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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.
A Wife in Deed.
PROV. 18. 22. He that findeth a Wife, findeth Good; and obtaineth Favour of God.
PROV. 18. 22. He that findeth a Wife, findeth Good; and obtaineth Fauour of God.
This Book of the Proverbs is the 1Christian Mans Ethics: And it hath this preeminence above most, if not all, the Books in the Bible; that many of them are Sententious, athis consisteth all of Sentences. For what are Divine Proverbs, but bselect and choice Sentences. So that we need not stand picking or culling here: As he said of Cyrus his Court, (and I wish might be said of ours) cthough a man should seek or choose blindfold, he could not miss of a good man; though we go here at adventure, we cannot do amiss, we are sure to meet with some choice matter or other. It is the manner of the Learned in reading of Authors, to set dmarks in the margin,