God give you joy The hearty wish of a Christian friend to the bridegroom and the bride. A marriage-present for the new-married-couple: containing considerations and advices, in order to perswade young married people to begin the married life in the fear of the Lord. With directions and prayers. With plainness, intended for the meanest understanding. By one that desires to be a true son of the church of Christ, as by the gospel established.

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Title:	God give you joy The hearty wish of a Christian friend to the bridegroom and the bride. A marriage-present for the new-married-couple: containing considerations and advices, in order to perswade young married people to begin the married life in the fear of the Lord. With directions and prayers. With plainness, intended for the meanest understanding. By one that desires to be a true son of the church of Christ, as by the gospel established.
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God give you Joy. The hearty Wish of a Christian Friend to the Bridegroom and the Bride.

THE INTRODUCTION.

Sect. I. Some Questions to Conscience, in order to convince the Judgment, and prepare the mind to receive the following Advices.

Sect. II. Containing Advices to new-marriea People, with Arguments to perswade, and Helps to perform them.

Sect. III. Shewing the advantages that new∣married people have to begin to live together in a Religious course of life. And the Be∣nefits of such a beginning.

Sect. IV. Shewing the disadvantages that new-married people put themselves under, by put∣ting off, and delaying to enter on a course of Religious living together at first.

Sect. V. Shewing that married people ought to take care of each others Souls, and to per∣swade each other to the practice of holiness.

Sect. VI. Shewing that young people are able to perswade one another, (if they are indeed willing) to enter on Gods holy way.

An ADVERTISEMENT To such as have been long married.

Prayers for Gods blessing & assisting grace to the married couple. These first in order taken out of the publick Office, and fitted for private use.

When you are come home on the Wedding-day, or at Evening, and so for some dayes after, read first those Scriptures declaring the mutual duties of man and wife, or else some other portion of Scripture with attention. And then kneeling down together, endea∣vour to lift up your hearts to the Lord and say.

These you may use, or so many of them as you think best, only take heed that you may with the words express the true and hearty desires of your Souls to God, alwayes concluding with the Lords Prayer, as our Saviour in his Gospel hath taught us to pray saying:

A prayer to obtain Children, to be used by those for whom it is necessary.

Or instead of these you may make use of either of those that follow, which of them you shall think most suitable to your condition, to make known the desire of your heart to the heart-searching God.

The married persons joynt request unto God, taken out of Mr. Hieron's help to Devotion.

Another to the same purpose.

A prayer to be used in secret by the married man or woman in respect of each other.

A prayer to be used by the woman when conceived with child.

A prayer to be used in a family, either morning or evening, by changing the conclusion.

conclusion

Conclusion for Morning.

Conclusion for Evening.

Pater Noster