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A10138	The schoole of honest and vertuous lyfe profitable and necessary for all estates and degrees, to be trayned in: but (cheefely) for the pettie schollers, the yonger sorte, of both kindes; bee they men or women. by T.P. Also, a laudable and learned discourse, of the worthynesse of honorable wedlocke, written in the behalfe of all (aswell) maydes as wydowes, (generally) for their singuler instruction, to choose them vertuous and honest husbandes: but (most specialy) sent writte[n] as a iewell vnto a worthy gentlewoman, in the time of her widowhood, to direct & guide her in the new election of her seconde husband. By her approoued freend and kinseman. I.R.	Pritchard, Thomas, fl. 1579.; Wied, Hermann von. Brefe and a playne declaratyon of the dewty of maried folkes.; Kingsmill, Andrew, 1538-1569. Viewe of mans estate. Selections.	1579 (1579)	STC 20397; ESTC S115267	56,077	90

of him Christe only is her romfort ioy and all togeathers vpon Christe is hir thought daye and night shée longeth onely after Christ for Christes sake if it may serue to his glory shée is hartely well contented to die yee shee giueth ouer her selfe wholly therto for Christes loue knowing assuredly that hir soule hir honour body lyfe and all that she hath is Christes owne Thus also must euery honest Wife submit hir self to please hir Husband with all hir power and giue hir selfe fréely and willingly to loue him and obey him and neuer to forsake him till the houre of death And farther sayth S. Peter Let the Wiues be in subiecton to their Husbandes that euen they which beleeue not the worde may without the worde be wonne by the conuersation of the Wiues while they beholde your pure conuersation coupled with feare whose apparrell shall not bee outward with brodred haire and hanging on of Golde either in putting on of gorgious apparrell but let the hid man of the harte bee vncorrupt with a meeke and quiet spirit which spirit is before God much set by for after this manner in the olde time did the holy Women which trusted in God tire themselues and were obedient to their Husbandes euen as sara obeyed Abraham and called him hir Lorde whose Daughters ye are as long as ye do well And Paule speaking vnto Tytus sayth hée Let the elder Women be in such apparrell as becommeth holinesle not beeing false accusers not giuen to much Wine but that they teache honest thinges to make the young Women sober minded to loue their Husbandes to loue their Children to be discrete chaste huswifely good obedient vnto their Husbandes that the worde of God be not euill spoken of VVhat a Wife ought to bee HEre may you learne that a Wife ought to be discret chaste huswifely shamefast good méeke pacient and sober not light in countenance nor garishe in apparrell with dyed or curled haire painted nor pasted but with a cumly grauitie and a sad behauiour of a constant minde true tongued and of few wordes with such obedience in all godlynesse to her Husbande and head as it beseemes a Christian to haue vnto Christ and to the intente that the Husband in like case may learne his duetie let him harken what Sainct Pawle sayth and take heede that hee turne not his authoritie to tyranny The dutie of the Husband to his Wyfe HVsbandes loue your Wiues sayth hée as Christ loued the Congregation and gaue him selfe to sanctifie it Now must you vnderstande that the Husbande is the Wiues head as Christe is the head of the congregation and Christ showeth to the congregation the same thinge that the head showeth to the bodye for like as the head seeth and heaveth for the whole body studieth and deuiseth for to preserue it in strength and life euen so doth Christe defend teach and preserue his congregation For hee is the eye hart wisedome and guide therof so ought Husbands then to loue their wines be their heads in like manner to show them like kindenesse and after the same fashion to guide them and rule them with discretion for their preseruacion not with force or wilfulnesse to intreat them And S. Pawle saith farther So ought men to loue their wiues as their owne bodies he that loueth his wife loueth himself For no man hath at any time hated his owne flesh but doth nourish and cherish it euen as the Lorde doth the Congregation Therfore ought euery man most fernently to loue his wife equally with himselfe in al pointes for this is the measure of mutuall loue Matrimoniall that either partie haue nothing so deare that they can not be contented to bestow one vpon another ye and if neede should be they should also not spare their owne liues one for another no more then christ did for his congregation And like as when we repent and beléeue in the promise of God in Christ though we were neuer so poore sinners are as ritch as Christ al merites ours so is a Woman though she were neuer so poore afore she was maried as ritch as hir husband for all the he hath is hirs ye his owne bodye and hath power ouer it as saith Sainct Pawle And if it so chaunce that you finde not your wife so perfect in al pointes as you would or as your selfe yet must you not dispise hir nor bee bitteer nor cruell vnto hir for hir faultes but gently and louingly seeke to amend and win hir For like as Christe thought no scorne of his church dispised hir not neither