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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13540	A good husband and a good wife layd open in a sermon, preached by Mr Thomas Taylor ... ; and published by Iohn Sedguuicke.	Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.; Sedgwick, John, 1600 or 1601-1643.	1625 (1625)	STC 23829; ESTC S1374	15,209	29

were righteous before men but this is opposed to all pharisaicall iustice they were both iust before God Hence we note some obseruations 1. As they were religious persons 2. As they were married persons The Lord approueth and honoureth godlinesse euery where as in Zacharie and Elizabeth and teacheth vs by his owne example highly to esteeme of religious persons and willingly chearfully to speake of their graces To shew our owne louing affection to good persons and good things for according to the abundance of the heart the mouth will speake the shop is furnished out of the warehouse To encourage and promote grace in others whensoeuer we see it for praise of vertue encreaseth it Thirdly to prouoke our selues and others to attaine the like graces both for kind and measure Fourthly to get a sure note of soundnesse in our selues for it is a propertie of a good man to honour them that feare the Lord and a sparke of the image and resemblance of the Lord himselfe Note a difference of mens wayes from Gods he commendeth nothing but his owne grace they euery thing but this men are by men commended and applauded for their wealth and good husbandrie diligence in their callings and for their good hospitalitie and the like but if the Lord commend a man he are he beginneth as Neah Thee haue I found righteous And Abraham not so much for his hospitalitie wherein he exceeded but for instructing his familie Women are by men commended for wealth beautie parentage education and such naturall endowments But if the Lord commend a woman it is the woman that feareth the Lord that shall be praised and if Christ commend a woman it shall not be Martha for her good houswifrie but Marie for choosing the better part Many sinne against this rule who prize not nor speake of the graces of God conferred vpon their brethren because either their hearts affect not grace or because they enuie it or else because they turne out this subiect by blazing the wants and frailties of godly men or else by furthering some blots and casting some staine vpon them Our Lord Iesus contrarily affected and commended euen shewes of goodnesse in the young man for example 3. Others make pietie and grace the buts to shoot all their venome and poysoned arrowes against all their discourses runne against persons fearing God and their godly practises that if diuels had tongues of their owne thus would they employ them but not hauing them of their owne they borrowed these mens to this purpose For Christ must be a butt and signe of contradiction still not in his owne person only but in his members also But against whom hast thou blasphemed Or whom hath railing Rabsechie reuiled Or where shall these arrowes shot against heauen light but vpon the head of him that shot them Who euer aduanced himselfe in blasphemie against the God of heauen and prospered Now as they were married persons because our present errand calleth vs to this part we may learne In that both these persons were iust and yet married that marriage hindereth no man or woman no nor the Ministers of God from being holy and iust before God and men Zacharie a Priest here in his office in the Temple in the action of sacrifice was a married man and yet holy which could not be if the marriage of Ministers hindered their holinesse Elizabeth a Priests wife yet commended by the Spirit of God for an holy and iust woman and therefore the wiues of Ministers are set by God in the foremost ranke of Christ holy gracious and godly women To detest that diabolicall doctrine and religion of Papists which cannot be true but this Scripture and many other must be false In that they hold that first marriage is a being in the flesh and an vncleane thing For did God institute an vncleane thing and that in Paradise before any sinne and vncleannesse was Did Christ grace and honour an vncleane thing by his presence and first miracle Is one of the Sacraments of their holy Church become on the sudden so vncleane a thing Lyars haue great need of good memories Secondly that holy ministerie is as deadly a disease of marriage as the foulest adulterie which onely ought to dissolue marriage Thirdly which opposeth marriage to virginitie as chaffe to wheate or as euill to good whereas Scripture opposeth not marriage to virginitie as lesse good in it selfe but as more inconuenient by the corruption of persons or persecution of the times Neither do they oppose virgins to married persons Reu. 19. 9 but to the filthy fornicators of that whore of Babilon Fourthly which disauoweth marriage but not lust abandoneth Gods sacred ordinance according to nature but not burning concupiscence and vnnaturall filthinesse not to be named among Saints for it is one of their beastly and shamelesse constitutions that their Priesthood is not bound to put away an whore or Concubine so it abiure a lawfull wife Not to take any longer in this Sodomiticall sincke we conclude with our text That marriage hindereth neither inward holinesse nor the most holy externall duties neither priuate nor publicke Both were iust An happie coniunction it is when two godly persons meet in marriage of whom may be said both of them are iust as Abraham and Sarah Isaac and Rebecca Priscilla and Aquila Zacharie and Elizabeth Here is an equall yoke when both are like minded and draw one way both haue their names written in the booke of life when both are of one tribe and religion as this couple was when both worship the same true God both care for the things of God both intend the one thing necessarie both are decked with the same graces and both are heires of the same saluation when both are fit and mutuall helpes marriage becometh a sweete yoke When both are iust the familie will be a little Church of God a place of Gods worship presence delight and blessing From such a coniunction is an expectation of a godly seede and an hopefull posteritie to be left behind vs to worship God in earth when we are gone hence as from this gracious couple descendeth Iohn a gracious sonne of nearest seruice to Iesus Christ. Let all that are to enter into this estate consider what their first ayme ought to be not on finest houses and riches which are the inheritance of fathers but a prudent wife which is the gift of God that is a speciall and most choise gift of his loue Seeke first for goodnesse and for goods afterwards faile in this rule and thou shalt buy gold too deare All married couples must learne and labour to be both iust both religious and fearing God Wiues are as straightly bound to be religious as husbands both must labour for Gods approbation both must care to be spouses of Christ both must striue to be in the couenant of grace both must be married to faith