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In Matth. 22. Christ showeth, that before parties married, they were wont to put on fair and new garments,¹ which were called Wedding garments, a warning unto all which put on wedding garments,² to put on truth and holiness too, which so precisely is resembled by that garment more then other. It is noted in the fourteenth of Luke, that of all them which were invited to the Lords banquet,³ and came not only he which had married a wife,⁴ did not desire to be excused, but said stoutly, I cannot come. Showing how this state doth occupy a man most, and ⟨p. 34⟩draw him often from the service of God: and therefore we had not need to take the worst, for the best are cumbersome enough. In the second of Job,⁵ it is observed of the patient man, that he did not curse the day of his birth, until his wife brake forth into blasphemy, showing, that wicked women are able to change the steadfastest man, more then all temptations beside. Sampson would take a Philistine to wife,⁶ but he lost his honour, his strength, and his life by her, least any should do the like.

In Matth. 22. Christ sheweth, that before parties married, they were woont to put on faire and new garments,¹ which were called VVedding garmentes, a warning vnto all which put on wedding garments,² to put on truth and holinesse too, which so precisely is resembled by that garment more then other. It is noted in the fourteenth of Luke, that of all them which were inuited to the Lordes banquet,