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Of domesticall duties eight treatises. I. An exposition of that part of Scripture out…

Name: Of domesticall duties eight treatises. I. An exposition of that part of Scripture out…
Author: William Gouge

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.

William Gouge 1578–1653London: printed by John Haviland for William Bladen, 1622London: printed by Iohn Haviland for William Bladen, 1622

[24], 191, 196-693, [3] p. · 266k words · STC 12119 · ESTC S103290

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Treatise 3 › Section 27 › Object. Wives must use this liberty with all due respect unto they…: Object. Wives must use this liberty with all due respect unto their husbands authority.Treatise 3 › Section 27 › Obiect. Wiues must vse this libertie with all due respect vnto thei…: Obiect. Wiues must vse this libertie with all due respect vnto their husbands authoritie.

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Object. Wives must use this liberty with all due respect unto their husbands authority.

Obiect. Wiues must vse this libertie with all due respect vnto their husbands authoritie.

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Answ. If the husband peremptorily stand upon his authority, and by all the fair means that can be used, will not yield this liberty, I know not what better respect she can show to this authority, then to forbear and abstain from doing that which otherwise she would most gladly do: But if when it cometh to the uttermost point, and she shall say it is her right, and if she cannot have his consent, she will do it without his consent, she therein showeth no great respect.

Answ. If the husband peremptorily stand vpon his authoritie, and by all the faire meanes that can be vsed, will not yeeld this libertie, I know not what better respect she can shew to this authoritie, then to forbeare and abstaine from doing that which otherwise she would most gladly doe: But if when it commeth to the vttermost point, and she shall say it is her right, and if she cannot haue his consent, she will doe it without his consent, she therein sheweth no great respect.

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Many other inconveniences might be reckoned up, but I will not longer insist on them, only from these let it be well considered, whether it were not better for a family, that the husband should be bard from disposing the goods without consent of his wife (so as there might be according to the proverb, but

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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.

Author

William Gouge 1578–1653

Place

London

Printer

John HavilandIohn Haviland

Bookseller

William Bladen

Year

1622

Size

[24], 191, 196-693, [3] p.

Words

266,042

Catalogue

STC 12119 · ESTC S103290

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EEBO-TCP A68107

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859

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Of domesticall duties eight treatises. I. An exposition of that part of Scripture out…

Object. Wives must use this liberty with all due respect unto their husbands authority.

Obiect. Wiues must vse this libertie with all due respect vnto their husbands authoritie.

§. 28. Of property in goods, whether it give liberty to dispose them as a wife will.

§. 28. Of propertie in goods, whether it giue libertie to dispose them as a wife will.

§. 29. Of the reasons against a wives property in the common goods of the family.

§. 29. Of the reasons against a wiues propertie in the common goods of the family.

Object. This restraint of wives is only in the court of men.

Obiect. This restraint of wiues is only in the court of men.

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

Object. Wives must use this liberty with all due respect unto their husbands authority.

Obiect. Wiues must vse this libertie with all due respect vnto their husbands authoritie.

§. 28. Of property in goods, whether it give liberty to dispose them as a wife will.

§. 28. Of propertie in goods, whether it giue libertie to dispose them as a wife will.

§. 29. Of the reasons against a wives property in the common goods of the family.

§. 29. Of the reasons against a wiues propertie in the common goods of the family.

Object. This restraint of wives is only in the court of men.

Obiect. This restraint of wiues is only in the court of men.