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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.
now thou art a resolute soldier against it. Thou fallest into sin very seldom, which thou didst run into very usually. Thou fallest into far less evils of that kind, wherein thou didst once commit far more grievous; and now the least degrees of sin do more disquiet thee, then once the highest did; and now thou lettest not so much as the thought of that go unconfessed and unlamented before God, the grossest act of which thou wast wont to hide, and cover, and excuse, and not to confess. Take courage to thy self therefore, and enjoy the beginnings ⟨p. 186⟩of victory, and be assured of the conclusion. Thou art now in killing sin, and thou shalt kill it; thou art now busy in the conflict, and thou shalt divide the spoil.
now thou art a resolute souldier against it. Thou fallest into sinne verie seldome, which thou didst runne into verie vsually. Thou fallest into farre lesse euils of that kind, wherein thou didst once commit farre more grieuous; and now the least degrees of sinne doe more disquiet thee, then once the highest did; and now thou lettest not so much as the thought of that goe vnconfessed and vnlamented before God, the grossest act of which thou wast wont to hide, and couer, and excuse, and not to confesse. Take courage to thy selfe therefore, and enioy the beginnings ⟨p. 186⟩of victorie, and bee assured of the conclusion. Thou art now in killing sinne, and thou shalt kill it; thou art now busie in the conflict, and thou shalt deuide the spoile.
6. Now, all ye soldiers of Christ Jesus, that find in your selves the beginnings of mortification, and a firm purpose of soul to continue, resisting, striving, fighting, bless God, that hath given you his Spirit of liberty in some measure, and apply your selves now with all your might, to consummate the work begun: Let not your hands wax feeble, nor your hearts faint. Remember the words of the Apostle,