life according as it is well or ill done The composer of these choyce Rules or Directions was a most ingenious and holy young man of good learning rare parts he studied before hand and practised these Rules which he had gathered out of the Oracles of God and he had God going along with him for he gave him a wife according to his desire with whom he lived but a short time it pleasing the Lord in favour to him to take him away from the evil to come The memory of the just is blessed Some erect monuments in Marble that their name may be kept in perpetuall remembrance And it was the manner in some places that in their mourning for their dead friends they held forth and shewed some of their most excellent works which they wrought while they lived I think a better monument cannot bee raised nor better means can be used to preserve this mans name most pretious sweet and ever living and most profitable to posterity then by making this his work publick to the Churches of God These are such as will alike serve to direct a single woman in her acceptance and choyce of an husband to teach parents how to make choyce of husbands and wives for their children as well as to direct a man to make a good choyce of a wife I commend unto all the practise of this our brother for their imitation that every one study and endevour to know and to do the works and duties of the places and conditions wherin God hath set them that they may walk with God and please him therein Amongst the secondary evidences of being in state of grace and accepted with God I know none more clear and certain then this that a Believer in Christ Jesus doe adde unto his faith a conscionable care to please God in the well doing the work of his particular calling and relation I cannot think that a man hath any more power of godlines then as he shall respectively endevour to manifest it in the particular calling condition of life wherein God hath placed him as well as in his generall For an upright man as he will as David did keep himself from his iniquity that is the iniquity which through his naturall corruption he was most prone unto to which through the particular condition of his life he was most tempted and in greatest danger so his speciall care will be to doe the duty of his own place to do that work which God in speciall hath given him to doe The Apostle in divers places after he had delivered the doctrine of faith he subjoyneth the doctrine of good works First more generally as the effects and evidences of a lively faith and then he descendeth to particular duties of men and women according to their severall ranks and relations as of Wives to their Husbands Husbands to their Wives of Children to Parents and of Parents to their Children of Servants to their Masters and of Masters to their Servants as the effects and evidences of true sanctity Where a generall good conversation is not endevoured there faith is not alive but dead and if a man think he hath faith and hath not works he deceiveth himselfe so if he think he hath works because he doth many of the works of holinesse and righteousnesse which his generall calling to Christiaanity leadeth him unto but yet doth not the work which God particularly hath given him to doe he also deceiveth himselfe he may fear that the holines and righteousnes which he seemed to have is not sound Whosoever shall bee desirous to make use of these Directions to make a good entrance into marriage will I thinke be as desirous to know how to live as becommeth Christians when they are maried Wherefore for their help I have added unto the end of these directions some others touching Husbands and wives their loving and living together so as they may please God and may live comfortably and happily in the married condition Both these directions I commend to all that desire information herein and also commend you and these to be blessed to you by God the instituter of the ordinance of marriage to whom be ascribed as most due is all honour and glory now and for ever Yours to serve you in the Lord HENRY SCUDDER Pastor of Collingburn Ducis in Wilts. July 23. 1644. The Godly mans Choyce EVery end hath its proper way and means appertaining to it All ways will not equally alike lead to the same end there is a contrary way that will never bring thee to it There is a crooked and indirect way that may perhaps but with much trouble and labour but then there is a streight and direct way and this is that way which will both with ease and pleasure bring thee to thy desired end This is the way which all men grope after but few can find it Now if to marry and to marry in the Lord a wife and a good wife one with whom thou mayst begin thy dayes with joy continue them in quiet and end them with comfort if this be the end of thy thoughts then surely the most direct and streight way to obtain it will be to seek her of God Not a few are the inducements to move us to this course 1. Because hee is best able to guide and direct you to the finding of her she is a flower that growes not in every garden an hearb that is not in every field she is not to be found in every house you may seek long enough ere you find and finding be deceived unlesse God direct you 2. She cannot be had from any other but from him he it is who is the great Patron in whose family are all the prudent wise vertuous religious persons that are to be desired and if thou wouldest have one of these apply thy self to obtain his favour so shalt thou find a good wife Pro. 18. 