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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49773	Concerning marriage a letter sent to G.F. and with it a copy of an answer to a friends letter concerning marriage, and some queries and his reply to the answer and queries and an additional to G.F.s reply containing 13 queries concerning marriage, also the manner how the parties intending marriage are to go together / published by Benjamin Lawrence by the consent and advice of friends.	Lawrence, Thomas, 1645?-1714.; Lawrence, Benjamin.	1663 (1663)	Wing L684; ESTC R31690	11,646	18

contend against it affirming that none can be free from sin on this side the grave and not only live in sin but profess they must do so if such marry their marriage is of the World in the fall out of the power of God and his image not as God joyns and though they may be faithful one to another yet they are not faithful to God out of the doctrine of Scripture are in the defiled bed their children unclean 2 Querie Whether the marriage bed be undefiled whilst any kind of sin remaineth Answ He that believes hath passed from death to life and so from the sin and overcomes the sin Turn to G.F. Letter pag 2. lines 23.24 To know marriage as it was in the beginning before man fell is a state before defilement was lin 27.28 and such as live in sin and say they never look to be otherwise in this life are not they in the defilement is not all sin defilement is not their bed defiled and all that they do to the unclean all things are unclean though they may be faithful each to other concerning bodily act Here the honourable marriage of Gods joyning out of transgression goes over the head of the Worlds marriages of mans joyning in the sin though they boast and mock at the simplicity of truth and them that live in it 3 Querie What is the difference between such as can witness freedom from sin and do keep the enmity under and marry and others that do not only live in sin but are in enmity against them that hold there is freedom from sin Answ The first are of Gods joyning both in the image of God out of the fall again lin 1.2 overcome the sin and marry as others do not as passive as it was in the beginning before defilement was lin 18.19 others joyn in their own wills and affections out of the power of God and his image not as God joyns but as man joyns have trouble in the flesh cares differing children unclean and many sad effects which are incident to all marriages in the fall 4 Querie Whether children of Parents who are both or either of them out of transgression are conceived and born in sin or are they clean and holy Answ There is a state where the believing wife sanctifies the unbelieving husband and the believing husband sanctifies the unbelieving wife else were your children unholy but now they are clean which is through the sanctification which is through the belief he that believer hath passed from death to life and so from the sin and overcomes the sin lin from the 17. to the 27. Is it a small thing to consider or did Parents seriously weigh what their children do inherit from them in the seed it might be a motive to throughout sanctification to all tender-hearted Parents for their childrens sake Zachariah and Elizabeth both were just before God and John was filled with the Holy Ghost from his Mothers womb God created one man and one woman out of transgression Mal. 2. that he might have a godly seed to replenish the earth and subdue it 5 Querie Whether deadness and losing the condition be not the more incident to some minding marriage Answ All deadness and losing the condition comes in going from the power of God lin 21. 6 Querie Whether children may not marry without consent of Parents and whether Parents may not give or deny their consent to their children in marriage Answ In the beginning God made them male and female whom he joyns together let no man put asunder lin 10.11 no not natural Parents but give their consent then answered Laban and Bethuel and said This thing is proceeded of the Lord we cannot say unto thee evil nor good Also spiritual Parents give their consent Paul gave his consent to the Apostles Bishops Ministers any if need so require let them marry But such marriages as man joyns not as God joyns Parents may deny their consent Paul denied his consent saying Be not unequally yoked with Infidels Isaac and Rebecca denied their consent and Isaac said unto Jacob Take not a wife of the daughters of Canaan and Jacob obeyed his father and his mother Gen. 28.7 Obey them that have the oversight of you and submit your selves for they watch for your souls be obedient to such as have given themselves to minister to the Saints and to all that help with them and labour All Friends that intend marriage take counsel of the ministers of truth not conclude marriage first and acquaint them with it after but be obedient to Parents that your days may be long in the land and the earth may be repelnished with an holy seed that may rule in righteousness who are obedient to their spiritual Parents cannot disobey their natural father and mother who are not to force their children to marry against their consent the Parents and kindred called Rebecca and said Wilt thou go with this man and she said I will go 7 Querie Whether any may know Gods will absolute and infallible concerning their marriage as whether such a person be appointed of God to be a a fit help forasmuch as some have been so perswaded yet failed Answ To know marriage as God joyns is to know it as it was before man fell lin 1. a certain knowledge this is bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh Adam knew Gods appointment Abraham knew Gods appointment and said God will send his Angel and thou shalt take a wife for my son from thence Laban and Bethuel knew Gods appointment and said This thing is proceeded of the Lord for this cause Gods wil manifest Gods appointment Gods ordinance shall a man leave father and mother and cleave to his wife Some marry in their own wills and say it is Gods will Can any be obedient to Gods will and not know it or not know it certain this the Worlds Preachers and Professors cry none is infallible say they what then do they preach for to make people doubt or what shall any hear such for that cannot tell certain Who abides in the light are in the unity joyned to the Lord are one spirit one in desire delight and sweetness one will what man wills God wills if ye abide in me and my words abide in you saith Christ ask what you will and it shall be done unto you delight thy self in the Lord and thou shalt have the desire of thine heart not in thy own but in Gods time The Jews after they did come out of Egypt did go together there might be something stirring of God at first lin 4.12 the state of the Gentiles and the Christians there might be something stirring from the Lord as particularly Hester lin 13. Jews Gentiles Christians Gods stirrings have been in all generations and all Gods stirrings are absolute and infallible and that of God in every one which Answers is infallible and when any one is restored out of the fall his assurance may be infallible also

