IRECTIONS about Marriage for Choice and Contract......

Q. Whether Marriage be indifferent? Who are called to
marry? Who may not marry?

Q. What if parents command it to one that it will be a hurt

to? What if I have a corporal necessity, when yet Mar-

riage is like to be a great hurt to my soul? Of parents'

prohibition

..

....

Q. What if parents forbid Marriage to one that cannot live
chastely without it? or when affections are unconquerable?
Q. What if the child have promised Marriage, and the pa-
rents be against it? Of the sense of Numb. xxx. How far

such promise must be kept?

Q. What if the parties be actually married without parents'

consent?

that need restraint.

Especially to ministers

Further Directions

....

Q. May the aged marry that are frigid, impotent, sterile? ..

The incommodities of a married life to be considered by them

....

How to cure lustful Love ...

Several cases about marrying with an ungodly person....

Q. 1. What rule to follow about prohibited degrees of con-
sanguinity. Whether the law of Moses, or of nature, or
the laws of the land or church, &c. ....

Q. 2. What to do if the law of the land forbid more degrees

than Moses's law

....

Q. 3. Of the Marriage of cousin germans, beforehand..

Q. 4. What such should do after they are married .....

Q. 5. What must they after do that are married in the de-
grees not forbidden by name, Lev. xviii. and yet of the
same nearness and reason

Q. 6. If they marry in a degree forbidden, Lev. xviii. may not
necessity make it lawful to continue it, as it made lawful the
marriage of Adam's sons and daughters ....

Q. 7. Whether a Vow of Chastity or Celibate may be broken,

and in what cases

CHAPTER II.

Directions for the choice of 1. Servants

2. Masters

CHAPTER III.

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Aff. Proved against the cavils of the profane, and some secta-

......

ries

What solemn Worship is

What a Family

Proof as to Worship in general

Family advantages for Worship

The natural obligation on Families to worship God.

Families must be sanctified societies...

Instructing Families is a duty

Family discipline is a duty..

....

, Solemn prayer and praise are Family duties

Objections answered

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ibid.

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DISPUTATION, WHETHER THE SOLEMN WORSHIP OF GOD IN AND

BY FAMILIES AS SUCH, BE OF DIVINE APPOINTMENT.

ibid.

335

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48

ibid.

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83

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Of the frequency and seasons of Family Worship. 1. Whe-

ther it should be every day. 2. Whether twice a day. 3.

Whether morning and evening

CHAPTER IV.

General Directions for the Holy Government of Families....

How to keep up authority.

Of skill in Governing .

Of holy willingness

....

CHAPTER V.

Special Motives to persuade men to the Holy Government of

their Families .

CHAPTER VI.

Motives for a holy and careful Education of Children

CHAPTER VII.

The mutual Duties of Husbands and Wives towards each

other

How to maintain due conjugal Love

Of Adultery .

Motives and means against Dissention

Motives and means to further each others' salvation

Further duties

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ibid.

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The special Duty of Wives to their Husbands . .

Q. How far may a wife give, without her husband's consent?

Q. Of Wives' propriety

CHAPTER IX.

Q. Is a Wife guilty of her Husband's unlawful getting, if

she keep it? And is she bound to reveal it, (as in robbing?) 152

Q. May a Wife go to hear sermons when her Husband for-

biddeth her? .

Q. Must a woman proceed to admonish a wicked Husband

when it maketh him worse? . .

Q. What she must do in controverted cases of religion, when

her judgment and her Husband's differ

Q. How long, or in what cases may Husbands and Wives be
distant

Q. May the bare commands of princes separate Husbands and
Wives, (as ministers, judges, soldiers?)

Q. May Ministers leave their Wives to go abroad to preach

the Gospel?

Q. May one leave a Wife to save his life in case of personal

persecution or danger?

Q. May Husband and Wife part by consent, if they find it to

be for the good of both ?

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Q. May they consent to be divorced, and to marry others? .

Q. Doth Adultery dissolve Marriage? . .

Q. Is the injured person bound to divorce the other, or left

free?

Q. Is it the proper privilege of the man to put away an adul-

terous Wife, or is it also in the woman's power to depart

from an adulterous Husband?

Q. May there be putting away, or departing without the Ma-

gistrate's divorce or licence?

Q. What if both parties be adulterous?

Q. What if one purposely commit adultery to be separate from

the other?..

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ibid.

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157

158

ibid.

159

ibid.

160

ibid.

163
ibid.

Q. Doth Infidelity dissolve the relation ?

Q. Doth the desertion of one party disoblige the other? . . . ibid.
Q. Must a woman follow a malignant Husband that goeth

from the means of grace?

Q. Must she follow him, if it be but to poverty or beggary?

161

162

ibid.

164