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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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§. 20. Of the things whereabout a wife must have her husbands consent.
§. 20. Of the things whereabout a wife must haue her husbands consent.
The things whereabout an husbands consent is to be expected, are such as he by virtue of his place and authority hath power to order: as for example, ordering and disposing the goods, cattle, servants, and children of the family, entertaining strangers; yea, also ordering even his wives going abroad, and making of vows, with the like: now then distinctly to lay down a wives duty in this first branch of obedience, it is this:
The things whereabout an husbands consent is to be expected, are such as he by vertue of his place and authoritie hath power to order: as for example, ordering and disposing the goods, cattell, seruants, and children of the family, entertaining strangers; yea, also ordering euen his wiues going abroad, and making of vowes, with the like: now then distinctly to lay downe a wiues dutie in this first branch of obedience, it is this:
A wife must do nothing which appertaineth to her husband authority simply without, or directly against his consent. Do not these words of that old law (thy desire shall be to thy husband) 1imply as much? I deny not but that there may be sundry things proper and peculiar to a wife, wherein I will not restrain her liberty: and therefore I use this phrase (which appertaineth to her husbands authority.) And I grant the forenamed general and implicit consent, to be a true consent, so as there needeth not an express particular consent for every thing, and therefore I have added these clauses (simply without, or directly against consent.)