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lord_n	daughter_n	father_n	son_n	10,765	5	4.8829	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13636	The seconde book of Tertullian vnto his wyf, translated into Englyshe, wherei[n] is co[n]teined most godly cou[n]sel how those that be vnmaryed, may chose vnto them selfes godly companyons, and so to liue quyetly in this world and blessedlye in the worlde to come; Ad uxorem. Book 2. English	Tertullian, ca. 160-ca. 230.; Hooper, John, d. 1555.; Rhenanus, Beatus, 1485-1547. aut	1550 (1550)	STC 23916; ESTC S104898	18,381	70

couet to be aboue theyr reach they solicitate theyr frendes letters and boroweth many an honest cōmēdacion in their maysters or frēdes letters whiche they neuer pay after to the person that honest cōmendacions pertayneth I do not condemne nor disalowe y e reporte and lawde of an honest mā or woman nor thynke it not against the worde to make mencion trewly of the persones vertue and faculties that is wished for in matrymony as Abrahams seruaunte dyd so it be done trewly without fraude But in case the commendacions good will of the suter can not preuayle I would not that the commaundemente of anye frende that s●weth for an other shoulde forse or compell the free parson agaynst his or her will Nether where as this meanes can auayle with tortoure or compulsion of perswatiō to constrayne or induse the vnarmed and euel fēced minde of him or her that of it selfe for vertue coulde no way admitte suche a cōiunction and matrimonie If it be wel begon the lorde wil prosper it in grace and goodnes If the contrarye he wil sure at lengthe punishe it as it is to be seene how the whole worlde for violating of matrimonie was drouned Sodome burnte Amonge other faultes and crymes that brought the children of Israel into Captiuite the leste was not the breakynge of Mariage But it is not ynoungne to begynne Matrimony iustlye it must so contynewe and ende if it be of God This shall be donne incase boothe feare the Lorde and eche knowe his duetie to the other And to thende it may the better and soner be put in experience it shal not be a lost laboure al together for the christiane reader to see the godlye writynges of this olde and graue writer Tertulliane that here liued for 1340. sithens This seconde booke to his wife before foure yeres past I translated at the desyre of a godlye frende of myne beyng bothe then in a straunge countrie And when I had done in the translation I commended vnto hym the iudgment therof so that with his labours and myne he sende it into London to a godlye and vertuous widowe his mother by the lawe who thankefullye toke it for the tyme of her lyfe And sithens her departure the godly man hath geuen the same godlye councell to others that be vnmaried And now wishyng good to al through this realme that he cannot speake withal thought it good to commit the same for a farther vse therof to the prynte Prayinge god that it maye do asmuche good to all vnmaried maried persones as bothe he and I most hartely praye for in the Lorde Amen ¶ A leter directed vnto a certayne godlye and vertuous wyddowe of London wrytten by the husband of a daughter of hers RYghte wourshypful and intierly beloued mother with moste erneste and hartie desire I besech oure heuenlye father almightie God for to encrease the knowledge of his deare sonne our sauiour Iesus Chryste in you And thorowe hys holy spyryt the trewe comforter for to assyst and comfort you in thys your present heuynesse for the departīg of my good father your husband and to councell you what is beste for you to do in the estate that ye be now in c. For as for my comforte or counsell specyallye which ye desyred to haue is ouer slender for to do you anye greate good in so waightye a matter Neuer thelesse good mother oute of the loue that I do beare vnto your soule healthe specyally and consyderynge howe muche I am bounde vnto you Firste for giuynge of youre consente that I myght mary your doughter my beloued wyfe Then for the greate kyndenesse to your greate coste charge that ye haue shewed vs two in the keping and ouerseinge of oure sonne in our absence and for manyfolde other benefytes and pleasure donne vnto vs by oure good father your husbande and you at diuers times besydes I haue caused a good frende of myne here mayster Iohn Hoper for to traunslate and wryte out in to Englyshe a lytle treatyse compiled in lattin by that very chrysten and godly doctor Tertulian a Martyr also of Iesus Christe as some do wryte now aboute .xiii. hundred and lxxxx yeares agonne And so muche the soner haue I sente you the saide treatyse rather then annye other thynge gathered after myne owne mynde oute of the holy scriptures because that no man should dryue you from the folowing of the same as from a new found doctryne deuysed but yesterday out of some fonde fellowes brayne For y t is one of the cauylacyons where with the dyuell goeth aboute for to let the goynge forwarde of the verytie manye tymes euen for to mou emen to beleue that the olde truth is the new learning yea newe fangled heresy and I wote neare what The occasyon why I haue nowe sente you this aforesaide treatyse called the seconde boke of Tertulian vnto hys wyfe And not rather translated hys fyrste boke in whiche he instructeth hys wyfe howe she shoulde behaue herselfe and order her lyuing after hys death Is that in his sayde firste boke or treatyse he exhorteth her for to contynewe styll a widdowe in any wise yea and that requireth he of her so earnestely so straightely that he but in y t no doubte he erryed greatly semeth plainly to affirme and to go aboute to make her beleue that yf she maryed againe with any man she shoulde commyt synne But here in thys other treatyse he semeth after my mynde rather by declarynge vnto her what maner of husbande y t she shoulde chose to her to say none other but a very Christen and godly person if that after she were once free frō the yoke of matrymony she had not the gyfte of god to folowe S. Paules counsell whiche is to abyde styl vnmaried and not to seke another husbande yf she wer once losyde from one and not in daunger of fornicacion thorow the burning incontinencye of the corruptyble fleshe But now I doubte not but that if some mā should heare this saide treatise reade vnto you he woulde saye by and by what madde fole sente this boke vnto you as a thynge that ye shoulde folow c. This exhortacion serued for the christen wemen of Tertulyans tyme when they inhabyted the whole world ouer here aud there amongest the infideles and heathen and for suche as do dwell amongest the Turckes and Iewes nowe in our dayes And not for any Uirgins or widdowes in oure kinges grace hys realme where as be none other to take but onely christen if a woman wyl mary any man at all That is truth in dede yf all men were trew christen that beare the holy name of Chryste But oure sauioure hym selfe saythe Math .vii. Entre in at the strayte gate for wyde is the gate and brode is the waye that leadeth to distruccyon and many therbe which go in thereat But strayght is the gate and narrow is the waye whych leadeth vnto lyfe and fewe therebe that fynde