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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

Christ A man may be said to have a thing c. as an old house o● Garment as if he had it not when he hath something of the same kind that is much better as a new house to go unto or new cloathes to put on when he pleaseth Now the soules Mariage with Christ is the most Excellent of all Relations Conjunctions and Consociations it is the first and chiefest mariage in excellency and thereof a Rule and pattern to humane mariage to direct the due Carriage of the Parties each to other To this purpose Paul proposeth it in the fifth of the Ephesians As a greater Light obscures a less so a greater delight weans us from a less If our souls be maried unto Christ and take pleasure in communion with Christ this will wean us from our Temporal Mariage and the delights of it as poor low things of an inferiour nature respecting the body most which is the Earthly part of man Sensual delights wherein we partake with the beasts which cannot reach the sublime part of man the soul to afford it divine refreshments which only Christ the Husband of it can do This fellowship with Christ will abundantly compensate or supply the loss or want o● the comfort of all other Relations and take us off them wean us from them raise up our hearts above them Even whilest we have them As it is in other things when we make Grace our cheif goods then we have Gold and silver as it we had it not or Gods favour our chei● honour then we have the favour and honour of Men as if we had it not We have thing appretiatively and hold them tenaciously when we have nothing better then they or so good as the covetous man hath his gold the Ambitious man his Honor the Voluptuous M●n his pleasure and the Uxorious man his wife on whom he dotes These know or have nothing that is better A man cannot have an usefull delightfull Creature as if he had it not unless he have something as good or better to injoye in the room thereof When a man hath God to his portion he may say It is enough though he hath nothing else God without all is a greater portion then All without God When Christ becomes all in all to us then all the comforts we have are as nothing to us Scil. in comparison of Christ then Mariage is nothing wealth nothing preferment nothing When we have a better Husband for our souls that is Christ then any Husband or wife is or can be for the body 4 Be sober in all the concernment of Mariage 1 Cor. 7.29.30.31 should not we upon this Account who have wives or Husbands be as if we had none 4. We that are maried may be as if we were not maried by being very fober and moderate in all the effects concomitants and concernments of Mariage which the Apostle particularizeth in and connecteth with Mariage in the text and in the thing as sorrow joy possessions and wordly affairs and businesses attending or circumstantiating that condition To be sober and moderate in all these and to be weaned or sit loose from them in our hearts both which are included in the Apostles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e 1 in Mariage comfort as if not is the way to have wives as if we had none As 1. To be sober and moderate in the use of all mariage comforts and delights and in the fruits thereof as the birth of children or the like and in our joy therein This is to rejoyce as if we rejoyced not not to overjoy our Mariage joyes Not to be excessive or immoderate in any Mariage injoyment or in our joy or delight therein for that is to have a wife or a Husband as if we had nothing besides As a man may be excess be a drunkard with his own drink and a Glutton with his own meat so likewise one may be unclean in the immoderate use of the Mariage bed Mr. Dod on 7. com 2 In Mariage grief What we are very moderate in we use as if we used it not 2. To be moderate in our grief for the troubles that accompany mariage as for the loss of wife or children The Jewes conceive that Abraham wept but a little for Sarahs death or that his mourning for her was at least not excessive but with Moderation Ainsworth Pareus because in Gen. 23.2 where its said Abraham came to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her the word weep in the Hebrew hath one little letter extraordinary David fasted and wept while his childe was yet alive but when it died why should I weep any more saith David when God took all Jobes children away at once with a stroke he blessed the name of the Lord Job 1.21 This is to weep as if we wept not not to overgrieve our mariage griefs 3. To be moderate in 3 in worldly Matters and weaned from worldly Matters which concerns mariage as 1. In Buying as if we possessed not minding earthly things as if we minded them not As a Traveller that goeth on in his way as in buying and a labourer in his work but both of them are in a deep study and their mindes are intent upon other matters then either the journey of the one or the work of the other So should our Mindes be Imployed about heavenly things as much as may be while we are going about wordly business Things above should have Our hearts while our hands and feet are busied about things below We should so deal in the world as those that are wholly taken off ●rom the world 1 Cor. 7.30 This is to buy as if we possessed not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as not to hold what we have bought or gotten too hard or close to our selves or ours as if we would keep all to our selves and part with nothing for God hath many wayes to pluck our purchases and possessions from us Prov 23.5 Riches make themselves wings and can flee away from us and our family and posterity as an Eagle There is great uncertainty in them this should wean us from them 2. In using he world 2 Using the world and the things of it as if we used it not as food rayment habitation and outward accomodations all which are appurtenances to mariage to be very Temperate sober and moderate in them and weaned from them not setting our hearts upon them nor being any way excessive or inordinate in the use of them is to use the word as if we used it not 1 Cor 7.3 A wise moderation in and a holy Alienation from the matters of the world may either procure or preserve and promote in us a Weanedness or fitting loose from Temporal Relations that we that have wives may 〈◊〉 as though we had none 5. And lastly 5. Enjoy relations with submission to God we that have wives or husbands may be as if we had none