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R.33.
Epbeftan.r,
Chap.y:
dcrs, they hold
as fives
do water,
as
weakc
ftomachs
do meate,which
they tact
upfo
foone
as it
is
taken. Againe, we
muff
have there things
againe urged, becaufe there
is a
reluáation
in
our nature, our corrup-
tionnnfubdued cannot
be
fubjelf to the Law
of
God.
That
as a
fto-
mach
whichindureth
notmedicine,
muff againe and
again
be forced
before it
will let
it
downe;
fo it
is
with
us.
4.
Our devotion,
if
we
do
receive
a
thing with affeetion,is
fo
foone
cooled
that
we muff
ftill
be excited
:
for
we are like
the firings
of
an
inftrument,which
a
little played on dò
fall
downe lower,and therefore
muft often
be
let up:
and we muft
not
heare
onely
againe
of
things
,
but
have them perfonally
applied
,
for there
is
fuch
a
carelefneffe in
ournatures, that what
is
fpoken
to
every
body
,
is
as
if
it
were
fpoken
to no body.
Which
is
to be
marked
;
for
it
doth
meete with
that
foolifh wif-
Y,Te
dome
of
many,
that love
not
toheare twice
of
one thing ,
a
word
for
wife man,
a
thoufand
will
not
doe with
a
foole
:
two
much
honey
is
naught,
too
much
of
one thing good for nothing
:
What,
nothing but
husbands love your
wives!
But
the Holy
Ghoft which
never
doth
teach
a
fuperfluous
word
, will have
the
fame
point
often repeated,
one cannot drive
a nayle
throughly with
one
blow.
Againe,
marke how he applieth
that
was indefinitely fpoken, Let
man lave
his
wife,
every
one
of
you ,
by the
head
as it
were poynted
forth,
Love, &c. that
therefore
which
4
indefinitely
¡oken,is
to
be
taken
Doff;
m
if
it
were
fingularly delivered.
The
Papifts aske,
Where
have you,
thou
Thelma believing (halt
be
Caved!
we
may
ask,
Where
reade
they,
Thou
Jahn,
&e. love
thy
wife
:
Doe not kill.Yet
when
God
faith,
Let
a
man
love
his
wife, it
is
to
betaken
as if
he had
fad
,
Doe
thou;
So
a
man
is
juftified
through
faith on
Chri(t,
believe
thou
(halt
be faved.
And
for
husbands the dutie
is
before explained.
For Wives
here
is a
further
lefl'on,
viz,
that
it is
not enough
out-
wardly
to obey,
but
we mutt inwardly
feare
thofe that
are
our
huí
bands,
t
Pet.
3.2. which
is
chiefely
,
when
wee have a dread
to
doe
ought that
may offend,and are carefully fearing left
in
ought they be
offcnded,as the
Church,
Cant.
3.5.
Take heed you awake not my
Love. a. When the heart
is cold
to
fee
the
husband
in
jail
.difplea-
lure,
as
the faithful'
foule
trembles
to
fee
Gods wrath
revealed.
3.
When
we walke, having confcience
and refpeét
of
that
fuperiority
which God hath put
in
that
man above
the
woman: without
this,
all
our reverence
is
but
a
coppy
of
countenance,
and
lafteth till fome
thing doevexe
us;
then
becaufe
the
heart hath not this bridle,we
will!,
fly
out
into any
unrulinefFe.
But you will fay, wemuft love our husbands.
"Kw.
Both do well
(land
together.
Love
is
full.ofcarefuincflc,'care,
.though void
ofila-
x
piee'ti
vifh
or fuperftitiousterrour.
ptzr
rtmora
ago
>.
Which
doth meet with the
lewdneffe
ofmany women, that
thinke vfe.
it their
glory to
know no awe
;
for pleating,
they
ftand on no fuch
points,
if
they
like
not, they
may leave,
fay
they
:
let them get others
dot
s