and covenant, to be a loving and faithful Hufband to her, till God fhall feparate you by death?

(To which the man must give his affent: Then the Minifter shall fay to the woman as follows.)

WILT thou have this man to be thy Huf band, and doft thou, in the prefence of God, and before thefe witneffes, promife and covenant to be a loving, faithful and obedient Wife to him, till God fhall feparate you by death?

(To which the woman must give her affent. Then the Minifter shall fay as follows.)

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pronounce you to be Hufband and Wife, according to God's ordinance. Whom God hath joined together, ict no man put asunder.

CONCLUDING PRAYER.

FOLLOW with thy bleffing O Lord that honourable inftitution which has now been celebrated according to thine appointment. Enable thy fervants who at this time have en

tered into a marriage covenant, faithfully to fulfil their vows, and to perform the several duties which they owe to Thee, and to one another. With favour do thou compass them. as with a shield. May the voice of joy and gladness be ever heard in their dwelling. Guide them by thy counsel through this life, and do thou finally receive them into thy bleffed prefence, where they fhall obtain fulnefs of joy, and pleafures for ever more, through Jesus Christ our Lord, AMEN,

MARRIAGE.

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PRAYER.

EVER glorious and adorable Lord our God! thou art infinitely bleffed and happy in thyfelf, and thou delighteft to communicate happiness to thy creatures. We blefs thee for all the comfortable accommodations which thou haft provided to fweeten our paffage through this our pilgrimage ftate, but more especially for those spiritual bleffings conferred upon us through Chrift Jefus. Blefs the Lord, O our fouls, and forget not all his benefits. May we testify our gratitude not only by the praises of our lips, but by the obedience of our lives. By thy grace affifting, may we faithfully fulfil the duties belonging to our several places and stations. We pray O Lord, that thou

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wouldft be graciously present with us at this time, and that thou wouldst blefs that ordinance of thine appointment which we are now met to celebrate, for the fake of Jefus Chrift our Lord and Saviour. AMEN.

EXHORTATION.

MARRIAGE Owes not its original inftitution to man's invention or device. When the Lord God created Adam and placed him in the garden of Eden, he faid it was not good for man to be alone, and therefore determined to make a help meet for him. And the Lord having formed woman out of a rib taken from the man's fide, brought her to the man, and the marriage of the first pair of the human race was celebrated by God himself in paradise, during their happy ftate of innocence; upon which occafion Adam is reprefented faying, this is now bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh; therefore fhall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife. In the fulness of time, when Chrift the Son of God came to this lower world to accomplish the