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…

Which point shall further the more plainly appear, if we shall consider, that the Husband is the superior, and the wife the inferior; that the Husband ⟨p. 8⟩is as the head, the wife as the body or the rib.

Which point shall further the more plainely appeere, if we shall consider, that the Husband is the superiour, and the wife the inferiour; that the Husband ⟨p. 8⟩is as the head, the wife as the body or the rib.

For the first, there can be no ordinary intercourse and commerce or conversing between person and person, but there must be a precedency on the one part, and a yielding of it on the other. Now where they be equals, there may be some question, some difficulty, whither shall have the priority, and they take it commonly, as it falleth out, or by turns. But where there is an apparent inequality, there it is without question that the inferior is to yield to the superior.

For the first, there can bee no ordinary entercourse and commerce or conuersing betweene person and person, but there must be a precedencie on the one part, and a yeelding of it on the other. Now where they be equals, there may be some question, some difficultie, whither shall haue the prioritie, and they take it commonly, as it falleth out, or by turnes. But where there is an apparent inequalitie, there it is without question that the inferiour is to yeeld to the superiour.

Now here the Husband is the Superior, and the wife the Inferior, as the Apostle else-where proveth, both from the Creation, and since the transgression.