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…

The use of this point may be partly for Reprehension, and partly for Admonition.

The vse of this point may bee partly for Reprehension, and partly for Admonition.

For reprehension, to reprove and tax those women that affect mastership; seek to rule and overrule those, whom God hath not committed only, but submitted and subjected them unto; and so violate that order, which God himself hath established in nature: a course that bringeth commonly, through the just judgement of God, disgrace and contempt upon both parties, yea utter ruin o•t of the family and of their whole estate. For howsoever women may think it an honour to them, yet ^*it is indeed rather a dishonour. A masterly wife is as much despised and derided for taking rule over her husband, as he for yielding it to her; and that not only among those that be godly and religious, but even among those that be but mere natural men and women. Yea it is the next way to bring all to wrack. For ^*where the wi•e maketh head against the husband; there is nothing but doing and undoing, and so all things go backward, and th e whole house runneth to ruin, as by lamentable experience too often appeareth.

For reprehension, to reprooue and taxe those women that affect mastership; seeke to rule and ouerrule those, whom God hath not committed onely, but submitted and subiected them vnto; and so violate that order, which God himselfe hath established in nature: a course that bringeth commonly, through the iust iudgement of God, disgrace and contempt vpon both parties, yea vtter ruine o•t of the family and of their whole estate. For howsoeuer women may thinke it an honour to them, yet ^*