22. In other families no doubt thou mayst find a rich wife a beautifull wife but a prudent wife is from the Lord Pro. 19. 14. 3. It is the easiest way to find her Mercies though great yet when they cannot but with great difficulty be obtained it either disheartens us in the pursuit of them or els abates the sweetnesse in the enjoyment of them but with how much content and delight is the heart filled when it apprehendeth a great mercy tumbling into his lap Wouldst thou obtain a good wife which of temporall mercies is the greatest lo this is the most compendious way sit thou still doe but seek and wait and at length thou shalt as it were behold God bringing her in his hand and offering her to thee we see Adam slept while God brought Eve unto him Gen. 2. 21. 4. Never any found that did not thus seek many indeed have wandred roved over this wide world seeking in every place casting their eyes in every corner
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 â—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
fault to say to her husband Give mee children or else I die 16. If God do give you child or children then joyn in hearty thanks to God who hath graciously given them unto you joyne also in breeding and bringing them up in the nurture of the Lord 17. You must be helpfull one to another in over-seeing guiding governing and well-ordering the wayes of your family Though the husband is specially to have an eye to the men and the wife to the maids yet it shall be your wisdome to joyne as in the choice of the faithfullest you can get so in teaching and furthering them in goodnes taking all good occasion to instruct them in wayes of godlinesse and righteousnesse and to stop and restrain them from wickednesse looking to them that they be diligent and faithfull in their places you must joyn in looking to the state of your family for their due imployment and maintenance And as in governing the children the father must not take part against the mother So neither must the master take part with the servants against the dame or mistresse nor must the mother or dame or mistresse doe the like when the father or master doth reprove or correct but must joyne one with another therein If either father or mother master or mistris doe faile in reproofe or correction they are in private to shew one another their failings and not openly before servants or children If when one reproveth the other doth cocker and approve and when one correcteth the other saveth from correction this doth weaken the authority of each in the family and will embolden the children or servants in evill and both father and mother master mistresse or dame will be brought into contempt 18. Touching your worldly estate you must be helpfull and faithfull to each other you must be diligent in your places and be good husbands and good houswives thrifty frugall labouring with hand and head about something that is good according to your calling that you may have wheron you and yours may more comfortably live and wherewithall you may doe good and give to them that need Let nothing be wastfully and wickedly spent 19. And know there ought to be a communitie in the use of that temporall estate which God hath given you with husband and wife all such things should be common one house one purse one bed in every thing alike sutable to their place and meanes God hath made the husband to be head and therefore to have the chiefe power in disposing and ordering of his worldly estate yet the wife is not at such a distance as is the servant or child but so neere to him and one with him that shee hath a right as in his honors and dignities which he cannot restrain her of so in all his goods with which he did endow her at their marriage She therefore is to enjoy them as well as he for her use for all good purposes as there shall be cause except her manifest folly and wastfulnesse doe cause a restraint 20. You may and are to have your times of more then ordinary familiarity one with another in your amiable converse and delighting one in another and with such expressions as are meet to be shewed between none but such as are man and wife as Isaac with his Rebecca But this is not seemly before others but when alone I mean that palpable courting of each other and dallying one with another as is the manner of too many who therein expresse much lightnesse and vanity in their love and doe minister matter of temptation at least offence to others 21. Your love must be so strong as not to be easily provoked true love is exceeding patient it will beare all