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A57118	Considerations concerning marriage the honour, duties, benefits, troubles of it whereto are added 1. directions in two particulars, 1. how they that have wives may be as if they had none, 2., how to prepare for parting with a dear yoke-fellow by death, or other-wife : 2. resolution of this case of conscience, whether a man may lawfully marry his wives sister? / by Edward Reyner ...	Reyner, Edward, 1600-1668.	1657 (1657)	Wing R1221; ESTC R3111	49,078	102

our selves as betrothed to him in righteousness and loving kindness mercy and faithfulness 2 2 To expect the love of a Husband from him To expect all that love kindness tenderness Comfort nourishings and cherishings from Christ spiritually Eph. 5.29 which the wife looks to receive from her Husband corporally As the spouse doth in the Canticles the kisses of his mouth Cant. 1.2 the Embraces of his arms cap. 2.6 the refreshments of his presence to sit under his shadow with great delights Cant. 2 3. Cordials and Refocillations to support and comfort the Soul in his absence this is to be staid with flagons and comforted with apples verse 5. Also the discovery of Christ to the soul for he hath promised I will manifest my self to you John 14.21 Will not the husband let his wife behold his face and the sence of his love shed abroad in the heart Rom. 5.5 Oh that is better then wine Cant. 1.2 The Communication of the seed of Grace this is the benevolence which Christ as a Husband renders to our souls 1 Cor. 7.3 to make them fruitful in good works We are maried unto Jesus Christ saith Paul that we should bring forth fruit unto God Hence the spouse saith Rom. 7.4 Cant. 1.16 Col. 1.10 Our bed is green This denotes the fruitfulness and flourishing of the soul in every good work by the spiritual Communion or heavenly Conjunction of Christ with the soul 3. 3. To perform our duty to him To express and perform all that duty spiritually to Christ which the wife doth corporally to her husband as subjection obedience love loyalty chastity serviceableness To reserve our hearts wholly solely intirely for him as his bed to lie in his Throne to rule in now the husbands bed and the Kings throne admit no Corrivals to be for him and not for another Hosea 3.3 to tarry many dayes for his gracious Return and manifestation of himself to our souls after his departures and Occultations of himself in our apprehensions from us to embrace and imbosom Christ and lay him between our breasts Micah 7 19 Cant. 1 13. as a bundle of mirrhe or perfumed bags To subject our desires to him and submit our wills to his that his will may be ours and there may be but one will between Christ and our soules to refer our selves wholly to be at his command and dispose To open our hearts unto him inviting and intreating him earnestly to come in and not onely to sup and lodge in them but to make his abode in and with our souls I opened to my beloved saith the spouse Cant. 5.5 To be sick of love for Christ as the spouse was Cant. 5.8 sick with grief for his absence and with desires of his presence and to seek him up and down as the spouse did Cant. 3.1 2 3. by night on our bed in private inquiries breathings and restless desires and pursuits after him and in the streetes and broad wayes of the ordinances and communion of saints and not to give over till we find him and having found him to hold him fast and not let him go to joyn ou●selves 1. Christ by faith and love to be one spirit with him he that is joyned to the Lord is one spirit saith Paul 1 Cor. 6 17 as Husband and wife are one flesh To leave father and mother yea wife and children house goods land all we have whatsoever is near or dear to us for Christs sake to follow Christ and to go to Christ which is best of all for us Phil. 1.23 This is the Law of the Churches mariage with Christ Psal 45.10 Hearken O daughter forget thine owne people and thy fathers house He that loveth father or mother son or daughter c. more then me saith Christ is not worthy of me Math 10.37 to have me to be the Husband of his soul Luk. 14.26 Christ requires we should leave all to cleave to him The Ap●stle in Ephes 5. describes the Union and amity of Christ and the spouse by the sameness of flesh which Mariage causeth between Husband and wife and reacheth maried persons their duties by the communion of Christ and the Church and the souls duty to Christ by the wives duty to her Husband This is to spiritualize mariage and to improve it to a high holy and heavenly use the benefit whereof w●●l extend to the days of Eternity What Expression of Conjugal love is there between man and wife which carieth not a resemblance of some spiritual intercourse between Christ and the soul 2. Benefit of mariage is Domestical the building of families and kindreds 2 Domestical Benefits of Mariage Ruth 4.11 and the multiplication of them Women are Builders hereof as well as men Rachel and Leah did build the house of Israel Indeed mariage is the fountain of all humane societies 3. Benefit is Political 3 Political Mariage laies the foundation of cities countreys nations of Lawes and civil goverment of Common-wealths and Kingdoms all these are superstructures upon Mariage also it furnisheth the same with useful and serviceable instruments That Mariage upholds the fabrick of the republick the continuation and succession thereof Hence it is cald the Seminary of the Common wealth 4. 