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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.
We must not therefore conceive it, that this Submission consisteth in a complementall crouching and courtesying, or the like, as bhypocrites place religion only in ceremonial observances: but rather in a faithful and careful, in a constant and conscionable performance of such duties as issue and flow from the inward acknowledgement of that superiority of power and place, that God hath given to the husband in regard of the wife.
We must not therefore conceiue it, that this Submission consisteth in a complementall crowching and courtesing, or the like, as bhypocrites place religion onely in ceremoniall obseruances: but rather in a faithfull and carefull, in a constant and conscionable performance of such duties as issue and flow from the inward acknowledgement of that superioritie of power and place, that God hath giuen to the husband in regard of the wife.
- bIsaiah. 58.3, 5. 1 King▪ 21.27.Esai. 58.3, 5. 1 King▪ 21.27.
And these duties may be referred, or reduced to three heads Reverence, Obedience, Assistance.
And these duties may bee referred, or reduced to three heads Reuerence, Obedience, Assistance.