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…

And here are such to be condemned as being blessed by God with a liberal estate, carry to strict & niggardly an hand toward their wive•; think all lost that i• bestowed ⟨p. 46⟩on them; to whom God hath given an equal interest in the things of this life with them. For how hath she not all thine with thee, ^*when she hath thee? And therefore as denying to the poor, whom God hath enjoined us to relieve, what we may spare, & their necessity requiring ⁱit giveth them a kind of interest unto it, ^kwe deny them their own: so much more in denying her what is needful for her, ^*thou deniest her her own, thou with-holdest from her her own; that which the marriage bond hath given her a special right unto.

And here are such to be cōdemned as being blessed by God with a liberall estate, carry to strict & •igardly an hand toward their wiue•; think al lost that i• bestowed ⟨p. 46⟩on thē; to whom God hath giuen an equal interest in the things of this life with thē. For how hath she not all thine with thee, ^*when she hath thee? And therefore as denying to the poore, whom God hath enioyned vs to releeue, what we may spare, & their necessity requiring ⁱit giueth them a kinde of interest vnto it, ^kwe deny them their own: so much more in denying her what is needfull for her,