| Robert Edmond Chester Waters - Church and social problems - 1883 - 132 pages
...man was to take the woman by the hand and pronounce plainly and distinctly the following words : ' I (AB) do here in the presence of God the searcher...promise to be unto thee a loving and faithful husband.' Then the woman was in like form to promise to be ' a loving, faithful, and obedient wife ;' whereupon... | |
| Robert Edmond Chester Waters - Church and social problems - 1883 - 138 pages
...the man was to take the woman by the hand and pronounce plainly and distinctly the following words : 'I (AB) do here in the presence of God the searcher...promise to be unto thee a loving and faithful husband.' Then the woman was in like form to promise to be ' a loving, faithful, and obedient wife ;' whereupon... | |
| Robert Edmond Chester Waters - Church records and registers - 1883 - 134 pages
...the man was to take the woman by the hand and pronounce plainly and distinctly the following words : 'I (AB) do here in the presence of God the searcher of all hearts, take thee (0. D.) for my wedded wife, and do also in tho presence of God and before these witnesses promise to... | |
| Walter James Walker - Registers of births, etc - 1885 - 302 pages
...taking the woman to be married by the hand, shall plainly and, distinctly pronounce these words : — ' I, AB, do here in the presence of God, the Searcher of all Hearts, lake thee, CD fur my wedded wife ; and do also in the pretence of God, and before these witnesses,... | |
| Thomas Armitage - Baptists - 1887 - 1042 pages
...Justice, the man was to take the woman by the hand and distinctly pronounce the following words : ' I, AB, do here in the presence of God, the searcher...of all hearts, take thee, CD, for my wedded wife. I do, also, in the presence of God and before these witnesses, promise to be unto thee a loving and... | |
| lady Dorothy Osborne Temple - 1888 - 686 pages
...woman by the hand pronounced these words, " I, AB, do hereby in the presence of God take thee CD to my wedded wife, and do also in the presence of God,...promise to be unto thee a loving and faithful husband." Then the woman in similar formula promised to be a " loving, faithful, and obedient wife," and the... | |
| William Andrews - Chained books - 1890 - 224 pages
...the man, taking the woman by the hand, pronounced plainly and distinctly the following words : — I (AB) do here, in the presence of God, the searcher...promise to be unto thee a loving and faithful husband. The woman in like manner declared that she would be " a loving, faithful, and obedient wife." They... | |
| James Gurnhill - Church records and registers - 1890 - 146 pages
...in the following manner. The man, taking the woman by the hand, pronounced the following words : — "I (AB) do here in the presence of God, the searcher...promise to be unto thee a loving and faithful husband." The woman having assented in similar terms, the two were pronounced by the Justice to be man and wife.... | |
| Harry Cotton Smith - Spilsby (England) - 1892 - 184 pages
...before the nearest Justice of the Peace, and the man, taking the woman by the hand, pronounced plainly " I, AB do here, in the presence of God, the searcher...promise to be unto thee a loving and faithful husband," In like manner the wife. — Prom Old Ecclesiastical Customs. In the Lincoln Allegation Books (containing... | |
| RICHARD WELFORD - 1895 - 676 pages
...they were under age, with proof of parental consent), and, joining hands, pronounce these words:—"I, AB, do, here in the presence of God, the searcher...of God, and before these witnesses, promise to be to thee a loving and faithful husband;" the woman repeating them with the necessary alteration and... | |
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