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 20     than open, except the wards is be answerable. 3. In the holiness of her religion. If a-     dultery may separate a marriage contracted, idolatry may hinder a marriage not perfected. Cattle of divers kinds were not to ingender, 2 Cor. vi. 14." Be not un-equally yoked," &c. It is dangerous taking her for a wife, who will not take God for a husband. It is     not meet that one flesh should be of two spirits. Is there never a tree thou likest in     the garden, but that which bears forbiden fruit?—-There are but two channels in which the remaining streams shall run. 1. To those men that want wives, how to     chuse them. 2. To those women who have husbands, how to use them. 1. To those men that want wives, how to     chuse them Marriage is the tying of such a knot, that nothing but death can unloose. Common reason suggests so much, that we should be     long a doing that which can but once be      done. Where one design hath been gravel- led in the sands of delay, thousands have been split on the rock of precipitance. Rash adventures yield little gain. Opportunities are not like tides, that when one is past, an- other returns; but yet take heed of flying without your wings: you may breed such agues in your bones, that may shake you to     your graves. 1. Let me preserve you from a bad choice. 2. Present you with a good one. To preserve you from a bad choice. Take that in three things: