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008 - Solemnization of matrimony · Book of Common Prayer, 1662- selections

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  Speaker 1: The form of solemnization of matrimony from the Book of
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  Speaker 1: Common Prayer sixteen sixty two. This LibriVox recording is in
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  Speaker 1: the public domain recording by Michael Max. The form of
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  Speaker 1: solemnization of matrimony. First, the bands of all that are
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  Speaker 1: to be married together must be published in the church
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  Speaker 1: three several Sundays or holy days, in the time of
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  Speaker 1: divine service, immediately before the sentences for the offer tree,
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  Speaker 1: the curate saying, after the accustomed manner, I publish the
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  Speaker 1: bands of marriage between M of blank and N of blank.
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  Speaker 1: If any of you know any just cause or just
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  Speaker 1: impediment why these two persons should not be joined together
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  Speaker 1: in holy matrimony, ye are to declare it. This is
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  Speaker 1: the first, second, or said time of asking. And if
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  Speaker 1: the persons that are to be married dwell in diverse parishes,
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  Speaker 1: the bands must be asked in both parishes, and the
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  Speaker 1: curate of the one parish shall not solemnize matrimony betwixt
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  Speaker 1: them without a certificate of the bands being thrice asked
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  Speaker 1: from the curate of the other parish. At the day
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  Speaker 1: and time appointed for solemnization of matrimony, the persons to
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  Speaker 1: be married shall come into the body of the Church
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  Speaker 1: with their friends and neighbors. And there standing together the
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  Speaker 1: man on the right hand and the woman on the left,
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  Speaker 1: the priest shall say, dearly beloved, we are gathered together
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  Speaker 1: here in the sight of God and in the face
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  Speaker 1: of this congregation, to join together, this man and this
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  Speaker 1: woman in holy matrimony, which is an honorable estate instituted
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  Speaker 1: of God in the time of man's innocency, signifying unto
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  Speaker 1: us the mystical union that is betwixt Christ and his Church,
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  Speaker 1: which holy estate Christ adorned and beautified with his presence
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  Speaker 1: and first miracle that he wrought in Cana of Galilee,
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  Speaker 1: and is commended of Saint Paul, to be honorable among
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  Speaker 1: all men. And therefore is not by any to be
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  Speaker 1: enterprised nor taken in hand unadvisedly, likely or wantonly to
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  Speaker 1: satisfy men's carnal lusts and appetites, like brute beasts that
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  Speaker 1: have no understanding, but reverently, discreetly, advisedly, soberly, and in
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  Speaker 1: the fear of God, duly considering the causes for which
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  Speaker 1: matrimony was ordained. First, it was ordained for the procreation
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  Speaker 1: of children to be brought up in the fear and
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  Speaker 1: nurture of the Lord, and to the praise of His
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  Speaker 1: holy name. Secondly, it was ordained for a remedy against
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  Speaker 1: sin and to avoid fornication, that such persons as have
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  Speaker 1: not the gift of continency might marry and keep themselves
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  Speaker 1: undefiled members of Christ's body. Thirdly, it was ordained for
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  Speaker 1: the mutual society, help and comfort that the one ought
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  Speaker 1: to have of the other, both in prosperity and adversity,
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  Speaker 1: into which holy estate these two persons present come now
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  Speaker 1: to be joined. Therefore, if any man can show any
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  Speaker 1: just cause why they may not lawfully be joined together,
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  Speaker 1: let him now speak or else hereafter forever hold his peace.
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  Speaker 1: And also speaking unto the persons that shall be married,
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  Speaker 1: he shall say, I require and charge you both, as
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  Speaker 1: ye will answer at the dreadful day of judgment, when
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  Speaker 1: the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed, that if
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  Speaker 1: either of you know any impediment why ye may not
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  Speaker 1: lawfully be joined together in matrimony, ye do now confess it.
