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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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The reasons of this doctrine are clear; for the family is 1a seminary of the Church and common-wealth. It is as a Bee-hive, in which is the stock, and out of which are sent many swarms of Bees: for in families are all sorts of people bred and brought up: and out of families are they sent into the Church and common-wealth. The first beginning of mankind, and of his increase, was out of a family. For first did God join in marriage Adam and Eve, made them husband and wife, and then gave them children: so as husband and wife, parent and child, (which are parts of a family) were before magistrate and subject, minister and people, which are the parts of a Common-wealth, and a Church. When by the general deluge all public societies were destroyed, a family, even the family of Noah, was ⟨p. 18⟩preserved, and out of it kingdoms and nations again raised. That great people of the Jews which could not be numbered for multitude, was raised out of the family of Abram. Yea even to this day have all sorts of people come from families, and so shall to the end of the world. Whence it followeth, that a conscionable performance of domesticall and household duties, tend to the good ordering of Church and common-wealth, as being means to fit and prepare men thereunto.
The reasons of this doctrine are cleere; for the family is 1a seminary of the Church and common-wealth. It is as a Bee-hive, in which is the stocke, and out of which are sent many swarmes of Bees: for in families are all sorts of people bred and brought vp: and out of families are they sent into the Church and common-wealth. The first beginning of mankinde, and of his increase, was out of a family. For first did God ioyne in mariage Adam and Eue, made them husband and wife, and then gaue them children: so as husband and wife, parent and childe, (which are parts of a family) were before magistrate and subiect, minister and people, which are the parts of a Common-wealth, and a Church. When by the generall deluge all publike societies were destroyed, a familie, euen the family of Noah, was ⟨p. 18⟩preserued, and out of it kingdomes and nations againe raised. That great people of the Iewes which could not be numbred for multitude, was raised out of the family of Abram. Yea euen to this day haue all sorts of people come from families, and so shall to the end of the world. Whence it followeth, that a conscionable performance of domesticall and houshold duties, tend to the good ordering of Church and common-wealth, as being meanes to fit and prepare men thereunto.