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gether in Matrimony, ye do now confefs it. For be ye well affured, that fo many as are coupled together otherwife than God's word doth allow, are not joined together by God, neither is their Matrimony lawful.

At which day of Marriage, if any man do alledge and declare any impediment why they may not be coupled together in matrimony, by God's Law, or the Laws of this Realm; and will be bound, and fufficient fureties with bim, to the parties; or elfe put in a caution (to the full value of fuch charges as the perfons to be married do thereby fufain) to prove bis allegation then the folemnization must be deferred until fuch time as the

truth be tried.

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woman to thy wedded wife, to live together after God's ordinance, in the holy eftate of Matrimony? Wilt thou love her, comfort her, honour, and keep her in fickness and in health, and forfaking all other, keep thee only unto her, fo long as ye both fhall live?

The Man fhall answer, I will.
Then fhall the Prieft fay unto the

Woman,

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WILT thou have this

man to thy wedded bufband, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy ftate of Matrimony? Wilt thou obey him, ferve him, love, hoour, and keep him in ficknefs nd in health; and forfaking all ther, keep thee only unto him, → long as ye both hall live?

The Woman shall answer,
I will.

Then fball the Minister say, Who giveth this Woman to be married to this Man?

Then fhall they give their troth
to each other in this manner.
The Minifter receiving the Wo-
man at ber father's or friend's
bands, fhall caufe the Man with
bis right hand to take the Wo-
man by her right band, and to
fay after him as followerh.

M. take thee N. to my wedfrom this day forward, for betded wife, to have and to hold ter for worfe, for richer for to love and to cherish, till deatli poorer, in sickness and in health, us do part, according to God's holy ordinance; and thereto I plight thee my troth.

Then ball they loofe their hands, and the Woman with her right band taking the Man by bis right band, fhall likewife fay after the Minifter,

N. take thee M. to my wedhold from this day forward, for ded husband, to have and to better, for worse, for richer for poorer, in fickness and in health, to love, cherish, and to obey, till death us do part, according to God's holy ordinance; and thereto I give thee my troth.

Then fhall they again loose their bands, and the Man fhall give unto the Woman a Ring, laying the fame upon the Book, with the accustomed duty to the Priest and Clerk. And the Priest taking the Ring, fhall deliver it unto the Man, to put it upon the fourth finger of the Woman's left hand. And the Man bolding the Ring there, and taught by the Prieff, fhall Jay:

WITH

WITH this Ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow: In the

Name

Name of the Father, and of the T And the Minifter fall adibis Son, and of the Holy Ghost.

Amen.

1 Then the Man laving the Ring upon the fourth finger of the Woman's left hand, they shall both kneel down, and the Minifter fhall Jay,

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et us pray.

Etern God, creator and preferver of all mankind,

giver of all fpiritual grace, the author of everlafting life; Send thy bleffing upon thefe thy fervants, this Man and this Woman, whom we blefs in thy Name: that as Ifaac and Rebecca, lived faithfully together, fo thefe perfons may furely perform and keep the vow and Covenant betwixt them made, (whereof this Ring given and received is a token and pledge;) and may ever remain in perfect love and peace together, and live according to thy laws, through Jefus Christ our Lord.

Amen.

Then fhall the Priest join their right hands together and say, Thofe whom God hath joined together, let no man put afunder.

Then fhall the Minifter Speak unto the People:

Orafmuch as M. and N. have confented together in holy wedlock, and have witne.ded 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 Ghoft. Amen.

bleffing OD the Father, God the Son, Good the Holy Ghoft, 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 everlasting. Amen.

Then the Minifter or Clerks going to the Lord's Table, shall Jay or fig the Pfalm following:

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Beati omnes. Pfal. 128. Leffed are all they that fear

Beard, and walk in his

ways.

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

ful vine: upon the walls of thine Thy wife fhall be as the fruit? house.

Thy children like the olivebranches : round about thy table.

Lo, thus fhall the man be bleffed that feareth the Lord.

The Lord from out of Sion fhall fo blefs thee that thou. halt fee Jerufalem in profperity all thy life long;

Yea, that thou shalt fee thy children's children and peace upon Ifrael.

Glory be to the Father, Gr.
As it was in the, &c.

¶Or this Pfalm.

Deus mifereatur. Pfal. 67.
OD be merciful unto us, and

light of his countenance, and be merciful unto us.

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

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

Olet the nations rejoice and be glad for thou fhalt judge the folk righteously, and govern the nations upon earth.

