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…

Contrary whereunto is the practise of those wives that leave and forsake their husbands when they are fallen into troubles: are like swallows and other summer-birds, content to reap and enjoy with them, the pleasant fruits of prosperity, but ⟨p. 24⟩unwilling to bear and endure with them the bitter brunt and blasts of adversity; care not, nor regard what their husbands do, or what becomes of them, what hardness they endure, what misery they abide, so long as by help of friends or other provisions they are able themselves, to shift for themselves. Very unnatural are they that have no fellow-feeling of what their own flesh suffereth: unlike ^four Saviour Christ, who retaineth still ^*compassion, though free from personal passion; and though freed now from feeling, hath still yet a fellow-feeling ^gof those evils that befall ^*his here. Yea worse then many heathen women, ^*that have showed worthy precedents on this part and in this kind; and shall therefore ^hrise in judgement at the last day against all such Christian women as be faulty this way.

Contrary whereunto is the practise of those wiues that leaue and forsake their husbands when they are fallen into troubles: are like swallowes and other sommer-birds, content to reape and enioy with them, the pleasant fruits of prosperitie, but ⟨p. 24⟩vnwilling to beare and endure with them the bitter brunt and blasts of aduersitie; care not, nor regard what their husbands do, or what becomes of them, what hardnesse they endure, what miserie they abide, so long as by helpe of friends or other prouisions they are able themselues, to shift for themselues. Very vnnaturall are they that haue no fellow-feeling of what their owne flesh suffereth: vnlike