4 Ecclesiastical Benefit of Mariage is Ecclesiastical the Propagation of the Church of God and of the tr●e religion to replenish it with members as it furnished Christ the head of it and Saviour of the world with a body on earth for he was conceived and born of a woman that was begotten in wedlock Mariage afforded flesh unto the Messiah and provides materials for Gods Church both stones and pillars and helps to fill heaven with heirs therefore Mariage is called the Seed plot and Nursery of the church 5. Benefit of Mariage is universal 5 Universal the preservation and increase of mankind this was the end of Adam and ●ves creation and Mariage before the fall and this was Gods benediction upon them Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth Gen. 1.28 Were it not for mariage the world would come to an end Hence mariage is called the pillar of the world under God the right hand of providence Vse 1 Thankfulnes to God Vse 1. This should teach us thankfulness to God 1. For providing so comfortable useful and beneficial a Relation or condition for us as mariage is It is a great bundle of Benefits How many both private and publick are bound up together in it as in one volume 2. For all the benefit help and comfort God hath given us particularly in our Mariage in and by our yoake fellowes What shall I render to the Lord may the Husband say for giving me such a meet and sutable help as I think there is None such for me may the wife say for giving me so great a blessing in a wise loving tender Husband may both Husband and wife say for blessing us with the fruit of

and your breaking it or keeping it Hence it is called the Covenant of God this ingageeth and obligeth you strongely to all Matrimonial duties Prov. 2.17 Covenant breakers even in wedlock God will judge 4. 4 This will be a good example The good Carriage of Husband and wife each to other according to the Gospel will be a good example or patern to all other Relations in the family to set them a copy or teach them how to carry therein and to put them in order Without this all would be out of frame the children unruly and disobedient and the servants unfaithful and disorderly So much of the Duties of Mariage Now followes the third thing considerable in mariage III. The Benefits of Mariage WHich may be referred to five heads They are 1. Personal 2. Domestical 3. Political 4. Ecclesiastical 5. Universal 1. 1 Personal Benefits The Personal Benefits of Mariage appertaining to the parties themselves are 4. to wit 1. Society 2. Sanctity 3. Copartnership 4. furtherance of the mystical Mariage between Christ and the soul 1. 1 Society Society God made man a sociable Creature in respect both of the Constitution of his body and disposition of his minde and said Gen. 2.18.19.20 It is not good for man to be alone Though God made Adam lord over all the Creatures and brought them to him to give names to them all as a sign of his soveraignty and authority over them yet for all this man was alone for among all the creatures there was not found a help meet for him or like to him in Nature a fit and sutable Companion that should be alter ego a second self to him God set all the creatures before him ere he gave him a wife that as some think he seeing their sexes might desire to have a help in his kind and nature also God saw it was not good for the irrational living creatures to be alone Gen. 7.2 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 therefore he created them male and female in Heb. cal'd the man and his wife for the increase of their kind to this end God bid Noah take into the Arke two of every sort of living things to keep them alive they shall be male and female Gen. 6.19 20. and God created them male and female together but he did not so in mankind for Adam was first formed then Eve Though it be said in Gen. 1.27 that God created them that is Adam and Eve male and female yet not together This is an anticipation The 27 28. verses of Gen. 1. chap. are to be made up with the 17 18 19. verses of the 2. chapter together into one Relation This was the Cause of the Creation of the woman because Adam was alone God saw Adam Solitary and defective till he had a wife I will make him saith God a help commodious for him God created the woman by deliberate Councel as before he had done the man Gen. 1.26 27. Let us make man in our Image The creation of the woman was the work of the Trinity as well as of the man When Adam saw no other fit help for him among all the Creatures it might make him the more prize a wife and