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A49780	Marriage by the morall law of God vindicated against all ceremonial laws of popes and bishops destructive to filiation aliment and succession and the government of familyes and kingdoms	Lawrence, William, 1613 or 14-1681 or 2.	1680 (1680)	Wing L690; ESTC R7113	397,315	448

of Wine and prayes over it and offers it to the married Couple to tast but the Bridegroom dashes it against the Wall in memory of the destruction of Jerusalem so the Bridegroom in sign of sorrow puts on a black Cloak and the Bride a black Hood Mr. Addison tells of the Barbary Jews That they are married at the Bride's Chamber only by putting a Ring on the Woman's finger and pronunciation of these words by the Rabbi Thou art Married or Sanctified unto this Man with this Ring according to the Law And when married they use a foolish Ceremony if the Bride is a Virgin they give her Wine in a narrow-mouth'd Cup if a Widow in a broad mouth'd Cup and after the Bridegroom casts a raw Egg at the Bride c. And how the fopperies of such Ceremonies come by God's Law to make a marriage or no marriage or legitimate or illegitimate the Child no rational Man ever understood Plurality of Wives As to the determination of number of Wives by Nature it seems to be according to the number she her self gives As in the East and Southern climes the Feminine number naturall exceeding the Males many fold And in times of great destructions by Wars such as are foretold Isa 3.25 Thy men shall fall by the sword and thy mighty in War and her Gates shall lament and mourn and being desolate shall sit upon the ground And in that day seven Women shall take hold on one Man In the Kingdom of Benym amongst the Negro's the King hath five or six hundred Wives and his Subjects keep 20 30 40 50. 60. according to their ability and the poorest sort five or six and some a Dozen Hierotinus an Arabian King had six hundred Children by Concubines so it seems excessive multiplication may be one reason against Plurality It was a Law amongst the Garamants That when any Woman married had three Children she should be separated from her Husband because a multitude of Children cause Men to have covetous hearts and if any Woman bring forth more Children they shall be slain before their Eyes Aristotle in his Politiques thinks it profitable That Plebeians should not have too many Children and therefore allows Divorce lest the Wives should bear too many Connubia mille non illis generis nexus non pignora curae sed numero languet pietas Claud. de Bell. Gild. Amongst the Medes antiently Polygamy was so far from being esteemed a fault that it was a punishment for a common Person not to have seven Wives and for Noble Women to have less then five Husbands Heylin 814. Of the custom of the Jews to keep one barren Wife and another to breed One Barren and another Breeding Wife Selden de Jur. natur lib. 5. pag. 586. translates out of a Jewish Rabbi these words Sub diluvium hominum mos erat ut pro libitu binas sibi duceret quisque uxores alteram prolis gratia alteram in Concubitum ea autem quae prolis gratia haberetur velut vidua quamdiu superstes esset degebat sed ea quae in Concubitum adhiberetur sterilitatis exhaurire solebat Poculum ut sterilis redderetur atque juxta virum accumbere solita velut meretricio ornabatur habitu And in another place ornata etiam velut nova nupta lautiores comedebat dapes acerbius autem durius tractabatur socia lugebat vidua To which alludes Job 24.2 as 't is in the Hebrew he fed the Barren which brings not forth but did no good to the Widow Moses saith Cursed be he that lieth with his Sister Incest the Daughter of his Father or the Daughter of his Mother Deut. 27.22 Yet Abraham allowed it in his time and married Sarah And Amram took him Jochebed his Father's Sister to Wife and she bare him Aaron and Moses and the years of the life of Amram were an hundred and thirty and seven years Exod. 6.20 Aretas King of Arabia Petraea and Herod fell at strife the one with the other for this cause which ensueth Herod the Tetrarch had married Aretas his Daughter with whom he lived married a long time afterwards taking his Journey towards Rome he lodged with Herod his half Brother by the Father's side for Herod was the Son of Simon 's Daughter which Simon was the High Priest and there being surprized with the love of Herodias his Brother's Wife who was Daughter to Aristobulus their Brother and Sister to the great Agrippa he was so bold as to offer her some speech