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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. 11. Of the communion between man and wife.
Sect. 11. Of the communion betweene man and wife.
The second point to be considered is the communion which is between man and wife through the bond of marriage, which extendeth both unto their persons and goods: the communion of persons is so near and indissoluble, that they are no more two, but one flesh, in which regard they have no more propriety in themselves, nor absolute power of disposing their own bodies, but either in other; according to that, 1. Cor. 7. 4. The wife 1hath not power over her own body, but the husband, and likewise also the husband, hath not power over his own body; but the wife. So also there is such communion in their goods, that there is no absolute propriety in either of them, but it resteth in them both; neither have these words mine and thine any place between them, seeing they are but one flesh, and one body, whereof the husband is the head. And howsoever married persons, speaking ⟨p. 111⟩of that which they possess unto others, may say that this is mine to note propriety, yet when they have relation to one another, they imply this community, by saying these goods are ours; So Jacobs wives speaking of their goods, say that all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that 2is ours, though no part of it came by their dowry, but through the blessing of God upon their husbands labours, only it was theirs through the communion of marriage. And this communion both of persons and goods is signified, yea plainly expressed in our form of marriage, both by the words and actions there used; the communion of persons by joining of hands, and by those words, with my body I thee worship, by which he professeth that he doth her honour in vouchsafing unto her the communion of his body, for it is the honour of a woman to have an head and husband; the communion of goods, by giving unto her a ring, and (as it was the practise heretofore) money or gold with it, as an earnest of all the rest, and by those plain words, with all my worldly goods I thee endow.