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Of domesticall duties eight treatises. I. An exposition of that part of Scripture out…
Of domesticall duties eight treatises. I. An exposition of that part of Scripture out of which domesticall duties are raised. ... VIII. Duties of masters. By William Gouge.
London: printed by John Haviland for William Bladen, 1622London: printed by Iohn Haviland for William Bladen, 1622
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Christ himself loveth righteousness and hateth wickedness: 1they therefore, and none but they that are arrayed with righteousness, are glorious in his eyes.
Christ himselfe loueth righteousnesse and hateth wickednesse: 1they therefore, and none but they that are araied with righteousnesse, are glorious in his eies.
- 1Reason. Psal. 45. 7.
This I have the rather noted against the conceit of our adversaries, 1who place all the glory of the Church in outward 2pomp. Wherefore their Pope whom they make head of the Church, and after a peculiar manner the spouse of Christ, must have his triple crown, his scarlet robes, his throne advanced above kings: Men must be his horses to bear him: and Kings and Nobles must be his men to wait on him. Their Priests also must be arrayed with glorious copes of the best wrought gold. Their temples must be decked with curious, carved, gilded images. Their host carried about in ⟨p. 70⟩manner of a triumph. Their people all besprinkled with water. Their superstitious houses must be the fairest buildings in a kingdom, and have the greatest revenues of a kingdom belonging to them: with the like.3
This I haue the rather noted against the conceit of our aduersaries,