and adversity into the which holy estate these two persons present come now to be joyned Therefore if any man can shew any just cause why they may not lawfully be joyned together let him now speak or else hereafter for ever hold his peace And also speaking to the persons that shall be maried he shall say I Require and charge you as you will answer at the dreadful day of judgement when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed that if either of you do know any impediment why ye may not be lawfully joyned together in Matrimony that ye confesse it For be ye well assured that so many as be coupled together otherwise then Gods word doth allow are not joyned together by God neither is their Matrimony lawful At which day of mariage if any man do alledge and declare any impediment why they may not be coupled together in Matrimony by Gods law or the laws of this Realm and will be bound and sufficient suerties with him to the parties or else put in a caution to the full vallue of such charges as the persons to be maried doth sustain to proove his allegation then the solemnization must be deferred unto such time as the truth be tried If no impediment be alleadged then shall the Curate say unto the man N D Wilt thou have this Woman to thy wedded wife to live together after Gods ordinance in the holy estate of Matrimony Wilt thou love her comfort her honour and keep her in sicknesse and in health And forsaking all other keep thee onely to her so long as you both shall live The man shall answer I will Then shall the Minister say to the woman N Wilt thou have this man to thy wedded husband to live together after Gods ordinance in the holy estate of Matrimony wilt thou obey him and serve him love honour and keep him in sicknesse and in health and forsaking all other keep thee onely unto him so long as you both shall live The woman shall answer I will Then shall the Minister say E Who giveth this woman to be maried unto this man And F the Minister receiving the woman at her father or friends hands shall cause the man to take the woman G by the right hand and so either to give their troth to other The man first saying I N. take thee N. to my wedded wife to have and to hold from this day forward for better for worse for richer for poorer in sicknesse and in health to love and to cherish till death us depart according to Gods holy ordinance and therefore I pledge thee my troth Then shall they loose their hands and the woman taking again the man by the right hand shall say I N. take thee N. to my wedded husband to have and to hold from this day forward for better for worse for richer for poorer in sicknesse and in health to love cherish and to obey till death us depart according to Gods holy ordinance And thereto I give thee my troth Common Prayer 1 B. of Edw. 6. Then shall they again loose their hands and H the man shall give unto the woman a Ring I laying the same upon the book with the accustomed duty to the Minister and Clerk And the Minister taking the Ring shall deliver it unto the man to K put it upon the fourth finger of the womans left hand And the man taught by the Minister shall say Then shall they again loose their hands and the man shall give unto the woman a Ring and other tokens of spousage as gold or silver laying the same upon the Book and the Priest taking the Ring c. With this ring I thee wed L with my body I thee worship and with all my worldly goods I thee endow In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy Ghost Amen Then the man leaving the ring upon the fourth finger of the womans left hand the Minister shall say Let us pray O Eternal God creator and preserver of all mankinde giver of all spiritual grace the author of everlasting life send thy blessing upon these thy servants this man and this woman whom we blesse in thy name that as Isaac and Rebecca 1 B. of Edw. 6. after braslets and Jewels of gold given of the one to the other for tokens of their Matrimony lived faithfully together so these persons may surely perform and keep the vow and covenant betwixt them made whereof this ring given and received is a token and pledge and may ever remain in perfect love and peace together and live according unto thy laws through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Then shall the Minister joyn their right hands together and say Those whom God hath joyned together let no man put asunder Then shall the Minister speak unto the people FOrasmuch as N. and N. have consented together in holy wedlock and have witnessed the same before God and this company and thereto have given and pledged their troth either to other and have declared the same by giving and receiving 1 B of Edw. 6. Gold silver of a ring and by joyning of hands I pronounce that they be man and wife together in the name of the father of the son and of the holy Ghost Amen M and the Minister shall adde this blessing GOD the father 1 B. of Edw. 6. + God the son God the holy Ghost blesse preserve and keep you the Lord mercifully with his favour look upon you and so fill you with all spiritual benediction and grace that you may so live together in this life that in the world to come you may have life everlasting Amen Then 1 B. of Edw. 6. shall they go into the Quire and the Ministers or Clerks shall say c. the Ministers or Clerks going to the Lords table shall say or sing this psalm following BLessed are all they that fear the Lord and walk in his wayes For thou shalt eat the labour of thy hands O well is thee and happy shalt thou be Thy wife shall be as the