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  Speaker 1: For be ye well assured that so many as are
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  Speaker 1: coupled together otherwise than God's word doth allow, are not
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  Speaker 1: joined together by God. Neither is their matrimony lawful at
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  Speaker 1: which day of marriage. If any man do allege and
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  Speaker 1: declare any impediment, why they may not be coupled together
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  Speaker 1: in matrimony by God's law or the laws of this realm,
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  Speaker 1: and will be bound and sufficient sureties with him to
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  Speaker 1: the parties, or else put in a caution to the
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  Speaker 1: full value of such charges as the persons to be
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  Speaker 1: married to thereby sustain to prove his allegation, then the
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  Speaker 1: solemnization must be deferred until such time as the truth
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  Speaker 1: be tried. If no impediment be alleged, then shall the
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  Speaker 1: curate say, unto the man, M wilt thou have this
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  Speaker 1: woman to thy wedded wife to live together after God's
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  Speaker 1: ordinance in the holy state of matrimony. Wilt thou love her,
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  Speaker 1: comfort her honor, and keep her in sickness and in health,
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  Speaker 1: and forsaking all other keep thee only unto her, so
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  Speaker 1: long as she both shall live. The man shall answer,
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  Speaker 1: I will. Then shall the priest say, unto the woman,
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  Speaker 1: N wilt thou have this man to thy wedded husband
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  Speaker 1: to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate
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  Speaker 1: of matrimony? Wilt thou obey him and serve him, love honor,
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  Speaker 1: and keep him in sickness and in health, and forsaking
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  Speaker 1: all other, keep THEE only unto him, so long as
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  Speaker 1: she both shall live. The woman shall answer, I will.
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  Speaker 1: Then shall the minister say, who giveth this woman to
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  Speaker 1: be married to this man? Then shall they give their
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  Speaker 1: truth to each other. In this manner the minister is
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  Speaker 1: receiving the woman at her father's or friend's hands, shall
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  Speaker 1: cause the man with his right hand to take the
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  Speaker 1: woman by her left hand, and to say after him,
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  Speaker 1: as follow us, I M take THEE N to my
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  Speaker 1: wedded wife, to have and to hold from this day forward,
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  Speaker 1: for better for worse, for richer, for poorer in sickness
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  Speaker 1: and in health, to love and to cherish till death.
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  Speaker 1: Us do part according to God's holy ordinance and thereto
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  Speaker 1: I plight THEE my trouth. Then shall they loose their hands,
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  Speaker 1: and the woman with her right hand, taking the man
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  Speaker 1: by his right hand, shall likewise say after the minister,
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  Speaker 1: I N take THEE M to my wedded husband, to
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  Speaker 1: have and to hold from this day forward, for better
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  Speaker 1: for worse, for richer, for poorer in sickness and in health,
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  Speaker 1: to love, cherish, and to obey till death us do
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  Speaker 1: part according to God's holy ordinance, and THERETO, I give
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  Speaker 1: THEE my truth. Then shall they again loose their hands,
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  Speaker 1: and the man shall give unto the woman a ring,
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  Speaker 1: laying the same upon the book with the accustomed duty
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  Speaker 1: to the priest and clerk. And the priest taking the ring,
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  Speaker 1: shall deliver it unto the man to put upon the
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  Speaker 1: fourth finger of the woman's left hand. And the man
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  Speaker 1: holding the ring there and taught by the priest, shall say,
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  Speaker 1: with this ring, I THEE wed with my body, I
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  Speaker 1: THEE worship, and with all my worldly goods, I THEE
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  Speaker 1: endow in the name of the Father and of the
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  Speaker 1: Son and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. Then the man,
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  Speaker 1: leaving the ring upon the fourth finger of the woman's
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  Speaker 1: left hand, they shall both kneel down, and the ministers
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  Speaker 1: shall say, let us pray, O, Eternal God, Creator and
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  Speaker 1: preserver of all mankind, giver of all spiritual grace, the
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  Speaker 1: author of everlasting life, send thy blessing upon these thy servants,
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  Speaker 1: this man and this woman, whom we bless in thy name.
