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A good wife Gods gift and, a wife indeed. Two marriage sermons. By Thomas…A good vvife Gods gift and, a vvife indeed. Tvvo mariage sermons. By Thomas…
A good wife Gods gift and, a wife indeed. Two marriage sermons. By Thomas Gataker B. of D. and pastor of Rotherhith.A good vvife Gods gift and, a vvife indeed. Tvvo mariage sermons. By Thomas Gataker B. of D. and pastor of Rotherhith.
London: printed by John Haviland for Fulke Clifton, 1623London: printed by Iohn Hauiland for Fulke Clifton, 1623
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
And that not without good Cause.
For she is but a Shadow without Substance; she hath da Title without Truth: She beareth the Name; but doth not the Work of a Wife. For what is a Wife, but ea Woman given to Man to be an Help and a Comfort to him? But as fthe Father of a fool shall have no joy of him: So the Husband of a bad or a foolish Woman, is like to have little joy, or help, or comfort of her. And how is she a Comforter, that yieldeth no comfort? How an Helper, that affordeth no help? They are gFriends in Name, saith one, but not in deed, that stick not by a man, but fail him, when he standeth in need of them: So is she ha Wife in Name, but not in Deed, that affordeth not her Husband that Help and Comfort that a Wife ought, and that at first she was intended for.
For she is but a Shadow without Substance; shee hath da Title without Truth: She beareth the Name; but doth not the Worke of a Wife. For what is a Wife, but ea Woman giuen to Man to be an Helpe and a Comfort to him? But as fthe Father of a foole shall haue no ioy of him: So the Husband of a bad or a foolish Woman, is like to haue little ioy, or helpe, or comfort of her. And how is she a Comforter, that yeeldeth no comfort? How an Helper, that affordeth no helpe? They are