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A92800	A wedding ring fit for the finger: or, The salve of divinity on the sore of humanity. Laid open in a sermon at a wedding in Edmonton, / by William Secker preacher of the Gospel.	Secker, William, d. 1681?	1658 (1658)	Wing S2254; Thomason E1648_4; ESTC R209103	12,466	54

enough to cover their unchastity turning the medicine of frailty into the mantle of filthinesse Certainly she is mad that cuts off her legge to get her a crutch or that venomes her face to weare a mask Saint Paul makes it one of the Characters of those that should cashiere the faith 1 Tim. 4. 3. Not to forbear marriage which may be lawful but to forbid it which is sinful One of the Popes of Rome sprinkles this unholy drop upon it carnis polutionem immunditiem It 's strange that that should be a pollution which was instituted before corruption or that impurity which was ordained in the state of innocency or that they should make that be to a sinne which they make to be a Sacrament But a Bastard may be laid at the door of chastity and a leaden crown set upon a golden head Bellarmine that mighty Atlas of the Papal power blowes his stinking breath upon it saying better were it for a Priest to defile himself with many Harlots than to be married to one wife These children of the purple-whore preferre their Monasteries before our Marriages a concubine before a companion They use too many for their lusts to choose any for their love Their tables are so largely spread that they can't feed upon one dish As for their exalting of a Virgin-state it 's like him that commended fasting when he had fill'd his belly Who knowes not that Virginity is a pearle of sparkling lustre But can't the one be set up without the other be thrown down will no oblation pacifie the former but the demolishing of the latter Though we find many enemies to the choice of marriage yet it 's rare to finde any enemies to the use of marriage They would pick the lock that want the key and pluck the fruit that do not plant the Tree The Hebrewes have a saying He is not a man that hath not a woman Though they clime too high a bough yet it 's to be feared that such flesh is full of imperfection that is not tending to propagation Though man alone may be good yet it is not good that the man should be alone whichleads me from the subject to the predicate It is not good c. Non bonum is not in this place as malum but bonum est honestum utile jucundum Now it is not good that man should be in a single condition upon a threefold consideration 1. In respect of sinne which would not else be prevented Marriage is like water to quench the sparkes of lusts fire 1 Cor. 7. 2. Neverthelesse to avoid fornication let every one have his own wife c. Man needed no such physick when he was in perfect health Temptations may break natures best fence and lay it's Paradise waste but a single life is a prison of unruly desires which is daily attempted to be broken open Some indeed force themselves to a single life meerely to avoid the charges of a married state they had rather fry in the grease of their own sensuality than extinguish those flames with an allowed remedy It 's better to marry than to burn to be lawfully coupled than to be lustfully scorched It 's best feeding these flames with ordinare fewel 2. 'T is not good in respect of mankinde which then would not be propagated The Roman Historian relating the ravishing of the Sabine women excused it thus Res exat unius aetatis populus virorum without them mankinde would fall from the earth and perish Marriages do turne mutability into the image of eternity it springs up new buds when the old are withered It 's a greater honour for a man to be the father of one sonne than to be the Master of many servants Without a wife children can't be had lawfully without a good wife children can't be had comfortably Man and woman as the stock and the scien being grafted in marriage are trees bearing fruit to the world Saint Augustine sayes this pair is primum par fundamentum omnium c. They are the first linck of humane society to which all the rest are joyned Mankinde had long ago decayed and been like a Taper fall'n into the socket if those breaches which are made by mortality were not repaired by Matrimony 3. 'T is not good in regard of the Church which could not then have been expatiated Where there is no generation there can be no regeneration Nature makes us Creatures before Grace makes us Christians If the loines of men had been lesse fruitfull the death of Christ would have been lesse successeful It was a witty question that one put to him that said marriages fills the earth but virginity fills the heavens How can the heavens be full if the earth be empty Had Adam lived in Innocency without Matrimony there would have been no servants for God in the Church Militant nor no Saint with God in the Church Triumphant But I will not sinke this Vessel by the over-burdening of it nor presse this truth to death by laying too great a load upon its shoulders There is one knot which I must unty before I make a farther progresse 1 Corinthians 7. 1. It is good for a man not to touch a woman Doth all the Scriptures proceed out of the same mouth and do they not all speak the same truth the God of unity will not indite discord and the God of verity cannot assert falsehood If good and evil be contraries how contrary then are these Scriptures Either Moses mistakes God or Paul mistakes Moses about the point of marriage To which I shall give a double answer 1. There is a publick and a private good In respect of one man it may be good not to touch a woman but in respect of all So it is not good that the man should be alone 2. Moses speaks of the state of man created Paul of the state of man corrupted now that which by institution was a mercy may by corruption become a misery as pure water is tainted by running through a miry channel or as the Sunne-beames recieves a tincture by shining through a coloured glasse There 's no print of evil in the world but sinne was the stamp that made it They which seek nothing but weal in its commission will finde nothing but woe in the conclusion Which leades me from the solitarinesse of the condition man alone to the sutablenesse of the provision I will make her an help meet for him In which you have two parts 1. The Agent I will make 2. The Object a help First The Agent I will make We can't build a house without tooles but the Trinity is at liberty Dic verbum tantum To Gods omniscience there 's nothing invisible and to Gods omnipotence there 's nothing impossible We work by hands without but he workes without hands He that made man meet for help makes a meet help for man Marriages are consented above but consummated below Prov. 18. 22. Though man wants supply yet man cannot

