1. Mutual Cohabitation. For the man, he(o) must leave father and mother, and cleave to his Wife: And the Woman, she(p) must forget her kindred and her fathers house. The Husband,(q) he must dwell with the Wife: and the Wife,(r) she must not depart from the Husband, though he be an Infidel. And indeed the Ends and Duties of marriage are such, as will not ordinarily dispense herewith. For Example, 1 Cor. 7.3, 4.5. Let the husband render unto the Wife due benevolence, and likewise also the wife unto the husband. The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife. Defraud you not the one the other, except it he with consent for a time, that you may give your selves to fasting and prayer, and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency. Which plainly shows that even the sober use of the Marriage-bed is such(s) a mutual debt, that it may not be intermitted long without Necessity and Consent. Nay in the† Old Law, the greatest necessity should not send the husband from his wife the first year, that their affections might be throughly settled, and that he might cheer up his Wife which he hath taken. *Neither indeed can any of the following Duties towards each others Souls or Bodies be throughly performed, nor many grievous snares avoided, without dwelling together.
1. Mutual Cohabitation. For the man, he(o) must leave father and mother, and cleave to his Wife: And the Woman, she(p) must forget her kinred and her fathers house. The Husband,(q) he must dwell with the Wife: and the Wife,(r) she must not depart from the Husband, though he be an Infidel. And indeed the Ends and Duties of marriage are such, as will not ordinarily dispense herewith. For Example, 1 Cor. 7.3, 4.5. Let the husband render unto the Wife due benevolence, and likewise also the wife unto the husband. The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife. Defraud you not the one the other, except it he with consent for a time, that you may give your selves to fasting and prayer, and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency. Which plainly shews that even the sober use of the Marriage-bed is such(s) a mutual debt, that it may not be intermitted long without Necessity and Consent. Nay in the† Old Law, the greatest necessity should not send the husband from his wife the first year, that their affections might be throughly settled, and that he might chear up his Wife which he hath taken. *Neither indeed can any of the following Duties towards each others Souls or Bodies be throughly performed, nor many grievous snares avoided, without dwelling together.
- (o)Gen. 2.24.
- (p)Psal. 45.10.
- (q)1 Pet. 3.7. [Greek or Hebrew]1 Pet. 3.7. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉
- (r)1 Cor. 7 10.
- (s)The wife of Galeac. Caracciola denying this debt (upon the direction of her Confessor on pain of Excommunication) was judg'd a sufficient Reason of Divorce. In vita.
- †Deut. 24 5.
- *For the man is the head, the Woman is as the body: for the head and body to be sundered it is present death to either. Gataker Serm. p. 203.
