Two steps only it may not be improper to take, before such an absolute and final separation. First, Try whether the unclean spirit may not be driven out by fasting and prayer, and by carefully abstaining from every action and word and look, which thou hast found to be an occasion of evil. Secondly, If thou art not by this means delivered, ask council of him that watcheth over thy soul, or at least of some who have experience in the ways of God, touching the time and manner of that separation. But confer not with flesh and blood, lest thou be _given up to a strong delusion to believe a lie_. 5. Nor may marriage itself, holy and honourable as it is, be used, as a pretence for giving a loose to our desires. Indeed, _It hath been said, Whosoever will put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement_. And then all was well, tho’ he alledged no cause, but that he did not like her; or liked another better. _But I say unto you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication_ (that is, adultery; the word πορνεία signifying unchastity in general, either in the married or unmarried state) _causeth her to commit adultery_; if she marry again; _and whosoever shall marry her that is put away, committeth adultery_, ver. 31, 32. All Polygamy is clearly forbidden in these words, wherein our Lord expresly declares, That for any woman who has a husband alive, to marry again is adultery. By parity of reason, it is adultery for any man to marry again, so long as he has a wife alive. Yea, altho’ they were divorced: unless that divorce had been for the cause of adultery. In that only case, there is no scripture, which forbids to marry again. 6. Such is the purity of heart which God requires, and works in those who believe on the Son of his love. And _blessed are they_ who are thus _pure in heart. For they shall see_ God. He will _manifest himself unto them_, not only _as he doth not unto the world_, but as he doth not always to his own children. He will bless them with the cleared communications of his Spirit, the most intimate _fellowship with the Father and with the Son_. He will cause his presence to go continually before them, and the light of his countenance to shine upon them. It is the ceaseless prayer of their heart, _I beseech thee, shew me thy glory_: and they have the petition they ask of him. They now see him by faith (the veil of flesh being made, as it were, transparent) even in these his lowest works, in all that surrounds them, in all that God has created and made. They see him in the height above, in the depth beneath; they see him filling all in all.