John Trapp on Proverbs 19:14

Verſ. 14. Houſe and riches are the inheritance of the Fathers] Viz. More immediately. God gives them to the Parents, and they leave them to their children, being moved thereto by God: Though a carnal heart looks no higher than Parents, cares not ſo hee may have it, whence hee hath it. It is Dos non Deus that maketh marriages with them; good enough, if goods enough; mony is the greateſt medlet, and drives the bargain and buſineſs to an upſho[illegible: 1 letter]. Moſtly, ſuch matches prove unhappy and uncomfortable. How can it bee otherwiſe, ſith Hic Deus nihil fecit? God indeed had a hand in it, but for their juſt puniſhment, that ſo followed after lying vanities, and ſo forſook their own mercies.

But a prudent wife is of the Lord] Nature makes a Woman, Election a Wife; but to bee prudent, wiſe, and virtuous, is of the Lord. A good, wife was one of the firſt real and royal gifts beſtowed on Adam. God ſet all the creatures before him ere hee gave him a wife; that ſeeing no other fit help, hee might prize ſuch a gift, not a gift of induſtry, but of deſtiny, as one ſaith; for Marriages are made in Heaven, as the common ſort can ſay, and as very Heathens acknowledge. The Governour of Eskichiſar hearing Othoman the Great Turk his relation of a fair Lady whom hee was in love with, and had highly commended for her virtues, ſeemed greatly to like of his choice, ſaying, that ſhee was by the divine providence appointed onely for him to have.Turk. Hiſt. fol. 136.