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  Speaker 1: That as Isaac and Rebecca lived faithfully together, so these
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  Speaker 1: persons may surely perform and keep the vow and covenant
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  Speaker 1: betwixt them made, whereof this ring given and received is
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  Speaker 1: a token and pledge, and may ever remain in perfect
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  Speaker 1: love and peace together and live according to Thy laws
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  Speaker 1: through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. Then shall the priest
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  Speaker 1: join their right hands together, and say, those whom God
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  Speaker 1: hath joined together, let no man put asunder. Then shall
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  Speaker 1: the minister speak unto the people. For as much as
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  Speaker 1: M and n have consented together in Holy Wednock, and
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  Speaker 1: have witnessed the same before God, and this company and
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  Speaker 1: thereto have given and pledged their troths either to other,
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  Speaker 1: and have declared the same by giving and receiving of
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  Speaker 1: a ring, and by joining of hands, I pronounce that
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  Speaker 1: they be man and wife together in the name of
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  Speaker 1: the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And the minister shall add this blessing God, the Father, God,
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  Speaker 1: the Son, God the Holy Ghost, bless preserve and keep you.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord mercifully with his favor look upon you, and
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  Speaker 1: so fill you with all spiritual benediction and grace, that
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  Speaker 1: ye may so live together in this life, that in
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  Speaker 1: the world to come ye may have life ever lasting. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Then the minister or clerks going to the Lord's table
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  Speaker 1: shall say or sing this psalm following, Bearteomnes Psalm one
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  Speaker 1: to eight. Blessed are all they that fear the Lord
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  Speaker 1: and walk in his ways. For thou shalt eat the
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  Speaker 1: labor of thine hands. O well is thee, and happy
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  Speaker 1: shalt thy be. The wife shall be as the fruitful
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  Speaker 1: thine upon the walls of the house, the children like
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  Speaker 1: the olive branches round about thy table. Lord. Thus shall
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  Speaker 1: the man be blessed that feareth the Lord. The Lord
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  Speaker 1: from out of Zion shall so bless thee, that thou
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  Speaker 1: shalt see Jerusalem in prosperity all thy life long, yea,
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  Speaker 1: that thou shalt see thy children's children, and peace upon Israel.
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  Speaker 1: Glory be to the Father and to the Son, and
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  Speaker 1: to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning,
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  Speaker 1: is now and ever shall be world without end. Amen
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  Speaker 1: all this Psalm Deus Miseriator Psalm sixty seven. God, be
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  Speaker 1: merciful unto us, and bless us and shew us the
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  Speaker 1: light of thy countenance, And be merciful unto us, that
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  Speaker 1: thy way may be known upon earth, Thy saving health
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  Speaker 1: among all nations. Let the people praise thee O God. Yea.
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  Speaker 1: Let all the people praise thee Oh. Let the nations
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  Speaker 1: rejoice and be glad, for thou shalt judge the folk
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  Speaker 1: righteously and govern the nations upon earth. Let the people
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  Speaker 1: praise thee O God. Yea. Let all the people praise
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  Speaker 1: thee Then shall the earth bring forth her increase. And God,
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  Speaker 1: even our own God, shall give us his blessing. God
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  Speaker 1: shall bless us, and all the ends of the world
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  Speaker 1: shall fear him. Glory be to the Father, unto the Son,
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  Speaker 1: andto the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning,
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  Speaker 1: is now and ever shall be world without end. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: the psalm ended. And the man and the woman kneeling
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  Speaker 1: before the Lord's table, the priest standing at the table
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  Speaker 1: and turning his face towards them, shall say, Lord, have
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  Speaker 1: mercy upon us. Answer Christ, have mercy upon us, Minister, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: have mercy upon us our Father, which art in Heaven,
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  Speaker 1: Hallowed be thy name, Thy Kingdom. Come, Thy well be
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  Speaker 1: done in earth as it is in Heaven. Give us
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  Speaker 1: this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses,
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  Speaker 1: as we forgive them that trespasus against us. And lead
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  Speaker 1: us not into temptation. But deliver us from evil. Amen. Minister,
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  Speaker 1: O Lord, save thy servant and thy handmaid, Answer, who
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  Speaker 1: put their trust in THEE. Minister, O Lord, send them
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  Speaker 1: help from thy holy place. Answer, and evermore defend them. Minister,
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  Speaker 1: be unto them a tower of strength. Answer from the
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  Speaker 1: face of their enemy. Minister, O Lord, hear our prayer. Answer,
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  Speaker 1: and let our cry come unto thee. Minister. O God
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  Speaker 1: of Abraham, God of eyes at, God of Jacob, bless
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  Speaker 1: thee thy servants, and sow the seed of eternal life
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  Speaker 1: in their hearts, that whatsoever in thy holy word they
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  Speaker 1: shall profitably learn, they may indeed fulfill the same. Look,
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  Speaker 1: O Lord, mercifully upon them from heaven, and bless them.