fruitful vine upon the walls of thine house Thy children like the Olive branches round about thy table Lo thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord. The Lord from out of Slou shall blesse thee that thou shalt see Hierusalem in prosperity all thy life long Yea that thou shalt see thy childrens children and peace upon Israel Glory be to the Father and to the Son c As it was in the beginning is now c. Or else this Psalm following Deus misereatur GOD be merciful unto us and blesse us and shew us the light of his countenance and be mercifully unto us That thy way may be known upon the earth thy saving health among all nations Let the people praise thee O God yea let all the people praise thee O let the nations rejoyce and be glad for thou shalt judge the folk righteously and govern the nations upon the earth Let the people praise thee
reasonable soul and humane flesh subsisting Equal to the Father as touching his Godhead and inferiour to the father touching his manhood Who although he be God and man yet he is not two but one Christ. Due not by conversion of the Godhead into flesh but by taking of the manhood into God Due altogether not by confusion of substance but by unitie of person For as the reasonable soul and flesh is one man so God and man is one Christ. Who suffered for our salvation desâ—â—nded into hell rose again the third day from the dead He ascended into heaven he sitteth on the right hand of the father God almighty from whence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead At whose coming all men shall rise again with their bodies and shall give account for their own works And they that have done good shall go into life everlasting and they that have done evil into everlasting fire This is the Catholick faith which except a man beleeve faithfully he cannot be saved Glory be to the father and to the Son c. As it was in the beginning is now c. ⧠Thus endeth the order of Morning and Evening Prayer through the whole year Here followeth the Letany to be used upon Sundayes Wednesdayes and Fridayes and at other times when it shall be commanded by the ordinary Scotch Lit. and without omission of any part of the other dayly service of the Church on those dayes O God the father of Heaven have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the father of heaven have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the son redeemer of the world have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the son redeemer of the world have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the holy Ghost proceeding from the father and the son have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the holy Ghost proceeding from the father and the son have mercy upon us miserable sinners O holy blessed and glorious Trinity three persons and one God have mercy upon miserable sinners O holy blessed and glorious Trinity three persons and one God have mercy upon us miserable sinners Remember not Lord our ofâ—ences nor the offences of our forefatheres neither take thou vengeance of our sins spare us good Lord spare thy people whom thou hast redeemed with thy most pretious blood and be not angry with us for ever Spare us good Lord. From all evil and mischief from sin from the crafts and assaults of the Devil from thy wrath and from everlasting damnation Good Lord deliver us From all blindnesse of heart from pride vain glory and hypocrisy from envie hatred and malice and all uncharitablenesse Good Lord deliver us From fornication and all other deadly sin and from all the deceits of the world the flesh and the Divel Good Lord deliver us From lightening and tempest from plague pestilence and famine from battel and murther and from suddain death Good Lord deliver us From all sedition and privy conspiracy 1. 2. B. of Edw. 6. from the tyranny of the Bishop of Rome and all his detestable enormities from all false doctrine and heresie from hardnesse of heart and contempt of thy word and commandement Good Lord deliver us By the mystery of thy holy incarnation by thy holy nativity and circumcision by thy baptisme fasting and temptation Good Lord deliver us By thy agony and bloody sweat by thy cross and passion by thy precious death and burial by thy glorious resurrection and ascension and by the coming of the holy Ghost Good Lord deliver us In all time of our tribulation in all time of our wealth in the hour of death and in the day of judgement Good Lord deliver us We sinners do beseech thee to hear us O Lord God and that it may please thee to rule and govern thy holy Church universally in the right way We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to keep and strengthen in the true worshipping of thee in righteousnesse and holinesse of life thy servant our most gracious King and governour We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to rule his heart in thy faith fear and love and that he may evermore have affiance in thee and ever seek thy honour and glory We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to be his defender and keeper giving him the victory over all his enemies We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to illuminate all Bishops Pastours and ministers of the Church with true knowledge and understanding of thy word and that both by their preaching and living they may set it forth and shew it accordingly We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to endue the Lords of the Councel and all the Nobility with grace wisdome and understanding We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bless