have we Christ present with us the Word is nigh thee in thy mouth and in thy heart and God hath spoken to us by his Son and sent the spirit of his Son into our hearts and teacheth us to pray as we ought House and Land are the Inheritance of a Father said Solomon but a prudent Wife cometh of the Lord If any be staid of the Lord to desire his gift and believe God's answer that he shall have a prudent Wife then he may have such assurance also it may be of the person that Abraham's servant had even she that said Drink and I will give thy Camels drink and of the time as Jehosaphat and Elisha had to morrow 2 Chron. 20. to morrow this time 2 Kings 7. and also of the means an Angel as Tobias had Tob. from the 5. to the 13. chap. and as Abraham had for his servant God will send his Angel and thou shalt take a Wife for my son from thence And we are come to Mount Sion to the company of innumerable Angels The Angels are pure chast modest spirits and friendly without deceit who have joy in heaven when a sinner converteth and the Kingdom of Heaven is within you Whosoever hath a lustful lascivious false mind the good Angel will not stay with such The Angel of the Lord encampeth about them that fear him sometimes contracted into one the Angel of the Covenant Peter's Angel An Angel slew one hundred and fourscore thousand of the army of Senacherib and so in times enlarged to be more two Angels three Angels seven Angels twelve Legions of Angels innumerable Angels who have the testimony of Jesus are Ministring Spirits whether in a visible form as to Abraham and Tobias or invisible as to Abraham's servant and Christ and in him to the heirs of salvation the honourable marriage out of transgression hath God Angels and all good men to encourage it Qu 10. Seeing there may be denials lets and intermissions before the finishing of Marriage and when it is finished to know certainly it was of God's stirring and of God's joyning may be a continual comfort then how may one retain this certain knowledge not lose his condition Ans Losing the condition cometh in going from the power of God lin 30. To hold this condition keep innocent a conscience void of offence to God and man When doubts arise temptations come and the many things cumber heed nothing but God and what is of God know nothing do nothing be nothing but what thou beest in God God all self nothing Enoch walked with God and he was not and when ye are clean through the Word which Christ hath spoken keep the watch against relapses lest they prove harder to cure then the first sickness If there be failings doubts will arise and trouble and questioning of several kinds as Whether there be such a Faith or whether such things whereof one hath been certainly perswaded was of God which might be truly so the stirrings of God not being diligently taken heed to nor stayed in but the mind drawn out into the many things hardness got up then followeth a divorce from all that communion and enjoyment Note This particular infallible assurance of faith concerns all other things as well as marriage as to have assurance of pardon of sin freedom from all sin perseverance in the truth deliverance out of trouble and that the Kingdom Dominion and greatness of the Kingdom under the whole Heaven shall be given to the people of the Most High freedom from wants streights poverty sickness and from the noisom pestilence Qu. 11. Whether one that hath attained to such assurance of faith may not lose it Ans The Jews did go into hardness of heart afterward there might be something stir of God at first l. 6. 10 11. the people of Israel believed the Lord and his servant Moses but afterward they hearkened not whose carkases fell in the Wilderness yet their faith at first was not from imagination nor fiction I said that thy house and the house of thy Father should walk before me for ever but now it shall not be so said the Lord to Eli for they that honor me I will honor Disobedience and unbelief may lose eternal life or any other blessing Qu. 12. Whether such as are of the true Religion may marry with others that have been trained up in a false Religion Ans The state of the Christians and Gentiles there may be something stirring from the Lord as particularly Hester lin 8 9. who was made Queen to a Heathen King Hest 2.17 and was a means to deliver her people and her Kindred from the bloody conspiracy of Haman Jacob married Labans Daughters Leah and Rachel and Rachel had stolne her father Laban's Idols Gen. 31.32 which Laban called his gods v. 30. Mahlon the son of Elimelech of Bethlem Judah married Ruth a Moabite and after him Boaz Ruth 4.10 and Solomon married Pharoahs daughter an Egyptian but she was perswaded to forget her Countrey and Fathers house and so did Ruth and Laban's daughters and came into the Land of Israel and the people that were in the Gates and the Elders said to Boaz The Lord make thy wife as Rachel and Leah which twain did build the House of Israel But what is all this to them who in the deceit not stirred of God for lust lucre and self-ends marry the daughters of men not converted to the true Faith The example of Hester may afford two considerations 1. That Friends of God know his secrets sometimes by extraordinary Revelations 2. That such examples are no presidents for the people of the World to follow no more then to go naked to take a wife of Whoredoms or offer up a sons life because Abraham and some of the Prophets did so Qu. 13. What may such do as are in the doubting who say in themselves Whether had I best marry or abide Whether had I best marry such a person or not Ans The state of the Christians and the Gentiles there may something stir from the Lord as particularly Hester l. 13. who having something stir from the Lord for good ends as followed she was perswaded to receive the love of King Ahasuerus a Heathen who loved Hester above all the women and she found grace and favour in his sight more then all the Virgins so that he set the Crown of the Kingdom upon her head and made her Queen instead of Vasthi and she had the counsel and consent of Mordecai who took her for his own Daughter Hest 2. and so she became a deliverer and Nursing-Mother in Israel while captive in Babylon So if any be perswaded infallibly of Gods stirring and Gods joining all doubts are resolved All friends every particular until til they be perswaded of Gods will certain and infallible concerning their marriage were better forbear and wait on God in his Light to receive his counsel how else do Friends differ from the World the Light is the