Marriage duties briefly couched together out of Colossians, 3. 18, 19. By Thomas Gataker…Marriage duties briefely couched togither out of Colossians, 3. 18, 19. By Thomas Gataker…

Again children are said to be part of their parents; but parents cannot be said properly to be part of their children. But here reciprocally the wife is part of the husband; and the husband is part of the wife: both ⟨p. 33⟩parts of the same flesh, because both making but one flesh. Parents are as a fountain or the body of a river; children as streams derived from it, and flowing apart: Man and wife are as two springs meeting and so joining their streams, that they make but one current,^* and run both in one channel, that the water of the one and the other cannot be severed. Parents are as a stem or a stock; children as grafts or slips taken from it, and engrafted or planted else-where. Man and wife are as ^tthose two branches in the Prophets hand, ^*enclosed in one bark, & so ^*closing together that they make but one piece, & the same fruit cometh of either.

Againe children are said to be part of their parents; but parents cannot bee said properly to bee part of their children. But here reciprocally the wife is part of the husband; and the husband is part of the wife: both ⟨p. 33⟩parts of the same flesh, because both making but one flesh. Parents are as a fountaine or the body of a riuer; children as streames deriued from it, and flowing apart: Man and wife are as two springs meeting and so ioyning their streames, that they make but one current,^* and runne both in one channell, that the water of the one and the other cannot be seuered. Parents are as a stemme or a stocke; children as grifts or slips taken from it, and engraffed or planted else-where. Man and wife are as ^tthose two branches in the Prophets hand,