and keep the Magistrates giving them grace to execute justice and to maintain truth We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bless and keep all thy people We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give to all nations unitie peace and concâ—rd We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give us a heart to love and dread thee and diligently to live after thy Commandements We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give to all thy people increase of grace to hâ—aâ— meekly thy word and to receive it with pure affection and to bring forth the fruits of the spirit We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bring into the way of truth all such as have erred and are deceived We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to strengthen such as do stand and to comfort and help the week hearted and to raise up them that fall and finally to beat down Satan under our feet We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to succour help and comfort all that be in danger necessity and tribulation We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to preserve all that travel by land or by water all women labouring of child all sick persons and young children and to shew thy pitiâ— upon all prisoners and captives We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to defend and provide for the fatherless children and widdews and all that be desolate and oppressed We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to have mercy upon all men We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to forgive our enemies persecutors and slanderers and to turn their hearts We beseech thee to heare us good Lord. That it may please thee to give and
of his own designation wherein he dispenseth with the Churches liberty to vary necessity or just occasion inviting The celebration of the blessed Eucharist is by universal usage mis-timed from its first institution now in the morning then at night So is the Lords-day beginning in the Apostles times at the Evening preceeding with us at one in the morning why may not then the memorial of our Saviours Nativity be celebrated on a day varying from its true original especially considering that it is not yet infallibly discovered which it is And if so why may we not conforming to the practise of the Catholick Church observe the 25. of December as our Church enjoyneth To stand upon such niceties is but a peevish kinde of Devotion meer superstition and the next way to bring the great mystery of our Saviours 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and incarnation first into contempt and next into oblivion And whereas we are upbraided with the practise of Reformed Churches which have discontinued the solemnization of this day not to repeat what I have instanced before out of the Churches of Helvetia and Bohemia out of Bucer and Zanchy and to reach the very vitals of this objection I must tell the opponents that for Geneva the place so urged against us Mr. Calvin himself blusheth at her Reformation and is so concerned so moved with the blemishes of it in this point as he passionately apologizeth thus Sancte testari possum me inscio ac ne optante quidem hanc rem fuisse transactum I can solemly protest that the Abrogation of this festival was transacted without my knowledge nay against my wish And again Ex quo revocatus sum hoc temperamentum quaesivi ut Christi Natalis celebraretur vestro more From the very first of my return to this place I endeavoured this moderation that Christs Birth-day should be observed after your custom If Calvins judgement because single will not be listened to what say they to the very remarkable practise of the Synod of Dort for which in other relations they have so high a friendship Festum natalis Domini nostri Jesu Christi instabat propter cujus celebrationem actiones Synodi per aliquot jam dies interrumpendae essent The Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ was now at hand in order to whose celebration the actions of the Synod were for some few dayes to be interrupted which was actually done the Sesson being intermitted from Dec. the 22. to the 28. as appeareth by the acts of that Synod And lest it should be thought this was done onely to complement our British Divines I shall produce the warrant it self of its establishment from the very Canons of that Church Ecclesiae observabunt praeter Diem Dominicum etiam diem Nativitatis Domini Pascha item Pentechosten cum die insequente Et quoniam in plerisque urbibus ac regionibus Belgiae insuper observantur festa Circumcisionis ac Ascensionis Christi allaborabunt ministri quibuscunque locis id nondum est usu receptum ut volente Magistratu hac in parte reliquis accedant The several Churches shall observe over and besides the Lords-day the day also of Christs Nativity Easter also and Whitsunday with the day following And because in many places and Cities of Belgia moreover the feasts of Christs Circumcision and Ascersion are celebrated also The Minister shall use his best endeavour that the Magistrats consent first obtained they in such places where these dayes are not yet received into use would conform to the practise of others So this Canon confirmed with the rest by the Synodical Act of Dort Anno 1619. confirmed I say by a ratification superinducted to a former establishment as is evident by the Greek and Latine edition of those Canons set forth by Jacobus Revius To be short let our Adversaries be in their declamations against other