j g o A Commentaryupon the Go(rel Chaps. unto tbtm,, C01.5.16. He faithnot ( as it mightfeem he fhould with refpeft to the former verfe) Rule over them, andPhew your authority over thofe that are bound to fubmit untoyou. But, love them,that their fubjeftionmay be free and ingenuous. Live not,as Lamech, like lions in your houles, G,arrelfome, auftere, dif- courteous, violent, with highwords and hard blows, fuch are fit- ter tolive in Bedlam, then in a civil fociety. The Apotile re- quires, > "rr é n That ail bitteruefe be put array, all, and in all perfons a."if .41414 4#1 howmuch more in married couples ? The Heathens when they Pinta. pre.tp. facrìficed at their marriage feafts, ufed to cati thegall of the beaft Hzz baJn ?, facrificed out of doors. Viprra virus ob venerationem nxptiarg.,, (vomit : Et to durïtiem animi , to gritatem, to crudeliottem, ob u fonts reverentiam non dcponie ? faith Ball. I confeffe it ['ebria hctiica were better be married to aquartan ague, then to a bad wife (fo axon Hats, (-?' faith Simonidi t) for there be twogood dais s for one bad with the nonnift mono avellenda one, not one with the other. But that lhould have been looked to sc,i,g 4Farc p, afore -hand. A hard adventureit is toyoke ones Pelf with any un. 139. tamed heifer, that bearechnot the yokeof Chriti. And as grace, fo good nature, a courteous difpofition, is a thing to be efpecially looked at in a wife, which Elea .or Abrahams fervant under- ¡food, and therefore tingled out as a tokenofa meet mate for his Gea!q. r 3 tonne, Let her of:r me drip/¿,, and»;y Camels alp, faith he. But what ilk prove otherwifc, and mcn by leaping unadviledly into fcllia3. the marriageestate, have drawnmuch mifery upon themfelves ? Qui t:ttu,hanc uid fipro eonjugio conjtergium contraxerint ? ylarro anfwereth, fibicommodtcrt Vxoris vitiumant tollendum ant tolerandumeft. Awives faults prmflar: qui mutt be either cured or covered : mended, if we can; made the °orerat,rpfele bell or if wecannot. lithefiriì,fhe is made better : if the fe- nrctiorë redait. Idem.icid, cond, we. arid. de art. (Conjugiumhumana divina Academiavita et.) Imprint: Awe- And hence it comech topaffe, that iq vox e,?,uxor Rua modopugntirant,lungant fuaraftra columba adrao.°e>rda Per. .,9Liarumblandit iris verb4, murmur habet. Rpe, retteben- ferdararo,ver. As on theocher fide, where this meekneffe of wifdome is not berardo nun. , made ufe of by married folk, they are together in the houfe no guaro, otherwife then as twopoilons in the ftomack, as live Eels in the pot, as two fpanniels in a chain : their houles are more like ken- nels of hounds, then families of Chrátiians; or as fomany fencing- íchools, wherein the two fexes feem to have met together, for nothing, but to play their prizes, and to try mafteries. yob was not 1
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