forsooke hir for hir vncleanenes and sinnes so should no christian man spurne at his wife nor set light by hir because that sometime she falleth offendeth or goeth not right but euen as Christ nourisheth and teacheth his church so ought euery honest husbande also louingly and gently to informe instruct his wife For in many things saith S. Peter God hath made the men stronger then the women not to rage vpon them to be tirantes vnto them but to helpe them beare their weakenesse Bee curteous therfore saith hée and win them to Christ and ouercome them with kindenesse that of loue they may obey the ordinance that God made beetwéene man and Wife Oh how ashamed be those men to loke vpon this texte which with violence in their furye will intreate their wiues no beast so beastly for in the most cruelst way is not mete as when the wife is sad and disquieted then with spiteful wordes and wanton fashions so prouoking hir to anger Where it is not the dutie of the husband but rather ashamed to his owne head likewise it is worship for a man to haue the feare of the Lorde before his eyes that he prouoke not the plague of vengeance Let vs therfore haue humilitie in our hartes For as a wise man loketh well to his owne goinges euen so pleasant are the wordes spoken in due season which moueth the woman in hir wrath vnto patience whereof Salamon sayth Faire wordes are an Hony Combe a refreshinge of the minde and a health of the bones For it is seldome seene that any beast is found in the cruelst rage that the Male doth euer hurte his Female and how vnnatural a thing is it for a man to hurt his owne flesh and body Who will violently reuenge himselfe yea on his foote if it chaunce to stumble but wil not rather if hee haue an yll bodye cherish it to make it better The strong saith S. Pawle ought to beare the frailenesse of the weake let one suffer with another beare ye one an others burden and so shall ye fulfill the lawes of Christ and aboue all thinge sayth S. Peter Haue feruent loue amongst you for loue couereth the multitude of faultes So that loue in all things and at all times ought to bee the whole doore and only instrument to worke and frame all things betwéene man and wife VVhat the Husband ought to

is Virilitie in Latten called vir to the whiche worde addinge a sillable tus Vertue is denominated as of Vir Vertue In this age Vertue must abounde for yeres yelde courage the minde is fit to further out Vertue In this age man must be fully clothed with the habite of Vertue as Prudence Iustice Temperance and Fortitude Prudence to instructe him to season his speeche there with to recorde déedes doone to dispose present affayres to suruey prudently all his businesse in his vocation to commendable ende For it is the parte of an vndeseréete man to say I had not wist or to prooue a Troian wise too late Terence saith in Adelph It is a poincte of wisdom not to looke to present but to foresee future casualties Iustice shal schoole him to pacience concorde humanitie faithfull dealyng the grounde of Vertues Temperance to obserue a meane in all enterprises sobrietie modestie and chastitie Fortitude not of body but of couragious minde and valiaunt stout stomacke to countenance forth the fury and fiercenes of fawning fortune with a goodly grace beeing pittifully pinched with pouerty especially to kepe vnder foote wicked wrath odious indignatiō of mad meaning mindes with rules of reason Plato adiudged him most valiaunte that coulde gouerne him selfe spurred to anger The last Caueat and rule rated for virilitie is so to behaue him selfe as he wisheth to bée estéemed of accompted and to labour to leade his life in loyall league of honestye hatinge accesse to the hatefull hue that dighteth man with dire defame and spiteful spots of stayned stem of liuing Olde Age béeing the sixt and last leaue taking for the excellent experience and trim tryall had in expired lot of life must be so furnished with the guiding gouernaunce of Prudence that they so compasse all and singuler their affaires in such wise and subtill forte as younge impes may be instructed therwith Cicero reporteth that olde men in his dayes were so expert and skilful in the common wealth that the guided and gouerned the same without any cause of strife or occasion of Warre Romulus the bountifull builder of Rome chose an hundreth olde Fathers whom of Senectus he called Senates to rule the same that their christall like lyuinge might bee an excellent example of prooued probitie to the youth thereof and they as Princely pictures and Images of honourable honesty had highted homage of surueyinge the same And although they knew this yrkesome age to bee rotten ripe to season and dounge the ground yet least the nature of man inthraled to the soueraignties of subtill Sathan shoulde bee blinded therewith they had ꝓrotrahed vppon their Iudiciall Seates this Posie Remember man that thou art but dust daily drawest on thertoo Further there was an olde withered wretch paynted resemblinge these bendinge backes to imbrace their Mother the ground ready to the graue that beholdinge it they might not choose but execute Iustice aright The view of olde age kept them backe from pinching the poore or iniuringe their Neighbours they followed Horace his good aduice for deprauinge them selues of worldly