Several discourses tending to promote peace & holiness among Christians to which are added,…

or else if they should not prevail so far, What dissonancy and jarrings are there in a Family, when People are unequally yoked, the Wife and Husband drawing several ways?

(2.) As to consent of Parents. God here in the Text, as the common Parent, taketh himself to have the greatest hand in the bestowing of his own Children; He brought her unto the Man; and ordinary Parents are his Deputies, which must bring and give us in Marriage, especially when young, and under their Power. The Scripture is express for this, Exod. 22. 17. If her Father wholly refuse to give her unto him, &c. 1 Cor. 17. 28. He that giveth her in Marriage, &c.

(3.) As to the manner of procuring it; that they labour to gain one another by warrantable, yea, religious Ways, that we may l•y the Foundation of this Relation in the Fear of God; not by stealth, or carnal Allurements, or violent Importunities, or deceitful Proposals, but by such ways and means as will become the gravity of Religion, that weanedness and sobriety that should be in the Hearts of Believers; that deliberation which a business of such weight calls for, and that Reverence ⟨p. 73⟩of God, and Justice that we owe to all; that seriousness of Spirit, and that respect to the Glory of God, with which all such Actions should be undertaken. Col. 3. 17. Whatsoever we do, in Word or in Deed, do all in the Name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him. When this is observed, we are said to take one another out of God's Hands.