count it better to lose a rib then to lack a wife to want part of himself then not to have a second self A wise was the Complement of all to Adam and a Recovery of his lost Rib. If Adam in Innocency when he was perfect in body and soul and when the whole world was his own stood in need of a wife even for society to be his Companion and it was not good for him that was so happy to be alone much less for poor sinful sickly miserable man since the fall what need hath he of a wife even for Society Eccles 4.9 10. Two are better then one saith the Preacher that is fully verified in conjugal Society though this onely is not meant here but that society in all sorts of affaires is better than Solitariness 2. Sanctity 2 The Second Benefit of mariage is sanctity to prevent sin and keep us pure from Pollutions of flesh and spirit 1. 1 Cor. 7.2 From outward acts of uncleanness To avoid fornication let every man have his owne wife saith Paul and every woman her own husband 2 From inward Lusts Ver. 9. It is better to mary then to burn Mariage is a meanes to prevent burning in lust Mariage is a preservation of chastity and prvention of heart adultery which our Saviour makes to be to look on a woman and lust after her Math. 5.28 Though mariage was instituted before there was sin and Adam needed it not as a Remedie against Incontinency but upon another account But since the fall it is of necessary and soveraign use to prevent sin and to procure or promote our sanctincation that we may possess our vessels in holines and Honour not in the lost of conpiscence Thes 4.3.4 5. This is the will of God 3. 3 Copartnership Benefit is Copartnership in all conditions better and worse As yoke fellows to take part and share equally together therein 1. To be a solace and comfort one to other in adversity as in sickness poverty disgrace What a great comfort is a loving tender husband to his dear wife in her sickness and she the like to him in his Prov. 17.17 As a brother is born for adversity so many couples finde cause to say that they were maried together for a time of adversity and that God brought them together to be mutual helps and comforts at such a time as this Judg. 13.22 23. as he did Esther to the kingdom Esther 4.14 how did Mancahs wife comfort him when he was plunged deep into fear of death 2. To be companions in joy the delight one of another in prosperity the desire of the eyes as Ez●kiels wife was Ezech. 24.16 Eccles 9.9 and the joy of the heart to live joyfully and comfortably together as Abraham and Sarah Gen. 26.8 Isaac and Rebekah did Ab●melech looking out through a window saw Isaac sporting or laughing and rejoycing with his wife Which implies some pleasing familiarity or sign of love and delight between them Husband and wife are glasses to look one anothers face in and echoes of delight refreshments and reflections or repercussions of pleasure and joy the one to the other and mutual chearings each of other 4 4 Furtherance of the Mystical Mariage Benefit of Mariage is the Furtherance of the Mystical Mariage between Christ and the Soul Both Husband and wife should improve their conjugal Relation and fellowship together to promote the Communion of their souls with Christ as the Spiritual huband thereof To this end we should do three things 1. 1. To look at Christ as our Husband Hoseah 2.19 20. To look at Jesus Christ our Maker and Redeemer as our Husband Isa 54.5 as maried to us Jer. 3.14 and at

the wombe and giving us hopefull tractable children Vse 2. Improve marage Vse 2. This should teach us to improve Mariage for all those ends for which God appointed it as 1. For Gods glory as well as for our Comfort 2. For our selves the good of our souls as of our bodies in spirituals as well as in temporals and for Heaven as well as for earth 3. For others not onely to build families but godly families such as may know fear serve God and may breed and send forth useful persons children or servants such as may do service in Church or common wealth or up religious families abroad This is an honour and comfort to a maried couple that out of their house as a stock or root many godly families have sprung and grown as swarms out of a hive when it is full that their children being disposed of in theworld have built some and their servants being maried from them have built other families and all fearing and worshipping God Vse 3. reprovs them that mary for low ends Vse 3. Reproves them that mary for poor low ends as onely or chiefly 1. For Carnal ends to satisfie the lusts and desires of the flesh 2. Or for worldly ends to get wealth or preferment to heighten greaten or raise themselves some way in the world thereby Such mary the portion or Estate rather then the Person whether it be man or woman and may come to have sorrow enough therewith and to buy gold too dear By Gods just judgement such persons enjoy few of the benefits of Mariage 1. Little society together when they have obtained their ends and satisfied their lusts they