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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
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2. We must plainly acknowledge, and heartily bemoan our selves in Gods bosom, for our sinfulness, and wickedness of heart and life, and with all due aggravations, and condemnings of our selves, must lay open before the Lord, the corruptions and vices that we find in our selves, confessing withal, that we are weak and feeble, and slaves to sin, and of our selves cannot subdue them, and so, with the heaviest hearts that we can, lament our miserable weakness. Look what Jehoshaphat did, when he heard of the coming ⟨p. 141⟩of the Lubims and Ethiopians against him and his people; the same must we do, when we see the innumerable troupes of corrupt lusts, that do seek the destruction of our souls:1 We have no might (saith that worthy King) against this great company that comes against us; neither know we what to do, but our eyes are upon thee. So must the Christian soul sigh out its complaints before the Lord, often, O I have no might to overcome all these strong lusts, (and by name such and such) that fight against me daily, and I cannot tell what to do, but, Lord, mine eyes are to thee.
2. We must plainly acknowledge, and hartily bemone our selues in Gods bosome, for our sinfulnesse, and wickednesse of heart and life, and with all due aggrauations, and condemnings of our selues, must lay open before the Lord, the corruptions and vices that we find in our selues, confessing withal, that we are weake and feeble, and slaues to sinne, and of our selues cannot subdue them, and so, with the heauiest hearts that we can, lament our miserable weaknesse. Looke what Iehoshaphat did, when he heard of the comming ⟨p. 141⟩of the Lubims and Ethiopians against him and his people; the same must we doe, when we see the innumerable troupes of corrupt lusts, that do seeke the destruction of our soules:1 We haue no might (saith that worthy King) against this great company that comes against vs; neither know we what to doe, but our eyes are vpon thee. So must the Christian soule sigh out its complaints before the Lord, often, O I haue no might to ouercome all these strong lusts, (and by name such and such) that fight against mee daily, and I cannot tell what to doe, but, Lord, mine eyes are to thee.