Hymenaeus, in nuptias nobilis, et generosi domini, et sponsi domini Ioannis Iacobi à Madijs & honestae virginis Annae à Wyngarten, sponsae eiusdem castissimae

Fate suggests to him the woman whom the neighborhood has made known, and a remote land will give a wife to another. Although conversation will sometimes be useful, in these matters, however, it is often of little value. The Lord joins those who are absent with a gentle love, although He gave no tokens of sight. Yet, let there be some who enter into the bonds of marriage, whom it pleases to look upon one another more often. However, these individual things praise divine rule, because all labor is in vain without God. Chaste Rebecca was chosen for Abraham's Isaac; her form had not been known to his eyes before. Nothing hindered this, not the fertile wave of the Euphrates, even if she was far away, yet Rebecca was seen. He who watches all things from high Olympus had seen her, and He, as a marriage-maker, showed her to His servant. The same thing happened after Jacob, son of Isaac, went to seek a bride at the high rivers of the Tigris. Rachel had long since been the offspring of Laban, chosen for Jacob from the whole pious flock. Thus God associates, not the study and labor of men, any marriage, if only it comes together rightly. And the more the sacred Mysteries are of concern to Him, the more He brings these things about with great authority. For He teaches the precious: the bride, whom the members consecrated to God bring forth, is stained by precious blood. Thus, indeed, this Church, as a bride, is joined to Christ the groom, so that the same body may be formed. A matrimonial love that is never to perish, and a faith that is not to perish itself, is always accustomed to be present. For this reason, He washed her with His own innocent blood, so that she might be a pure bride to Him forever.