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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09053	Boaz and Ruth blessed: or A sacred contract honoured with a solemne benediction By Bartholomew Parsons B. of Divinity and rector of Ludgershall in the county of Wiltes.	Parsons, Bartholomew, 1574-1642.	1633 (1633)	STC 19345; ESTC S100854	23,776	50

steps doe the Elders and all the people of Bethlehem walke here Being called vpon to be witnesses about some civill passages of buying of lands by Boaz and purchasing of Ruth to be his wife to raise vp the name of the dead vpon his inheritance vers 9.10 they are not onely ready to doe this good office of bearing witnesse all the people that were in the gates and the Elders said we are witnesses but also blesse them in the name of the Lord power out a most solemne and effectuall fervent prayer to the Lord the father of lights from whom cometh downe every good and perfect gift to prosper the intended matrimony of this present couple with blessings befitting their married estate the Lord make the woman c. Now our Saviour when he would feed the people with the bread that perisheth brake it into peeces Mark 8.6 that every one might haue his portion conveniently I will then be a follower of him and as becometh a faithfull and wise steward in Gods house divide these words aright that every one may the better haue his portion of spirituall food out of them In this faithfull and charitable prayer then I call it so because Necessitas cogit orare prose charitas fraternitatis hortatur pro alio Chrys Necessity compelleth a man to pray for himselfe but charity exhorteth him to pray for others We may obserue the parts and points 1. The petitioners that find in their heart to pray this prayer as David speaketh 2. Sam. 7.27 all the people that were in the gate and the Elders 2. To whom they make their prayers euen to him of whom all things come 1 Chr. 29.14 the Lord the Lord make 3. For whom for the parties here purposing matrimony the woman severally and the man severally 4. For what are the petitions for them 1. For the woman the Lord make the woman that cometh into thine house like to Rahell and Leah which two did build the house of Israell 2. For the man and doe thou worthily in Ephratah and be famous in Bethlehem or that thou maist doe worthily c. The first occurring circumstance that standeth in the doore of the text like Abraham in the doore of his tent is of the persons petitioning and praying all the people that were in the gate and the Elders they will not only be witnesses of the contract but petitioners also for the contracted they will not onely testify the covenant made betweene the parties but also sanctify it with their prayers I may say then to all that are present or any way pertinent to this worthy and weighty worke of contracting and marrying in the Lord as our Saviour to the lawyer about a worke of mercy Luk. 10.37 vade fac similiter goe and doe likewise pray for the peace and prosperity of the parties to be married not with formall but with hearty acclamations not with a superficiall God giue you ioy but with a solemne and substantiall benediction of the parties and invocation of the most high God possessor of heaven and earth to blesse them out of Zion that they may see the good of Ierusalem all the daies of their life and that they may see their childrens children and peace vpon Israell Psal 128.5.6 The God of heaven in his blessing of Adam and Eue the first married persons in whose loynes we then were all of vs and God blessed them Gen. 1.28 hath shewed vs what is good and what he requireth of vs even to be followers of him herein as deare children Eph. 5.1 And in this good and old way did the generations of old walke Abrahams eldest servant and ruler of his house being sent by him to his country and to his kindred to take a wife vnto Isaacke when he cometh to the place beginneth first with prayer to the Lord of his Master Abraham to send him good speed that day and to shew kindnesse vnto his Master Abraham Gen. 24.12 And when the Lord God of his Master Abraham had led him to the house of his Masters brethren and had prospered his iourney and hee had obtained Rebeccah to be wife vnto his Masters sonne her brother mother and friends solemnely blesse her at his departure and say Thou art our sister be the mother of thousands of Millions and let thy seed possesse the gates of those that hate them Gen. 24.60 And when Isaacke being stricken in yeares sent Iacob to Padan-Aram amongst his kindred to find out a wife he prayeth seriously for his prosperous successe God almighty blesse thee and make thee fruitfull and multiply thee that thou maist bee a multitude of people and giue the blessing of Abraham to thee and to thy seed with thee Gen. 28.3.4 And that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 marriage Psalme endited at Solomons taking to wife of Pharaohs daughter being an eminent type of the spirituall marriage betweene Christ and his Church doth omnia fausta precari pray for all happinesse to the married parties is full of supplications for them benedictions of them and propheticall predictions of happinesse vnto them Psal 45. And if all things must be done in the name of the Lord Col 3.17 much more must this great thing bee begunne in the name of the Lord if 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 euery creature or ordinance of God must be sanctified with prayer 1 Tim. 4.5 much more must this solemne ordinance of his be blessed and sanctified with prayer It is a good rule giuen by Marke the Eremite 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 prayer must be the Vsher of all our actions But how are these last and worst daies whereinto we are falne degenerated from this holy course Happily we may heare a formall and superficiall acclamation of God giue you joy drap out of some few mens mouths at such times meetings But most mens vnsanctified mouthes at such times like puddle waters that being stirred send forth noysome sent breath our nothing but such corrupt communications as may rather minister griefe then grace to the hearers which might better befit the vnchast bedde of fornication in the stewes then the vndefiled be dde of honourable matrimony in the house and from the abundance of their polluted hearts they belch forth such vncleane and vnsavoury words as may make their eares to tingle that heare them They cannot speake the language of Canaan at such times any holy and heavenly prayers but the language of Ashdod ribals and scurrilous iests filthy and foolish talking which are not convenient as the Apostle speaketh Eph. 5.3 And as David said of the slanderous tongue Psal 52.4 thou louest all devouring words ô thou deceitfull tongue so may I of theirs thou louest all defiling words ô thou vaine and vncleane tongue The marriage meetings with them are never well seasoned or celebrated vnlesse they be filled with filthy discourses and obsceane songs and of a Bride house a Brothell house as the Idolatrous Iewes turned Bethell Gods house into a Bethauen an house of vanity