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V
E
R.
29.
--
Epbefians,
Chap.
5.
661
in
himfelfe, which
like
a
gentle
fire
doth dry
his
bones, which doth
make him
eatehis own liver,and aftera fort become
his
own hangman.
VERSE
29.
For lumen ever
yet
hated his
own
flefh,
but
ruurifheth
and
cherifheth
it,
even as
the
Lord
doth the Church.
It
is
to
be
noted when
he
faith, hone
hateth,&gc.that
it
is a
monflrosss DoE¡.
3.
unnatttrall
part
to
be
unkind
to
the
wife.
But for
the better underflanding
of
it,
3.
things
are
to
be confidered.
e.
That
this
is
to
be
underflood with caution: for force may
be found
that hate their
flcíh:as
thofeDenatifis
that
would
throw
themfelves down from the top
of
hills, and morti..
fie
their
flefh:
thofe
Baalites
that launced themfelves, and
Col.
z.
many cruelly
murder themfelves; therefore
it
is
to be conceived with this limitation,that
none in
his
right
wit,
and reafon
doth
hate
his flefh.
2.
It
is
to
marked
that
there
is a
double
felf-love,
One
finfull,
a difeafe
of
thefe
Taft
times,
z
Ting.
3.
z.
a
cherilhing
of
it
in
fulfilling
the
Tufts
of
it,which isa
viperous love
that
eateth oat
all
love to
God, to
our
foules,
to others, for
it
maketh
a
man
affeâed,as
if
theworld were
made for him.
z. There
is a
felfe
-love
which
is a
wtyn,
graven
in
the
bowells
of
man, which when it
is
fanétified, becom.
meth that
rule
of
mans
love;
which
is
then
good when
it
is
ordered rightly
in
regard
of
God,
in refpeót
of
our
owne
foule, fo farre
that the body
may ¡till be
in
fubje.
&ion
to the
foule.
3.
When
it
feeketh not it felfe
onely, but
is
diligent abroad
:
fo
that here
is
no warrant for
fuch
Epicures,
as
tricke
their
skinne, and
have no
other tradeof
life, for he allea-
gerh
the
natural! inftinEt,
not the
excefTive
vice,
which
in deed
is
upon
the matter
hatred
of
the
flefh,
not love.
Thirdly,
we mutt
remember
in
what the
love
of
the
flefh
flandeth:
r.
Men hate
it
not, that
is,
they doe not
intreate it defpightfully,
grieve
it,
&c.
a. They
provide
to
cherifh it,
all a mans labour
is
for
his
mouth,
Ecclef.
6.7.
backe
and
belly.
3.
A
man
doth
cherifh
miniftring
things, that
ferve
for ftrength
and
comfort,
and fuccouring
it
againft
annoyances,
as
perfons more
tender
doe
fo
fotter, that they
will not
let the winde
blow
on it
:
which therefore doth prove, that it
is
an
unnaturall
thing to
baite
and grieve
the
wife,
it
is as
if
one fhould
dig
and rafe
his
owne
flefh,
to
be careleffe
of
her, whether
flre
linke
or
fwim,
to
deny
her comforts,
and filch
tender
ufage
as
a man
doth
give
to
his
flefh.
As
thofe
monfters are here alfo
to be
whipped,
that
de-
fraud themfelves of their portion, deny themfelves comforts, marty-
ring after
a
manner, their
owne
flefh.
The
Taft
thing to be
marked is, that
we
me
cheri
jb our
wives,
as
Doll:
Chrifi
sloth
the
faithfuá
foules
who
are
of
his
Alb
and
body.
Now
this his
chertfhing and
Pottering
of
the beleevingfoule,
is
to be gathered from
fundrie parts
of
love we marke
in
him
:
As
r.
he
doth avoyde
and
fhun