things endure all things nothing must quench your love one to another 22. If any difference shall arise tending to make a breach between you take heed that it doe not rise to a flame be sure that you compose it and stifle it speedily doe not dare either of you to sleep upon any such discontent for you know not what a night may bring forth and what alienation of affection and what strangenesse it may breed ere morning The Sun should not goe down upon the wrath of any much lesse should it upon the discontent of man and wife Each of you should strive who should begin first to look cheerfully and amiably and shew kindnesse one to another that the breach may be prevented or if any be may be made up between your selves The wife shee out of duty the husband he out of wisdome should begin first which when it is done by the one let not the other dare but lovingly and readily to entertain it If your love be true and if it be managed by that wisdome which is from above as it will be pure so it will be peaceable gentle easie to be intreated full of kindnesse and good fruits Consider this seriously and then you cannot I am sure you will not continue long in any variance that shall fall out between you 23. If you finde pride and folly to be so great in you that it keep you at too great a distance through dislike or distaste one with another the best way to remedy all is to call upon one another to goe together into Gods presence and there joyne together in hearty prayer to him confessing your faults unto him intreating pardon and that he will unite your hearts againe that you may love and live together in all well-pleasing to God and to the joy and comfort one of another Many who in the pride of their heart will in their heare stout it out one against another yet if they have any grace they will calme their spirits and come to a right mind againe when they humble themselves in the sight of God I come now to the particular duties of husband and wife 1. YOU that are an husband may nay must wisely but with love keepe your place and use your authoritie which God hath set you in 2. By keeping it I doe not meane that you should take upon you to be sterne fierce and domineering in your carriage towards her tyger-like as too many doe but that you carry your selfe like a wise head winning honour and respect from her doing her all right giving her all her due In your government you must not be light nor foolish for so you will lose your authoritie and bring your self into contempt Though shee be a wise and good wife and you think fit to passe over much of your authoritie unto her yet hold your authoritie in your own power let her use your authority for you joyning with you in ordering and managing the affaires of your estate and family yet never suffer her if shee attempt it to usurpe authoritie over you but dwell with her as a man of knowledge and wisdom which ought to be in every one whom God hath made to be
able you must allow her plentifull and comfortamaintenance as food apparell c. even the very same for kinde and proportion sutable with that which you provide for your self for she is your self that she may live like your wife cheerfully with you 22. And as you may dislike and reprove your wife when shee doth ill so much rather are you to take notice of and give her due praise and incouragement when shee doth well Give her of the fruits of her hands saith the Lord by Salomon Hee hath little if any grace ingenuity or love to his wife which will not do it 23. If God take you out of this life before your wife if good provision be not already certainly made for her then you before your death are by your last Will and Testament to take care for her comfortable maintenance after your death in which I would not have you to do as too many fond and foolish husbands do give all or most part of your estate to your wife you having children leaving them to her disposing This doth but expose her to temptations By experience you may see that many enter into such second marriages as prove to be a great wrong if not an utter undoing of the children of her former husband 24. But do not as too many also do neglect their wives and give all or most part of their estate to their children leaving his wife their mother to need to be maintained by them how unnaturall many children prove to their mothers when all their fathers means is in their hands is seen too oft in wofull experience consider well your estate and accordingly give her so much that her children may have more need of her then she of them that shee may of her self without them live comfortably and they may expect to be beholden to her rather then that shee should need to be beholden to them and this will better contain them in dutie to her when you have left her in an estate able to do them good if they continue loving and dutifull to her There is also duty peculiar to the wife to be performed to the husband 1. FIrst you that are a wife must see in your husband whom God hath given to you and set over you a stamp of