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A care-cloth
A care-cloth: or a treatise of the cumbers and troubles of marriage intended to advise them that may, to shun them; that may not, well and patiently to bear them. By William Whately, preacher of the word of God in Banbury, in Oxfordshire.A care-cloth: or a treatise of the cumbers and troubles of marriage intended to aduise them that may, to shun them; that may not, well and patiently to beare them. By William Whately, preacher of the word of God in Banbury, in Oxfordshire.
London: printed by Felix Kyngston for Thomas Man, 1624
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.
2.1 This is the action enjoined. The object of the action is, your members that are upon earth. By these earthly members, he meaneth our manifold, corrupt, and sinful dispositions, according as himself doth make manifest, by instancing in some for all, saying, Fornication, uncleanness, &c. There are in every mans soul, an innumerable ⟨p. 95⟩company of disordered inclinations, contrary to the will of God and our duty, as ignorance, unbelief, pride, folly, worldliness, filthiness, and all that rabble of evils, which we commonly call vices. Now all and each of these must be pursued with a mortal hatred, and assailed with the same earnestness and fury, as we would do an enemy in the fields, even with an intention of slaughtering him if we can. It will not be amiss to consider of some reasons, why our corrupt lusts should be called members, and why members upon earth. There seemeth to be a threefold reason of this name.
2.1 This is the action inioyned. The obiect of the action is, your members that are vpon earth. By these earthly members, hee meaneth our manisold, corrupt, and sinfull dispositions, according as himselfe doth make manifest, by instancing in some for all, saying, Fornication, vncleannesse, &c. There are in euery mans soule, an innumerable ⟨p. 95⟩company of disordered inclinations, contrarie to the will of God and our dutie, as ignorance, vnbeliefe, pride, folly, worldlinesse, silthinesse, and all that rabble of euils, which we commonly call vices. Now all and each of these must be pursued with a mortall hatred, and assailed with the same earnestnesse and furie, as wee would doe an enemie in the fields, euen with an intention of slaughtering him if we can. It will not be amisse to consider of some reasons, why our corupt lusts should be called members, and why members vpon earth. There seemeth to bee a threefold reason of this name.
- 12. The object of the action, Your members on earth.