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…

TO THE HOPEFUL YOUNG COUPLE, THE RIGHT WORSHIPFUL Mr. ROBERT COOKE Esquire, and the virtuous Gentlewoman, Mistress DOROTHY COOKE his wife; many comfortable days in Gods •ea•e and •avour to their mutual and eternal good.

TO THE HOPEFVLL YOVNG COVPLE, THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL Mr. ROBERT COOKE Esquire, and the vertuous Gentlewoman, Mistres DOROTHIE COOKE his wife; many comfortable daies in Gods •ea•e and •auour to their mutuall and eternall good.

Right lovely and beloved in Christ;¹ give me leave to include you both in one Dedication, whom hearty love and affection hath conjoined together, and whom Gods ••ne ordinance hath made one. At the time of […] ••l•mne knitting of you together, there was […] important considerations a duty […] absolutely necessary, yet at ⟨image 3⟩such times not unseasonable. To supply that defect, I make bold now to present you with some passages of such a subject, as it is like, had then been handled, if opportunity had served. They are raw notes of a Sermon long since made on the like occasion: Which finding by me, and willing to embrace any opportunity of expressing my love there in any degree, where I justly owe so great a measure, I suddenly revised and prepared them for the prese. And albeit, in the revising of them I observed some defects, and could well have been content to have taken further time and pains for the better polishing, and the more orderly digesting of them, as also for the special applying of them to your selves, to whom now they are addressed: yet I supposed it would be much more convenient and behoovefull, without further delay, while the occasion is yet fresh, to present you with them as they are, that they might salute a New-married Couple at the entering in of the New-year. An exact treatise, or large discourse of Marriage Duties