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A40140 Concerning marriage how God made them male and female in the beginning. Fox, George, 1624-1691. 1661 (1661) Wing F1767; ESTC R27995 4,158 10

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they are moved declare it in the end of the General Meeting to which the parties do belong before the departure of Friends or as they are moved they may declare it in the mid-time of the Market on the Market-day in the next Market-town to such parties outward dwelling as they are moved or they may not as their freedom is by the Parties themselves or such other as the Parties do see fit as they are moved then after a convenient time and the thing be seen felt and had unity with and an Assembly about twelve Friends met together they may speak their Testimony that all may take notice who are the persons as they are moved how the Lord hath joyned them together in Marriage and then a Certificate by Friends then present may be given of the Day Month and Year that it may be recorded and as they are moved they may declare it to the Magistrate and they will or they may not And that those things that cannot be owned by all Friends have unitie with all in the Power and Spirit of God may not be recorded and Unrighteousness and Filthiness Fornication Whoredom and Adultery may be shut out that the witness of God in all Friends may in that which is done be answered and Righteousness and Purity and Holiness that all things may be done in the Power Life Truth and Wisdom of the Lord God and in Unity and you preserved in Unity that you may serve God in a New life and one heart and holy Seed and glorifie him in your Souls Bodies and Spirit which are his that your Conversation may be ordered a right that you may see the Salvation of God and know the marriage that is sanctified by the Word that you may be the peculiar people the holy Royal Seed and Generation And that nothing be recorded for Money in these things but freely a free people and in love serve one another For the Jews went together after they came out of Egypt that had been brought out by the Power of God after hardnesse of heart got up into them then Moses gave them a bill of Divorcement to put a sunder and this was because of the hardnesse of their hearts And the Heathen went together like beasts and the Apostate Christians since the daies of the Apostles have done the same whose hardnesse of heart hath shewed it self each to other But in the beginning it was not so before man was drove into the Earth from God So Friends that be redeemed out of the Earth comes to know it as it was in the beginning again and how God created the Male the Female and joyned together which no man can put a sunder so are redeemed from the Jews marriages and the Gentiles marriages and the Apostate Christians marriages and whom God joyns together let no man put a sunder But who comes together as it was in the beginning comes over the Jews Gentiles and Apostate Christians and that is the Marriage that is honourable and there the Bed is that is undefiled therefore whom God joynes together that is with his Power which was before the fall which defiles the Bed and that is it that all should feel the thing in the Power And you that go together may tell it to them that be in the Power of God that they may know it before it be in the General Meeting that Friends may have publick notice of it abroad that all may witnesse the thing and have unitie with it and if any are moved to publish it in the Market to judge the Jews and the Gentiles and Apostate Christians their marriages which be not in the Power of God they may who know it to be as it was in the beginning the true Marriage God made them Male and Female the honourable Mariage which is the Bed undefiled which was before the fall whom God joynes together let no man put a sunder and that you be a Royal seed a peculiar people zealous of good works and to know God joyning together which is over and above mens putting a sunder In the beginning God made them Male Female not Males Females as it was after in the fall where men had many wives so who knows the Marriage in the Restauration knows it as it was in the beginning Male and Female Gods making and Gods joyning and that is in the dominion an honourable state and renewed in the Image of God out of the Whore mongers Adulterers and Fornicators state whom God doth judge which defiles the Bed over which God sets his Seed in judgement Seat which hath the honourable marriage and undefiled Bed 7th Month 1659. G. F. THE END LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Signe of the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate 1661.