A14992:131
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.
Lastly, they are called members, because they do as it were dwell, and work in our members, showing their wicked force and strength in them, and striving by ⟨p. 97⟩them to break forth into act, carrying them captives, as weapons of unrighteousness. For example: Fleshly lust shows it self in the eye, in the hand, in the foot, in the tongue, striving to come to that strength, till it may drive a man to speak, or work something in the parts of his body, that maketh for the expressing, feeding, pleasing, satisfying of the same. Because our corruptions have their residence and operation in our members, therefore have they justly borrowed their name,1 as being the lusts which war in our members, and that other law in our members, which fights against the law of our mind, and leadeth us captive to the law of sin,2 which is in our members, as elsewhere the scripture speaketh.
Lastly, they are called members, because they doe as it were dwel, and worke in our members, shewing their wicked force and strength in them, and striuing by ⟨p. 97⟩them to breake forth into act, carrying them captiues, as weapons of vnrighteousnesse. For example: Fleshly lust shewes it selfe in the eye, in the hand, in the foote, in the tongue, stiuing to come to that strength, till it may driue a man to speake, or worke something in the parts of his body, that maketh for the expressing, feeding, pleasing, satisfying of the same. Because our corruptions haue their residence and operation in our members, therefore haue they iustly borrowed their name,1 as being the lusts which warre in our members, and that other law in our members, which fights against the law of our mind, and leadeth vs captiue to the law of sinne,2 which is in our members, as elsewhere the scripture speaketh.