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…

As also those that spend riotously the portion they have with their wives, & then leave them to the wide world to shift for themselves: like those that climb & take pains to get nuts, which having cracked & eaten the kernel out of, they cast the shells under-board.

As also those that spend riotously the portion they haue with their wiues, & then leaue them to the wide world to shift for themselues: like those that climbe & take paines to get nuts, which hauing crackt & eaten the kernell out of, they cast the shels vnder-bord.

And generally all that misspend that though earned with their own hands, or left them by friends, that should maintain house & wife with. Such must know that they rob wife and children and themselves of what they wast in that sort, and so are no better then such as rob by the high way side. For it is no less sin to rob them, then to rob a mere stranger whom a man is more nearly tied unto then he is to any stranger. And therefore as ^lhe that robbeth his father and mother, so he that robs wife & children, and saith it is no sin, is companion to a destroyer, or ^*next neighbour to ⟨p. 47⟩a murderer, as m the word used there may well signify

And generally all that mispend that though earned with their owne hands, or left them by friends, that should maintaine house & wife with. Such must know that they robbe wife and children and themselues of what they wast in that sort, and so are no better then such as rob by the high way side. For it is no lesse sin to rob them, then to rob a meere stranger whom a man is more neerely tied vnto then he is to any stranger. And therefore as ^lhe that robbeth his father and mother, so he that robs wife & children, and saith it is no sin, is companion to a destroyer, or