A preparative to marriage The sum whereof was spoken at a contract, and enlarged…A preparatiue to mariage The summe whereof was spoken at a contract, and inlarged…

Finally, if it should be said unto thee as the devil said to Christ, All these will I give thee, if thou wilt ¹fall down and worship me, that is no more, but if thou wilt sin, whether thou would yield or no.

Finally, if it should be sayd vnto thee as the diuell sayd to Christ, All these will I giue thee, if thou wilt ¹fall downe and worship me, that is no more, but if thou wilt sinne, whether thou would yeeld or no.

1. 1Math. 4. 9.

If thou have sinned thus and thus before, I will not say therefore the Lord will not hear thee, but David saith, If I regard wickedness in ¹my heart, the Lord will not hear me, that is, if for any cause a man purpose and carry a mind to sin when he is tempted, the Lord is so far from helping him, that he will stand like Baal, as though he ²did not hear him; for he hath a Traitors mind as deep as any, which thinks, for a Dukedom I would betray my Prince, though he never play the Traitor in his life.

If thou haue sinned thus and thus before, I will not say therfore the Lord will not heare thee, but Dauid saith, If I regard wickednes in ¹my heart, the Lord will not heare me, that is, if for any cause a man purpose and carry a minde to sinne when he is tempted, the Lord is so farre from helping him, that he will stand like Baal, as though he