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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08841	A meet help, or, A wedding sermon preached at New-Castle in New-England, June 19th 1694, at the marriage of Mr. John Clark, and Mrs. Elizabeth Woodbridge / by Mr. John Cotton.	Cotton, John, 1658-1710.	1699 (1699)	Wing C6473A; ESTC W38820	10,037	28

A Meet help OR A Wedding SERMON Preached at New-Castle in New-England June 19th 1694. At the Marriage of Mr. John Clark AND Mrs. Elizabeth Woodbridge By Mr. Iohn Cotton Pastor of the Church at Hampton Heb. 13.4 Marriage is honourable in all and the bed undefiled but Whoremongers and Adulterers God will Judge Hos 3.3 Thou shalt not play the Harlot and thou shalt not be for another man so will I also be for thee Cant. 2.16 My beloved is mine and I am his Boston Printed by B. Green and J. Allen. Sold by Michael Perry at his Shop over against the Town house 1699. To the Candid READER THis small Tract had come to light before now had it not been for the averseness of the Author thereunto The Auditory to whom it was Preacht were so satisfied and pleased with the Discourse that they did generally in the season of it desire it might be made publick the unwillingness of the Preacher whose design was wholly to have stifled it hath hitherto hindred and delayed it but being overcome at last others that got the perusal of it do judge that whether in season or out of season it may be useful Marriage is one of the most considerable Changes that befal the Children of men in this World and though it be so that some spend a considerable age and live and dye without tasting the sweets of it whether frighted by an apprehension of imagined and insuperable sorrows attending it or from a natural frigidity or a morose unsociable temper or on religious grounds or pretences or perhaps on other reasons not mentioned must be left to themselves but the generality of the Children of men do so far answer the Law of their Creation and the end of this Institution that they do incline and desire and in time actually enter on this Change without which the World would cease and we cannot easily see how the great things that God hath yet to do on the Stage of the World would be accomplished Marriage then being of such general concernment to the Sons and Daughters of Adam and to the Church of God it is good for every one to be advised about it and when they engage in it so to do it as may best answer all its ends and wisdom in this as in all other weighty Concerns must be sought of him who giveth liberally and upbraideth not it being God alone that can guide into ways that are plain and easy or sweeten any Change or Condition to us and render that State that would be otherwise thorny and perplexing to us to be comfortable and pleasant Hence its requisite that not only his presence be sought but his Oracles consulted which some neglecting and driving on furiously having their heat kindled by some secular Interest have run themselves into such intanglements and intricacies that they could afterward find it easier to bewail themselves in then extricate themselves out of The Sac●●●● 〈…〉 its Counsels in reference to this Affair the Apostle spends a large Chapter upon it 1 Cor. 7. and though he gives liberty to the Unmarried to pitch on whom they will yet he limits it with that restriction only in the Lord which some not observing it may be said of their Matches as God sometimes speaks of Israels Kings Hos 4 8. They have set up Kings but not by me they have made Princes and I knew it not on which account it was sometimes spoken in reference to one of them That he gave him in his anger and took him away in his wrath This is enough to shew us that Truths of this nature are sometimes to be managed opened unfolded and applyed by the Ministers of the Gospel and the Ensuing Sermon being at such a time was pertinent to the purpose in hand and a word in season and is thereupon commended to thy perusal with sincere wishes it may prove to thy benefit Per Auditorem A Meet Help Or A Wedding SERMON WE are invited this day to a Wedding Supper I can't say but to a Wedding Sermon Marriage as well as meat is sanctified by the Word of God and Prayer 1 Tim. 4.5 It is the worst Clandestine Marriage saith one * Fuller when God is not invited to it when he is by Prayer and the Sanctification of his Word sought with it as it is nobly Publick so may we expect it will be lastingly prosperous That Word of the Lord which may he bless to the Sanctification of this and so rendring it you may ●nd Written Genesis II. 18. And the Lord God said it is not good that the man should be alone I will make him an help meet for him VVHEN the Maker of the World had finished his glorious workmanship the Heavens and the Earth and all the Host of them and had assign'd man who was as an Epitome or Compendium of the Creation a Microcosm in this Macrocosm a lesser World in thi● greater a convenient domicil or habitation together with a Calling in a Garden of his own planting He takes notice yet of something wanting at least for mans conveniency and comfort and resolves upon the providing of it Indee● Junius Piscator and Diadoti apprehend this done before man had his place assign'd him in th● Garden and I do grant it was on the Sixth Day and before God took a Survey of his whole work and pronounced thereon That it was ver● Good Though I do at present concur with Pareus that it was after he was brought into the Garden Then is the want of a Meet Help most seen when a man is fix't to any certai● place or in any particular Calling and it is goo● at such a time to look out for that which Go● did not see good that man should be without God Himself look't out for the first man as good Parents sometimes do for their Children and so he does indeed for all ever since Matches are made in Heaven and God brings to every Man his Wife that has one verse 22. He consults the good of man more than man doth his own ungrateful he if he doth not consult Gods Glory God consults his pleasure as well as his profit ungrateful he if he content not himself in the bounds that God hath set him and if he content not himself to drink waters out of his own Cistern Prov. 5.15 There cannot an inconveniency attend mans condition but God spies it sooner then man himself it was not Adam said It is not good that man should be alone but it was the LORD GOD said it nor is man more ready to remedy his own inconveniency then God is I will make him an help meet for him saith God It is great folly unbelief and ingratitude for man not to rest contented with God's care of provision for him and disposal of all his concerns all a mans own care is inopportune and insignificant without it misplac'd where that is distrusted The Apostle teacheth better when he saith Casting all your care