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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.
David had two hundred soldiers that were faint, and could not follow the Amalekites that had burnt Ziglag, ⟨p. 126⟩but were fain to stay behind, and do a meaner service, of attending on the stuff and carriages. Some of those that fought, and vanquished the Amalekites, would have had these faint ones, to have been turned off, without any part of the booty. But Davids answer was; Who will hearken to you in this? And he made it a law in Israel, that he which tarried by the stuff, should share of the spoil of the enemy with him that fought in the battle. Our King, our David, keeps this law, If a mans heart be good to follow, and kill these Amalekites, though his body faint, and he be driven to stay by the stuff, he shall enjoy the prey, and divide the spoil. O, who would not serve such a General with all his might, where an unvoluntary fainting, an unpurposed weakness, shall not deprive him of the honour, or comfort of the victory!
Dauid had two hundred souldiers that were faint, and could not follow the Amalekites that had burnt Ziglag, ⟨p. 126⟩but were faine to stay behind, and doe a meaner seruice, of attending on the stuffe and carriages. Some of those that fought, and vanquished the Amalekites, would haue had these faint ones, to haue been turned off, without any part of the bootie. But Dauids answere was; Who will hearken to you in this? And he made it a law in Israel, that he which tarried by the stuffe, should share of the spoyle of the enemy with him that fought in the battell. Our King, our Dauid, keeps this law, If a mans heart be good to follow, and kill these Amalekites, though his body faint, and he be driuen to stay by the stuffe, he shal enioy the prey, and diuide the spoyle. O, who would not serue such a Generall with all his might, where an vnvoluntary fainting, an vnpurposed weakenesse, shal not depriue him of the honour, or comfort of the victorie!
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