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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.
cHow knowest th•u, O woman, saith Paul, but that thou mayest win thine husband: and dwomen, saith Peter, must so behave themselves, that by their hol• chu•rsati • their husbands may be won And surely if the wife must seek to win her husband being averse; how much more ethe husband to win her in like case; fwhose office it is more specially to teach and instruct her. Or if they be both won, & in a good way already, they must glive together, saith the Apostle Peter, as fellow-heirs of salvation: and so, as fellow-furtherers either of other in the way thereunto. Else what difference that there be between Christian and heathen married persons, if they be not furtherers either to other; is in the things of life, so in things tending to a better life?
cHow knowest th•u, O woman, saith Paul, but that thou maist win thine husband: and dwomen, saith Peter, must so behaue themselues, that by their hol• chu•rsati • their husbands may be won And surely if the wife must seeke to win her husband being averse; how much more ethe husbād to win her in like case; fwhose office it is more specially to teach and instruct her. Or if they be both won, & in a good way already, they must