If God call you to a married life, expect all these troubles, or most
of them; and make particular preparation for each temptation, cross,
and duty which you must expect. Think not that you are entering into a state of mere delight, lest it prove but a fool’s paradise to you.
See that you be furnished with marriage strength and patience, for the
duties and sufferings of a married state, before you venture on it.
Especially:
1. Be well provided against temptations to a worldly
mind and life: for here you are like to be most violently and
dangerously assaulted.
2. See that you be well provided with conjugal
affections: for they are necessary both to the duties and sufferings of a
married life. And you should not enter upon the state without the
necessary preparations.
3. See that you be well provided with marriage
prudence and understanding, that you may be able to instruct and edify
your families, and may live with them as men of knowledge, 1 Pet.3:7 and may manage all your business with discretion, Psalm 112. Keep Reading...
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