But behold here a further evil than any of the former. An evil wife, a contentious woman worse ⟨p. 5⟩than any of them all. Husband and Wife are nearer than Friends, and Brethren; or than Parents and Children. Children, though they spring from their Parents, yet they abide not always with them. They are as irivers rising from one head, but taking several ways, making several streams, and running apart in several channels. But man and wife must bide by it. They are as two streams, that rising from several heads, fall the one into the other, kmingle their waters together, and are not severed again till they are swallowed up in the Sea. Children are as lbranches shooting out of one stem, divided and severed either from other, or as grafts and siences cut off, or boughs and branches slipped off from their native stock, and either planted or engrafted else-where. Man and Wife are as the stock and sience, the one mengrafted into the other, and so fastened together, that they cannot again be sundered; or as nthose two pieces in the Prophets hand enclosed in one bark, and making both but one branch. And oTherefore, saith the Holy Ghost, shall a man leave father and mother, and pbe glued unto, or qcleave fast to his wife: and They rtwo shall be one flesh.
But behold here a further euill than any of the former. An euill wife, a contentious woman worse ⟨p. 5⟩than any of them all. Husband and Wife are neerer than Friends, and Brethren; or than Parents and Children. Children, though they spring from their Parents, yet they abide not alwaies with them. They are as iriuers rising from one head, but taking seuerall waies, making seuerall streames, and running apart in seuerall channels. But man and wife must bide by it. They are as two streames, that rising from seuerall heads, fall the one into the other, kmingle their waters together, and are not seuered againe till they are swallowed vp in the Sea. Children are as lbranches shooting out of one stem, diuided and seuered either from other, or as grifts and siences cut off, or boughes and branches slipped off from their natiue stocke, and either planted or engraffed else-where. Man and Wife are as the stocke and sience, the one mingraffed into the other, and so fastned together, that they cannot againe be sundred; or as nthose two peeces in the Prophets hand inclosed in one barke, and making both but one branch. And oTherefore, saith the Holy Ghost, shall a man leaue father and mother, and pbe glewed vnto, or qcleaue fast to his wife: and They rtwo shall be one flesh.
- iProv. 5. 16, 1•.
- kProut Alpheu• Arethusae a•unt commis eri.
- lGenes. 49. 22. Psal. 128. 3.
- m[Greek or Hebrew]. Rom. 11. 24.〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Rom. 11. 24.
- nEzech. 37. 17. Uno Ut siquis gemin•s conducat cortice ram•s, Crescendo ju• g•, parite• que adolescere ce•. Ovid. Metam. l. 4.Ezech. 37. 17. Vno Vt siquis gemin•s conducat cortice ram•s, Crescendo iu• g•, parite• que adolescere ce•. Ovid. Metam. l. 4.
- oGen•s. 2. 24.
- p[Greek or Hebrew] Ch••stus