Let the people praise thee, O God: 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 beginning, &c. The Pfalm ended, and the Man and the woman kneeling before the Lord's Table, the Prieft Standing at the Table, and turning bis face towards them, hall Jay,

Lord, have mercy upon us. Anfwer. Chrift, have mercy upon us.

Minifter. Lord, have mercy

upon us.

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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 against us; And lead us not into temptation, But

deliver us from evil. Amen.

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

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

them.

Minifier. Be unto them a tower of ftrength,

Anfaver. From the face of their enemy.

Minifter. O Lord, hear our prayer;

Anfaver. And let our cry some unto thee.

Minifter.

GOD of Abraham, God of Ifaac, God of Jacob, blefs thefe thy fervants, and fow the feed of eternal life in their hearts, that whatfoever in thy holy word they fhall profitably learn, they may indeed 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 vouchfafe to fend thy bleffing upon thefe 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. Amén.

This Prayer next following fhall be omitted, where the Wo man is paft child-bearing.

Merciful Lord and heavenly Father, by whofe graci We befeech thee, affift with thy ous gift mankind is increased; blefling thefe two perfons, that they may both be fruitful in live together fo long in godly procreation of children, and alfo love and honefty, that they may fee their children christianly and virtuously brought up, to thy praife and honour, through Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen.

God, who by thy mighty power haft made all things of nothing, who alfo (after other things fet in order) didft appoint that out of man (created after thine own image and fimilitude) woman should take her begin ning; and knitting them toge ther, didft teach that it fhould never be lawful to put afunder those whom thou by Matrimony hadft made one: O God, who haft confecrated the ftate of Matrimony to fuch an excellent mystery, that in it is fignified

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and reprefented the spiritual marriage and unity betwixt Chrift and his Church; Look mercifully upon thefe 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 cherifhing it, even as his own flesh,) and alfo that this woman may be loving and amiable, faithful and obedient to her husband, and in all quietnefs, fobriety and peace, be a follower of holy and godly matrons. O Lord, blefs them both, and grant them to inherit thy everiafting kingdom, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

Then fhall the Priest say, A 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 bless you, that ye may pleafe 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 followerb.

ALL ye that are married the holy estate of Matrimony upon you, hear what the holy Scripture doth fay as touching the duty of husbands 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 himfelf for it; that he might

fanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water, by the word; that he might prefent it to himfelf a glorious Church, not having fpot 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 fall a man leave his father and his mother, and fhall be joined unto his wife, and they two fhall be one flesh. This is a great mystery but 1 fpeak concerning Chrift and the Church. Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular fo love his wife even as himself,

Likewife 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.

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Hear alfo what Saint Peter the Apostle of Chrift, who was himself a married man, faith unto them that are married; 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.

Hitherto ye have heard the duty of the husband toward the wife. Now likewife, ye wives, hear and learn your duties toward your hufbands, even as it is plainly fet forth in holy Scrip

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bands, 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 husband.

the converfation of the wives; while they behold your chafte 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 also who trufted in God adorned themselves, being in fubjection unto their own husbands; 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,

And in his Epiftle to the Coloffians, Saint Paul giveth you this fhort leffon; Wives, fubmit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. Saint Peter alfo doth inftru&t 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 It is convenient that the new married Perfons fhould receive the holy Communion at the time of their Marriage, or at the first opportunity after their Marriage.

The ORDER for the
VISITATION of the Sick.

When any perfon is fick, notice
hall be given thereof to the Mi-
nifter of the Parish: who coming
into the fick perfon's house, shall
fay,

EACE be to this house, and to
all that dwell in it.

When be cometh into the fick
man's prefence, he shall Jay,
kneeling down,

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Emember not, Lord, our iniquities, nor the iniquities of our forefathers. Spare us, good Lord, fpare thy people, whom thou haft redeemed with thy moft precious blood, and be not angry with us for

ever.

Anfw. Spare us, good Lord.

Then fhall the Minifter fay,

OUR

Let us pray. Lord, have mercy upon us. Chrift, bave mercy upon us. Lord, have mercy upon us. UR Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy thy will be done in earth, as Name; Thy kingdom come; it is in heaven: Give us this day our daily bread; And forgive us our trefpaffes, as we forgive them that trefpafs against us; And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.

Minifter. O Lord, fave thy fervant;

Anfw. Which putteth his truft in thee,

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Minifter.

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