blisse they gyrded them to their Graues daily expecting the onset of dolefull Death What decencie is due to God and honestie towardes all men Chap. 4. THe true tutche of Vertue doth not consist in the knowledge and science therof but in exhibiting the same to reclaime the retchlesse or rather the gracelesse Groomes that flowrish the Flag of Vices and sinne And Cicero sayth in dooinge thereafter which maintayneth the stay and state therof Séeinge therefore that the excellent essence and beautifull béeing of vigent Vertue consisteth in action and daily déede of honesty I will shew how the actes of man haue their course or ought to bee directed towardes God and man and euery sortes of people Vertuous obeysance towardes God. HOnesty towards God martired for the wicked transgressions of spightful meaning man cruelly crucified rufully racked lothesomly lashed with stinginge stripes by lewde forlorne sinners consisteth in prayer and pietie towardes his personage in humble inthralment to his mercy crauinge at his handes to washe and mundises with the Well water of meare mercy our soule soncke by reason of the fraight of sinne and surge of sorrowes to the pit of Perdicion and gapinge gulfe of dread and dampnation To request with trickling teares as Dauid did that hee of his benignant beautie will rid vs of that heauy heritage and duetie due by our rufull race runned from the stocke of Adam Lactantius in his thirde Booke ascribeth vs a seconde duetie or seruice towardes our Sauiour That is to bée feruent in his cause reuealers of true Religion and publishers of practiced pietie For this onely cause and seruice to God were wee borne and created was learning inuented and all things fashioned and framed of Christ In this is wisedome as Liuie and Valerius witnesseth and as Paule teacheth and all other thinges vayne and transitorious ¶ Our dutie towardes man. CHriste in his Gospell saith Loue the Lorde thy God and thy Neyghbour as thy selfe By which we learne that the first duetie is to him wards The second towards mankinde Lactantius listning to the wordes of the Gospell affirmeth the first function of Iustice to be due to God the second to man which beeinge so if a man waxe cruell to his Brother or tirannously tire him with vexacions greefes or other anxieties of minde let him perswade him selfe to bee forsaken of God his Sauiour and to soiorne in the daungerous Denne of Dampnation least wee should be ignoraunt of our duetie Paule that precious Pearle of the Church and posting Preacher of God sheweth that wée must cloath the naked harbor the vagrant bury the dead féede the hungrie visite captiues with comfort giue drinke to the tirstie which forrunners of fayth bringeth blisse to the faithful soule of man In dooing these thinges wee should prooue our selues second Gods kinde and curteous amorous fortherers of firme and fast fréendship one to another abhorring fightinge brawlinge spite enuie mallice as prouokers of death and frying in the Fornace of Sathan Towardes our natiue Countrey PHilolius in his fourth Booke affirmeth that the olde Philosophers did set more by their natiue soyle than by their Parentes Therfore Plato sayd that our Countrey chalengeth part of our life for we are borne to prosite the same and that fiue wayes The first in trauelling for the honour and ryal renowne of the same The instinct and inclination of nature foretelleth the same For if wee come in place where our Countrey is defaced by twatlinge mates or detected of crime Nature aduersant to such assertions wil boyle in man and the fresh floish of blood appearinge in mooued moode will bewray the same and cause conflictes of parties as often times it hath beene knowen the like accidentes to come to passe Secondly in instructing the same with politicke councell which I take to be addicted as perticuler function to Preachers who of nature ought to labour therein for

bee BY all this may yee geather and learne that the man is the head gouernour ruler instructer with gentil wordes and good example the prouyder defender and whole comforte of the woman and oweth vnto hyr most feruent loue and affection all gentle behauiour all faythfulnes and helpe all comforte and kindenesse as to him selfe his owne flesh and body so that vnder God there is no loue no affection no fréendship no nerenes of kin to be compared vnto this nor any one thing vnder the Sun that pleaseth God more thē man and wife that agrée well togeathers which liue in the feare of god And how can that bee more liuely expressed then in that that Iesus Christ the Sonne of God and the holy christian Church and the holy body of them both are set forth for an example or Mirror of the state of Wedlocke or coniugall loue a more holy a more godly and purer example could not be shewed Vndoubtedly this doth plainely show that loue Matrimoniall is most highly accepted afore God and the contrary must néedes folow the vnquietnes hatred strife brawling chiding and frowardnes in Mariage doth exceedingly displease God is clearely forbidden by Sainct Pawle where hée sayth Let all bitternesse fiercenesse and wrath roaringe and cursed speaking be put away from you be ye curteous and louinge one to another and merciful forgeuing one another euen as God for Christes sake forgaue you Surely it is an highe and