that the wife do it with all humble respect to her husband in due time place and manner 10. This love must also shew it self in all due study and care to please each other in all things wherein you may giving all lawfull content one to another you to your power and skill must be helpfull one to another If the wife be made to be an help to the husband the husband much more is to be helpfull to the wife because God hath made him to be the stronger and hath given him more ability to do it Your hearts must be so knit to each other and so for one another that you may trust one in the other doing good and not evill the wife to the husband and husband to the wife all the dayes of your life 11. You must also shew your love in faithfulness to each other in keeping your bodies chaste and only one for another giving to each due benevolence in a seasonable temperate and sanctified use of marriage There are some times wherein God hath forbid marriage societie Also intemperate and immodest use of marriage springing from immoderate affections will not satisfie and quench lustfull desires but increase them rather and marriage is reckoned amongst those good things of God which are warranted and sanctified by the Word of God and Prayer 12. You are to satisfie your selves in the societie and embraces each of your own husband and wife Adulterie is a most heynous sin and most destructive of the marriage Covenant you cannot wrong one another in any thing more nor any way sooner wrong and root out your posterity nor bring a greater or more abominable and everlasting blot and infamy upon your name then by the embracing of the bosome of a stranger It will bring destruction upon the soul for Whoremongers and Adulterers God will judge If any temptation or motion to that evill shall present it self either from within or from without repell it with indignation saying thus with thy self in like words to those of chast Joseph when hee was tempted by his lewd Mistress Shal I wrong my yoak fellow shal I break my covenant that I made with my God How can I commit this great wickedness and sin against God Adulterers by the law of Moses were to be put to death 13. As you must not give cause no nor occasion of jealousie so abhor to be causelesly jealous one of another true ardent love will think no evill it believeth all things it hopeth all things 14. You must with all tender care be preservers of each others names and credits you must be so firm to each other that you may trust one in another and lock up your selves in one anothers brests keeping each others secrets never blazing abroad the faults or frailties of each True love can and will cover even a multitude of sins you must do with them as you will do with the soars of your own bodies never uncover them but when a plaister is to be laid to them 15. If God give you no children do not impute the fault to the one or other It is God that giveth or withholdeth children when you have commended this to God by Prayer you must patiently and contentedly submit to Gods will It was Rachels great