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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B10121	A testimony and wholesome advice concerning marriage.	Seaton, Alexander.; Edmundson, William, 1627-1712.; Bingley, William, 1651-1715. Epistle of love and tender advice, to friends and brethren in America, or elsewhere.; Whitehead, Anne, 1624-1686. Epistle for true love, unity, and order in the Church of Christ.; Elson, Mary, 1623 or 4-1707. Epistle for true love, unity, and order in the Church of Christ	1680 (1680)	Wing T807A; ESTC R221301	6,513	15

AN Epistle of Love AND Tender Advice TO Friends and Brethren IN AMERICA Or elsewhere To live in the Truth that they may shew forth the Virtue and Effects of it in a Holy Life By your Friend and Brother in the Truth who Travels for Sion 's Prosperity William Bingley 1 Pet. 5. 3. Being Ensamples to the Flock Ephes 5. 1 2. And Be ye therefore Followers of God as dear Children and walk in Love as Christ also hath loved us Printed by Andrew Sowle And sold at the Three-Keys in Nags-Head-Court in Grace-Church-Street 1689. A TESTIMONY And wholesome Advice concerning MARRIAGE MArriage is honourable in all and the Bed undefiled and it is Gods Ordinance and is not to be forbidden and whom God joins together no Man is to put asunder and this is the Marriage that hath a Blessing that minds Gods Joining and Gods Ordinance and the people of God were to practice it in all Ages and the Faithful did observe and do it As Abraham the Father and Pattern of the Faithful charged his chief Servant to go to his own People and take a Wife for his Son Isaac and said the Lord God of Heaven and Earth shall send his Angel before thee and his Servant at Gods appointment took Rebekah and Isaac brought Rebekah to his Mothers Tent and took her to Wife Gen. 24. So here was Gods Ordinance and Gods Joining And Isaac did not go contrary to God and his Fathers mind to take a Wife of the Daughters of Canaan nor had a Priest to marry them and Isaac was blessed of God and he gave him Jacob and Esau And Esau despised his Birth right and married of the Daughters of the Hittites which grieved his Father and his Mother Gen. 26. 35. So Esau went from Gods Joining and grieved his Parents and Rebekah said to Isaac if Jacob take a Wife of the Daughters of the Land such as these be what good will my Life do me Gen. 24. 46. So here you may see the great care of Rebekah to preserve her Son from the Snare that Esau was come into in this of Joining in Marriage with other People and Isaac called his Son Jacob and charged him and said thou shalt not take a Wife of the Daughters of Canaan but shalt go to thy Mothers Kindred and God Almighty bless thee and prosper thee Gen. 28. And Jacob obeyed his Father and his Mother and the Lord appeared to him in his Journey and blessed him and said I will greatly multiply thee and will be with thee And Jacob said if God will bless me and prosper me in the way that I go and bring me to my Fathers house in Peace then shall the Lord be my God vers 21. So here you may see Jacob minds the Lord and obeyed his Parents in his choosing a Wife and the Lord blessed him abundantly And the Sons of Jacob could not suffer their Sister to marry with a Stranger though he was a great Prince And the Jews which were the Off-spring of Abraham Isaac and Jacob were not to join in Marriage with other People as it is written thou shalt not take their Daughters to thy Sons nor give thy Daughters to their Sons for they will turn your Hearts from the Lord after other Gods Deut. 7. 3. Jos 13. 12. So here you may see according to Gods Ordinance there is a power in Parents in giving their Daughters in Marriage and in taking Daughters to their Sons they have a part in their Children to give and take in case of Marriage And when the Jews did mix in Marriage with other People they corrupted them and drew them from God and kindled his Anger against them as you may see Numb 25. where the young men took the Daughters of Moab which kindled Gods anger and many of them died and a great breach was made till Phinehas stood in the Gap and stopped those proceedings and turned away Gods Wrath and these went from Gods Ordinance and from Gods Joining and went from the good example of their Fathers Abraham Isaac and Jacob. And you may see that Solomon a wise King his taking of Strangers turned his Heart to worship Idols for which the Lord rent the Kingdom from him only left him a Lamp in Israel for David his Fathers sake And you may see in all the Passages of the Jews revolting from God for the most part the chief reason was their matching in Marriage with other People as in Nehemiah and Ezra where you may see the Jews had taken Strangers of the Daughters of Ashdod which grieved the Lord and his Servants Ezra and Nehemiah So here you see they went from Gods Ordinance and Gods Joyning And the Apostle saith to the Church be not unequally yoked a Believer with an Unbeliever he accounts it as Light and Darkness as Christ and Belial as the Temple of God and Idols 2 Cor. 6. for Believers in the Light of Christ Jesus are the Called of God and the Seed of Abraham and the Temple of God and his Sons and Daughters and are Heirs of the Promise in the New Covenant and are Jews in Spirit and have the Circumcision of the Spirit made without Hands and are under the Law of the New Covenant which God hath written in their Hearts and such cannot Join to give or take in Marriage with any Sect or sort of Persons or People that believe not in the Light of Christ Jesus with which he hath enlightned every Man that comes into the World nor believe not in the Grace of God but turn it into Wantonness nor in the Law of the New Covenant which is written in the Heart according to Gods Promise And do not worship God in Spirit but in some form without the Power of God neither have received the Circumcision of the Spirit to circumcise their Hearts and Ears such the Seed of Abraham must not Join with in Affinity of Marriage nor take their Daughters to their Sons nor give their Daughters to their Sons for you see it is contrary to Gods Ordinance and contrary to the Spirit of Abraham Isaac and Jacob which were great Fathers and Patterns and all the true Believers in Christ Jesus are to follow their steps in the New Covenant and will charge their Sons and Daughters that they joyn not in Marriage with any but amongst their own People that are Worshipers of God in Spirit and Children of such Believers as be of Faith and Society with them in the Worship and Service of God and such Children as fear God and are reverent and obedient to Parents which all are obliged to by the Law of the first Covenant and by the Law of Christ Jesus and by the Doctrine of the Apostles I say such Children will keep their Parents Charge as Isaac and Jacob did and not grieve and vex their Parents as Esau did his Father and his Mother in marrying with the Daughters of Strangers for such Parents as are of Isaac and Rebekah's Spirit are much concerned