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Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…
Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of Sepulchres parish / by Tho. Gouge ...Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of Sepulchres parish / by Tho. Gouge ...
London: printed by R. Ibbitson and M. Wright, 1661
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
I. The former is not only a duty, but the ground of all other duties whatsoever; for till the Wife be fully satisfied about the superiority of her Husband, no duty will be performed by her as it ought. Therefore Wives ought to learn this point in the first place, viz. That their Husbands are their superiors; which clearly appeareth,
I. The former is not only a duty, but the ground of all other duties whatsoever; for till the Wife be fully satisfied about the superiority of her Husband, no duty will be performed by her as it ought. Therefore Wives ought to learn this point in the first place, viz. That their Husbands are their superiours; which clearly appeareth,
1 By the order of Creation. The Man was first created, and thereupon had the Birth-right.1
- 1Jus primog••• turae.Ius primog••• turae.
2 By the institution of God, who said to the woman,1 Thy desire shall be subject to his, and he shall rule •ver thee,