Gods Image and authority wherby he is become above you and is made your head and you are made his inferiour and are made subject to him whatsoever his birth parts or wealth was or is or whatsoever yours is or was you must now look upon him as bearing som of the Image and glory of Gods power and authoritie which God hath invested him withall for your good hee is now thy lord hee is now thy better he is one who must be highly esteemed of thee one to whom your desire must be subject one who hath rule over you 2. You must shew your love to him and due esteem of him and due reverence of his person you must see that you reverence your husband saith the Apostle you must reverence him in your heart It was Michaels great and shamefull sin that she despised her husband David in her heart 3. Shew reverence to your husband in word and gesture in word and deed when you speak either before him or of him or to him you must shew in all these that you have an honourable esteem of him For this Sarah whose daughter you are if you doe well is commended by the holy Ghost There is time and place for very familiar speech to the husband but never for a slight neglective contemptuous or rude speech or behaviour to him you must alwayes reverence him 4. You must also shew your love in being subject and obedient to him 5. This obedience must be a ready hearty and an universall obedience to all his reasonable lawfull commands or significations of his will God saith Let wives be subject to their own husbands in every thing This generall in every thing admits onely this limitation that it be in the Lord If your husband commandeth what God forbiddeth or he would restraine you in that wherein Christ hath made you free in this case you are to obey GOD rather then man If you enter into marriage according to the directions formerly given by that holy young man now with the Lord which he took out of the word of God and shall live in a married estate according to these present directions taken from the same holy Scriptures you shall live comfortably one with another and shall be a blessing each to other and shall adde much to one anothers happinesse here in this life I will shut up all in a few words of caution and advise unto both husbands and wives Consider that although this estate if you be not wanting to your selves be full of comfort benefit and matter of delight and content yet it will be but for a time it may be but for a very short time that you shall live together This will cause you to redeeme the time with thankfulnesse to God enjoy each other and doe good to each other as well as in receiving good one from another while you may lest else it prove to the surviving party great griefe of heart that he or shee did let slip that good opportunitie wch God had given them Moreover you must consider that there is another choice to be made which if you be the same you professe your selves to be you have already made which is better and everlasting namely you have handfasted and betrothed your selves to Jesus Christ This cōcerneth that one thing needfull which when you have obtained it shall never be taken from you without whom all earthly blessings in the end will prove curses your whole heart must be taken up about this and wholly placed here What is said of riches when they increase that may be said of the good of marriage Set not your heart thereon as upon that wherin you should place your happines or set up your rest Christ Jesus and his kingdome are first to be sought he must be your chiefe love and desire you must obey him in all things absolutely you must wholly live to him at all times and must delight and satisfie your selfe alwayes in his love your love and delight in one another must be in a subordination to your love to him and as it will stand with your love and obedience to him The Apostle adviseth you that are married to be as if you married not you that have husbands as if you had none and you that have wives as if you had none It is not meant that when you are married you may separate at pleasure and live one from another as too many doe nor yet to neglect one another though you live together But your lives must not be so bound up one in another but that you can part one with another And you must use this estate as you doe
