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…

The first is ^aCohabitation, living and dwelling peaceably and quietly together. Friends we know love to be oft together, and are loath to be sundered, Love as it linketh in heart, so it ^blongeth after the bodily presence of them whom the heart is thereby linked unto. And it is ^ca sweet sight, saith the Psalmist, to see brethren dwell together in one: how much more man and wife? They make but one body; and ^*it is against nature for one body to be in two places at once. For the man is the ^dhead, the woman is as the body: for head and body to be sundered, ^eit is present death unto either. Not that a man may not be absent, yea and long absent too sometime, from his wife, upon necessary occasions; but that there be no giving of way to unnecessary. And surely where love is, there grief will be that occasions of long or oft absence should be offered. And where grief is that such occasions though necessary should be offered; there will be no taking of occasions, but such as are necessarily offered.

The first is ^aCohabitation, liuing and dwelling peaceably and quietly together. Friends we know loue to be oft together, and are loath to be sundred, Loue as it lincketh in heart, so it ^blongeth after the bodily presence of them whom the heart is thereby lincked vnto. And it is ^ca sweete sight, saith the Psalmist, to see brethren dwell together in one: how much more man and wife? They make but one body; and ^*