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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. XIII. Containing the third use of the point, an exhortation to reform the former negligence hereafter.
CHAP. XIII. Containing the third vse of the point, an exhortation to reforme the former negligence hereafter.
Use. 3 But let it not suffice you to be sorry for your faults a little for the present,1 make your humiliation so thorough and sound, that it may bring forth reformation. All you that bave hitherto gone along in your sins without any care at all to mortify them, now be entreated to buckle on your harness, and to learn to fight. It will not serve the turn for your souls health, that you repress your sins from breaking out scandalously to the eye of the World. It will not serve the turn, that you cast out such faults from your lives, as would scarce be tolerated in Heathens; you must fight against all sins, inward sins, secret lusts, hidden corruptions, and those that most men count nothing; you must fight against the sins that are most dear to you, and that you have loved best, and followed most, and that Nature makes you most unwilling and unable to resist; you must ⟨p. 176⟩fight against the sins of your own age, and your own constitution, and your own estate, and your own condition.
Vse. 3 BVt let it not suffice you to be sorrie for your faults a little for the present,1 make your humiliation so thorow and sound, that it may bring forth reformation. All you that baue hitherto gone along in your sins without any care at all to mortifie them, now bee intreated to buckle on your harnesse, and to learne to fight. It will not serue the turne for your soules health, that you represse your sinnes from breaking out scandalously to the eye of the World. It will not serue the turne, that you cast out such faults from your liues, as would scarce be tolerated in Heathens; you must fight against all sinnes, inward sinnes, secret lusts, hidden corruptions, and those that most men count nothing; you must fight against the sinnes that are most deare to you, and that you haue loued best, and followed most, and that Nature makes you most vnwilling and vnable to resist; you must