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…

Again it may teach women how to behave them selves in these duties that they may thereby gain as well favour with God, as love with their husbands at home, and a good report abroad: if they shall do all in obedience of God, if they shall do all ^aas unto God: as a Christian servant ^bserveth God and not man, so submitting themselves to God, not to man: while they regard God in their husbands, as ^che doth God in his master, and so do all ^das unto God, because they do ^eall for God, and for conscience of God. Else though they perform all outward duties, they go no further then heathen: if they do not so much, they come short of them: and ^fif they expect & desire to be accepted with God, they must go beyond them they must not only do all that they do; but do it ^*as they should do: do all for God, & then they do it to God. For as ^gthey relieve Christ in the poor, when they relieve them for Christ: so they obey Christ in their husbands, when they obey them for Christ. Not regard so much what their husbands deserve from them, as what God requireth of them: and as Christian subjects submit themselves ^*to good governors as unto God, to evil governors for God, or rather unto either of them both as unto God and in God: so submit themselves to their husbands be they good or bad, deserve ⟨p. 29⟩they well or evil of them, as for God, and in God, and unto God, in regard of the precept and enjoinment of God. ^h