Chap.19. according to St M A T T x E vv. 477 ther fellowfhip. Husbands fhould be gentle to their wives, be- caufe of their weaknefle : glades are nothardly handled ; a (mall knock loon breaks them. But here are anumber ofNaha's, a brood of Caddeans, a bitter and furious nation that have little growing in their furrows but wormwood; they have a true gall of bitternefle in them, Col.3.2o, whereas the eery heathens at their weddings, pulled the gall out ofall their good shear, and calf it away; teaching thereby the married couples what to doe. And God Almighty profeflzth that hehates puttingaway : threatning alto to cutoff fuck unkinde husbands, as by their harfhnelTe cautèd their wives whtn they shouldhave been ch&arfull in Gods fervices, to cover the Altar of the Lord with tears, with weeping andwith crying out, fo that he regarded not the offering any more. 7Picrs efiz imago ingr.tí mariti, faith c Welanahon. The Pyanit is an emblem of an unkinde husband : for in autumn he carts off his mate,left he fhouldbe forced to keep her in winter : afterwards,in the fpring,heallures her to him again, and makes much ofher. Vale9. Except it be for fornication.] This fin diffolves the marriage-knot, and directly fights againft humane tociety. See the notes on Match. Is .3 a. and on 74.8.5. The Apoftle adds the cateof wilfull detertion, r Cor. 7. Thecivil Laws of the Em- pire permitteddivorce for diversother caufes. In Tnrkty the wo- man allay fuea divorce only then, when her husband would abufe her againft nature, which fhe doth, by taking off her (hoot before the Judges,and holding it the foleupward,but (peakingnothingE'er the ti,uineffe ofthe fad. Verle io. If the cafe of a man be fo with his Wiry ] vit. That he may not ridhis hands of her when he will ; better bemarried to a quarcan ague then to a badwifee,taid Simonides. It is not good to marry] It is norevil to marry, but good to be wary; to lookere oneleap. Alinqui faliens antequarts vii:-at, cafurus eft antequim debeat, as8.rnardhathit. Mott tnen,as there Ditciples look not to the commodities but difcommodities of wedlock, and other things, and are dilcontenced. But as there be twokindes of antidotes againft poilon, viz. hoc and cold : fo againft the troubles of life, whether Tingle or married, viz. Pray- er and Patience, the one hoe, the other cold, thevane quenching, the other quickning. Vale r r . 411 Men Banner receive this laying ] Nor may we limply pray for the gift ofcontinency, but withfubcnifizon, fish it Ii Tön, 21miY ff xoV7ES av. klutaro Malach. s.i3. Nqvell.t zrr. v.g. $loUntt voyavc iatu Levant. gern Je box. defer.
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