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Sermons upon the ten first verses of the third chapter of the first Epistle…
Sermons upon the ten first verses of the third chapter of the first Epistle of S. Peter Being the last that were preached by the late faithful and painful minister of Gods word, Nicolas Byfield. Wherein method, sense, doctrine, and use, is, with great variety of matter, profitably handled; and sundry heads of divinity largely discussed. Published since the authors death by William Gouge.Sermons upon the ten first verses of the third chapter of the first Epistle of S. Peter Being the last that were preached by the late faithfull and painfull minister of Gods word, Nicolas Byfield. Wherein method, sense, doctrine, and vse, is, with great varietie of matter, profitably handled; and sundry heads of divinitie largely discussed. Published since the authors death by William Gouge.
London: printed by H. Lownes for George Latham, 1626
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 doctrine concerns Husbands, and so they are taught from hence to give the more honour to their wives, because of their natural weakness: For, as it is in the natural body, those members of the body which we think less honourable, upon them we bestow the more abundant honour, 1. Cor. 12.23, 24. so it should be in the Economical body: for the wife is unto the husband bone of his bone, and flesh of his flesh; and this honour he should give her, and show it, both by taking the more care to provide for her, and ⟨p. 131⟩by cherishing & encouraging her the more, & by hiding & covering her frailties as much as he may, & by not exacting more from her than she is able to perform, & by helping her all he can, by instruction or otherwise. Only we must note, that he is not bound to honour her the more for sinful infirmities, but for natural defects. How he must carry himself towards her in respect of sinful infirmities, or personal faults, hath been showed before in the manner of his carriage towards her as a man of knowledge. And thus of the first reason.
The third doctrine concernes Husbands, and so they are taught from hence to give the more honour to their wives, because of their naturall weaknesse: For, as it is in the naturall body, those members of the body which we thinke lesse honourable, upon them wee bestow the more abundant honour, 1. Cor. 12.23, 24. so it should bee in the Economical body: for the wife is unto the husband bone of his bone, and flesh of his flesh; and this honour he should give her, and shew it, both by taking the more care to provide for her, and ⟨p. 131⟩by cherishing & incouraging her the more, & by hiding & covering her frailties as much as he may, & by not exacting more from her than she is able to performe, & by helping her all he can, by instruction or otherwise. Only we must note, that he is not bound to honor her the more for sinful infirmities, but for naturall defects. How he must carrie himselfe towards her in respect of sinfull infirmities, or personall faults, hath beene shewed before in the manner of his carriage towards her as a man of knowledge. And thus of the first reason.