But behold here a further evil then any of the former. An evil wife, a contentious woman worse then any of them all. Husband and Wife are nearer then Friends, and Brethren; or then Parents and Children. Children, though they spring from their Parents, yet they abide not always with them. They are asf rivers rising from one head, but taking several ways, making several streams, and running apart in several Channels. But man and wife must bide by it. They are as two streams, that rising from several heads, fall the one into the other, ⟨p. 5⟩*mingle their waters together, and are not severed again till they are swallowed up in the Sea. Children are asg branches shooting out of one stem, divided and severed either from other, or as grafts and siences cut of, or boughs and branches clipped of from their native stock, and either planted or engrafted else-where. Man and Wife are as the stock and sience, the oneh engrafted into the other, and so fastened together, that they cannot again be sundered, or asi those two pieces in the Prophets hand enclosed in one bark, and making both but one branch. Andk Therefore, saith the Holy Ghost, shall a man leave Father and Mother, and lbe glued unto, or8 cleave fast to his wife: and They otwo shall be one flesh.
But behold here a further euill then any of the former. An euill wife, a contentious woman worse then any of them all. Husband and Wife are neerer then Frends, and Brethren; or then Parents and Children. Children, though they spring from their Parents, yet they abide not alwayes with them. They are asf riuers rising from one head, but taking seuerall wayes, making seuerall streames, and running apart in seuerall Channels. But man and wife must bide by it. They are as two streames, that rising from seuerall heads, fall the one into the other, ⟨p. 5⟩*mingle their waters togither, and are not seuered againe till they are swallowed vp in the Sea. Children are asg branches shooting out of one stemme, diuided and seuered either from other, or as grifts and siences cut of, or boughes and branches clipped of from their natiue stocke, and either planted or engraffed els-where. Man and Wife are as the stock and sience, the oneh ingraffed into the other, and so fastned togither, that they cannot againe be sundred, or asi those two peeces in the Prophets hand inclosed in one barke, and making both but one branch. Andk Therefore, saith the Holy Ghost, shall a man leaue Father and Mother, and lbe glewed vnto, or8 cleaue fast to his wife: and They otwo shall be one flesh.
- fProv. 5. 16, 17.
- *Prout Alpheum Arethuse aiunt commisceri.
- gGenes. 49 22. Psal. 128. 3.
- h[Greek or Hebrew]. Rom 11. 24.〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Rom 11. 24.
- iEzech. 37. 17 Uno Ut siquis geminos conducat cornice ramos, Crescendo jungi, pari•erque adoles•ere cernit. Ovid. metam. l. 4.Ezech. 37. 17 Vno Vt siquis geminos cōducat cor••ce ramos, Crescendo iungi, pari•erque adoles•ere cernit. Ovid. metam. l. 4.
- kGenes. 2. 24.
- l[Greek or Hebrew] Christus Mat. 19. 5.〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Christꝰ Mat. 19. 5.
- 8[Greek or Hebrew]. Moses.〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Moses.
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