pure loue perfecte and constant that God requireth to be betwéene maryed couples and therfore ought they by all wayes meanes and labour to get maintaine and increase this exceding loue and to eschue forbeare and cut of all things that might occasion any parte of the contrary What maintaineth loue and quietnesse in Mariage ANd vndoubtedly there is nothing that longer maintaineth concorde and quietnes nor more increaseth perfecte loue in Maryage then sweet and faire wordes gentle and fréendly déedes and with a louing patience to take all things to the best Fréely to breake their mindes togeathers and al things to be kept secret doth glad and willing to amend that is amisse and aboue all thinge not once one to heare yl of another for S. Pawle warneth you that ye giue no place to the backebiters but take them as yll willers to you both though that they be neuer so nere fréendes or kin And God sayth A man shall forsake Father and Mother and cleaue vnto his Wife and they two shal be one flesh which in like case is mente to the Woman Therfore ought no creature aliue to be in such estéemation credit fauour and loue as each of you with others Also to bee of a sober and temperate dyet doth much farther a good agréement and where the contrary is there is much vnquietnesse For Salomon askinge where is woe where is strife where is brawling euen amongst those saith hée that bee euer at the Wine therfore it is most cumly for christians to be temperate in dyet temperate in wordes temperate in déedes and temperate in all things so that at all times ye eschue al excesse and furfet rage and fury which makes no difference betwixt man and beast and all other things which may bréed any part of vnquietnesse For Salomon sayth Better is a dry morsell with quietnesse then a full house and many fat cattell with strife Therfore ought yee to exteeme and imbrace this concord and quietnesse as the maintainer and onely vpholder of the whole felicitie in Mariage which is engendred of feruent loue faithfulnesse and kindenesse and maintained by the same wherin ye ought continually to walke in all chastenes and purenes of liuing which assuredly shineth as a most precious thinge in the sight of God and in the commendacion of the same sayth The commendacion of Chastitie SAlomon in the Booke of Wisedome O faire is a chast generacion with vertue for it is with good men where it is present men take example therat and if it go away yet they desire it it is alwayes crowned and holden in honour and winneth the reward of the vndefiled Battel but the multitude of vngodly Children are vnprofitable and the things that are planted in whoredome shall take no déepe roote nor lay any fast foundacion though they be gréene in the braunches for a time yet shall they be shaken with the winde for they stand not fast and through the vehemency of the winde they shal bee rooted out for the vnprofitable braunches shall bee broken their fruite shal be vnprofitable sower to eate yée meet for nothing and why all the children of the wicked must beare recorde of the wickednesse of their Fathers and Mothers when they be asked but to the rightuous bee ouer taken with death yet shall hée be in rest Here may you sée how vile filthye and abhominable Adultery Fornication and Basterdy is and how high in estemacion a chaste life is amongst all good and godly folke and especially in the sight of God to whom no secreat sinne is hid That maryed folke ought to haue chaste manners and communication ANd as a chast louinge life in Mariage is most cōmended so ought ye to be of chast manners to haue chast talke and to eschue all wanton fashions vnclenly communication filthy handling and all vnséemelynesse and to be the speakers and very doores of all vertue and godlinesse for Sainct Pawle sayth Be ye folowers of God as deare Children and walke in loue euen as Christ loued you and gaue himselfe for vs an offering and a sacrifice of sweete sauour to God so that fornication and all vncleanenesse or couetousnesse bee not once named amongest you as becommeth Saincts neither filthy nor foolish talke neither iesting which are not cumly but rather giuinge of thankes for this ye know that whoremongers eyther vncleane persons or couetous persons which is the worshippers of Images shall haue any entrance in the kingdome of God and of Christe Of temperance in Maryage ALso there ought to be a temperance betweene man wife for God hath ordained mariage for a remedy or medecine to asswage the heate of the burninge flesh and for procreation and not beastly for to fulfill the whole lustes of the diuelish minde and wicked flesh for though ye haue a promise that the acte in mariage is no sinne if the man receaue his Wife as a guifte giuen to him of God and the Wife her Husbande in like case as ye haue a promise that yee sinne not when yee eate and drinke measurably with thankes giuinge yet if yee take excesse or vse it beastly vilely or inordinately your mistemperance make that yll which is good beeinge rightly vsed and that which is cleane yee defile through your abusinge of it God hath not called you to vncleanenesse but vnto holynesse sayth S. Pawle and farther sayth hée It is the will of God euen that you should bee holye and that euery one of you should know how to keepe his vessell in holynes and