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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…
Marriage duties briefly couched together out of Colossians, 3. 18, 19. By Thomas Gataker Bachelor of Divinity and pastor of Rotherhith.Marriage duties briefely couched togither out of Colossians, 3. 18, 19. By Thomas Gataker Bachelar of Diuinitie and pastor of Rotherhith.
London: printed by William Jones for William Bladen, 1620London: printed by William Iones for William Bladen, 1620
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.
Where they are also to be taxed that are so far from covering & concealing the infirmities of their wives, that they delight in nothing more then in blazing them abroad and that even to strangers. Had they some loathsome sore about their own body, they would be loath to disclose it, unless it were to some special friend for advice, or to the Surgeon for help: and surely as loath would they be to disclose their wives infirmities, did they esteem them as their own flesh, or if, as love requires they should, they held their wives reputation as deer to them as their own, and they were as tender of her credit as they are of their own.
Where they are also to be taxed that are so farre from couering & concealing the infirmities of their wiues, that they delight in nothing more then in blasing them abroad and that euen to strangers. Had they some loathsome soare about their owne body, they would be loath to disclose it, vnlesse it were to some speciall friend for aduice, or to the Surgion for helpe: and surely as loath would they be to disclose their wiues infirmities, did they esteeme them as their own flesh, or if, as loue requires they should, they held their wiues reputation as deere to them as their owne, and they were as tender of her credite as they are of their owne.
Now further if moral defaults must not diminish love, much less natural defects. If children be sickly, we are the more tender over them: if any part of the body be evil-affected, we are the more chary over it. aNeither is the weakly wife therefore the less to be regarded; but the rather to be tendered & tenderly entreated in regard of her weakness, as the more brittle a Venice glass is, the more gingerly we handle it, and the more tender-edged a knife is, the more chari•y we use it.b Jacob may not forbear Leahs company because she is blear-eyed: neither must Elkana love Hanna the less,c