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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57118	Considerations concerning marriage the honour, duties, benefits, troubles of it whereto are added 1. directions in two particulars, 1. how they that have wives may be as if they had none, 2., how to prepare for parting with a dear yoke-fellow by death, or other-wife : 2. resolution of this case of conscience, whether a man may lawfully marry his wives sister? / by Edward Reyner ...	Reyner, Edward, 1600-1668.	1657 (1657)	Wing R1221; ESTC R3111	49,078	102

a wife so as if he had none but a wife neither a God to serve nor a soul to save as if a wife was summum benum the chief good But he that hath a wife as if he had none will say though I have maried a wife that shall be no impediment to me but I will come to Jesus Christ in his Ordinances and endeavour to bring my wife with me to Christ However I will come though she hang back and will not come with me 3. 3 That wee will go to heaven alone heaven-ward That if our Mariage do not help us God-ward and Christ-ward it shall not hinder us and that we will goe to Heaven alone if our yoak-fellowes will not goe along with us rather then to Hell with company When these and the like are our resolves and endeavours then we have Husbands or wives as if we had none 2. We that have wives may be as if we had none by not suffering our Mariage to be a means of sin unto us either Immediately or Mediately 1. Inmediately in our selves by breeding in our hearts 1 Either distrust by reason of the greatness of our charge and smalness of our means 2 Or discontent because of the mani old troubles we meet with therein When we indeavour to overcome distrust and suppress discontent and to ●rust God for our families to provide for them as well as for our single selves if we were alone and to be as patient in bearing our mariage Crosses as our own personal trials when we are content to take the better with the worse together therein and both as from the hand of God as Job answered his wife Shall we receive good at the hand of God and shal we not receive evil then we that have wives are as if we had none 2 Let not Mariage be a means of sin to us 2. When we suffer not our mariage to be a means of sin to us Mediately by our yoak-fellowes being Instruments of Tentations to us unto sin to draw us from God and good 1. To idolatry superstition or will 1 Of Idolatry 1 Kings 11.4 Deut. 13 6 8 9. worship as Solomons wives turned away his heart after other Gods Under the law an Enticer to Idolatry though she were the wise of their bosom was to be put to death 2. Apostacy Job 2.9 2 To Apostacy from God or blasphemy against God to fall from integrity or sted fastness and to think or speak ill of God Jobes wife tempted him thereunto doest thou still retain thy integrity curse God and die Such like are the designes some wives have upon their Hutbands to draw them from the Truths wayes and ordinances of God into errours heresies by-wayes c or licentiousness Or to discourage their hearts from pious duties and courses as Michal sought by her mocking to do unto David from dancing before the ark 3. 3 Injury To Injury to doe our neighbour wrong in taking by unjust wayes their house land or goods from them as Jezebel did Naboths vineyard from him for her Husband Ahab to chear him up when he was sick with grief and indignation upon Naboths denial of his vineyard to him Ahab desired it upon a valuable consideration but Jezebel his wife took the vineyard violently from Naboth 4 Any breach of Gods command by taking away his life 4. Or to a breach of any even the least of Gods commandments Eve tempted her husband Adam to eat forbidden fruit which was the transgressing of a law of Trial hereby she brought sin and death upon herself and her Husband and upon all their posterity Let this by the way be a caution to women to beware Satan do not abuse them in making them his instruments or Agents to entice or tempt their Husbands to any sin as pride malice revenge vanity covetousness or the like Now when we are alway watchful and careful lest Satan should surprize us by coming to tempt us unto sin in or by a conjugal Companion Math. 16.22.23 one so dear and near to us lying in our bosomes as he thinks we will suspect no evil from nor serpent in as Satan came to tempt Christ in Peter therefore we ponder well what counsel intreaties our proposals are made to us by our yoak-fellowes as well as by strangers which both Ahab and Solomon neglected to do Or when they do perswade or intice us to any evil whatsoever either of Omission or Commission against God or man we strive strenuously to resist all their suggestions tentations and solicitations and set our selves as a wall of brass to repel them all that they cannot prevail no nor enter or peirce us As Job not onely rejected his wifes perswasion but gave her a sharp reprehension for it Thou speakest as one of the foolish women as David resolutely replied his wife Michals discouraging scoff Then we that have wives are as if we had none and ye that have husbands are as if ye had none 3. 3 Honor christ for your Husband We that have wives or Husbands may be as if we had none by having Christ for the Husband of our souls and by having holy fellowship with him and by delighting our selves in him in the embraces and solaces of his love and in the cherishing comsorts of his presence When Christ is dear to ours souls above all our relations yea above all the world and we are willing to leave father and mother wife and children house and lands and all for Christ that is 1. To follow Christ in the Regeneration as his disciples to follow the Lamb whither-soever he goeth Revelat. 14.4 2. To be willing to suffer the losse of all for Christ as Paul did 3. Phil. 3.8 To learn them all to go to Christ as best of all for us then we have wives as if we had none This Christ requires of all that would be his Disciples or be accounted worthy of him Luc. 14.26 even to hate father and mother wife and children that is to love them lesse then him and to be willing to leave them all for him Hereto Christ makes a large promise of a hundred fold now in this time and in the world to come eternal life Mark 10.29.30 Galeatius Caracciolus that Noble Marquess of Italy or rather the most Excelent Theophilus did forsake parents and wife and children and all his friends and renounnced all his wealth and Dignitie because as he said he could not injoy both Christ and them He was a rare example of leaving all a very great all of Relations Possessions Honours and pleasures for Christ rather then to injoy all without Christ Notwithstanding the strongest workings and wrestlings of natural affections within him and the powerfullest and most heart breaking Solicitations of his friends by prayer Tears and Arguments to the Contrary and the deep and sore Agonies and Conflicts he had in himself about it yet through the Grace of Christ he overcame them all for