festivals as obstreperous and loud as they please such clamours we can both hear and pitty but when they de-cry with so much noise this grand Festival together with that of our Saviours Resurrection and Ascension and the descent of the holy Ghost to our Christian charity they stand obliged if we do not justly suspect in good earnest some designe dangerous even to Christianity it self considering that the main fundamentals of our faith have such direct and immediat reference to those feasts and that the yearly celebration of them is but a tacite Anniversary rehearsal of the chief Articles of our Creed At the second Communion Some festival dayes in the Primitive Church were of higher repute then others In the Greek Church the Nativity of Christ the Epiphany Easter Ascension and Pentecost the Latine instead of the Epiphany advanced the passion day or good Friday These dayes were called most commonly by the Eastern Fathers X 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Christian Panegyries as a note of distinction from dayes of Lesser account alluding to the custome of the Hea then Greeks who called their Olympick Isthmiack Pythick and Nemean games 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because the whole nation resorted to those solemnities as at these feasts the whole Diocesse did assemble and this is the reason that in the Homilies of the ancient Fathers and Bishops who usually preached at their Cathedrals on these dayes the Church is so often said to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 throng'd with the concourse of the people This confluence of the multitude being so great when Christianity had once possest whole nations few Churches could afford room convenient for so many to communicate at once whereupon it was directed ut cum solemnior festivitas conventum populi numerosioris indixerit quem simul recipere un a basilica non possit sacrificii oblatio indubitanter iteretur That when some high Festival summoneth too many for one Church at once to receive then the celebration of the Sacrament to be without further scruple repeated whic practise continuing down to the reformation and still preserved in the first Liturgy of Edw. 6. was discreetly omitted in the second upon consideration that it was formerly the turn-key to let in the multitude of Masses so frequent in the Romish Church St. Stephen St John St. Innocents 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith Proclus upon St. Stephen Here 's on s Festival upon the neck of another the servants honour attends his masters Birth-day and this is the onely account we have from Antiquity of his waiting upon Christs Nativity in his own solemnity The constitutions called Apostolical reckon St. Stephens in the catalogue of holydayes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Let them cease from labour upon St. Stephans day but when that his Anniversary was to be celebrated onely Proclus informeth us As for St. John though there be no clear and expresse mention of his Festival in elder times yet considering that all the Apostles had their set dayes assigned he is in all reason to be supposed to have had his share of honour equal to
Tertullians time for writing against the Orthodox Party as a Montanist he tells them they continued their Fasts but to the ninth hour whereas his Brethren of the Discipline of Montanus protracted theirs to the evening The Sunday before Easter This is called Palm Sunday in Latine Dominica in Ramis in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so Epiphanius and Johannes Euchaâ—â—ensis All upon one and the same account because the people strewed boughs of Palm in our Saviours passage to Hierusalem a Custom used by other Nations upon their reception of Kings and eminent Persons So did they of Cremonâ— entertain Vitellius Lauro rosisque viam constraverant regium in morem They had strewed the way with Bays and Roses after a Princely maner and so the Roman Commodus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Carrying Bays and all sorts of Flowers then in their Prime Isidorus that liv'd about 630 tells us That this day the Creed or Summary of the Christian Faith was wont to be delivered to the competents or persons who desired to receive the Seal of Baptism the like is affirmed by Alcuine and perhaps it might be so for St. Ambrose speaking of his Officiating upon this day saith Post lectiones atque Tractatum dimissis Catechumenis Symbolum aliquibus competentibus in Baptisteriis tradebam Basilicae After the Lessons and Sermon I delivered the Creed to the Competents in the Baptisteries of the Church Durandus their junior 500 years fixeth this Custom upon Maundy Thursday but his word being traditur may import that he onely intended the practice of his present not of the Primitive times Monday before Easter This week had many appellations in Antiquity It was sometimes called Pasch or Easter so Epiphanius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Church observeth to celebrate the Feast of Easter that is the week defined by the Apostles Constitutions And elsewhere he calls it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the six days of Easter So Augustine Ecce Paschaest da nomen ad Baptismum See it is now Easter give in thy name for Baptism Perhaps for that very cause it became to be stiled also The great Week Easter being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as St. John calls it c. 19. v. 31. and the Councels after him The grand Festival it was proportionable enough that this Septimana