care little one for another and are ready to part bed if not houses 2. Less sanctity thereby For their eyes are as full of adultery and their hearts of unclean affections or lustings after others men or women as if they were not maried 3. No advantage at all doe they got to their Souls by their mariage or spiritual befit no help heaven-ward but rather a hindrance 4. They desire children but do not think or care whether they be Godly or no and they prove many times accordingly 5. They build up families but without a dram of religion or piety in them scarce Civility or common honesty 6. They seek great things in the world for their children but do not indeavour intend or desire they should be useful Instruments in Church or Comonwealth and they often spend prodigally what their parents got painfully 7. They take little or no delight one in another and have little comfort togethes it may be much grief being thorns in the sides and pricks in the eyes and provocations the one to the other 8. As for the mystical mariage between Christ and Soul they know not what it means it is a paradox to them as Regeneration was to Nicodemus How many Husbands and wives have no more benefit by mariage then the Pagans that knew not God yea then the beasts have to satisfie their lusts which God created male and female as well as them Now I come to the fourth thing considerable in mariage IV. The Troubles of Mariage 4 The troubles of Mariage MAriage hath it's crosses as well as comforts and sorrowes as well as joyes It is not all honey but hath some gall and wormwood intermingled Mariage is but a Bitter-sweet Many are the cares fears sorrowes troubles that attend mariage even the comforts of it as 1. The having of children Many sorrows accompany the wife conception breeding bearing and feeding of them and many cares and troubles arise both to Husband and wite in the education and disposal of them and if their children prove not well what a heart break is that to them besides the death of children causeth great grief unto parents 2. The building of a family the ordering and governing of it and making provision for the whole house 1 Tim. 5 8. He is worse then an infidel that doth not so saith Paul Many incumbrances accompany houshold affairs Martha had experience thereof Luk 10.40 41 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The care incumbent upon both how to please one another 1 Cor. 7.33 34. The word signifieth a care joyned with anxiety of mind the word implies a dividing of the mind as one saith into diverse thoughts casting this way and that way and every way how to give best content 4. There may be several events and Emergencies that prove occasions of Trouble and grief to them both as Losses and Crosses in their Callings estates and affairs sicknesses upon both or either of them and death at last 5. Especially when they are unequally yoked in Religion or otherwise and they draw diverse or adverse ways the one forward and the other backward or the one upward the other downward Or when they are unsutably disposed and their spirits are cross-grain'd each to other the one high the other low How many discontents and differences arise from hence The reason of it The reason why Mariage hath its crosses and troubles is because it is a thing under the sun therefore it is subject to vanity and vexation of Spirit as all other things The Preacher affirms the same from his own experience Besides Mariage is but for this present time When we get above the sun and come to be happy in Heaven we shall stand in no need of mariage or of any of the benefits or comforts of it which we enjoy here below Math. 22.30 but we shall be as the Angels of God in Heaven Vse 1 Expect not too much from it Vse 1. Then do not greaten your expectations too much nor look for more from it then is in it or can be had from it as if it was all joy and no sorrow all sweetness and no bitterness in it all honey and no sting of trouble To look for more comfort and delight in it then you can finde and to finde or meet with more trouble and sorrow in it then you did look for or imagin will greatly disappoint your expectation and that will beget not onely dissatisfaction and discontent but vexation of spirit in you Vse 2 prepare for troubles Vse 2. I counsel and exhort all maried persons to expect and prepare for Troubles and Trials yea for now ones and it may be greater then ever ye experienced before Mariage crosses are new things to those that have lived single and solitary lives you stand in need to beg of God wisdom and patience to bear them and improve them Paul was a true Prophet herein Such as mary shall have trouble in the flesh 1 Cor. 7.28 Husband and wife have cause to expect variety and vicissitude of turns and changes from better to worse from joy to sorrow from pleasure to pain in wedlock as well as in any other condition under the sun and the time or several seasons thereof are determined by the appointment and limitation of Gods purpose