Epiflle ofS.Pasvd to rital. CHAP.2.5 nteeke; andyet ofacheerefull fpirit and temper:not fullen,tauuting,bit- ter, fretting or galling any, and much leffe her husband ; neither of a troublefome and iarring difpefition; but ofagood natureas we fay : for let her be otherwife neucr fo honeti,wife,painful,yet without this good- ne(fe and amiablenes of behauiour, The fball he no more pleafant then a continuall dropping which driueth out theowners. 3. It is Cotnetimes taken for profitable, and requireth that the wife be helpful! andcomfor- table by her aduife, labour,and Tweet focietie, whereby fhe buildeth her koufe. Thus did the Lord fee good in his wifedome to make man a meet help for him,when it was not good for him that he fhould be alone. And thus the vertssouswoman is laid to doe her husbandgeod, andNoteuill all the datesofher life,Pto: to 2. and as (he Both good to him, and his with- in domes; fo doth fine alfo to others abroad: as betides the family, verf. a7.28.to thepoore and needie,verf.:o. And this I take ( not excluding the other)ro be here meant efpecially, as a mofi comfortable and fweete vernie; without which that holy inllitution of marriage would prooue no better then an beau); burthen and tnoleftation. Subiefl- vote, their husbands, Marriage in is felfe,although it be neither vertue nor vice,but a thing indifferenr,yet is it a (hoppe ofeither,according as are the qualities and praEtife ofperlons in this condition : and therefore this is the feauench marriage vertue, prefcribed veto the younger women :- whereof there is great reafon and neceflitie. Fit , if we confider the lave of creation written by Gods owne finger in the hearts ofmen, vied in all nations, and enaEled by the natut ail light ofheathens in thepubliquelawes, that the wife fhould be fubie& voto her owne husband, or as the words e/L'- hafiuerofrshis law tonne, that emery manfhould heart rule in his owne haufe. This is one reafon ofourApo(ile, t.Tim.2.3. Adam wasfir'? created, and then Eue, and therefore Adammutt befoperiour t CO which if it beeeb,e- Ited, that therefore the birdsand beafis fhould be preferred beforeboth, becaufe they were created before either: the Aiifrer is, that there is not the fame reafon, becaufe the Apoftle fpeaketh of the famekind, and not of diuerfe. a. The Apofile prooueth not Adams fuperioritie fo much from the order, as from the endeof creation of thewoman; which was tobe an helper and comfort vnro him. Now in reafon, whatfoeuer fer- siech to any ende, is leiTe then the end to which itferueth: but Eue was made for Adam, and not Adam for Eue, yea (he was made of him, and not heof her, and therefore euen in innocenciewas thee fubie&unto A_ dam;rhough then without griefe andmoleftaciou,which afterward came in by finne. Secondly, confider Gods law and inflitutionafter the fall: Gen. 2. r6. Bb 3 Thy 391 Proa.ro.r ;. t.y. 3 Protios.r. Geo 2.18. Women mull be (timed to their husbands, Why. I Ett.s.tasa. Ars s Cuperiori. ty was noPut of themoues ,punithmens, ê
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