Paschae or the Week preceding it should be called the Great Week or else as St. Chrysostome in his Lenten Sermons yields the reason 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because great and unutterable Blessings as Christs Passion Burial and Resurrection accrued to us this Week It was stiled also the holy Week because celebrated with devotion extraordinary This Week had especial priviledges first it was a Justitium and Vacation from civil pleadings and by the Edicts of Theodosius and other godly Princes All prisoners committed for Debt or petty crimes were then set at liberty Sanctis diebus Hebdomadis ultimae solebant debitorum laxari viâ—cula saith Ambrose In the holy days of the last week the Bonds of Debtors were wont to be loosed So of Theodosius St. Chrysostome that he commanded 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 All the Prisoners throughout the Empire to be freed In this week were penitents reconciled into the Communion of the Faithful St. Hieromes Fabiola ante diem Paschae stabat in ordine Poenitentium Stood before Easter in the row of Penitents whom he presently renders reconciled to the Church This Week the Competents gave in their names for Baptism Durandus and others of later Antiquity apply this Custom to the Wednesday after the fourth Sunday in Lent possibly it was so in their days not so certainly in St. Augustines time as is evident by his words above cited and elsewhere Appropinquabat Pascha dedit nomen inter alios competentes Easter was at hand he gave in his name amongst other Competents Thursday before Easter This day was anciently called Coena Domini and in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the great fifth day as a parcel of the great Week and dies Mandati with us Maundy Thursday because Christ this day instituted the Sacrament of his Supper commanding his Disciples and in them Posterity to do the same in remembrance of him Many were the peculiars of this day First because the Bodies of such as were to be Baptized on the next Sabbath had contracted an offensive scent through the observation of Lent and it was therefore necessary that they should be washed and cleansed before they entred the sacred Font This day was set apart for that lotion as St. Augustine informs us Secondly The Catechumeni or rather the Competents that gave in their names for Baptism were in the Greek Church to rehearse the Articles of their Faith either to the Bishop or to the Presbyters Thirdly Upon this day there was a double Communion the blessed Eucharist being given twice on this day by the Latine Church Bis in coena Domini Eucharistia datur manè propter prandentes ad vesperum propter jejunantes The Eucharist is given twice on that day whereon the Lord instituted it in the morning in respect of those that dine in the evening for their sakes who forbear meat all the day which he saith was done upon this account ut in honorem tanti Sacramenti in as Christiani prius dominicum corpus intraret quam caeteri cibi That for the honor of that great Sacrament the Body of Christ should have the precedence of entring in at our mouthes before ordinary meat Upon this day the now Church of Rome accurseth and Excommunicateth all Protestants under the notion of Hereticks and more then Protestants his Catholick Majesty of Spain also for fingring some part of St. Peters Patrimony but she soon makes him an amends by absolving him on Good Friday Upon this day also the Kings of England in imitation of our Saviour were wont either themselves or by their Eleemosynary or Almner to wash the feet of so many poor People as they were years of age Good Friday This day with the Saturday and Sunday following St. Augustine calleth Sacratissimism triduum crucifixi sepulti suscitati The most sacred three days of Christ Crucisixt Buried and raised again It was anciently of so high esteem as Constantine entred it into the same Edict wherein he commanded the observation of the Lords Day Augustine mentions Passionem Domini The day of Christs Passion amongst those which were of Catholick and universal observation Nos non Azymorum Pascha celebramus sed Resurectionis crucis saith St. Hierome We do not observe the Feast of unleavened Bread but the days of Christs Resurrection and his Passion It was a day of general absolution to all the faithful Oportet hoc die indulgentiam Criminum clara vocâ— omnem Populum praestolari saith the fourth Councel of Toledo This day all the People are to expect Absolution of their Sins declared with
O God let all the people prayse thee Then shall the earth bring forth her increase and God even our God shall give us his blessing God shall blesse us and all the ends of the world shall fear him Glory be the Father and to the Son c. As it was in the beginning is now c. The Psalm ended and the man and the woman kneeling afore the Lords table the Minister standing at the 1 B. of Edw. 6. Altar table and turning his face toward them shall say Lord have mercy upon us Answer Christ have mercy upon us Minister Lord have mercy upon us Our Father which are in heaven c. And led us not into temptation Answer But deliver us from evil Amen Minister O Lord save thy servant and thy handmaid Answer Which put their trust in thee Minister O Lord send them help from thy holy place Answer And evermore defend them Minister Be unto them a tower of strength Answer From the face of their enemy Minister O Lord hear our prayer Answer And let our cry come unto thee Minister O God of Abraham God of Isaac God of Jacob blesse these thy servants