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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49773	Concerning marriage a letter sent to G.F. and with it a copy of an answer to a friends letter concerning marriage, and some queries and his reply to the answer and queries and an additional to G.F.s reply containing 13 queries concerning marriage, also the manner how the parties intending marriage are to go together / published by Benjamin Lawrence by the consent and advice of friends.	Lawrence, Thomas, 1645?-1714.; Lawrence, Benjamin.	1663 (1663)	Wing L684; ESTC R31690	11,646	18

CONCERNING MARRIAGE A LETTER Sent to G. F. And with it a Copy of an Answer to a Friends Letter CONCERNING MARRIAGE And some Queries and his Reply to the Answer and Queries and an Additional to G. F's Reply containing 13 Queries concerning Marriage Also the manner how the parties intending Marriage are to go together Published by Benjamin Lawrence by the consent and advice of Friends Printed in the Year 1663. Faults escaped QUery 3. lin 18 19. should be 27.28 Querie 5. lin 21. should be lines 29 30. latter end of the 7. querie next the words Gods counsell and Gods time before the word note is left out these words others not answering Gods stirrings yet think to deal sure sure enough of trouble and sorrow a curse and not a blessing pag. 10. lin 4. staid for stirred about the middle of the 10. pag. so in times is set for sometimes after Querie 13. strike out a and leave year after Concerning Marriage A Letter sent to G. F. LOving friend something in answer to a friends Letter who desired counsel concerning marriage hath occasioned several Queries To the Answer and Queries if there be some Reply it may do well Thomas Lawrence The Copy of an Answer to a friends Letter concerning Marriage FRiend That marriage is Gods Ordinance which is joyned in and by the Lord. The honourable marriage is when the bed is undefiled transgression finished freedom from sin witnessed victory over the world known and the enmity kept under an absolute divorce from all that the first nature hath been wedded to and committed uncleanness with in the time of ignorance When Lovers are moved and guided by the Light in coolness and moderation waiting in Gods counsel then the honourable marriage may be known in the Light and all children of Light will have unity with it When one man and one woman out of transgression are joyned together in and by the Lord let no man put them asunder Forbidding to marry is the doctrine of Devils But for any that cannot witness transgression finished nor scarcely know what it is who live in sin and say God hath joyned them in marriage is it not a lie against God and his Ordinance God instituted marriage before sin was and doth it when sin is done away and is the same for ever who joyneth nothing but that which is pure all that is hasty and hankering after fleshly motions is not Gods moving some have been observed not to have grown in truth but deadness and losing the condition have followed after marriage nothing defiled is to be owned much less to be endeavoured after Thomas Lawrence Some Queries occasioned by the foregoing Answer 1 WHether Joyning together in marriage by such as cannot witness freedom from all sin be Gods Ordinance or of the world 2. Whether the marriage-bed be undefiled whilst any kind of sin remaineth 3. What is the difference between such as can witness freedom from all sin and do keep the enmity under and marry and others that do not only live in sin but have enmity against them that hold there is a freedom from sin 4. Whether children of Parents that are both or either of them free from transgression are conceived and born in sin or are they clean and holy 5. Whether deadness and losing the condition have not followed some minding marriage G.F. his Reply to the Answer and Queries sent to T.L. by a friend and is as followeth line 1 FRiend concerning Marriage to know it as it was before line 2 man fell which were both in the image of God that is line 3 the state out of the fall again of Gods joyning not as man line 4 joyns but as God joyns not joyned by the Laws of men line 5 but by the Power of God and his image so to know the line 6 Jews that after they came out of Egypt they did go together line 7 and hardness of heart got up amongst them and there line 8 was a Bill of divorcement given that they should depart but line 9 in the beginning it was not so when God made them Male line 10 and Female whom he joyns together let none put asunder line 11 for men may put together and put asunder again line 12 And the state of the Christians and Gentiles there may line 13 something stir from the Lord as particularly Hester And line 14 though the Jews did go into hardness of heart afterwards line 15 there might be something stirring of God at first and line 16 likewise the Apostle saith It is better to marry then to line 17 burn shewing there is a state to prevent the burning it line 18 was not a sin in that state and there is a state where the line 19 believing wife sanctifies the unbelieving husband and the line 20 believing husband sanctifies the unbelieving wife else were line 21 the children unholy but now are they clean which is line 22 through the sanctification which is through the belief line 23 for he that believes hath passed from death to life and so line 24 from the sin and overcomes the sin and so then there is a line 25 state to be married as they were not as passive and none line 26 of these states that is kept in the power of the Lord God is line 27 sin but to know it as it was in the beginning before man line 28 fell that is a state before defilement was and none of these line 29 states are condemned and all deadness and losing the condition line 30 comes in the going from the power of God G.F. An Additional to G. F. his Reply FRiend I received from thee by the Carrier G. F. his reply to the Answer and Letter of Queries which appeared at first to whom it particularly concerned as a parable and to the thing in question but little answer G.F. being told so said he did usually answer to the ground of a thing rather then the words But this replie being weighed is found so full though short that it may serve for a standard rule to answer all Queries that ever need be made concerning marriage Take an example from the Queries sent to G.F. and some more being referred to his lines as followeth T. L. Querie Whether joyning together in marriage by such as cannot witness freedom from all sin be Gods ordinance or of the World Answ Gods joyning is a state out of the fall again by the power of God and his image lines 1.2.3 Such as are redeemed out of the fall into the image of God and marry is Gods ordinance and such as are in the War who cannot as yet witness freedom from all sin yet if they do believe there is such a freedom and do endeavour to attain it who can witness a growth and do abide faithful and marry this may be Gods ordinance also In the time of ignorance God winked but now such as do not only deny freedom from sin after they have been admonished to the truth but