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  Speaker 1: As thou didst send thy blessing upon Abraham and Sarah
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  Speaker 1: to thy great comfort. So vouchsafe to send thy blessing
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  Speaker 1: upon these thy servants, that they, obeying Thy will and
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  Speaker 1: always being in safety under thy protection, may abide in
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  Speaker 1: Thy love until their lives end. Through Jesus Christ, Our Lord. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: This prayer next following shall be omitted where the woman
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  Speaker 1: is past child bearing, O Merciful Lord and Heavenly Father,
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  Speaker 1: by whose gracious gift mankind is increased. We beseech thee
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  Speaker 1: assist with Thy blessing these two persons, that they may
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  Speaker 1: both be fruitful in procreation of children, and also live
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  Speaker 1: together so long in godly love and honesty, that they
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  Speaker 1: may see their children christianly and virtuously brought up to
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  Speaker 1: Thy praise and honor through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: O God, who by thy all mighty power has made
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  Speaker 1: all things of nothing, who also, after other things set
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  Speaker 1: in order, Didst a point that out of man, created
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  Speaker 1: after Thine own image and similitude, woman should take a
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  Speaker 1: beginning and knitting them together. Didst teach that it should
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  Speaker 1: never be lawful to put asunder those whom Thou, by
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  Speaker 1: matrimony hast made one, O God, who hast consecrated the
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  Speaker 1: state of matrimony to such an excellent mystery, that in
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  Speaker 1: it is signified and represented the spiritual marriage and unity
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  Speaker 1: betwixt Christ and his Church. Look mercifully upon these thy servants,
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  Speaker 1: that both this man may love his wife according to
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  Speaker 1: Thy word, as Christ did love his spouse the Church,
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  Speaker 1: who gave himself for it, loving and cherishing it even
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  Speaker 1: as his own flesh. And also that this woman may
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  Speaker 1: be loving and amiable, faithful and obedient to her husband,
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  Speaker 1: and in all quietness and sobriety and peace, be a
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  Speaker 1: follower of holy and godly matrons. O, Lord, bless them
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  Speaker 1: both and grant them to inherit Thy everlasting kingdom through
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. Then shall the priests say,
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  Speaker 1: Almighty God, who at the beginning to create our first
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  Speaker 1: parents Adam and Eve, and did sanctify and join them
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  Speaker 1: together in marriage, Pour upon you the riches of his grace,
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  Speaker 1: sanctify and bless you, that ye may please Him both
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  Speaker 1: in body and soul, and live together in holy love
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  Speaker 1: until your lives end. Amen. After which, if there be
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  Speaker 1: no sermon declaring the duties of man and wife, the
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  Speaker 1: minister shall read as follow us, all YEI that are married,
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  Speaker 1: or that intend to take the holy estate of matrimony
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  Speaker 1: upon you, hear what the Holy Scripture doth say as
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  Speaker 1: touching the duties of husbands towards their wives, and wives
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  Speaker 1: towards their husbands. Saint Paul, in his Epistle to the
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  Speaker 1: Ephesians the fifth chapter, does give this commandment to all
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  Speaker 1: married men, husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also
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  Speaker 1: loved the church and gave himself for it, that he
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  Speaker 1: might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water,
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  Speaker 1: by the word, that he might present it to himself
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  Speaker 1: a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any
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  Speaker 1: such thing, but that it should be holy and without blemish.
