Genesis 24:44

And she say to me, Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy camels: [let] the same [be] the woman whom the LORD hath appointed out for my master's son.

Ver. 44. The woman, whom the.Lord hath appointed.] God is the match maker, and marriages are made in heaven, as very heathens have yielded. The Governor of Eskichisar, hearing Othoman's relation of a fair lady, with whom he was in love, seemed greatly to like of his choice; saying, that she was by the Divine Providence (for so the Turks religiously use to speak) appointed only for him to have. a

a Turk. Hist., fol. 136.