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For there we have a warning too hold our selves in awe, that we being Gods true scholars, we may distrust our selves, and not go seek five feet in one sheep (as they say), but handle the holy scriptures with such reverence, as God may guide us too the true understanding of it by his holy spirit.

For there wee haue a warning too hold our selues in awe, that wee being Gods trew schollers, wee may distrust our selues, and not go seeke fyue feete in one sheepe (as they say), but handle the holy scriptures with such reuerence, as God may guyde vs too the trew vnderstanding of it by his holy spirit.

But now let us come too Saint Pauls intent. It is certain that he allegeth the record of Moses,¹ too show that the […] bear with his wife, as with a portion of his own bo•ie, and the one half of his own person: […] ⟨image 318⟩them. The cause then why Eve was shaped of one of Adams ribs, is, that God meant to stablish such a concord between man and wife by that mean, as there should be no bond in the world so straight as that. For the child ought in deed too honour his father: for he is his seed, and he is his blood: but yet is the bond of wedlock preferred before it. And by whom? It cometh not of mens liking: but according as Adam had spoken, and as God had pronounced the sentence, so is it an inviolable order, that man should be knit unto his wife, yea and that in such wise, that if he should needs forsake the one or the other, his father should not be so near him as his wife.

But now let vs come too Saint Paules intent. It is certeine that he alledgeth the record of Moyses,¹ too shewe that the 〈…〉 beare with his wyfe, as with a portion of his owne boie, and the one half of his owne person: