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woman_n	brother_n	mother_n	sister_n	2,328	5	9.5317	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14992	A care-cloth: or a treatise of the cumbers and troubles of marriage intended to aduise them that may, to shun them; that may not, well and patiently to beare them. By William Whately, preacher of the word of God in Banbury, in Oxfordshire.	Whately, William, 1583-1639.	1624 (1624)	STC 25299; ESTC S107622	140,887	282

downe his lusts neither would abate any whit of a mans earnest endeauours to liue chastly in single life and so to continue single but I speake it to shew that if any man find his passions too strong for him and perceiue that he cannot but either marry or sin he should rather marry without sinne then sinne without marriage It is no wise course to rush vpon hell hereafter to auoyde trouble for the present But if the feare of trouble should not make a man forbeare matrimony that cannot otherwise continue chaste how much lesse should the vnwillingnesse to be confined to one person make a man continue vnyoked that he might more freely giue ouer himselfe to his wandring and vnsatiable appetite This were a notable cntempt of Gods ordinance and a selling of ones selfe ouer to worke vncleannesse with greedinesse He that of purpose forbeares the medicine because hee would not haue his disease cured must needes perish by the disease when God alloweth all men to marrie that cannot containe he that refuseth marriage because he would nor containe doth yeeld himselfe so farre at length to the power of incontinencie that euen marriage it selfe will bee vnable to represse his vnruly desires and thus he brings vpon himselfe extreme hard-hearrednesse euen so that hee is without feeling as the Apostle speaketh and by selling himselfe vp to sinne causeth God in instice to giue him wholly ouer to the lusts of his owne heart and to the effectuall working of Satans temptations till at the end his lust be beyond remedie because at first hee refused the remedie for the loue of lust O let none amongst you be so wicked as to forbeare to liue a married person for the nonc't that he may liue a beast But whosoeuer he or she be that is not of power to containe let him acknowledge and enioy the goodnesse of God and preuent sinne by that which is no sinne euen by marrying CHAP. VI. Containing the second vse Vse 2 ANd this is one vse to the vnmarried arising from the consideration of this point To the vnmarried that they may lawfully marrie from which also there followeth vnto them a secnd instruction to wit that seeing they may lawfully marry they take care to marry lawfully for euen a sinlesse action may be made sinne to him that doth it in a sinfull manner When Paul affirmeth If thou marriest thou sinnest not He meaneth this of marriage it selfe in it selfe considered nor also of the manner and other circumstances of marriage for in these whosoeuer disorders themselues doth sin grieuously though marriage it selfe be not sinne Let vs therefore propound some necessarie directions which if the vnmarried obserue in the making of their marriage they may bee sure to doe this lawfull worke lawfully And forbearing to mention those which are common to al actions viz. that the doer be in Christ doe them in faith ayme at the right end and such like let vs name alone those that doe particularly concerne this present matter Two things necessarie that a man may marrie lawfully first in the persons to be married secondly sufficient distance of blood Whosoeuer then is yet vnmarried and would be sure to marrie lawfully must haue speciall care of two things First that he marry with a fit person Secondly that if he haue parents he take their consent with him Now in the persons to be thus ioyned three properties are requisite the first two being so absolutely needfull that without them marriage is no marriage but alone in name the third in such a degree needfull that it cannot be neglected without great sinne against God Of these three the first is sufficient distance in bloud and affinitie the second entire freedome from all other persons the last agreement in the same true Religion For the first of these the Lord hath expresly prohibited men and women to come neere any the kindred of their flesh Whosoeuer therfore presumeth to be ioyned to any such doth nothing else but cloake the foule sin of Incest with the faire title of Matrimony And because affinitie is a shadow and resemblance of kindred for by marriage two become one flesh therefore also some are debarred marriage together in that respect Now this matter of consanguinitie and affinitie will be cleared by the due obseruation of these briefe and plaine rules following Rules for the clearing of the questions about affinitie and consanguinitie First No man or woman may lawfully marrie any of those that touch them in a direct line vpwards or downeward to all generations As Adam if he were aliue and a Widdower might not lawfully marry any woman in all the world neither might Euah if the were aliue and a widdow bee lawfully married to any man The reason is because in all these the same blood doth run along still vndeuided and so they are properly the kindred of their flesh Secondly No man or woman may lawfully marrie the brother or sister of any his successors or predecessors in a direct line to all generations So Abel being Seths brother of whom all the women in the world are directly proceeded might not if he were aliue marry any woman in the world So the brother of a womans father or grandfather or great grandfather may not lawfully marry that woman The roason of this is also plaine for the brother and sister of ones father or mother is to him or her in place of a father and mother And in these also the same blood remaineth vndeuided for brothers and sisters are one and the same blood Thirdly No man or woman may lawfully marrie his or her naturall brother or sister either by the whole or by the halfe blood As neither Ruben that had the same father and mother nor Ioseph that had alone the same father might lawfully marrie Dinah their sister Fourthly What man is so neere in blood to the husband that he might not lawfully marry him if the sex did serue him neither may the wife marry after her husbands death and so contrarily So I might not marrie mine vncle if I were a woman therfore if I were dead my wife might not lawfully bee married to mine vncle so my wife if she were a man might not lawfully marrie her sister therefore if my wife were dead I might not lawfully marrie her sister of which the reason is plaine husband and wife are one flesh and therefore with what persons kindred would not suffer one of them to marrie neither will affinitie suffer the other But whatsoeuer persons are not by these foure rules debarred from matrimony each with other they may lawfully marry together without scruple so farre as I can discerne Onely for this matter I referre euery man to the table of degrees authorized by our Church and publikely set vp in euerie of our Churches And so much of the first thing required in the persons that shall bee linked in wedlocke The second is likewise to be spoken of