Where­as the young man hereto­fore has been giv­en to be some­thing wild, he of late years was become more somber, it was pro­posed by friends to the young man and woman: 
Whether he did believe yet was the truth which we pro­fessed and walked in accord­ing to our mea­sure — fur­ther shew­ing that if wee did not walk in the truth accord­ing to our mea­sure giv­en us, we were but a com­mu­ni­ty of men and women, and not a Church of Christ. 

Query for 1689 mar­riage clearness