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HYMN 3. Marriage.
Our Father, &c.
Gen 2.7.18, 21. &c.
AND God the Lord did man compound
Of Dust he gathered off the Ground,
Breath'd in his breast a lively flame,
So man a living Soul-became:
Yet 'tis not good, said th' Holy One,
Not good that man should be alone.
Now will I make a helper meet
For him, as his companion sweet;
Then God made Adam fall asleep:
And so he slept a sleep full deep:
Then took the Lord a Rib most fit,
And clos'd up flesh instead of it.
And of that Rib a Woman made
And brought her to the man, who said
Bone of my bone is this to me,
And flesh of mine own flesh is she:
Woman she shall be call'd, because
Took out of Man, himself she was.
Therefore a man shall leave behind
Father and Mother ne're so kind,
And cleave unto his Wife alone,
And they shall be one flesh and bone:
And both were naked fairly fram'd▪
Man and his Wife, and not asham'd.