EpifileofS. Paulto Tikes. CHAfa z.s. his loue entire;and fo may the husband. Anf. Chrifl is not thehusband 397 onely,but anabfolute King. z. Anhusband may checke,and correbt by admonition, and reprehenfion ; but toproceed CO blowes is unwarran- table , beeing fuck entire companions, and ofthe fame flefh; yea, con- demned by theFathers, the cuill lawes, and the Heathen writers them- felues. But what if the wiues malice be defperate, and incurable? tAnf. Taken thy croffe, make good vfe of it , beare as much as poffrbly thou eantt, waite and applie God for her returne. a. Where thou canti not beare (prouiding that offence by all pofiblegood meaner be auoided, and publike peacenot interrupted) the nextremedy is the Magiftrate:. but between husband and wife, both tyrannical'rule,andcompulttue o bedäence, ought to be banifhed. Contrary to this free fubie&ion , is the commonvice ofwiues,which is tobeproud,as Vafhti,not enduring the aa,.t7 gouernment of husbands; but by vncomely geflures and vnfharnefafh lookes,and fometime by hate andbitter anfwers , bewray the vnquiet- nes of their fpirits,when once their ovine wills are croffed: farm are they from that meeknes and quietnes of fpirit,which Peter prefcribcd,as the moll comely attire for women ; who ought fcarce to giue themfelues leaue tobe out of quietwith others in the family, in the husbands pre- fence,leati he be vnquieted,orany way offended. ,7hat theds±ordofGod benot iiifpoken of.-] There words containe a general' reafon ,enforcing thenecefhary peal etife of all theformer duties. By the wordof God, is meant the doElrine 1 of the Gofpel,taught,recefued, and profelfed by beleeuers in all ages; which holy Gofpel as it is glorious in it feif,foought the glory &honor out tobe preferued, yea and aduanced in all that looke for faluation from it ; and therefore uoChrifftian may become fomuch as an occafion of reproach veto it.. And whereas the word is blafphemed , either by the words or.deeds of profeffors , the fccond is here aimed at: our Apo - fileconcluding that then the doCìrin of theGofpel is blafphemcd,when the life of the profsffor is net tuned voto that dofirine.And yet further, whereas the life ofa profeffor is vntuned unto thedoctrine two wayes, eitherby doing that which is prohibited,or els by not doing that which is prefcribed; the latter is here efpecially condemned : namely,a life idly ledde in regard of Chrihian praaifes : for the Apoflie hath not fo di- re&ly reprooued vices,asrequired inwomen the pract'tfeofall thefore- named vertues, vpon this ground , /4°4 the word bee eullfpoken of: no- ting vuta.vs hereby , that a Chriflian fhould be fo farre freed from the pow.r of finne,as that tobe idle or negligent in the worke ofthe Lord, is too finnefull in fuck a one. Doter. 1?rofeffion without praétiCe, ftriketh not only the perfon pro- __ feffing, s
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