The Book of Common Order, commonly called John Knox's Liturgy

DON P O S A D H.
IF TE AG AS G DO
chum an pdfaidh.
Abhraithreacha inmhuine atamaoid
and fo ar gcruindiughadh agceand
acheile abfiadhnuife De, agas
a choimhthionoil, do cheangal, agas
dfuaidheal an fhirfe, agas na mna re
cheile, aninmhe onoraigh an pofaidh
an ni do tindfgnadh ar tiis, agas do ho
noruigheadh le Dia fe'in aparrthus, an
vair do bhi an duine afdaid neamh
lochtaigh. Oi'r anuair do rinde Dia
neamh, agas talamh, agas gach ni da
bfuil inta fin, agas fos do chruthaigh,
agas do dhealb an duine do reir afhiodhrach
fein, agas achofamhlachta, an
ti da dtug fe riaghail, agas Tighearn-
tus OS ciond gach ainmhidhe ar talm-
huin, OS ciond eifg na fairrge, agas en-
laithe anaeir, adubhairt fe and fin, nar
mhaith duine do bheith bed na vath
adh no na enar, denmaoid ar fe anti
chuidigheas leis do re'ir a chofamh-
K. 2.
Of Mariage.
The Exhortation.
Dearlie beloved Bretherne, we are here gathered together in the
sight of God, and in the face of his Congregation, to knytt and joyne
these parties together in the honorable estate of Matrimony, which
was instituted and auctorised by God hym selff in Paradise, man
beyng then in the state of innocencie. For what tyme God made
heaven and earth, and all that is in theym, and had created and
fasshoned man also after his owne similitude and likenes, unto
whome he gave rule and lordship over all the beastes of the earth,
fisshes of the sea, and fowles of the ayre; he said, It is not good that
man lyve alone ; let us make hym an helper like unto hym selff,
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