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 5 board, yet he had not enough for his bed, though he had many creatures to serve him, yet he wanted a creature to solace him; when he was compounded in creation, he must be completed by conjunction; when he had no sin to hurt him, then he must have a wife to help him : " It is not good that man should " be alone." Secondly, As it is lengthened to all men : And so it is taken universally, Heb. xiii. 4. “Marriage is honourable unto all." It is not only warrantable, but honourable. The whole Trinity hath conspired together to set a crown of glory upon the head of matrimony. 1. God the Father : Marriage was a tree planted within the walls of paradise, the flower first grew in God's garden. 2. The Son Marriage is a chrystal glass, wherein Christ and the saints do see each other's faces. 3. The Holy Ghost, by his overshadowing of the blessed Virgin: Well might the world. when it saw her pregnancy, suspect her virgi- nity ; but her matrimonial condition, was a grave to that suspicion ; without this, her in- nocency had not prevented her infamy ; she needed a shield to defend that chastity abroad which was kept inviolable at home. Too many that have not worth enough to preserve their virginity, have yet will enough to cover their unchastity ; turning the medi- cine of frailty into the mantle of filthiness.— Certainly she is mad that cuts off her leg, to get her a crutch; or that venoms her face to wear a mask.