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Old Mr. Dod's sayings
Old Mr. Dod's sayings; or, A posy gathered out of Mr. Dod's garden. Collected by R.T.Old Mr. Dod's sayings; or, A posie gathered out of Mr. Dod's garden. Collected by R.T.
printed by Marmaduke Johnson, 1673
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.
6. Two things he commended to a Married Couple, Cares & Strifes: for the first, Let your Cares be, which shall please God most: For your strifes, let them be, which shall love one another best: so will your cares & strifes be to purpose; so will all needless cares and strifes vanish.
7. If you be in a Married Estate know and believe it, Though you might have had a better or richer wife or Husband yet sure enough you could never have had a fitter, Because it was so appointed by God in heaven, before it could be accomplished here on earth; and therefore, though mutual love be not performed to thee, yet do thou thy part in obedience to God, and thou shalt be sure to have comfort in the end, though God exercise thee with chastisements for a time.
8 There can no afflictions and miseries befall us, but by Gods appointment; and cannot hurt us, but must needs do us good, if we be Gods Children. But first, be sure you mix not sin with them, for that only makes them bitter. Secondly, Look not at the rod, but at him that smiteth; for that causeth fretting and fainting both.
9. If thou desirest to be assured thy sins be forgiven thee, labour to forgive injuries and offences done unto thee, according to that in