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…

These are the receivers articles, whereof his conscience must be examined, before he receive this ⟨image 129⟩Sacrament: happy is he which can say, All these have I kept: for the Dove was not so welcome ¹to Noah, as this man is to Christ. But if thou find not these affections within, but a nest of vices, leave thine offering at the Altar, ²and return to thine examination again, for thou art not a fit guest to sup with the Lord, until thou have on this Wedding garment. ³How is it then that some regard their other garments more then this? Paul saith, Examine your selves, and they examine their apparel, if they have new clothes in the country, then they are ready to receive. I have known many kept from the Sacrament a whole year together by their masters, for nothing but for want of a new suit to set them forth with ⟨image 130⟩their fellows.

These are the receyuers articles, whereof his conscience must be examined, before he receyue this ⟨image 129⟩Sacrament: happie is he which can say, All these haue I kept: for the Doue was not so welcome ¹to Noah, as this man is to Christ. But if thou finde not these affections within, but a nest of vices, leaue thine offring at the Altar, ²and returne to thine examination againe, for thou art not a fit guest to sup with the Lord, vntill thou haue on this Wedding garment. ³How is it then that some regard their other garments more then this? Paule sayth, Examine your selues, and they examine their apparell, if they haue new clothes in the countrey, then they are ready to receyue. I haue knowne many kept from the Sacrament a whole yeare together by their maysters, for nothing but for want of a new sute to set them forth with