Charles Darwin, Out of Step with the Puritans on Marriage

Here are some statements from various Puritans on marriage that show a sharp contrast between a Darwinian marriage and a Godly marriage.

Thomas Adams (1612-1653) “There is no such fountain of comfort on earth, as marriage”

Robert Cleaver, (1560-1640) “There can be no greater society or company, than is between a man and his wife.”

George Swinnock (1627-1673) “They are partners in the nearest degree imaginable”

Thomas Hooker (1586-1647) “The man whose heart is endeared to the woman he loves, he dreams of her in the night, hath her in his eye and apprehension when he awakes, he museth on here as he sits at table, walks with her when he travels and parlies with her in each place where he comes.”

“She lies in his bosom and his heart trust in her, which forceth all to confess, that the stream of his affection, like a mighty current, runs with full tide and strength”

Richard Baxter (1615-1691) “It is a mercy to have a faithful friend, that loveth you entirely, and is a true to you as yourself, to whom you may open your mind and communicate your affairs, and who would be ready to strengthen you, and divide the cares of your affairs and family with you, and help you bear your burdens, and comfort you in your sorrows, and be the daily companion of your lives, and partaker of your joys and sorrows. And it is a mercy to have so near a friend to be a helper to your soul; to join with you in prayer an other holy exercises, to watch over you and tell you your sins and dangers, and to stir up in you the grace of God, and remember to you of the life to come, and cheerfully accompany you in the ways of holiness.” Xviii

Bishop Thomas Wilson (1663-1755) “Love is a talkative passion”

These quotations on marriage are taken from “The Christian Lover - The Sweetness of love and Marriage in the Letters of Believers” by Michael Haykin