p. 64. Much evill doth follow the expectation of that good in marriage which it cannot give p. 65 66. After consent is gained in the way prescribed It is very expedient that you be betrothed to eath other before that you be solemnly married p. 66 67. Betrothing will make you sure one to another but not give a right to marriage society p. 67. Betrothing before marriage is of excellent use pag. 68. Directious for married persons Some Duties are common to both Being married together see and acknowledge it being made as before hath been prescribed to be of God p. 69 70. This acknowledging of God will be of great good use to you both p. 70. Consider well what a strict bond and covenant you entred into even into a covenant with God p. 71. You are mutually to love each other abundantly p. 72. The neerness of relation into which by marriage you are entred it being the express will of your God that you should thus love one another must be the spring and foundation of your love pag. 72 73. This love must shew it self in care of each others souls you must pray one for another and in your places edifie one another 74 You must study to please each other in what you may and be helpfull to each other p. 75. You must be faithfull and keep your selves chast and not defraud each other of due benevolence p. 76 77 78. You must not be jealous of each other p. 78. You must be preservers of each others names and credit 78 79. If God give no children you both must submit quietly to his will p. 79. If God give you children you must joyn in bringing them up in the nurture of the Lord p. 79 80. You must be helpfull to each other in governing and ordering the wayes of your family p. 80 81. Touching your estates you must joyn in all lawfull wayes of maintaining it with diligence in your calling being thrifty and frugall p. 82. There ought to be a community betwixt you in the use of your temporall estate p. 83. Expressions of speciall familiarities betwixt you are best shewed when you are alone p. 84. Your love must be so strong that nothing can quench it p. 85. You must not suffer any difference to make a breach or faling out betwixt you p. 85. If any such shall be be sure that you do not sleep upon a discontent between you p. 85. The husband out of wisdome the wife out of duty should begin to shew kindness and to make up the breach p. 86. When either of you begin the other must readily embrace it p. 86. To joyn in prayer to God is an excellent means of reconciling man and wife if any breach have been betwixt them p. 87. The peculiar Duties of the Husband You are wisely to keep that authority over her which God hath given you p. 88. 90. You are to dwell with her as a man of knowledge p. 90. You must esteem her and use her as your companion and second self p. 90. You are to tender her as the weaker vessell pag. 90 91. You are to teach her the wayes of godliness p. 92. You must daily pray with her p. 92. 93. You must use your authority with mildness p. 93 95. You must command her only things lawfull not things unreasonable nor trifles p. 94. Lay commands on her but seldome a bare signification of your will to her should be enough p. 94 95. Never reprove her but for a great and manifest fault and that with the spirit of meekness and love p. 95 96. Due time and place must be observed when you reprove her p. 96 97. You must nnver be so unmanly and unnaturall as to correct her with blowes pag. 98 99. If shee will not be governed then help of the Magistrate is to be desired p. 99. You must shew wisdome in her imployments p 99 100. You are to give your wife all good encouragement when shee doth well being more ready to approve her well-doing then to reprove her for evill p. 101. The wife must be well provided for before your decease that shee surviving may live more comfortably p. 101 102. You must not give all or too much to her with the neglect of your children p. 102. Nor yet may you give all or most to your children neglecting your wife p. 102 103. Peculiar Duties of the Wife You must see in your Husband and acknowledge the stamp of Gods authority upon him God having made him to be your head and ruler p. 104. You most in abundance of love shew true reverence to him in word and deed p. 105. You must obey him in the Lord in all things p. 106. Some Cautions and other generall Directions to Husbands and wives for the close of all that the married estate to them may be more contentfull and comfortable p. 107 c. Errata FOr comfortable p. 66. l. 1. r. uncomfortable for enjoy p. 108. l. 14. r. enjoying for do p. 108. l. 15. r. doing FINIS Ruth 4. 11 Jere. 2. 2. Heb. 12. 22 23. Eph. 3. 15. E. M. Coguntâ—â—â—ssâ— maâ—â—◠〈◊〉 〈◊〉 â—sse vâ—les Sal de Prov. sâ— 66. 24. Ezek. 16. 8. Pro. 31 1. Filii diligendâ— sunt in Deo 〈◊〉 propter Deum Quid Christus nisi Deum in nobis dilexit non quem habebamus sed ut haberemus Lomb. l. 3. D. 27. Isa. 65. 8. Jos. 24. 15 Prov. 10. Act. 9. 39. Psal. 18. 23. Joh. 17. 4. Eph. 5. 22. Col. 3. 18. Tit. 2. 17. Jam. 2. 17. Pro. 18. 22. Pro. 19. 14. Gen. 2. 21 Jer. 45. 5. Gen. 24. 2. 3. Gen. 28. 12. Gen. 21. 21. Jos. 15. 17. 1 Sam. 18. 27. Ruth 1. 2. Gen. 28. 6 7. Gen. 34 4. Gen. 26. 34 35. Prov. 30. 19. Psal. 55. 22. Deut. 31. 6. Psal. 9. 10. 1 Sam. 18. 25. Jos. 15. 17 Isa. 26. 3. Phil. 4. 11. 1 Cor. 7. 28. Rom. 8. 20 Gen. 3. 16 Eccl. 1. 14. Eccl. 2. 3. 11. Mal. 2. 15. 1 Cor. 7. 2 1 Cor. 7. 32. 35. Eccles. 4. 9 10 11 12. Deut. 20. 7. Deut. 22. 32. Mat. 1. 18. Mat. 1. 20. Mat. 1. 18. 25. Mat. 19. 6. Prov. 19. 14. Prov. 7. 2. Gen. 2. 23 24. Mat. 19. 5 6. 1 Cor. 7. 2. 1 Cor. 8. 1. 1 Pet. 3. 1. 1 Cor. 7. 33 34. Gen. 2. 18. Prov. 31. 11 12. 1 Thes 4. 4 Heb. 13. 4. 1 Cor. 7. 3. Lev. 18. 19 24. 1 Tim. 4. 4 5. Prov. 5. 18 19 20. Job 31. 12. 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