A12367:65
A preparative to marriage The sum whereof was spoken at a contract, and enlarged…A preparatiue to mariage The summe whereof was spoken at a contract, and inlarged…
A preparative to marriage The sum whereof was spoken at a contract, and enlarged after. Whereunto is annexed a treatise of the Lords Supper, and another of usury. By Henry Smith.A preparatiue to mariage The summe whereof was spoken at a contract, and inlarged after. Whereunto is annexed a treatise of the Lords Supper, and another of vsurie. By Henrie Smith.
London: printed by Thomas Orwin for Thomas Man, 1591
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.
His next duty to love, is a fruit 1of his love, that is, to let all things be common between them, which were private before. The man & wife are partners like two owers 2in a boat, therefore he must divide offices, and affairs, & goods with her, causing her to be feared and reverenced, and obeyed of her children & servants like himself; for she is as an under officer in his Common weal, and therefore she must be assisted & borne out, like his deputy, as the Prince standeth ⟨p. 67⟩with his Magistrates for his own quiet, because they are the legs which bear him up. To show this community between husband and wife, he is to maintain her as he doth himself, because Christ saith, They are no more two but one. 3Therefore when he maintaineth her, he must think it but one charge, because he maintaineth no moe but himself, for they two are one. He may not say as Husbands are wont to say, that which is thine is mine, and that which is mine is my own: but that which is mine is thine, and my self too. For as it is said, He which hath given us his 4Son, can he deny us any thing? So she may say, he which hath given me himself, can he deny me any thing? The body is better than the goods; therefore if the body be mine, the goods are mine too.
His next duetie to loue, is a fruit 1of his loue, that is, to let all things be cōmon betweene them, which were priuate before. The man & wife are partners like two owers 2in a boate, therefore hee must diuide offices, and affaires, & goods with her, causing her to bee feared and reuerenced, and obeied of her children & seruants like himselfe; for she is as an vnder officer in his Common weale, and therefore she must be assisted & borne out, like his deputie, as the Prince standeth ⟨p. 67⟩