of marriage which when she had accepted Accords were made between them That he should banish his Wife Aretas far from him who complaining to her Father the Arabian King of the injury done her by her Husband Herod the same raised War between him and Herod Josep lib. 18. cap. 7. de Antiq. And Aretas overt rowing Herod's Army divers Jews were of opinion That this Judgment fell upon him because he had cut off John's head by the instigation of Herodias ibid. But as for this opinion divers believe that it hath been foisted into Josephus vid. Bl●ndell Hist Sybill But as to the Point in question of Incest 't is very clear That John justly reproved Herod for marrying his Brother's Wife whether there was a Judgment followed on it or not But it cannot be infer'd that the cause why he reproved it or why the War followed on him was Incest but the cause thereof is more likely to be because he so wrongfully Divorced his first lawful Wife and likewise caused his Brother's Wife to be Divorced from him while his Brother was alive and Tetrarch of Galilee that he might have her from him So here was a double Divorce matter enough to reprove without minding any Incest which agreed likewise with the Doctrine of Christ and 't is manifest that was the only cause of the War and not any pretence of Incest for Aretas would have raised the War alike if the wrong had been done his Daughter by a strange Woman as if it had been by a Kinswoman Therefore no Argument can be brought that St. John's opinion was this was Incest nor that any Judgment happen'd for Incest but rather for unlawful Divorces so the marrying the Brother's Wife to raise up Seed to the Brother seems a custom tolerated for hardness of their hearts and not to be imitated by Christians Tryal of Virginity more wicked then the Bill of Divorce for this was after the Husband had lain with her Tryal of Virginity and perhaps likewise he might have got her with child Deut. 22.13 It is said If any man take a Wife and go in unto her and hate her and give occasion of speech against her and say I took this Woman and when I came to her I found her not a Maid Then shall the Father of the Damsel and her Mother take and bring forth the Tokens of the Damsel's Virginity unto the Elders of the City in the Gate and the Damsel's Father shall say

aut Infamia as they ought in Truth and Right to be 17. It caused the Parisian Massacre of an Hundred Thousand Protestants Why Protestants should Idolize this Ceremonial Snare of Compulsion to Marry by a Priest in a Temple whereby the Papists with their Female Elephants hunt the Males to their destruction in the same manner as the Priests of Baal-peor did the Isaelites is strange Numb 25.1 And Israel abode in Shittim and the People began to commit Whoredom with the Daughters of Moab And they called the People unto the Sacrifices of their gods and the People did eat and bowed down to their gods And Israel joined himself unto Baal-peor and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel And the Lord said unto Moses Take all the People and hang them up before the Lord against the Sun that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel And Moses said unto the Judges of Israel Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baal-peor And besides those who were Slain by the Sword Verse 9. Those that died of the Plague were Twenty and Four Thousand I am here to speak against the mischiefs of Compulsion of Protestants to two Popish Sacraments to both of which this Priapeian Ceremony of Marriage by a Priest in a Temple is a Causa sine qua non which two Sacraments one of the Host and the other of Marriage are the two fatal Banquets to which the Catholick Lady useth to invite the imprudent Protestant who hath learnt only the Innocence of the Dove but not the Wisdom of the Serpent Their first Sacrament which is of Bread they have transubstantiated into Poison their second Sacrament which is of Marriage they have transubstantiated into Blood of the first these Examples follow The Emperor Henry the Seventh was Poison'd in the Sacrament of the Lords Supper Popish Sacrament of Bread Tan●●bstantiared into Poison by a Frier of the Order of St. Dominick and thereof died the same day Perhaps one Reason why the Papist Priest Administers not the Wine to the Laity but only the Bread may be because if the Priest should Poison the Wine he drinking thereof first might Poison himself as well as his Guests and his Friends as well as his Enemies but he may divide the Bread in Wafers