The Occasional Offices of Matrimony: Visitation of the Sick, Burial of the Dead, Churching of Women, and the Commination, Explained in the Method of the Companion to the Temple: Being the Fourth and Last Part

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M. C., 1679 - 580 pages
 

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Page 28 - For, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and every woman her own husband...
Page 288 - LORD : and the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the LORD shall raise him up ; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
Page 84 - The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband ; and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
Page 238 - The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth np. 7 The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich : he bringeth low, and lifteth up.
Page 31 - I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. 9 But if they cannot contain, let them marry : for it is better to marry than to burn.
Page 266 - God winked at ; but now commandeth " all men every where to repent : becaufe he hath appointed a day " in which he will judge the world in righteoufnefs, by that man " whom he hath ordained : whereof he hath given aflurance unto " all men, in that he hath raifed him from the dead.
Page 211 - I mould utterly have fainted : but that I believe verily to fee the goodnefs of the Lord in the land of the living.
Page 375 - As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.
Page 211 - O put not your truft in princes, nor in any child of man : for there is no help in them.
Page 116 - I commit thee. The Lord blefs thee and keep thee. The Lord make his face to mine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee. The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace, both now and evermore.

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