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The sermons of Master Henry Smith gathered into one volume. Printed according to his…The sermons of Maister Henrie Smith gathered into one volume. Printed according to his…
The sermons of Master Henry Smith gathered into one volume. Printed according to his corrected copies in his life time.The sermons of Maister Henrie Smith gathered into one volume. Printed according to his corrected copies in his life time.
London: printed by Richard Field for Thomas Man, 1593
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
To honour marriage more yet, or rather to teach the married how to honour one another,1 it is said, that the wife was made of the husbands rib, not of his head, for Paul calleth the husband the wives head:2 nor of the foot,3 for he must not set her at his foot: the servant is appointed to serve,4 and the wife to help. If she must not match with the head, not stoop at the foot, where shall he set her then? He must set her at his hart, and therefore she which should lie in his bosom, was made in his bosom, and should be as close to him as his rib, of which she was fashioned.
To honour mariage more yet, or rather to teach the married how to honour one another,1 it is said, that the wife was made of the husbands rib, not of his head, for Paul calleth the husband the wiues head:2 nor of the foote,3 for hee must not set her at his foote: the seruant is appointed to serue,4 and the wife to helpe. If shee must not matche with the head, not stoupe at the foote, where shall he set her then? Hee must set her at his hart, and therefore she which should lie in his bosome, was made in his bosome, and should be as close to him as his rib, of which she was fashioned.
- 1A note of Adams rib
- 2Gen. 2. 22.
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