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Then fhall the Prieft join their Right Hands together, and say, Thofe whom God hath joined together, let no man put

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Then all the Minifter Speak unto the People:

Orafmuch as N. and N. have confented together in holy Wedlock, and have witneffed the fame before God and this company, and thereto have given and pledged their Troth either to other, and have declared the fame by giving and receiving of a Ring, and by joining of Hands; I pronounce that they be Man and Wife together, In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.

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And the Minifter fhall add this Bleffing:

OD the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Ghost, blefs preferve, and keep you: the Lord mercifully with his favour look upon you; and fo fill you with all. fpiritual benediction and grace, that ye may fo live together in this life, that in the world to come ye may have life everlafting. Amen.

Then the Minifter or Clerks going to the Lord's Table, fhall fay or fing this Pfalm following:

Beati omnes, Pfal. cxx.

Leffed are all they that fear the Lord and walk in his

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ways.

For thou fhalt eat the labour of thine hands: O well is thee, and happy fhalt thou be.

Thy wife fhall be as the fruitful vine: upon the walls of thine houfe.

Thy children like the olive-branches: round about thy table:

Lo, thus fhall the man be bleffed that feareth the Lord. The Lord from out of Sion fhail fo bless thee: that thou

fhalt fee Jerufalem in profperity all thy life long;

Yea, that thou fhalt fee thy childrens children: and peace upon Ifrael.

Glory be to the Father, &c.

As it was in the, &c.

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Or this Pfalm,

Deus mifereatur. Pfal. Ixvii.

OD be merciful unto us, and blefs us: and fhew us the light of his countenance, and be merciful unto

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us.

That thy way may be known upon earth: thy faving health among all nations.

Let the people praise thee, O God: yea, let all the people praife thee.

O let the nations rejoice and be glad for thou fhalt judge the folk righteoufly, and govern the nations upon earth. Let the people praise thee, O God: yea, let all the people praife thee.

Then fhall the earth bring forth her increase: and God, even our own God, fhall give us his bleffing.

God fhall blefs us: and all the ends of the World fhall fear him.

Glory be to the Father, &c.

As it was in the, &c.

The Pfalm ended, and the Man and the Woman kneeling before the Lord's Table, the Prieft flanding at the Table, and turning his Face towards them, fhall fay,

Lord have mercy upon us. Answer. Chrift have mercy upon us. Minifter. Lord have mercy upon us:

UR Father which art in Heaven, Hallowed be thy Name. Thy Kingdom come. Thy Will be done in Earth, As it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trefpaffes, As we forgive them that trefpafs againft us. And lead us not into temptation; But deliver us from evil. Amen.

Minifter. O Lord, fave thy fervant, and thy handmaid, Answer. Who put their truft in thee.

Minifter. O Lord, fend them help from thy holy place, Anfwer. And evermore defend them.

Minifter. Be unto them a tower of strength,

Anfwer. From the face of their enemy.

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Minifter. O Lord, hear our prayer;

Anfwer. And let our cry come unto thee.

Minifter.

GOD of Abraham, God of Ifaac, God of Jacob,. bless these thy fervants, and fow the feed of eternal life in their hearts; that whatsoever in thy holy Word they fhall profitably learn, they may in deed fulfil the fame. Look, O Lord, mercifully upon them from heaven, and bless them. And as thou didst fend thy bleffing upon Abraham and Sarah, to their great comfort; fo vouchsafe to fend thy bleffing upon these thy fervants; that they obeying thy will, and alway being in fafety under thy protection, may abide in thy love unto their lives end, through Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen,

This Prayer next following fhall be omitted, where the Woman is paft
Child-bearing.

