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than open, except the wards is be answerable.
3. In the holiness of her religion. If a-
dultery may separate a marriage contracted,
idolatry may hinder a marriage not perfected.
Cattle of divers kinds were not to ingender,
2 Cor. vi. 14." Be not un-equally yoked,"
&c. It is dangerous taking her for a wife,
who will not take God for a husband. It is
not meet that one flesh should be of two
spirits. Is there never a tree thou likest in
the garden, but that which bears forbiden
fruit?—-There are but two channels in which
the remaining streams shall run.
1. To those men that want wives, how to
chuse them.
2. To those women who have husbands,
how to use them.
1. To those men that want wives, how to
chuse them
Marriage is the tying of such a knot, that
nothing but death can unloose. Common
reason suggests so much, that we should be
long a doing that which can but once be
done. Where one design hath been gravel-
led in the sands of delay, thousands have
been split on the rock of precipitance. Rash
adventures yield little gain. Opportunities
are not like tides, that when one is past, an-
other returns; but yet take heed of flying
without your wings: you may breed such
agues in your bones, that may shake you to
your graves.
1. Let me preserve you from a bad choice.
2. Present you with a good one.
To preserve you from a bad choice.
Take that in three things:
