The young man's guide through the wilderness of this world to the heavenly Canaan…

Content not thy self with a dead, distracted manner of serving God, but stir up thy self to a lively, spiritual performing those holy duties thou takest in hand. To draw near unto God with our bodies, and honour him with our lips, when our hearts and spirits are removed from him, is no better than a mocking of God, which he abhors and detests.

V. As a means and help for the constant performing these Family-duties, have special care of the choice of thy Yoke-fellow, that thou marry a Virtuous woman, one who is related to Christ, at least one that liketh and approveth the best things. If thy Wife be not a promoter of Godliness in the Family, she will be a hinderer thereof. The Scripture in setting forth the wickedness of Jehoram, renders this as the reason thereof, that he had the Daughter of Ahab to Wife, 2 Chron. 21. 6.

V. As a means and help for the constant performing these Family-duties, have special care of the choice of thy Yoke-sellow, that thou marry a Vertuous woman, one who is related to Christ, at least one that liketh and approveth the best things. If thy Wife be not a promoter of Godliness in the Family, she will be a hinderer thereof. The Scripture in setting forth the wickedness of Iehoram, renders this as the reason thereof, that he had the Daughter of Ahab to Wife, 2 Chron. 21. 6.

Therefore, O Young Man, in seeking after a Wife, it will be thy wisdom: