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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.
First, No man or woman may lawfully marry any of those, that touch them in a direct line upwards or downward, to all generations. As Adam, if he were alive, and a Widower, might not lawfully marry any woman in all the world, neither might Eve, if the were alive and a widow, be lawfully married to any man. The reason is, because in all these, the same blood doth run along still undivided, and so they are properly the kindred of their flesh. Secondly, No man or woman may lawfully marry the brother, or sister of any his successors, or predecessors in a direct line, to all generations. So Abel, being Seth's brother (of whom all the women in the world are directly proceeded) might not, if he were alive, marry any woman in the world. So the brother of a woman's father or grandfather, or great grandfather, may not lawfully marry that woman. The reason of this is also plain: for the brother and sister of ones father or mother, is to him or her in place of a father and mother. And in these also the same blood remaineth undivided; for brothers and sisters are one and the same blood. Thirdly, No man or woman may lawfully marry his or her ⟨p. 30⟩natural brother, or sister, either by the whole, or by the half blood. As neither Reuben that had the same father and mother, nor Joseph that had alone the same father, might lawfully marry Dinah their sister.
First, No man or woman may lawfully marrie any of those, that touch them in a direct line vpwards or downeward, to all generations. As Adam, if he were aliue, and a Widdower, might not lawfully marry any woman in all the world, neither might Euah, if the were aliue and a widdow, bee lawfully married to any man. The reason is, because in all these, the same blood doth run along still vndeuided, and so they are properly the kindred of their flesh. Secondly, No man or woman may lawfully marrie the brother, or sister of any his successors, or predecessors in a direct line, to all generations. So Abel, being Seths brother (of whom all the women in the world are directly proceeded) might not, if he were aliue, marry any woman in the world. So the brother of a womans father or grandfather, or great grandfather, may not lawfully marry that woman. The roason of this is also plaine: for the brother and sister of ones father or mother, is to him or her in place of a father and mother. And in these also the same blood remaineth vndeuided; for brothers and sisters are one and the same blood. Thirdly, No man or woman may lawfully marrie his or her ⟨p. 30⟩