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The sermons of Master Henry Smith gathered into one volume. Printed according to his…The sermons of Maister Henrie Smith gathered into one volume. Printed according to his…
The sermons of Master Henry Smith gathered into one volume. Printed according to his corrected copies in his life time.The sermons of Maister Henrie Smith gathered into one volume. Printed according to his corrected copies in his life time.
London: printed by Richard Field for Thomas Man, 1593
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
A PREPARATIVE TO MARRIAGE.
A PREPARATIVE TO MARIAGE.
You are come hither to be contracted in the Lord, that is, of two to be made one: for as god hath knit the bones & sinews together for the strengthening of mens bodies, so he hath knit man & woman together, for the strengthening of their life, because two are firmer than one, & therefore when God made the woman for man,1 he said;2 I will make him a help: showing that man is stronger by his wife. Every marriage before it be knit, should be contracted,3 as it is showed in Exo. 22. 16. & Deu. 22. 28. which stay between the contract and the marriage,4 was the time of longing for their affection to settle in,5 because the deferring of that which we love, doth kindle the desire, which if it came easily and speedily unto us, would ⟨p. 2⟩make us set less by it.