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 19 junctions, that it is against their laws for the our European nations are so strict in their commonalty to couple with the gentry.-It was well said by one, 'If the wife be too much above, her husband, she either ruins him by her vast expenses, or reviles him with her base reproach- es: if she be too much below her husband, ei- ther her former condition makes her too gener- ous, or her present mutation makes her too im- perious' Marriages are styled matches; yet amongst those many that are married, how few are there that are matched ! Husbands and wives are like locks and keys, and rather break than open, except the wards be answerable. 3. In the holiness of her religion. If adul- tery may separate a marriage contracted, ido- latory may hinder a marriage not perfected, - Cattle of divers kinds were not to ingender, 2 Cor. vi. 14. "Be not unequally 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 forbidden fruit ? There are but two channels in which the remaining streams shall run: 1. To those men that want wives, how to choose them. 2. To those wo- men who have husbands, how to use then. 1. To those men that want wives, how to choose 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 graveled