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A45556	Love and fear the inseparable twins of a blest matrimony : characterized in a sermon occasioned by the late nuptialls between Mr. William Christmas and Mrs. Elizabeth Adams / Preached by Nathanael Hardy.	Hardy, Nathaniel, 1618-1670.	1658 (1658)	Wing H733; ESTC R28059	27,576	36

of which S. Paul though succinctly yet distinctly and fully here instructeth in their several duties The two latter in the beginning of the following Chapter the former in the latter part of this and that most compendiously in the last verse which I have now read unto you Nevertheless c. Before I enter upon the Text it will be needful to take a little notice of the context the connexion which these words have with the preceding and that is implied in the particle which begins the Verse Nevertheless Indeed because the Apostle in these words concludes his former argumentation Beza renders it it aque therefore as if it had vim illativam the force of an illative conjunction but this is a needless straining of the word contrary to its proper signification The generality of Interpreters retain the native sense of the word whom our Translators justly follow reading it as an exceptive conjunction and so it hath vim {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} a force of recalling the Apostle from insisting any longer upon the great mystery before mentioned If you cast your eyes on the fore-going Verses you may observe the example of Christ and his Church brought in as a pattern for men and wives to follow whereupon S. Paul digresseth into an excellent Discourse of that spiritual union which is between Christ and his Church making use of Marriage as a representation of this sublime mystery and now in the close he recalleth himself to his first design letting them know that though what Moses relateth concerning Adam and Eve was mystically applied by him to Christ and the Church yet the literal sense of it was in force to them nor must his allegorical hinder them from a moral application of what he had said concerning Marriage A good Item for us in reading the Scriptures to take the sense of them in the fullest extent Of many passages in holy Writ there is both a literal and a spiritual a mystical and a moral use to be made and it is our duty both to search out the sweetness of the mystery and observe the plainness of the Letter and as we are taken with the comforts of the one so not to neglect the duties of the other Having briefly viewed the Context come we now to the Text it self wherein are three general parts worthy your serious consideration The particular relations whom it concerneth specified to wit Husband and Wife The several Obligations laid upon each unfolded On the man that he so love his Wife as himself On the Wife that she reverence her Husband The punctual application to be made by every one of those duties to himself Let every one of you in particular These are the three precious fruits we are to gather from this branch of the Tree of Life and though in hearing they may not be sweet to your taste yet I am sure if well eaten and digested by meditation and practice they will yield wholesome nutriment to your souls Begin we then with the Relations concerned in this Scripture to wit Husband and Wife Almighty God though he is a Lover of Unity yet not of singularity himself is but one and yet he is not alone from all eternity there is a Trinity of persons in the Unity of Essence And if we look into the Creation we shall find though an Harmony yet a plurality or rather a duality the world consists of an heaven and earth in the Celestial part there is a Sun and a Moon in the Terrestria● part Land and Sea and yet further if you look upon the little world of man you may take notice of a soul and a body in the soul of a rational and a sensitive part in the rational of an understanding and a will in the sensitive of an irascible and concupiscible appetite and in the body most of its parts are made in pairs two eyes two ears two nostrils two lipps two arms two thighs two legs two feet Finally Man being thus made God said of him It is not good he should be alone and therefore as he had made other living creatures male and female so he provided a woman for man makes her out of him joyns her to him whence sprang this relation in the Text of Husband and Wife the man so soon as the woman was made becoming an Husband and the woman a Wife This pair is primum par fundamentum omnium parium the first pair and the original of all others those various relations of Parents and Children Master and Servants King and Subjects do all spring out of this Prima naturalis humanae societati● copula vir uxor Man and Wife are the first link of humane society to which all the rest are joyned Families Cities Countreys Nations the whole world yea the Church militant nay a good part of the Triumphant depend upon this pair of Husband and Wife Multitudes flow from this Relation but the relation it self is only between two it is not {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} nor {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} but {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} man and wives wife and men but man and wife unus unam uni The one God hath appointed one woman for one man It was so in the institution and the Prophet Malachy's ratiocination from it is both plain and strong Did not he make one yet had he the residue of the Spirit He could have made more then one Eve for Adam yea if at any time then it might seem most necessary for the speedier peopling of the world to have multiplyed his wives but wherefore one because he sought a godly seed that is a seed arising from godly means Nor is that Argumentation invalid which upon this Subject Theodorus urgeth to the Saracen in point both of pleasure and peace Adam in Paradise no doubt wanted nothing that might be for the fulnesse of his content and comfort and yet he had but one whereby it appeareth {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the pleasure of having one wife surpasseth that of many Again where there are many Wives there cannot but arise violent and deadly contentions which the man having but one wife prevents and therefore is most conducible to that most desirable good in all relations namely Peace from which with other arguments he justly concludeth {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Monogamy is more comfortable and honourable then Polygamy Indeed he qui unam costam primus in duas divisit to use S. Hierom's phrase who first as we read of divided the one rib into two parts was Lamech a wicked Tyrant and it is observable that the name of his second Wife Zillah signifieth a shadow such an one being only the shadow of a Wife The