Merciful Lord, and heavenly Father, by whofe graci

ous gift mankind is increased, We befeech thee affift with thy bleffing thefe two perfons; that they may both be fruitful in procreation of Children, and alfo live together fo long in godly love and honefty, that they may fee their Children chriftianly and virtuously brought up, to thy praise and honour, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

God, who by thy mighty power haft made all things of nothing, who alfo (after other things fet in order) didit appoint, that out of Man (created after thine own image and fimilitude) Woman fhould take her beginning; and knitting them together, didft teach that it fhould never be lawful to put afunder thofe, whom thou by Matrimony hadit made one: O God, who haft confecrated the ftate of Matrimony to fuch an excellent Mystery, that in it is fignified and reprefented the fpiritual marriage and unity betwixt Chrift and his Church; Look mercifully upon these thy fervants; that both this Man may love his Wife according to thy Word (as Chrift did love his fpoufe the Church, who gave himself for it, loving and cherishing it, even as his own

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flesh) and also that this Woman may be loving and amiable, faithful and obedient to her Husband; and in all quietness, fobriety and peace, be a follower of holy and Godly Matrons. O Lord, blefs them both, and grant them to inherit thy everlasting Kingdom, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

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Then shall the Priest say,

Lmighty God, who at the beginning did create our first parents, Adam and Eve, and did fanctify and join them together in Marriage; pour upon you the riches of his grace; fanctify and blefs you; that ye may please him both in body and foul, and live together in holy love unto your lives end. Amen.

After which, if there be no Sermon declaring the Duties of Man and Wife, the Minifter fhall read as followeth :

ALL ye that are married, or that intend to take the ho

ly Eftate of Matrimony upon you, hear what the holy Scripture doth fay as touching the duty of Hufbands towards their Wives, and Wives towards their Husbands:

Saint Paul in his Epiftle to the Ephefians, the fifth Chapter, doth give this commandment to all married men: Hufbands, love your Wives, even as Chrift alfo loved the Church, and gave himself for it; that he might fanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water, by the Word; that he might prefent it to himself a glorious Church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any fuch thing; but that it fhould be holy and without blemish. So ought men to love their Wives as their own bodies: he that loveth his wife, ⚫ loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the Church: For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. For this caufe fhall a man leave his Father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two fhall be one flesh. This is a great mystery; but I speak concerning Chrift and the Church. Nevertheless, let every one of you, in particular, fo love his wife, even as himself. Ephef. v. 25.

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Likewise the fame St. Paul, writing to the Coloffians, fpeaketh thus to all men that are married: Hufbands, love your Wives, and be not bitter against them. Col. iii. 19.

Hear alfo what Saint Peter, the Apostle of Chrift, who was himself a married man, faith unto them that are married: Ye Hufbands, dwell with your Wives according to knowledge; giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker veffel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered. 1 S. Pet. iii. 7.

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Hitherto ye have heard the duty of the Hufband toward the Wife. Now likewife ye Wives, hear and learn your duties toward your Hufbands, even as it is plainly set forth in holy Scripture.

Saint Paul, in the aforenamed Epistle to the Ephefians, teacheth you thus: Wives, fubmit yourfelves unto your own Husbands, as unto the Lord. For the Husband is the head of the Wife, even as Chrift is the head of the Church: and he is the Saviour of the body, Therefore as the Church is fubject unto Chrift, fo let the Wives be to their own Husbands in every thing. And again he faith, Let the Wife fee that the reverence her Hufband. Ephef. v. 22,

And in his Epistle to the Coloffians, Saint Paul giveth you this fhort Leffon: Wives, fubmit yourselves unto your own Husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. Col. iii. 18.

Saint Peter alfo doth instruct you very well, thus faying: Ye Wives, be in fubjection to your own hufbands; that if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the converfation of the Wives; while they behold your chaste converfation coupled with fear. Whofe adorning, let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel, but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet fpirit, which is in the fight of God of great price, For after this manner in the old time the holy Women alfo who trufted in God adorned themselves, being in fubjection unto their own Hufbands; even as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him Lord: whofe daughters ye are as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement. 1 S. Pet. iii. 1.

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