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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.
The second is likewise to be spoken of,1 and it is the freedom of both parties from any other: for if any man take a woman, who is either espoused, or wedded to another man, is it not plain, that ⟨p. 31⟩he takes his neighbours wife? and therefore in show, lives in marriage, but indeed lives in adultery. The Lord would have men and women enter into matrimony, as it were leisurely and with deliberation: and for this cause it is his ordinance, that the covenant should be perfected betwixt them in two degrees; the one is Espousal, or betrothment, which they call, Making sure, and is nothing else but a giving the right of each others bodies, by a solemn and serious promise of marriage hereafter to be consummated: the other is Wedding, called also by the name of Marriage, and is nothing but a giving of the possession of each others bodies, by a solemn and serious promise to live together during life.
The second is likewise to be spoken of,1 and it is the freedom of both parties frō any other: for if any man take a woman, who is either espoused, or wedded to another man, is it not plaine, that ⟨p. 31⟩he takes his neighbours wife? and therefore in shew, liues in marriage, but indeed liues in adulterie. The Lord would haue men and women enter into matrimonie, as it were leasurely and with deliberation: and for this cause it is his ordinance, that the couenant should bee perfected betwixt them in two degrees; the one is Espousall, or betrothment, which they call, Making sure, and is nothing else but a giuing the right of each others bodies, by a solemne and serious promise of marriage hereafter to be consummated: the other is Wedding, called also by the name of Marriage, and is nothing but a giuing of the possession of each others bodies, by a solemne and serious promise to liue together during life.
- 1Secondly freedom from all other persons.Secondly freedome from all other persons.