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  Speaker 1: So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies.
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  Speaker 1: He that loves his wife loves himself. For no man
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  Speaker 1: ever yet hated his own flesh. But nourisheth, and cherisheth it,
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  Speaker 1: even as the Lord the Church. For we are members
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  Speaker 1: of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
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  Speaker 1: For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother,
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  Speaker 1: and shall be joined unto his wife, and they too
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  Speaker 1: shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery, But
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  Speaker 1: I speak concerning Christ and the Church. Nevertheless, let every
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  Speaker 1: one of you, in particular so love his wife even
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  Speaker 1: as himself Ephesians five, verse twenty five. Likewise, the same
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  Speaker 1: Saint Paul, writing to the Colossians, speaketh thus unto all
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  Speaker 1: men that are married husbands, love your wives, and be
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  Speaker 1: not bitter against them Colossians three, verse nineteen. Here also
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  Speaker 1: what Saint Peter, the Apostle of Christ, who was himself
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  Speaker 1: a married man, saith unto them that are married. Ye, husbands,
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  Speaker 1: dwell with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor unto
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  Speaker 1: the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being
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  Speaker 1: heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers
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  Speaker 1: are not hindered. One Saint Peter three verse seven. Hitherto
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  Speaker 1: ye have heard the duty of the husband towards the wife.
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  Speaker 1: Now likewise, ye wives, hear and learn your duties to
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  Speaker 1: your husband's, even as it is plainly set forth in
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  Speaker 1: holy scripture. Saint Paul, in the afoorenamed Epistle to the Ephesians,
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  Speaker 1: teaches you, thus, wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands
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  Speaker 1: as to the Lord. For the husband is the head
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  Speaker 1: of the wife, even as Christ is the head of
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  Speaker 1: the Church, and he is the savior of the body. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the
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  Speaker 1: wives be to their own husbands in everything. And again
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  Speaker 1: he sayth let the wife see that she reverence her
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  Speaker 1: husband Ephesians five, verse twenty two. And in his Epistle
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  Speaker 1: to the Colossians, Saint Paul giveth you this short lesson, wives,
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  Speaker 1: submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit
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  Speaker 1: in the Lord. Colossian three, verse eighteen. Saint Peter also
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  Speaker 1: does instruct you very well, thus saying, ye wives, be
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  Speaker 1: in subjugation to your husbands, that if any obey not
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  Speaker 1: the word, they also may without the word, be won
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  Speaker 1: by the conversation of their wives, while they behold your
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  Speaker 1: chaste conversation coupled with fear. Whose adorning let it not
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  Speaker 1: be that outward adorning, of platting the hair, and of
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  Speaker 1: wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel, But
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  Speaker 1: let it be the hidden man of the heart, in
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  Speaker 1: that which is not corruptible, even the adornment of a
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  Speaker 1: meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of
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  Speaker 1: God of great price. For after this manner in the
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  Speaker 1: old time, holy women also who trusted in God adorn themselves,
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  Speaker 1: being in subjugation unto their own husbands, even as Sarah
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  Speaker 1: obeyed Abraham, calling him Lord, whose daughters ye are, so
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  Speaker 1: long as ye do well and are not afraid with
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  Speaker 1: any amazement one Saint Peter three, verse one. It is
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  Speaker 1: convenient that the newly married persons should receive the Holy
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  Speaker 1: Communion at the time of their marriage, or at the
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  Speaker 1: first opportunity after their marriage, and of the solemnization of
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  Speaker 1: matrimony