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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

because the Author hath no copy of it There have been hitherto some expectations that this loss might have been recovered that this spiritual Tract might have been added unto the former but now through long disappointments our hopes grow more faint If hereafter Gods good hand of providence should bring this Manuscript either unto the Author at Lincoln or to my self at London the Restorer thereof should be well recompenced and it should be forthwith published for common profit Christian Reader as the Author deserveth so he beggeth thy Prayers who is Octo. 15. 1657. Thy Friend and Servant in Christ Simeon Ashe Let the Reader be desired to amend these faults with his pen before he peruse the B●ok ERRATA PAge 2. Line 4. for efficiency read efficient p 2. l. 6. f justification r. institution p. 5 l. 13 f Love r. Lover p. 6. l. 9. r. to act in to his Church p. 6. l. 32. f. justification r. institution p. 8 l. 9 f. Lincy r L●n●ey Margent r. 1 Kings 11 ● 3 ● p. 14 in marg Col. 18. 3. r Col. 3 18. p. 15. l. ult l is r. in the sal● p 18. l. 17. f follows r. flons p. 23 l. 25 f Proprietors r. Proprietaries p. 25 l 3. f spiritual r special p. 25 l. 5 f. walking r. wel-being p. 26. l. 19 f. ad●ance r. clean marg r. 1 Kings 11. 2. p. 26. l. 34. f. communion r communication p. 27. l. ●5 f. parties r. partie l. 26. f. it is r. and is aptest l 32. f heaven 1 healers p 30. l. ● f. allunder r asunder l. 2. f contention r. contentation l. 16. f. wrest r wres●le l. 19. put out is p 31. marg r 1 Tim. 5 14. f. Tim. 2. 14. p. 33. l. 26. f. covenant r. government l. 30 f. exercises r. exercise p. 44. l. 1. ●● r. to thrist p. 53. l. 13 f. fore-arned r. fore-armed p. 59. l. 3. f. our r. or l. 28. f. ours r. our p. 60 l 3. f. learn r leave p. 64. l. 29. f. word r. world p. 70. l. 3. f. fitted r. filled THE HONOUR OF MARIAGE There be four things considerable in it The Honour Duties Benefits Troubles of it I. The Honour of Mariage Heb. 12.4 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 MAriage is honourable in all saith Paul of high esteem and great account among all sorts of Persons high and low rich and poor and the bed considered in it self is undefiled Adam and Eve might have used it in their Innocencie This is common to all mankind Reas 1. from the Author Reas 1. From the efficiency or Author of it that is God 5 wayes 1 By justification Mariage is Gods ordidinance he first invented it and appointed it What is of God is excellent and honourable 2 By administration he maried Adam and Eve When he had builded the rib he took out of the mans side into a woman Gen. 2.22 he brought her to the man that is joyned her in mariage with him and God is said now to joyn man and wife together Math. 19.6 that is by his ordinance and by his providence 3 By Qualification of the Persons for a Matrimonial Relation Gen. 2.18 making the woman to be a help meet for the man and the Man to be a fit head and guide for the woman This is Gods work A prudent wife is from the Lord. Prov. 19.14 So is a loving Husband God makes them so 4 By Benediction God blesseth them together to make them partakers of al the Ends and comforts of mariage As he did Adam and Eve when he had made them and maried them Gen. 1.28 Gen. 33 5. he pronounced a large blessing upon them saying Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth Children and famlies Psalm 107.41 are Gods gifts 5 By Mission of his Angels which God sends forth to be ministring spirits to his servants for assistance in this business as to Abrahams Servant when his Master sent him to Mesopotamia to take a wife unto his son Isaac and to Ioseph Mary's Espoused husband Gen. 24.7.21.40 Math. 1.20 Math. 1.20 and 2.13 The Ministry of Angels about mariage by Direction and protection implyes it to be weighty and worthy in it self though unto many it seemeth Worldly and base Reas 2. from the subject and circumstances Reas 2. From the Subject and Circumstances of mariage at the first Who were the first couple whom God maried Adam and Eve who were the common Parents of all Man-kind of all the Kings Queens Princes and Nobles in the world yea of Jesus Christ according to the flesh Even he was The Son of Adam Luke 3.38 Where was mariage first Celebrated In paradise where God manifested his presence to our first Parents which made the place a Heaven upon Earth When was mariage first instituted and ministred In the time of mans Innocency before his fall Before sin entred into the world Therefore there is no sin in Mariage but mariage is now a Remedy against sin The persons place and Time of the first mariage or of mariage at the first doe put Honour upon it Reas 3 From Jesus Christ Reas 3. From Jesus Christ who highly honoured mariage not onely by chusing to be conceived and born of a woman Espoused to a man and by his presence at that mariage in Cana of Galilee where he wrought his first miracle John 2.1 2 10.11 and manifested forth his Glory by turning water into wine and by comparing the kingdom of Heaven to a weddin Mat. 22. feast But especially by chusing a Conjugal Relation to stand in to his Church as husband to wife and therein 1. To manifest and Communicate himself to her 2. To solace and delight himself with her 3. To gloryfie himself in her and her with himself for ever in Heaven This mariage is begun between Christ and his Church and every true believer in Espousal upon Earth Hosea 2.19 2 Cor. 11.2 and it is consummated in Heaven Revel 19.7 8 9. Blessed are they which are called to the Mariage-supper of the Lamb that is as some expound it the Time of Celestial Joyes Hence the Civil mariage between man and wife is made by Paul a figure or representation of the Mystical Mariage between Christ and his Church and every childe of God in respect of the union or neer conjunction of them This is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh said Adam of his wife Gen. 2 23. we are members of his that is Christs body of his flesh and of his bones saith Paul of Saints and Beleivers Ephes 5.30 and of Conjugal Communion between them Therefore Paul concludes verse 32. This is a great Mystery but I speak concerning Christ and the Church as if he had said All I have written concerning husband and Wife sets forth the Matrimonial Relation and fellowship between Christ and his Church his expressions of love to her and interchangeably her duties