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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.
CHAP. I. The opening of the Text.
The Apostle, in this Chapter, makes answer to some questions, which the Corinths had by Letter propounded unto him, and that specially concerning matter of marriage: and he gives his directions, first, indefinitely, to the unmarried, ⟨p. 2⟩married; and all sorts of persons in the former part of the Chapter; then specially and particularly to Virgins, from the 26. Verse to the 39. to Widows in the two last Verses. To Virgins he addresseth his counsel in this order, first, in a brief preface, declaring the purport of his words, viz. that he did not give a precise Commandment, as of a thing that bound the conscience strictly, but alone advice and counsel, as of a thing most fit and commodious. Secondly, he propoundeth his counsel in the 26. Verse, which comes to this purpose; That it is good for a man and woman, in regard of the necessity and distress, to which in this present life they are subject, to forbear marriage, and to continue in Virginity. Lastly, he amplifieth and enlargeth this matter, more fully explicating himself, which explication he begins in the former Verse and this, interrupts by a pertinent digression in the three following Verses: and lastly, goes on in, and finisheth in the five next.
THe Apostle, in this Chapter, makes answere to some questions, which the Corinths had by Letter propounded vnto him, and that specially concerning matter of marriage: and he giues his directions, first, indefinitely, to the vnmarried, ⟨p. 2⟩married; and all sorts of persons in the former part of the Chapter; then specially and particularly to Virgins, from the 26. Verse to the 39. to Widowes in the two last Verses. To Virgins he addresseth his counsell in this order, first, in a briefe preface, declaring the purport of his words, viz. that hee did not giue a precise Commandement, as of a thing that bound the conscience strictly, but alone aduice and counsell, as of a thing most fit and commodious. Secondly, he propoundeth his counsell in the 26. Verse, which comes to this purpose; That it is good for a man and woman, in regard of the necessitie and distresse, to which in this present life they are subiect, to forbeare marriage, and to continue in Virginitie. Lastly, he amplifieth and inlargeth this matter, more fully explicating himselfe, which explication hee begins in the former Verse and this, interrupts by a pertinent digression in the three following Verses: and lastly, goes on in, and finisheth in the fiue next.