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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
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.
Object. This restraint of wives is only in the court of men.
Obiect. This restraint of wiues is only in the court of men.
Answ. Seeing it is not against the law of God, it must also hold good in the court of Conscience. Nay it is agreeable to the law of God and grounded thereupon.
For (to omit the proofs before alleged) what might be the reason that the daughters of Zelophehad, who were heirs to their father, were forbidden to marry out of their fathers tribe, and that a law was made that no daughters that possessed any inheritance should marry out of their fathers tribe, but because all that a woman had before marriage, passed upon the husband and became his by virtue of marriage? This also for that purpose is by some not unfitly, nor without probability noted, that it is the common phrase of Scripture to term husbands 1(but not wives) rich, implying thereby that riches by a property appertain to husbands: yea usually in Scripture goods and lands are said to be the husbands.
For (to omit the proofes before alleaged) what might be the reason that the daughters of Zelophehad, who were heires to their father, were forbidden to mary out of their fathers tribe, and that a law was made that no daughters that possessed any inheritance should mary out of their fathers tribe, but because all that a woman had before mariage, passed vpon the husband and became his by vertue of mariage? This also for that purpose is by some not vnfitly, nor without probabilitie noted, that it is the common phrase of Scripture to terme husbands