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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	husband_n	wife_n	woman_n	4,471	5	7.1539	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88370	Little non-such: or, Certaine new questions moved out of ancient truths. I. concerning the words, let us make man after our own image. II. Whether that was a materiall apple which Adam did eate III. Whether the forbidding of marriage be not a Popish injunction onely, and not rightly grounded from the Scripture. Newly published with intent to finde out the truth if it be not here already.		1646 (1646)	Wing L2552; Thomason E353_8; ESTC R3620	12,656	16

neerest kindred which they were commanded was the cause but most certaine their hardnesse of heart infidelity and idolatry which was forbidden For was not Moses the meekest man and Aaron the sonnes of Amram who married Jocabed his Aunt The next place that seems to fortefie this opinion against all opposition is that of Judagh and Tamar his daughter in law which you have in Genesis 38. throughout the whole Chapter there shall you finde the wilfull and unnaturall trespasse of Onan in refusing to performe the kinsmans duty and therefore the Lord destroyed him but what shall we thinke of Judahs intention can we approve of it no verily he tooke her for * Judges 12.6 a Harlot yet was the sincerity and integrity of Thamar so sublime that from her Issue Vers 15. upon that conjunction came the Saviour of the world for from Phares descended Boas David and consequently our Saviour Jesus Christ according to the flesh and now old Judah could say because I have not performed what I ought of my part she hath been more righteous then I. Well yet let us object Levit. 18. the prohibition there with the glosse upon the Text entituled unlawfull marriages but we suppose it is a Popish glosse and of purpose mis-interpreted to increase his coffers for it will appeare hereafter that the uncovering of nakednesse there mentioned is meant of fornication onely and not of marriage yet the Popes purse upon that pretence hath pickt up many large fees especially where the joyning of Kingdomes or Dukedomes together hath been sought more for politick ends and chiefly if his owne cause hath been interested then the parties owne particular liking But now who is so ignorant to believe that any sinfull man can dispense with what God hath commanded or forbidden In the beginning men gave gifts and presents for fit wives of their owne Linage as appeares * Gen. 24.22 where Abrahams servant gave Rebecca the Earings and the Bracelets now since mens owne covetousnesse or the Popes have forbid such wives as is most naturall the custome is to barter and exchange for strangers so much money so much land c. as you doe for other things in fayre or market But to returne the Answer to the foresaid prohibition in Leviticus 18. is that the many Lawes given in that booke were not perpetuall but onely given to busie the minds of the children of Israel for that present and to divert their inclination from Idolatry unto which they were so subject from their deliverance out of Aegypt in their march to Canaan and perhaps for some other reasons known to men of learning for who doth believe it is not lawfull to eate Hare or Coney Swines flesh c. or to weare linnen and woolen plow with beasts of severall kinds with many other prohibitions whereof that Booke is full as well as in the degrees in kindred They were also peculiar to that people and therefore not binding elsewhere especially to Christians under the Gospel But to make the matter more cleare let us see how we can prove the prohibition in these degrees to be meant of Fornication as is formerly mentioned and not of the holy institution of marriage for instance in the foresaid 18 ch 16. ver it is said Thou shalt not uncover the nakednesse of thy brothers wife it is thy brothers nakednesse uncover the nakednesse marke that though the Pope and ambitious men would delude us the holy Ghost is very wary the Text here speaks not of marriage but uncovering nakednesse and now repaire to Deut. 25. vers 5. There you shall finde that if a brother die the wife of the dead shall not marry unto a stranger her husbands brother shall goe in unto her take her to wife and performe the duty of a husbands brother unto her The rest of the verses following shewes how disgracefully and with what reproach he was to be used that refused to perform this duty So you see there is a vast difference betwixt uncovering of nakednesse and taking to wife for else did not these two Texts controvert each other point-blanke if they were meant of one and the selfesame matter what is then the right exposition no other then this by uncovering of nakednesse is meant fornication as is formerly said which in kindred is utterly forbidden but the other Text in Deutronomy speakes expresly of marriage and taking to wife which is likewise in kindred as directly commanded One other gradation may here be added to wit that the taking of strange women was sometimes in custome for it was no wonder before nor after to see men have children by concubines which they kept besides their wives And the children of Israel were commanded to kill all the males among the Midianites but to keepe the women to themselves * Num. 31.18 we likewise read the Levite had by him two Asses sadled his concubine was also with him Judges 19. 10. but in regard that marriage is honourable and the free woman more Noble then the bond-woman that great duty we ought to performe to our next of kin for so did Abraham to Sara that was his wife and sister but his coneubine was Hagar the bond woman which Sara afterwards dealt hardly with and caused her to flie * Gen. 16. 6. Here we are to note that Sara the kinswoman was a Type of the true Church and Hagar the contrary Moreover you shall finde what curses were threatned to such as married with strangers out of their Tribes as namely they should be snares and traps unto them * Jesh 23. 12 13. scourges in their sides and thorns in their eyes with many other of this kind which whoso please to study may finde at large And that this practice of marriage with kindred was in use not onely before the prohibition in Leviticus already answered but eversithence and never forbid in the Law or Gospell for ought we can finde is the next thing we shall endeavour to prove alledging then some presidents after the foresaid booke of Leviticus perhaps omitting many we will begin with the marriage of the daughters of Selophabad who married with their kindred by the Lords speciall appointment * Num 36. Then the foresaid Text in Deutronomy touching the marriage of the brothers wife Ch. 25. v. 5. And Othinel the valiant man was rewarded with Achsah his next kinswoman who also obtained a further boon of her father * Judges 1. 13. The story of Boas and Ruth is worthy our observation it is so full of goodnesse and charity conducing also to our argument first we see that Naomy Ruths mother in law instructed her how to behave herselfe towards Boas that she might not be unprovided as knowing it seems the inflexible nature of her very next kinsman whereupon after Ruth had uttered these words unto Boas Spread therefore thy skirt over thy handmaid for thou art a neere kinsman Boas replied Blessed be thou of the Lord for thou