A20764:248
The plea of the poor. Or A treatise of beneficence and alms-deeds teaching how…The plea of the poore. Or A treatise of benificence and almes-deeds teaching how…
The plea of the poor. Or A treatise of beneficence and alms-deeds teaching how these Christian duties are rightly to be performed, and persuading to the frequent doing of them. Necessary for these times, wherein the works of mercy are so much neglected, or so undiscreetly practiced. Published by John Downame Bachelor in Divinity.The plea of the poore. Or A treatise of benificence and almes-deeds teaching how these Christian duties are rightly to be performed, and perswading to the frequent doing of them. Necessary for these times, wherein the workes of mercy are so much neglected, or so vndiscreetly practized. Published by Iohn Downame Bachelour in Diuinitie.
London: printed by Edward Griffin for Ralph Mabbe, 1616
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.
Sect. 9. Of the superiority and authority of the husband over the wife.
Sect. 9. Of the superiorite and authoritie of the husband ouer the wife.
Concerning the former, it is to be acknowledged that the husband hath superiority and authority over his wife to rule and govern her as her head, and that she as his inferior is to subject her self to his rule and government; and it cannot be denied but that also he hath chief dominion over all their goods, and power to rule and manage the main estate. So the Apostle saith, that as the head of every man is Christ, so the head of woman is the man. 1. Cor. 11. 3. In regard whereof she is in many places of Scripture enjoined to be subject 1unto her husband in all things; and the reason hereof is given, because in the creation the man was not of the woman, but the woman of the man, neither was the man created for the woman, but the woman ⟨p. 109⟩for the man. 1. Cor. 11. 8. 9. and besides, the 2man was not first deceived, but the woman, and so was first in the transgression, as it is 1. Tim. 2. 14. and