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was truly happy, yet he was not fully happy; though he had enough for his beard, yet he had not enough for his bed; though he had many creators to ſerve him, ver he anted a creature to ſolace him, when he was compounded in creation he must be compleated by conjunction; when he had no ſir to hurt him, then he may have a wife to help him: "It is not good that man ſhould be alone.”
Secondly, As it is lengthened to all men; and ſo it is taken univerſally Heb xiin 4. "Marriage is honourable onto all." It is not only warrantable but honourable. The whole Trinitv hath conſpired together to ſet a crown of glory upon the head of matrimony.
1. God the Father. Marriage was a tree planted within the walls of Paradiſe; the flower firſt grew in Gods garden.
2. The Son. Marriage is a chryſtal glaſs, wherein Chriſt and the ſaints do ſee each other's faces.
3. The Holy Ghoſt, by his overſhadowing of the bleſſed Virgin. Well might the world, when it ſaw her pregnancy. ſuſpect her virginity; but her matrimonial condition was a grave to that ſuſpicion: without this her innocency had not prevented her infancy; ſhe needed a ſhield to defend that chaſtity abroad, which was kept inviolable at home.
Too many that have not worth enough to preſerve their virginity, have yet will enough to cover their unchaſtity; turning the medicine of frailty into the mantle of filthineſs.— Certainly ſhe is mad that cuts off her leg, to get her a crutch; or that venoms her face to wear a maſk.
