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A91791	Divine consolations, or, The teachings of God in three parts ... with an answer to the objections made against it, and Doctor Crips [sic] booke justified against Steven Geree / by Samuel Richardson.	Richardson, Samuel, fl. 1643-1658.	1649 (1649)	Wing R1406; ESTC R42708	221,129	494

been married before as Numb 30. 4. or Exod. 22. 16. Mutuall Counsell to husbands and wives 1. Have a high esteeme of marriage marriage is honourable 2. Nourish love and abhorre all occasions to the contrary strive who shall love each other most and expresse it best with the most cordiall affection live and love and cease not to love till yee cease to live love is given to both to make the miseries of marriage tolerable have a care yee loose not your first love so demean your selves as may best draw forth each others heart in all love and amity and be ready to expresse love and simpathy 3. Avoyde a peevish carriage which provokes to wearinesse impatience and discontent 4. Beare with each others infirmities doe not fret nor cavill at them but cover them with tendernesse if yee have a bad bargaine make the best of it you can it 's too late now to complain an eying each others infirmities deads and kills the affection of love 5. Impart not your discontents to strangers nor aske any counsell of them but with a free consent of both and that when an absolute necessitie requires it Such as complain to others shew their clamorous and turbulent spirits and want of wisdome of love 6. If thy husbands and wives vertues be but small multiply them by contemplation and by putting upon them the great value of their worth 7. Observe each others tempers to prevent discontents and to preserve and increase love 8. If there fall out a difference between you be both freely willing the word of God may decide it and submit to it 9. Feare breaches know a small sparke of difference may increase to a great flame if not timely prevented expect trouble and beare with one another least yee breake that which holds all together the thred of love Christs carriage to his is loving meeke and sweet let yours be so 10. Be both chaste love each others company be faithfull each to other let one house one bed one purse serve them that are but one 11. Be industrious and provident that neither of you may want 12. Hinder not each other in serving God 13. In matters of Religion especially doe as yee would be done unto offend not the conscience 14. Finde as little fault one with another as possibly you can and expresse it not in anger but in love and when yee be both alone forgive each other 15. Tender each others good name 16. Be fearfull of harbouring jealousies of each other without a cleare and sufficient ground least yee wrong each other and make your lives bitter and burdensome each to other Counsell to the wife 1. Love your own husband and expresse your love in a reverend amiable and modest manner in thy husband thou maist behold authoritie government forecast soveraignty from him thou injoyest countenance protection direction honour love c. 2. Honour your husband inwardly in your heart and outwardly in your actions esteeme him as he is your superior and head and in lawfull things yeeld to him let your will be subject to his have you no will but his if he speake the word doe not contest but in humility yeeld if he be angry be yee silent know the carriage of the Church as it ought to be to Christ is to be a patterne to you and know where love is duties are frequent and acted with ease and delight 3. Obey thy husbands lawfull commands alas how hard is the word Obedience to many a woman that hath a proud and stout stomacke they will professe they neither can nor will yeeld their necks to be subject in every thing The Lord knew that both man and wife would have their wils though they were quite contrary to each other therefore the Lord thought fit to order it as he would have it that the wife should yeeld to her husband and be obedient to him in every thing for thus saith the Lord Wives submit your selves unto your own husbands as unto the Lord for the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of his Church therefore as the Church is subject to Christ so let the wives be unto their own husbands in every thing Ephes 5. 22 23 24. Therefore O woman whosoever thou art rich or poore that God hath commanded you to be subject to your husband and if you doe it not God will call you to an account for it one day though it may be your husband is content to let it pass therefore in the feare of God consider it and tremble at the thought of living in the breach of such an expresse and plaine command consider Christ is the Author of salvation to all that obey him Heb. 5. 9. it may be you count it folly and basenesse to be so subject to your husband in every thing but you will thinke otherwise at the great day when Christ shall come in flaming fire to render vengeance on them that have not obey'd him 2 Thes 1. 8. O that yee would goe to God for humilitie and selfe deniall to stoop to your husbands lawfull commands because God hath commanded it and will have it so Though marriage be an equall state yet the carriage of both is not to be the same therefore let thy love to thy husband be with a loyall sweet subjection without slavoury and thy obedience shall be a blessing to thee and an increase of thy inward peace and joy also thou shalt avoyde many quarrels envie and discontents which others endure and by thy obedience thou shalt honour God and be a good patterne to others to doe so also Counsell to the husband Let your carriage be as Christ is to his Church which is loving meeke and sweet 1. Consider the command of God is upon you that you love your own wife and be not bitter unto her Let love descend first from thee shee is a deserving object of love shee hath forsaken all for thee and perhaps is shiftlesse without thee great are her burdens and paines in conception and bearing children c. all calls for compassion love and tendernesse Let thy love be to her full and free love her in some sense better then thy selfe Husbands love your wives even as Christ also loved his Church and gave himselfe for it so ought men to love their wives as their own bodies he that loveth his wife loveth himselfe for no man ever yet hated his own flesh they two are one flesh Ephes 5. 25. 28 29. 31. 2. Ease thy wise as much as thou canst though she be bound to obey thy commands thou art not bound to command her also you need not command so many things nor so frequently and so the burden of subjection will be made much easier unto her I conceive it would be much better and very commendable for the husband to turne what he may command into intreaties or say wife if you please doe such a thing so would it be no burden to her it being wholy

lovers and rest content in Christ alone The soules answer to Christ 16. Behold thou art all faire my beloved My beauty is not mine but thine it all belongs to thee take thee the praise thereof for thou art onely beautifull I desire to see the King in his beauty for thou art glorious in thy beauty Psal 45. 2 3. Psal 115. 1. Psal 90. 17. Isa 30. 18. Psal 27. 4. thou art my glory Isa 45. 24. Yea pleasant Christ is very pleasant comfortable amiable and delightfull in him is all pleasantnesse Song 7. 6. 4. 16. Pro. 16. 24. I sat downe under his shadow with great delight and his fruit was sweet unto my taste Song 2. 3. Christ is that tree under which we have protection and defence and dwell safely and quietly no heat can scorch us sit we rest in Christ we goe no further the fruits of his death are sweet unto my taste they not onely smeell sweet Song 4. 11. but taste sweet there are no fruits so sweet as the fruits of his death Song 5. 1. Also our bed is greene Viz. fruitfull and flourishing communion with Christ in the bed of love causeth spirituallnesse fruitfulnesse they increase in good workes inward and outward to God and man such cannot be barren Psal 92. 13 14. 2 King 6. 2. 5. Song 4. 2. 〈◊〉 is none barre● among them Song 6. 6. See Song 8. 12. 1● The beame● of 〈◊〉 house The rafters of our house which is the Church of Christ 1 Ti● 3. 15. Heb. 3. 6. 〈…〉 A Cedar is a tall tree full of sap Psal 104. 16. It s a tree that grows well it s a tree of worth and of great use and a rare and excellent tree Excellent as Cedars Song 5. 15. It s a sound tree it s no p●thy nor rotten tree it holds forth what the matter of the Church of God should be choice matter excellent Saints the Candlesticks were made of pure gold 1 King 1. 49. See Rev. 1. 20. Cedars many Cedars make an house Our galeries The galeries are ●igher then other parts of the house so are those that are the Teachers above the rest in honour c. the King is held in his galery Song 7. 5. Christ is most seene in his galeries they are his galeries where he walkes the galeries are on the outside of the house and seene by those abroad they declare the truth to them that are without Are brutaine trees or fit tree Psal 104. 17. The brutaine trees are of a sweet and pleasant smell it holds forth that those that teach the truth should smell best their conversations holy and sweet not of those whose practise make them stinke The smell of thy garments is like Lebanon Song 4. 11. It holds forth their sweet gifts and excellent knowledge in the truth of Christ who teach Christ they are to teach truth with speech comely Song 4. 3. and comfortably to the beloved of the Lord. Psalme 16. THis Psalme is a Prophesie of Christ David speaks concerning him see Acts. 25. to 35. 13 35. This Psalme is a golden Jewell it declares the riches of love to the sonnes and daughters of Christ their exceeding safe and happy estate in which is great consolation Vers 1. Preserve me O God There is no preservation in any thing but in God Preserve me Christ in the dayes of his flesh put up strong cryes and supplications to his Father Jo● 17. For in thee doe I put my trust There is no trust to be put in any thing but in God 2. I put my trust Christ as he was man had faith and it was in God Gal. 2. Thou art my Lord Christ in acknowledging him honoureth the Father yea Christ is equall with him My goodnesse Christs goodnesse was of and from himselfe therefore his own Goodnesse Jesus Christ is full of goodnesse Col. 2. 3. therefore all that Christ hath done must needs be exceeding good and excellent in this is our happinesse and comfort Extendeth not to thee Appertaineth not to God God is perfect and infinite therefore he is not capable of any addition of goodnesse this is his perfection 3. But to the Saints Those that are made so by me they had no goodnesse of themselves their rig●t●ousnesse is of me Isa 45. 17. Extendet to t●e Saints It reacheth to the● there is no sonne or daughter in any place to whom my goodnesse doth not reach they have interest in it it s theirs and they shall injoy the fruit of it Goodnesse The Saints goodnesse is in Christ This goodnesse of Christ was not for every person in the world but to the Saints that a●e in the earth Saints Christs goodnesse made them Saints Vse Oh Saint admire the riches of Christ and his love to thee rest satisfied in Christs goodnesse which is thine rejoyce in it admire at it be thankfull for it walke sutable to it and improve this goodnesse against all thy doubts and feares c. To the excellent The Saints are excellent to Christ yea all of them are alike excellent beautifull glorious unspeakeable infinite excellent with the excellency of Christ they are more excellent then the whole creation of heaven and earth Christ calls them excellent and esteemes them so Eph. 5. 27. Oh Saint esteeme thy selfe as Christ doth to be excellent in his excellency for thy beauty it is perfect through my comelinesse I have put upon thee saith the Lord Ezek. 16. 14. I will greatly rejoyce in the Lord my soule shall be joyfull in my God for he hath clothed me with the garment of salvation he hath covered me with the robe of righteousnesse Isa 61. 10. Use Oh glorious Saint the world knowes not thy worth therefore it esteems thee not yet slight not thy selfe because Christ hath made thee excellent In whom is all my delight Jesus Christ is fully pleased and contented with his All my delig●t An infinite delight Christ takes in his All One Saint is more esteemed by Christ then the whole creation of heaven and earth for those things have not any of his delight the Saints have it all the quintessence of all fulnesse Use O precious Saint delight thy selfe in God rest satisfied in him in his love and the delight he takes in thee Vers 4. Their sorrowes shall be multiplied that hasten after another God those that have another God they shall have sorrow and increases in griefe those that are not mine their drink offering of bloud will I not offer nor take up their names into my lips they are not in so happy a condition they shall finde the contrary from Christ he will not once name their names to God I will not be made an offering for them their offerings of bloud their costly services shall be rejected they shall finde no acceptance they are in a miserable condition Vers 5. Mine inheritance and lot Given me of my Father alotted to me Christs lot and inheritance is his people The Lords portion is his people