Wise. Yes: There is the Law of God, that forbiddeth marriage with
unbelievers. These kind of marriages also are condemned even by
irrational creatures. 1. It is forbidden by the Law of God both in
the Old Testament and in the New. 1. In the Old. Thou shalt not
make Marriages with them; Thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his
son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son, Deut. 7. 4, 5.
{80a} 2. In the New Testament it is forbidden. Be ye not
unequally yoaked together with unbelievers; Let them marry to whom
they will, only in the Lord. {80b}

Here now is a prohibition, {80c} plainly forbidding the Believer to
marry with the Unbeliever, therefore they should not do it. Again,
these unwarrantable Marriages, are, as I may so say, condemned by
irrational creatures, who will not couple but with their own sort:
Will the Sheep couple with a Dog, the Partridge with a Crow, or the
Feasant with an Owl? No, they will strictly tye up themselves to
those of their own sort only: Yea, it sets all the world a
wondring, when they see or hear the contrary. Man only is most
subject to wink at, and allow of these unlawful mixtures of men and
women; Because man only is a sinful Beast, a sinful Bird, therefore
he, above all, will take upon him by rebellious actions to answer,
or rather to oppose and violate the Law of his God and Creator; nor
shall these, or other Interogatories, [What fellowship? what
concord? what agreement? what communion can there be in such
Marriages?] be counted of weight, or thought worth the answering by
him.

But further. The dangers {80d} that such do commonly run
themselves into, should be to others a disswasive argument to stop
them from doing the like: for besides the distresses of Mr.