either male or female disinterested in your choice having made it either for lucre or splendor, but pay due attention to what you then hear and are about to perform, a ceremony, which must give God the greatest pleasure if you adhere to your commandments and as you call upon God to witness the truth of your intention, you ought previously to have revolved serious thoughts in your minds in order not to be negligent or inattentive to what you then hear and ought to understand, never intending to fulfil your promise faithfully, you act the most wicked and unfeeling of all human actions, for whoever breaks this commandment is sure to bring unhappiness and misery on one side, and most likely destruction and a broken heart on the other; adultery induceth sinful man to do what is wrong to his fellow creature, but God is not thus to be dealt with, and without allowing a single moment’s thought or reflection, on future punishment, for wicked deeds; by this crime his own feelings must plunge him into trouble and unhappiness in the day time, and in the calm and serene hour of sleep and refreshment awaken him with the guilt of a wicked conscience, having disunited by subtility and hypocrisy, the hearts of those who had been once endeared to each other and knitted together in the bonds of friendship and in the tenderest and dearest ties of affection and love. Present time and youth may make sinners inattentive to such wickedness, but depend upon it, the serious departing hour and a death bed repentance will renew all these sad and melancholy actions to our view, when the broken heart is overwhelmed with grief, and the tongue too feeble to pray to its God.