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The gold[n] book of christen matrimony most necessary [and] profitable for all the[m], that…The golde[n] boke of christen matrimonye moost necessary [and] profitable for all the[m], that…
The gold[n] book of christen matrimony most necessary [and] profitable for all the[m], that intend to live quietly and godly in the Christen state of holy wedlock newly set forth in English by Theodore Basil.The golde[n] boke of christen matrimonye moost necessary [and] profitable for all the[m], that entend to liue quietly and godlye in the Christen state of holy wedlock newly set forthe in English by Theodore Basille.
London: printed for Joha, 1543London: printed for Ioha, 1543
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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 third Chapter.
¶ The thyrd Chapter.
¶ The declaration of wedlock thus described.
¶ The declaracion of wedloke thus described.
Now will we plainly open every parcel of the said description from article to article, & (with testimony of the scriptures) prove and establish the same, where need is.
NOwe wyll we playnely open euery parcel of the sayd descripcion from article to article, & (wt testimony of the scriptures) proue and establysh the same, where nede is.
First that wedlock is the coupling together 1of one man and one woman, not of one man & m• women, or of one woman and mo men, the Lord himself affirmeth it Math. xix. and so is it written also in the second of Genesis. Now where as some of the holy fathers had more wives than one, those were but the Acts of certain private men, and not such general examples, as are thoroughly to be followed.