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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. Secondly,1 we must often call to mind the most terrible threatenings of God against sin in general, and specially, against that special sin, which most molesteth us. Ho much evil God hath denounced against the committers of it; and how much woe and misery it hath brought upon others, and will bring upon our selves, if we take licence to live in it. We must consider sin in the evil effects of it, and so convince our selves of its vileness, and mischievousness: for God hath from Heaven manifested so much wrath against the workers of iniquity in general, and against each particular lust and sin that men live in, that if we could press these things upon our own souls, and cause our hearts steadfastly to believe the same; we could not but hate wickedness, and tremble before the Lord, and so abate the power of corruption, and even drive our selves out of the evil courses of sin. Wrath and anger, tribulation and anguish,2 shall be upon every soul of man that worketh wickedness, upon the Jew first, and also upon the Gentiles. For these things sake,3 the wrath of God cometh upon the children of disobedience: upon the wicked God will rain snares and tempest, fire and brimstone, and storm,4 that ⟨p. 146⟩shall be the portion of their cup.5 Their worm never dyeth, and their fire never goeth out, their smoke shall ascend for evermore:6 And cursed is every man, that continueth not in the whole Law to fulfil it. So horrible, so grievous, so intolerable are those things, that God hath menaced in his Word against all the sons of Belial, and all the workers of unrighteousness, that whosoever will even bind these things to the tables of his heart, and apply them to himself by faith, shall stand in awe, and not sin, and shall find the Judgements of God so terrible unto him, as that they will beat down his corruptions, and make him to fear and depart from wickedness: for the end of these things is death.