and sow the seed of eternal life in their mindes that whatsoever in thy holy word they shall profitably learn they may indeed fulfil the same Look O Lord mercifully upon them from heaven and blesse them And as thou didst send thy blessing upon Abraham and Sarah to their great comfort so vouchsafe to send thy blessing upon these thy servants that they obeying thy will and alway being in safety under thy protection may avide in thy love unto their lives end through Jesu Christ our Lord Amen Omitted This prayer next following shall be omitted where the woman is in Bucer past childe birth O Mercifull Lord and heavenly father by whose gratious gift mankinde is increased we beseech thee assist with thy blessing these two persons that they may both be fruitful in procreation of children and also live together so long in Godly love and honesty that they may see their childrens children unto the third and fourth generation unto thy praise and honour through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen O God which by thy mighty power hast made all things of naught which also after other things set in order didst appoint that out of man created after thine own image and similitude woman should take her beginning and knitting them together didst teach that it should never be lawful to put a sunder those wham thou by matrimony hadst made one O God which hast consecrated the state of matrimony to such an excellent mystery that in it is signified and represented the spiritual marriage and unity betwixt Christ and his Church look mercifully upon these thy servants that both this man may love his wife according to thy word as Christ did love his spouse the Church who gave himself for it loving and cherishing it even as his own flesh and also that this woman may be loving and amiable to her husband as Rachel wise as Rebecca faithful and obedient as Sarah and in all quietnesse sobriety and peace be a follower of holy and Godly matrons O Lord blesse them both and grant them to inherit thy everlasting kingdome through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Then shall the Minister say ALmighty God which at the beginning did create our first parents Adam and Eve and did sanctifie and joyn them together in mariage poure upon you the riches of his grace sanctifie and 1 B. of Edw. 6. †blesse you that ye may please hun both in body and soul and live together in holy love unto your lives end Amen Then shall begin the Communion and after the Gospel shall be said a Sermon wherein ordinarily so oft as there is any mariage the Office of man and wife shall be declared according to holy Scripture Or if there be no Sermon the Minister shall read this that followeth AL ye which be married or which intend to take the holy estate of Matrimony upon you here what holy Scripture doth say as touching the duty of husbands toward their wives and wives toward their husbands Saint Paul in his Epistle to the Ephesians the fift Chapter doth give this commandment to all married men ye husbands love your wives even as Christ loved the Church and hath given himself for it to sanctifie it purging it in the fountain of water through the word that he might make it unto himself a glorious congregation not having spot or wrinckle or any such thing but that it should be holy and blamlesse So men are bound to love their own wives as their own bodies He that loveth his own wife loveth himself For never did any man hate his own flesh but nourisheth and cherisheth it even as the Lord doth the congregation For we are members of his body of his flesh and of his bones For this cause shall a man leave father and mother and shall be joyned unto his wife and they two shall be one flesh This mystery is great but I speak of Christ and of the congregation Neverthelesse let every one of you so love his own wife even as him self Likewise the same saint Paul writing to the Colossians speaketh thus to all men that be married Ye men love your wives and be not bitter unto them Hear also what Saint Peter the Apostle of Christ which was himself a married man saith unto all men that are married ye husbands dwell with your wives according to knowledge giving honour unto the wife as unto the weaker vessel and as heires together of the grace of life so that your prayers be not hindred Hitherto ye have heard the duty of the husband toward the wife Now likewise ye wives hear and learn your duty towards your husbands even as it is plainly set forth in holy scripture SAint Paul in the forenamed Epistle to the Ephesians teacheth you thus Ye women submit your selves unto your husbands as unto the Lord for the husband is the wives head even as Christ is the head of the Church And he also is the saviour of the whole body Therefore as the Church and congregation is subject unto Christ so likewise let the wives be also in subjection unto their own husbands in all things And again he saith let the wife reverence her husband And in his epistle to the Colossians saint Paul giveth you this short Lesson Ye wives submit your selves unto your own husbands as it is convenient in the Lord. Saint Peter doth also instruct you very godly thus saying Let wives be subject to their own husbands so that if any obey not the word they may be won without the word by the conversation of the wives while they behold your chast conversation coupled with fear Whose apparel let it not be outward with braided haire and trimming about with Gold either in puting on of gorgeous apparel but let the hid man which is in the heart be without all