A WEDDING Ring Fit for the FINGER Or the salve of DIVINITY On the sore of HVMANITY Laid open in a Sermon at a Wedding in Edmonton by William Secker Preacher of the Gospel London Printed for Thomas Parkhurst at the three Crowns over-against the great Conduit at the lower end of Cheap-side 1658. Christian Reader IT is not good weighing ones worth in such unequal ballances where the feather of opinion turnes the scales One spoke can never stand still whilest the whole wheel turnes round The gifts and graces of Christians lay in common till envie made the first inclosure Here thou mayest shew thy wisdome in spinning a fine thread out of course wooll Do not hurt him by thy malice who would help thee in thy marriage Who would plant a piece or Ordnance to beat down an aspen leafe which having alwayes the palsie will fall alone This piece neither desires supplanters nor deserves supporters It comes forth as a pressed Souldier not as a Volunteer what it was in preaching it is in publishing There is not one cubit added to its stature to secure it from the Avenger of blood it flyes to thy City of refuge Let him who sowes his paines reap thy prayers Thine in the Lord Jesus William Secker Gen. 2. 18. And the Lord God said it is not good that the man should be alone I will make him a help meet for him HUmane misery is to divine mercy as a black foile to a sparkling Diamond or as a sable cloud to the Sunne-beames Psal 8. 4. Lord what is man that thou art mindful of him man is In his Creation Angelical In his Corruption Diabolical In his Renovation Theological In his Translation Majestical An Angel in Eden A Devil in the World A Saint in the Church A King in Heaven There were foure silver Channels in which the chrystal streames of Gods affection ran to man in his Creation 1. In his Preparation 2. In his Assimulation 3. In his Coronation 4. In his Association 1. In his preparation Other creatures recieved the Charter of their beings by a simple fiat but there was a consultation at his forming not for the difficulty but for the dignity of the work The Painter is most studious about that which he means to make his Master-piece The foure Elements were taken out of their Elements to make up the perfection of mans complexion The fire was purifi'd the aire was clarifi'd the water was purged the earth was refined when man was moulded heaven and earth was married a body from the one was espoused to a soul from the other 2. In his assimulation Other creatures were made like themselves but man was made like God as the wax hath the impression of the seal set upon it It 's admirable to behold so faire a picture in such course canvas and so bright a Character in such a brown paper 3. In his coronation He that made man and all the rest made man over all the rest Quantillum Dominum posuit Deus in tantum dominium he was a little Lord of a great Lordship This King was crowned in his cradle 4. In his association Society is the solace of humanity The world would be a desart without a consort Most of mens parts are made in paires now he that was double in his perfection must not be single in his condition and the Lord God said c. These words are like the Iron-gate that opened to Peter of it 's own accord dividing themselves into three parts 1. An introduction and the Lord God said 2. An assertion 't is not good that the man should be alone 3. A determination I will make an help meet for him In the first there 's a Majesty proposed In the second there 's a malady presented In the third there 's a remedy provided Once more let me put these grapes into the presse 1. The Soveraignnesse of the expression and the Lord God said 2. The solitarinesse of the condition 't is not good c. 3. The sutablenesse of the provision I will make c. In the first there 's the worth of veracity In the second there 's the want of society In the third there 's the work of divinity Of these in their order And first of the first For the first The Soveraignnesse of the expression and the Lord God said Luke 1. 70. As he spake by the mouth of his Prophets In other Scriptures he used their mouths but in this he makes use of his own they were the Organs and he the Breath the early streames and he the Fountain How he spake 't is hard to be spoken whether eternally or internally or externally Quomodo non est quod quoeramus sed potius quid dixerit intelligamus Bern. we are not to enquire to the manner of speaking but to the matter that 's spoken which leads me like a directing starre from the Suburbs to the City from the Porch to the Palace from the Founder of the Mine to the Treasure that is in it it is not good c. In which you have two things 1. The subject 2. The predicate The subject man alone The predicate 't is not good c. First the subject man alone take this in two branches 1. As it is limited to one man 2. As it is lengthened to all men First as 't is limited to one man and so it is taken particularly man for the first man When all other creatures had their mates Adam wanted his Though he was the Emperour of the Earth and the Admiral of the Seas yet in Paradise without a companion though he was truly happy yet he was not fully happy Though he had enough for his board yet he had not enough for his bed Though he had many creatures to serve him yet he wanted a creature to solace him when he was compounded in Creation he must be compleated by conjunction when he had no sinne to hurt him then he must have a wife to help him It is not good that man should be alone Secondly as it 's lengthned to all men and so it 's taken universally Heb. 13. 4. Marriage is honorable unto all not only 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It 's not onely warrantable but honourable The whole Trinity hath conspired together to set a Crown of glory upon the head of Matrimony 1. God the Father Marriage was a Tree planted within the walls of Paradise this flower first grew in Gods garden 2. The Sonne Marriage is a christal-glasse wherein Christ and the Saints do see each others faces 3. The Holy Ghost by his overshadowing of the blessed Virgin Well might the world when it saw her pregnancie suspect her Virginity but her Matrimonial condition was a grave to that suspition without this her innocency had not prevented her infamy she needed a shield to defend that chastity abroad which was kept inviolable at home Too many have not worth enough to preserve their virginity have yet will