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A bride-bush, or A wedding sermon compendiously describing the duties of married personsA bride-bush, or A vvedding sermon compendiously describing the duties of married persons
A bride-bush, or A wedding sermon compendiously describing the duties of married persons: by performing whereof, marriage shall be to them a great help, which now find it a little hell.A bride-bush, or A vvedding sermon compendiously describing the duties of married persons: by performing whereof, marriage shall be to them a great helpe, which now finde it a little hell.
London: printed by William Jaggard for Nicholas Bourne, 1617London: printed by William Iaggard for Nicholas Bourne, 1617
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.
¶ The duties of the married people are either
1. Principal: the breach of which annihilates the former covenant by them made: which are 1. The chaste keeping of their bodies for each other: to which is opposed adultery: sect. 3. 2. Cohabitation or dwelling together: to which is opposed desertion: sect. 4. 2. Less Principal: the breach whereof notwithstanding, the covenant is firm: and these are of two sorts:
1. Principall: the breach of which annihilates the former couenant by them made: which are 1. The chaste keeping of their bodies for each other: to which is opposed adulterie: sect. 3. 2. Cohabitation or dwelling together: to which is opposed desertion: sect. 4. 2. Lesse Principall: the breach whereof notwithstanding, the comnant is firme: and these are of two sorts:
1. Such as concern their ordinary society of life: which are either 1. Mutual: such as both must mutually perform: which do respect either 1. Their persons, and these are 1. Love, sect. 7. 2. Faithfulness & helpfulness conjoined, sect. 11. 2. Their families, as concerning their 1. Maintenance: sect. 13. 2. Governing: sect. 14. 2. Special, pertaining to either separately, 1. The husband: whose duties are 1. To keep his authority: sect. 15. 2. To use his authority: of which I show 1. The end: sect. 16. 2. The manner, with three virtues, 1. Wisdom: sect. 18. 2. Meekness: sect. 21. 3. Justice: sect. 26. 2. The wife: whose duty is 1. To confess her inferiority: sect. 27. 2. To carry herself as inferior 1. In reverence: sect. 29. 2. Obedience: sect. 34. 2. Such as concern their society in the marriage-bed, that it be 1. Loving. sect. 35. 2. Sanctified. sect. 35. 3. Seasonable. sect. 35.