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An exposition on the whole fifth chapter of S. Johns Gospel also notes on…An exposition on the vvhole fifth chapter of S. Iohns Gospell also notes on…
An exposition on the whole fifth chapter of S. Johns Gospel also notes on other choice places of Scripture, taken by a reverend divine, now with God, and found in his study after his death, written with his own hand ...An exposition on the vvhole fifth chapter of S. Iohns Gospell also notes on other choice places of Scripture, taken by a reuerend diuine, now with God, and found in his study after his death, written with his owne hand ...
London: printed by H. Lownes and R. Young for John Bartlett, 1630London: printed by H. Lownes and R. Young for Iohn Bartlett, 1630
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4 Some will say, that she will do me no good, but be a burden to me all my life. If this come through some infirmity, yet may she do thee good by her patience and well-bearing of this affliction.
4 Some will say, that she will doe mee no good, but be a burden to mee all my life. If this come through some infirmity, yet may shee doe thee good by her patience and well-bearing of this affliction.
2 If it be a wilful perverseness, yet this is no charitable censure: for love hopes the best. 3 Let him consider what good & profit the Church yields unto Christ.
2 If it be a wilfull peruersenes, yet this is no charitable censure: for loue hopes the best. 3 Let him consider what good & profit the Church yeelds vnto Christ.
2 Concerning the other patterns of a mans own self, this likewise is added to the former, not as a greater or stronger motive, but as that which more sensibly and easily is perceived of us, than the former. Wherein the Apostle sendeth us to the school of nature, (No man ever yet hated his own flesh.) Seeing then that by the ordinance ⟨p. 59⟩of God, a mans wife is made as near to him as his own flesh: therefore as nature teacheth him to love and cherish the one, so ought conscience and religion teach him to love the other: for his wife is himself.
2 Concerning the other patternes of a mans owne selfe, this likewise is added to the former, not as a greater or stronger motiue, but as that which more sensibly and easily is perceiued of vs, than the former. Wherein the Apostle sendeth vs to the schoole of nature, (No man euer yet hated his owne flesh.) Seeing then that by the ordinance