Answ. Though question may be made of the former part, at least for the greater sort and number of wives, yet for answer to this reason I need not question it; for the consequence doth not follow, though that be granted. The right of disposing goods doth not simply rise from the care and pains of getting and preserving them: but from that order that the Lord hath been pleased to set down. A wise and industrious child may be a means to raise and increase his fathers estate, when his father taketh little care and pains about it: yea a faithful and wise steward or other servant (as Jacob and Joseph were) may do much more by his pains and care in getting and preserving the goods of the family, then his master: yet will it not thereupon follow, that such a child, or such a servant hath as great a right and power to dispose such goods as his father or his master.
Answ. Though question may be made of the former part, at least for the greater sort and number of wiues, yet for answer to this reason I need not question it; for the consequence doth not follow, though that be granted. The right of disposing goods doth not simply rise from the care and paines of getting and preseruing them: but from that order that the Lord hath beene pleased to set downe. A wise and industrious childe may be a meanes to raise and increase his fathers estate, when his father taketh little care and paines about it: yea a faithfull and wise steward or other seruant (as Iaakob and Ioseph were) may doe much more by his paines and care in getting and preseruing the goods of the familie, then his master: yet will it not thereupon follow, that such a childe, or such a seruant hath as great a right and power to dispose such goods as his father or his master.
