Chap.19. aeca rding to St MA T T H E VV. which [till fatth a Divine,) God beareth fo great refpe , as that a tl cn he is pleafed tobear with, cover,and not impute the many frailties, f` follies, vanities, weakneffes and wickedneffes, that are found be- agti4 twixt man and wife. For this cafafe[hall a man leavefather] viz,, In regard of co- habitation,not offullentation : Relinquet eubile patris &matris, as the Chaldee rightly interprets ir, Gen.a.24. And this was the firth Prophecy that Was ever uttered in theworld ( faithTer tullian and geda,) venerable therefore for its antiquity : like as is 4fed cbroa. alto that firfc Hexameter, made by Phemonoe, in the year of the p- :g.gs. world, 358o-; . _.._....' 475 ßt1 7Ti ?J7? 9T' ötwat xfld.v tiltawstt , N4`4 And[hall cleave to his wife ] Gr. Beglued toher. A tablewill often cleave in the whole wood,before it will part afunder, where ati-rex, it is glued. A husband ought tobe as firm to hiswife as to himfelf. Seemy Notes on Gen.2. a4. And they twain (hall be oneflefb] This is point-blank againft polygamy, which yet Anabaptifts would bring in again,and Turks allow of. They learned it of Lamecb, qui primus unam cof%arn, in dual divifst, faithHierom, but had foon enoughof it. So had 7acob, Elkznah,and other holy menóf old, who livedand died in this finofpolygamy, andmeetly through rr iftake,as it is thought,. of that text, Lev.18,16. Thou fhalt not takea Wife to herlifter, to vex her : i. e. Thou [halt not fuperinduce one wife to another. Now the Fathers took the word ( Lifter) for one fo by blood,. whichwas fpoken ofa fitter byNation,as thofeclaufes(to vexher). and (during her lifi) doe evince. Verfe 6. They are no more twain] A mans wife is.himfelf,Eph 5,2 8. (as is likewite a manscountry, Lull 4 23. to cure his coun- sAray. trey is to cure himftlf) and they twain, faith our Saviour in the former verfe, [hall be Hs 1,ddv, into one flefb.. The man mìf- feth his rib, and the woman wouldbe in her old place again, under the mans arm or wing : Hence no' nth, till they be reunited and concorporated,Ruth.3,1. c.My daughter, faid Naaman to Ruth, fiauld 1 not feek reff fir thee, that it may be Well with thee ? Why. then tlhould there be divorces for light matters ? why fhouldthere bebeating of wives, and laying upon them ( as fome) with their unmanly fills ? Did ever any man hatehis ownflefh, Ephef.5. a . or but hide his eyes from it, Ifa.58.7 ? lammuch lefle tear it with his teeth, andpull it away piece-meal, unlef a it were m ad
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