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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.
If we see a man offering to wound, cut, stab, kill a child, a friend, a neighbour, a stranger; grief doth ⟨p. 210⟩amaze us, we cry out, and our heart bleeds with grief. The sinner (especially by gross and presumptuous sinning) doth, as it were, strike at God, endeavours to pierce, wound, and (let it be spoken with reverence, to show the horrible evil of sin) after a sort, to kill him: for his Being and Sovereignty must needs both stand and fall together, and sin doth directly set against his Sovereignty: so that if a sinner could have his will, the Lord should be King of all the earth no longer. O hateful and horrible thing! And shall this horrible wrong be offered to the Divine Majesty, in the sight and hearing of one of his children and subjects, and he not cry out against it, and be pained at the very soul for it?
If we see a man offering to wound, cut, stab, kil a child, a friend, a neighbour, a stranger; griefe doth ⟨p. 210⟩amaze vs, we cry out, and our heart bleeds with griefe. The sinner (especially by grosse and presumptuous sinning) doth, as it were, strike at God, endeuours to pierce, wound, and (let it bee spoken with reuerence, to shew the horrible euil of sinne) after a sort, to kill him: for his Beeing and Soueraigntie must needs both stand and fall together, and sinne doth directly set against his Soueraigntie: so that if a sinner could haue his will, the Lord should bee King of all the earth no longer. O hatefull and horrible thing! And shall this horrible wrong be offered to the Diuine Maiestie, in the sight and hearing of one of his children and subiects, and hee not crie out againstit, and bee pained at the very soule for it?
Furthermore, sin is the most baneful and mischievous thing to the creature, that can be imagined, both to the persons self that doth commit it, and also to the place and Nation, in which it is committed.1