EpiflleofS. Paul to Titus. CxAr.2.4. dren ? or can awoman hate her owne fiefh : can the members but loue 377 the head ? or can any monfler ofwomen fo farre loofe natural] intlinót, as co forget the fruit ofher wombe : Salomon commanding thechild to bediuided, knew out of his wifedome,that nature couldnot but worke, and bewrav it felfe in oneof the parties. Pflnfw. Many by Gods jai fteafons. iudgement, and their ownc corruption, are becomewithout natural! af- ttom rlo. fc5tion, whom this precept taketh hold vpon. 2. Thebet} nature of all, ,,Z¡n,,;t, if it benot extinguilhed as in the former, yet is greatly corrupted , and 2 can produce nothing pleating to God : and therefore bath the Lord bound women to the affeétion of loue , bya furer and flr:ighter bond then that of corrupted nature, hauing byhis ownc commandement laid it upon themas a calling to walk in; that the performanceofit might be an obedience of faith, andnot aworkeof naturali infl:n&, a duty of confcier,ce as well as ofaffebtion. ;.Though theground of this affe6ìi- ; on benature, which can teacha woman to loue herhusband, &children; yet nature cannot teacheither the right mauner,ormeafure of this loue; this is left to beorderedby theword. Nature can louenaturally, that is, fieflsly andcorruptly, but not holily. Nature either commeth (bon, or exceedeth thedue meafure oflone: fromwhencearekindled the fparkles and flames offulpicions, ielou(ies between husband and wife; and much mifcarriage betweeneparents and children, when Parents in the educa- tingofchildren feparate faith and loue , both which the Apoflle requi- reth, r.Tim.a.r 5. But the word both ruleth, manageth, and raungeth this affe&tion in inch confines, as caufe it tobe euery way lonely, as al- wales to be lafling. For the former of thefe , that a womanJhould lout her husband, yea "l'Vwo en embrace himwith inch a loueas furpaffech all other, cues to the forget- ting rn irhucbaoÈ. ofherownepeople, herfathershoufe, yeaherowne felfe in corn- Keafone parifon of him; betides the commandement of God, there is great rea- fon. r. The commandcmcnt isoften repeated in the booke ofGod,and is inlarged and inforced, in Éph.S.a 2.24. where the wife is commanded Commande to loue and embrace her husband, as the Churchcloth Chrift bimfelfe: hww ` :on is that? look in theCo:ticles, through all which holy long, the Chúrch neuer fpeaketh of Chrifl, but breaketh into the expre(fing of her moti fervent lone; neuer mentioneth him without the titles bewraying her moil intireand inward loue; callinghimher lone , her wetbeloued, him whom herfoule lotted, him who was more then other welbeloueds, the c1,-eife of tennethoufand: him who could not be out of her fight, but (hew ttfcke o f loue after here is a lafie let before women and a 2 f g Areumcne,to how toeke= oftheir husbands, c. orce lone 2. The reafonsare fundrie : I will onely ì:ote three. Firtl, becaufeof I f a 4 that
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