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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14989	A bride-bush, or A vvedding sermon compendiously describing the duties of married persons: by performing whereof, marriage shall be to them a great helpe, which now finde it a little hell.	Whately, William, 1583-1639.	1617 (1617)	STC 25296; ESTC S101310	36,172	54

turning stands at the least check of the riders bridle readily going and standing as he wishes that fits vpon his backe If you will haue your obedience worth any thing make no tumult about it outwardly allow none within 35. And for the lesse principall duties of husband and wife concerning their ordinary society thus much I come now to such as concerne the marriage-bed which are as needfull to bee knowne as the former because offences in that kinde are more capitall and dangerous though not so publique Their matrimoniall meetings must haue these three properties First it must be cheerefull they must louingly willingly and familiarly communicate themselues vnto themselues which is the best means to continue and nourish their mutuall naturall loue and by which the true and proper ends of matrimony shall bee attained in best manner for the husband is not his owne but the wifes and the wife the husbands Secondly their meeting must bee sanctified Paul saith meate drinke and marriage are good being sanctified by prayer Men and women must not come together as brute creatures and vnreasonable beasts through the heate of desire but must see their Maker in that his ordinance and craue his blessing solemnely as at meales the Apostle speakes of both alike that marriage may indeede bee blessed vnto them To sanctifie the marriage-bed and vse it reuerently with prayer and thanks-giuing will make it moderate and keepe them from growing wearie each of other as in many it falls out and cause that lust shall bee asswaged which else shall bee increased by these meetings Propagation and chastity the two chiefe ends of marriage are best attained by prayer and thanks-giuing in the vse thereof without which they will hardly come or not with comfort Neither is it more then needs to see God in that which so nearely toucheth our selues as the hope of posterity him as the increase of his kingdome Let Christians therefore know the fruite of prayer euen in all things Thirdly their nuptiall meetings must bee seasonable and at lawfull times There is a season when God and Nature seioynes man and wife in this respect The woman is made to be fruitfull and therefore also more moist and cold of constitution Hence it is that their naturall heate serues not to turne all their sustenance into their owne nourishment but a quantity redounding is set apart in a conuenient place to chearish and nourish the conception when they shall conceiue Now this redundant humour called their flowers or termes hath if no conception bee it monethly issue or euacuation and in some oftner vnlesse there bee extraordinary stoppings and obstructions lasting for sixe or seuen dayes in the most Sometimes also this issue through weakenes and infirmitie of nature doth continue many more dayes Alwayes after child-birth there is a larger and longer emptying because of the former retention which continueth commonly for foure fiue or sixe weekes in some longer Now in all these three times and occasions it is simply vnlawfull for a man to company with his own wife The Lord telles vs so Leuit. 15. c. 19.25 ver also chap. 18 ver 19. also chap. 20. ver 18. Of which places it is needfull that married people should take notice to which I send them Neither let women thinke themselues disgraced because I haue laid this matter open in plaine but modest speeches Where God threatens death to the offender can the Minister bee faithfull if he doe not plainely declare the offence This fault is by GOD condemned to the punishment of death Leuit. 20.18 Beare then with necessary plainnesse And let no woman grieue that the cause of her fruitfulnes is knowne when shee reioyceth to bee found fruitfull Say not that I may let them reade it What if they cannot what if they will not Can the Minister so discharge his office of giuing men warning that they sinne not because they may reade it But if any through nicenesse or otherwise doe take snuffe at this opennesse for immodest and obscene speech they haue heard none they shall argue themselues guilty of the sinne which they would not haue knowne and shew rather a willingnes to commit euill then proue it euill to teach that plainely which God hath plainely reuealed to be knowne In a word we must speake all the truth you should with willingnes heare all if not you must against your will Though men will be offended wee must not conceale what God will haue knowne And thus you haue heard the duties of married people principal and lesse principall for their common society both mutuall and speciall and for their nuptiall society in the marriage-bed Now though I haue bene long I will tarry to make some vse and application 36. And first this ministers a good instruction to young and vnmarried people that they doe not vnaduisedly rush into this estate A thing of such difficulty should not bee lightly vndertaken They shall haue their hands full of duty if they get not their hearts full of grace and their heads full of wisedome they shall finde an house full of trouble and a life full of woe meeting with gall in stead of hony and grauell in stead of nourishing morsels Wouldst thou be married See what wisedome what patience what grace fit to gouerne or fit to obey thou findest in thy selfe Get these against thou come to vse them or else marriage will not yeeld thee such contentment as thine imagination promiseth Vaine youths grow wanton and fall in lust and must marry before they haue any power to practise any vnderstanding to know their duties so they trouble themselues and discredit their estate both at once He that leapes ouer a broad ditch with a short staffe shall fall into the midst and hee that enters vpon matrimony without care to attaine great grace shal be mired and doussed in disquietment and vexation Let vnmarried people thinke of this and be wise 37. Secondly I must aduise all married persons to grow acquainted with these duties and to marke their fallings in the same But mistake me not I would that the wife should know hers the husband his and both the common duties I desire that they should obserue each their owne not so much each others faylings Indeed it may be feared that diuers hearers now will bee worse for hearing because they heard amisse The husband may perhaps ring his wife a peale of her duty when hee comes home and tell her how her faults were ript vp and yet neuer consider or meditate of his owne duties or faults The wife also may likely tell him of his owne at home when she hath little or nothing to say to her-selfe Thus both shall be worse when they seeke to vpbraide each other not to amend each ones selfe Thou husband didst listen attentiuely when the womans duties were handled and thoughtst There he met with my wife such a time shee shewed little reuerence lesse obedience Thou wife hadst the like thoughts concerning thine