A69075:346
Christian religion
Christian religion: substantially, methodically[e,] [pla]inlie, and profitably treatisedChristian religion: substantially, methodicalli[e,] [pla]inlie, and profitablie treatised
London: printed by Felix Kingston for Thomas Man, 1611
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
What learn you from thence, that the Lord would have Adam see whether there were a helper amongst the other creatures which he knew well to be unfit?
What learne you from thence, that the Lord would haue Adam see whether there were a helper amongst the other creatures which he knew well to be vnfit?
To teach us, that ere we enter into marriage, we should have feeling of our own infirmity, & need of a wife: whereby that benefit may become more sweet, and we more thankful unto God: which if it be true in a man, it ought to be much more in a woman, which is weaker and more insufficient then he.
To teach vs, that ere wee enter into mariage, wee shuld haue feeling of our own infirmitie, & need of a wife: whereby that benefit may become more sweet, and we more thankfull vnto God: which if it be true in a man, it ought to bee much more in a woman, which is weaker and more insufficient then he.
What else?
That it is a perverse thing to love any creature so well as mankind; against those men that make more of their horses and hounds then of their wives; and against those women which make more of a monkey, or of a parrot, or of a spaniel, then of their husbands.