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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
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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.
Beside, there is a law, that if a man deflower a virgin,1 he shall marry her: but if the father of the virgin do not like of the marriage, then he shall pay unto her the dowry of virgins, that is, so much as her virginity is esteemed, so that the father might allow the marriage, or forbid it.
Beside, there is a law, that if a man defloure a virgin,1 he shall marrie her: but if the father of the virgin do not like of the marriage, then he shall pay vnto her the dowrie of virgins, that is, so much as her virginitie is esteemed, so that the father might allow the mariage, or forbid it.
- 1Exod. 22.
Again,1 there is a law, that if any free man, or free woman make a vow, it must be kept. But if a virgin make a vow, it should not ⟨p. 29⟩be kept, unless her father approve it, because she is not free: therefore if she did vow to marry, yet the father hath power by this law to break it. Again, our Saviour saith, that in heaven there is no marrying, nor giving to marriage, showing that in earth there should be a giving to marriage, as well as marrying. Therefore the law speaketh unto the father, saying.2 Thou shalt not take a wife for thy son of strangers. Therefore Paul speaketh to the father,3