Holy matrimony, its duties and dignity, as set forth by the English ChurchDarton and Clark, 1843 - 156 pages |
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... earthly existence from the cradle to the grave — bringing us to the arms of Divine Love in helpless infancy , training us up in wayward childhood , strength- ening us in youth to enlist under the banner of the cross and to endure ...
... earthly existence from the cradle to the grave — bringing us to the arms of Divine Love in helpless infancy , training us up in wayward childhood , strength- ening us in youth to enlist under the banner of the cross and to endure ...
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... earthly union sanctified and transfigured into the pledges and the means of eternal life to them and to their children ; here wast thou brought up on holy ground , and among holy influences which were ever comprehending thee though thou ...
... earthly union sanctified and transfigured into the pledges and the means of eternal life to them and to their children ; here wast thou brought up on holy ground , and among holy influences which were ever comprehending thee though thou ...
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... earthly existence were not yet marred by sin nor faded by reason of their own tran- sitoriness and so marriage still brings to each of us an earthly Paradise with its ideal joys and hopes , its sunshine and flowers , and its thoughts ...
... earthly existence were not yet marred by sin nor faded by reason of their own tran- sitoriness and so marriage still brings to each of us an earthly Paradise with its ideal joys and hopes , its sunshine and flowers , and its thoughts ...
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... earthly bliss , and recog- nizes the season of imagination and romance as having its fit time in which it is not abhor- rent from her own life and kingdom of eternal reality , she yet remembers that they have but a shadowy and transient ...
... earthly bliss , and recog- nizes the season of imagination and romance as having its fit time in which it is not abhor- rent from her own life and kingdom of eternal reality , she yet remembers that they have but a shadowy and transient ...
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... earthly bearing , as the ground of the mar- riage union , becomes love by an inward fiat of the will , by a completing and sealing act of moral election , and lays claim to permanence only under the form of duty . ' Every one who has ...
... earthly bearing , as the ground of the mar- riage union , becomes love by an inward fiat of the will , by a completing and sealing act of moral election , and lays claim to permanence only under the form of duty . ' Every one who has ...
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Page xv - Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel...
Page 75 - Happy in this, she is not yet so old But she may learn; and happier than this, She is not bred so dull but she can learn; Happiest of all, is, that her gentle spirit Commits itself to yours to be directed, As from her lord, her governor, her king.
Page ix - Wilt thou love her, comfort her, honour, and keep her in sickness and in health; and, forsaking all other, keep thee only unto her, so long as ye both shall live?
Page xv - Likewise, .ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life ; that your prayers be not hindered.
Page 19 - My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Page xiv - 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.
Page xv - Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of *the church ; and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore, as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
Page xvii - Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the -waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
Page 28 - Jesus: that ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts ; and be renewed in the spirit of your mind ; and that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
Page x - I N. take thee M. to my wedded husband, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness 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.