To have Children male and female, Gods great blessing. [ 1325]
AS it is with the Soul and the body, though the Soul be far more excellent then the body,* 1.1 yet the Soul alone is not so perfect, as when Soul and body are together; because though the body be not so strong in Constitution, and noble in Condition as the Soul, yet Body and Soul in creation were joyned to∣gether; hence is it, that their greatest perfection consists in Unity: So like∣wise is it in a Family, though Sons in Nature are more perfect, yet because it was the first Institution of a Family, Male and Female, therefore the fulnesse and compleatnesse of the blessing is in the Union of both; Sons without daugh∣ters may bear up the Name, and Daughters without Sons may enlarge the Fa∣mily: but where there are Sons and Daughters both, is the perfection of the blessing,* 1.2 because Man was so made at the first, Male and Female created be them.