15. Upon occasion of marriage.

Give to those that marry, to marry in the Lord; and let the Lord Jesus by his grace come to the marriage, and turn the water into wine. 1 Cor 7:39. John 2:1.

Make them helps meet for each other, and instrumental to promote one another’s salvation, and give them to live in holy love, that they may dwell in God, and God in them. Gen 2:18. 1 Cor 7:16. 1 John 4:16. Let the wife be as a fruitful vine by the side of the house, and the husband dwell with the wife as man of knowledge; and let them dwell together as joint heirs of the grace of life, that their prayers be not hindered, and make us all meet for that world where they neither marry, nor are given in marriage. Ps 128:3. 1 Pet 3:7. Luke 20:35.

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Pray now: a guided prayer in six parts, with the next heads each day.

Henry’s text is in the public domain. Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, No. 265 Chestnut Street. Undated, about 1840 to 1860. The preface is dated Chester, March 25, 1710. From the Internet Archive scan. The KJV text is in the public domain.