A25478:1824
A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…
A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers
London: printed for Thomas Cockerill, 1676
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.
1. For the ground of it; which is the near Relation which Gods Ordinance hath now brought him into, and his will revealed in his Word. Such was the Love of Isaac to Rebekah, Gen. 24.67. She became his Wife, and he loved her. The Ordinance of God hath made her(k) One Flesh with me, and the Law of Nature obligeth me to love my own flesh; and therefore though her Beauty be decayed, her Portion spent, her Weaknesses great, and her Usefulness small, yet she is a piece of my Self, and here the wise God hath determined my affection. And when all is said; This is the only Sure Foundation, and holds perpetually.
1. For the ground of it; which is the near Relation which Gods Ordinance hath now brought him into, and his will revealed in his Word. Such was the Love of Isaac to Rebeka, Gen. 24.67. She became his Wife, and he loved her. The Ordinance of God hath made her(k) One Flesh with me, and the Law of Nature obligeth me to love my own flesh; and therefore though her Beauty be decayed, her Portion spent, her Weaknesses great, and her Ʋsefulness small, yet she is a piece of my Self, and here the wise God hath determined my affection. And when all is said; This is the only Sure Foundation, and holds perpetually.
- (k)Not only by original creation, so she is part of his flesh; but by nuptial conjunction, so she is one flesh. Gatak. Serm. p. 200.Not only by original creation, so she is part of his flesh; but by nuptial co•junction, so she is one flesh. Gatak. Serm. p. 200.