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To honour marriage more, it is said, that God took a rib out of Adams side,¹ & thereof ⟨p. 6⟩built the woman. He is not said to make man a wife, but to build him a wife: signifying, that man and wife make (as it were) one house together, & that the building was not perfect, until the woman was made as well as the man, therefore if the building be not perfect now, it must be destroyed again.

To honour mariage more, it is sayd, that God tooke a rib out of Adams side,¹ & thereof ⟨p. 6⟩built the woman. He is not said to make man a wife, but to builde him a wife: signifiing, that man and wife make (as it were) one house together, & that the building was not perfect, vntill the woman was made as well as the man, therefore if the building bee not perfect now, it must be destroyed againe.

1. 1Gen. 2. 22.

Before God made the woman: it is said, that he cast the man into a sleep,¹ and in his sleep he took a rib out of his side, and as he made man of earth, so he made the woman of bone,² while Adam was a sleep.

Before God made the woman: it is sayd, that he cast the man into a sleepe,