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A40140 Concerning marriage how God made them male and female in the beginning. Fox, George, 1624-1691. 1661 (1661) Wing F1767; ESTC R27995 4,158 10

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CONCERNING MARRIAGE How God made them Male and Female in the beginning and how he joyned them together before they were drove from God into the Earth and then the manner of Marriage before the Law and then the Marriage in the Law and the Marriage amongst the Christians in the Primitive times And the Marriage of the Apostate Christians and Jews and Gentiles where hardness of heart was there men put a sunder But where God joynes together let none put a sunder that is as it was in the beginning before man was driven from God into the Earth out of the defiled Bed in the Dominion in the unity with all Saints so not to be hid from them NOw the reproveable Marriages are such as Herods that John Baptist reproved and such are spoken of in Genesis when the Sons of God saw the Daughters of men that they were fair they took unto them Wives of all sorts which was in the coveting desires that grieved the Spirit of God so their minds was rebuked that run after all sorts that grieved the Spirit of God that went from Gods joyning So this was the rebukable Marriage Gen. 6.2 So let your Conversation be without Coveteousnesse And the manner of Isaacks taking a wife Chap. 24.67 and Chap. 38. People was present when he took a wife and Rebekahs friends blessed her and said be thou Mother of Thousands and Isaac took her into his Mothers Tent and there took her to Wife At the marriage of Jacob Laban gathered together all the men of the place and so there was people Gen. 29.22 So the manner of marrying in the Law Exod. 21. Thou shalt not take thee a wife that is a whore or a woman that is put away from her Husband that was the Law of the Priests Levit. 21. Ye shall not make Marriages with the Heathen nor give your Daughters nor Sons to them nor serve their Gods but shall follow me saith the Lord he that joins together Deut. 7.3 And Joshua said they should not make marriages with the Heathen least they were snares to them and as traps Joshua 23.12 And the wife of the dead shall not marry a stranger and the Elders of the City was to speak to him that did marry the woman the wife of him that was dead and he and she should come before the Elders and so you see there were people present Deut. 25.9 At Boaz and Ruth all the People and Elders that were in the Gates were witnesses and said we are witnesses And there you may see what was the words the man said and the woman said to them Ruth 4. The Lord make the woman like Rachel and Leah which two did build the House of Israel and the woman blessed the Lord likewise And David sent his servants to Abigail and communed with her to take her to wife and she came with five Damsels and became his wife 1 Sam. 25.39.42 A Vertuous Woman is a Crown to her Husband HEar is something also which was spoken concerning marrying in the Primitive times by the Saints and Servants of God who were passed from death to life and so from the sin that defiles the Bed Christ saith Mat. 19.9 Whosoever shall put away his wife except it be for Fornication and marrieth another committeth Adultery and whosoever marrieth her that is put away committeth Adultery There was a marriage in Canaan and Jesus his Mother and his Disciples were called to it So you may see there were people present as witnesses things were not done in a corner nor in a hole John 2. While a womans Husband lives if she marries she is called an Adulteress but when her Husband is dead she is free from the Law if she marry to another man Rom. 7.3 And in 1 Cor. 7. The state of Marriage may be seen Let not the wife depart from the Husband for the unbelieving Husband is sanctified through the believing wife and the unbelieving wife through the believing Husband else were your Children unholy but now are they clean for what dost thou know but thou mayest save thy wife or the wife may save her husband Therefore you may see there was much in that and this was spoken further then the Law which saith in Nehemiah they might depart if they were joyned to the Heathens Nehe. 13. The Apostle saith be not unequally yoaked with unbelievers for what fellowship hath Believers with Infidels 1 Cor. 6. And Husbands love your Wives and Wives submit to your Husbands as it is fit in the Lord for no man hates his own flesh and in 1 Tim. 4.3 The Apostle speaks of them that are gotten up in the Apostacy which did and have forbidden to marry chap. 5. the Apostle speaks of the state of right marriage and Heb. 13.4 He saith Marriage is honourable in all and the Bed that is undefiled But whoremongers and adulterers God will judge and in 1 Pet. 3.1.2.7 Wives be in subjection to your own Husbands that if any obey not the Word they also may without the Word be won by the conversation of the Wives while they behold your chast conversation coupled with fear likewise Husbands dwell with your Wives according to knowledge giving honour unto the wife as to the weaker Vessel and as being heirs together of the grace of life that your prayers be not hindred and husbands love your wives and wives love your husbands as Christ loves the Church and the Church loves Christ. And if any friends go together in the Power of the Lord or find a necessity thereunto to joyn in marriage that after the thing hath been made known between themselves before any thing be concluded it be declared to Friends who are able in the Wisdom and Power of God to see and feel into it if they see the thing in the light and power to stand it may be declared to friends in the meeting or Meetings to which the parties do belong towards the end thereof as they are moved by the parties themselves or some other friends as they are moved both of the parties being then present that it may be by friends felt and seen in the light and enquirie may be made touching any other engagement to stop scandals and things kept sweet so that you take time in it and you may be clear and feel it as it was in the beginning that no hardnesse of heart get up But if the parties who are first acquainted with such a marriage or any friend or friends have any thing against it and if any thing be resolved otherwise that then the matter be laid before friends the next General meeting that may be appointed to consider of things relating to friends and there to be seen into and ended If in convenient time after the thing is declared nothing appear against it by the parties who are first acquainted with such a marriage nor by any Friend or Friends and after things are all sweet and clear and Friends have unity with it they may as