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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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1. For giving names to children, besides that it is throughout 1the Scripture for the most part enjoined to the husband, as to aAbraham, to bZechariah, and to others, and that accordingly husbands have ordinarily done, as cAdam, dLamech, eAbraham, and others. It is to be noted that when there was a difference betwixt the man and his wife in giving a child's name, he giving one name, she another, the name which he gave, stood; though fRachel named her youngest son Benoni, yet Benjamin (which name Jacob gave) was the child's name. So also when gElizabeth told her friends that her child's name must be John, they would not rest therein, till Zechariah had ratified that name. Yea though Joseph were but the supposed father of Jesus, yet because he was the husband of Mary the mother of Jesus, hhe had this honour given him, to give the name unto her child.
1. For giuing names to children, besides that it is throughout 1the Scripture for the most part enioyned to the husband, as to aAbraham, to bZacharias, and to others, and that accordingly husbands haue ordinarily done, as