or Morsels such as are Poison'd to the Parties he designs them and such as he appoints for bits of a Passeover to the rest But it is certain the Priest may do what he will and whether he Poisons Bread or Wine neither Prince or Subjects have their Tasters of either and it is very hard therefore either should be compel'd to receive it of any Priest except of their own Election as to Person and Place though but once a Year and very improper and dangerous it is for a Test between Papist and Protestant seeing it cannot be known whether the Priest who gives it be a Papist or no for if he be he will not spare Poison if he can thereby reach his designs on his own Religion as appears in the Examples following much less on a Protestant Lavaterus tells of a Frier at Berna who was endeavour'd to be deceived by his Companions who made counterfeit Apparitions of the Virgin Mary to him in the Night that he might become an Instrument by divulging his Visions and the Revelations in them to confirm their Superstition amongst the People but it seems they were but Novices in the Art of Counterfeiting and were so ill attired or Acted so ill upon their new Stage that though the Frier was but a Block-head he perceived by the voice it was the Sub-prior in Womans apparel who personated to him the Virgin Mary they being therefore fearful he should detect their Knavery attempted three times to poison him in the Host or Sacrament and the third time he swallowed it and vomitted it up again hardly escaping with life which made the Bernoyes begin not to think the Sacrament the Body of Christ which was so often turn'd to Poison Prince Visnorisky who was a Protestant of the Greek Church about the Year 1616. having prepared at Christmas to receive the Communion after their manner the Priest who had usually served him in that Devotion being corrupted with Money by his Enemies poison'd the Bread which the Prince having received he suddenly fell sick and his Torments were so violent as he died the next day this bred a suspicion that he had been poison'd whereupon the Priest was apprehended who presently confess'd he was guilty and had been procured by his Enemies whereupon the Priest was Executed being bound in a Chair of Copper Wire and Roasted to Death Turk Hist 1350. These few are discover'd to Men but who can Imagine but a greater multitude of these Wickednesses are committed by such as are so studied in the Art of Poisoning which remain in secret and undiscover'd and are therefore reserved to the just Judgment of the All-knowing God Popish Sacrament of Marriage transubstantiated into blood Of the Second which is the Popish Sacrament of Marriage transubstantiated into the Blood take the Example following of the Infamous Perfidious Cowardly Traiterous Diabolical and worse than Barbarous and Pagan Parisian Massacre of an Hundred Thousand Protestants under Faith and Oath given of safe Conduct and Peace and on Solemn Covenants of Marriage Anno Dom. 1572. This base Practice of the French Papists who found themselves too weak in the Field to injure the Protestant of Circumventing him by Perjury and breach of Faith and Covenant the most Sacred Obligations of all humane Society is very well and more at large displayed in a Relation but lately Printed 1678. out of Mezeray Thuanus and other approved Authors of which with what Brevity I can I shall only touch Heads Pa●isian Massacre of Protestants intrapped by a Marriage The French King after Ten Years Civil War was advised to set on foot a Treaty of Peace not so much out of any design to quiet matters as to ensnare the Protestants in some fatal Trap in which they might be safely and easily destroyed the first Bait to be offered was the Marriage of the Lady Margaret the Kings Sister to Henry King of Navar and if that succeeded not they were to invent still a new Plot till they found that which would do the Business a Peace was therefore concluded with the Protestants by which the free Exercise of their Religion was granted them some Cautionary Towns were also put into their hands to be kept by them two Years till there were a full settlement made of the Edicts and the other things agreed to for their Security the next Progress in the Treacherous Design was when a Confidence was begotten on the Faith and Covenants of this Peace in the Protestants then to draw the chief Heads of the Party to the Court and they being so flatter'd into their compass they had the Power whensoever they thought fit to surprize and destroy them as