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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68107	Of domesticall duties eight treatises. I. An exposition of that part of Scripture out of which domesticall duties are raised. ... VIII. Duties of masters. By William Gouge.	Gouge, William, 1578-1653.	1622 (1622)	STC 12119; ESTC S103290	610,068	716

the former treatise laid downe the foundation of all domesticall duties by expounding the words of the Apostle I purpose now distinctly to lay them forth in order beginning with the first and chiefest couple in the family Man and Wife Here we are first to speake of the persons who are to be accounted true and lawfull husband and wife and then of the duties which they owe each to other So as this Treatise consisteth of two parts 1. The first declareth who are man and wife 2. The second noteth out those common mutuall duties which they owe one to another First of the first Husband and wife are they who are rightly ioyned together by the bond of mariage Whereby two are made one flesh For the better cleering of this point we will consider both the parties that may be so nearely ioyned together and also the manner how they are rightly ioyned in so firme an vnity About the parties we are to search 1. Who may seeke a mate for mariage 2. What kinde of mate is to be taken 1. All they who are able without ineuitable danger to their yoake fellow to performe the essentiall duties of mariage may be maried Out of this proposition arise three questions to be discussed 1. Who are to be accounted able 2. What danger is ineuitable 3. Whether mariage be free for all but such §. 2. Of ripenesse of yeares in them that are to be maried 1. They are to be accounted able who haue past the floure of their age and are not by defect of nature or any other occasion made impotent 1. Ripenesse of yeares is absolutely necessary for consummating a iust and lawfull mariage wherefore as God at first made Adam of full age so when he sought out a wife for him he made her of full age too he made her a woman not a childe Where the Apostle aduiseth parents to take care for the mariage of their children he putteth in this prouiso if they passe the floure of their age Child-hood is counted the floure of age While the floure of the plant sprouteth the seed is greene vnfit to be sowen Quest How long lasteth the floure of age Answ The ciuill law and common law also set downe twelue yeares for the floure of a females age and foureteene of a males which is the least for before those yeares they can haue no need of mariage nor yet are well fit for mariage so as if they forbeare some yeares longer it will be much better for the parties themselues that marie for the children which they bring forth for the family whereof they are the head and for the common wealth whereof they are members Note the ages of the Kings of Israel and Iudah when they were first maried and we shall finde few of them to be vnder twenty and those few not aboue one or two yeares vnder and yet of all sorts of people the Kings did vse to marie the soonest that so they might haue heires betimes Obiect Salomon was but a childe when he came to the crowne and yet he had then a childe of a yeare old at least Answ He was said to be a childe not simply but comparatiuely in relation to his other brothers which were elder then he in regard of that great worke he was to vndertake In the time of his reign he is saidto be old which could not be if he had beene in yeares a childe when he began to reigne for he reigned but fortie yeares 2. Obiect Ahaz was but twentie yeare old when he began to reigne and reigned but sixteene yeares and yet when he died Hezekiah his sonne was fiue and twentie yeare old by which computation Ahaz had a childe when he was but eleuen or twelue yeare old at most 1. Answ Some say that this was extraordinary and render this reason Ahaz so young a father as Elizabet an old mother should haue hoped in Emmanuel of a virgin 2. Answ The beginning of that reigne when Ahaz was but twentie yeare old is to be referred to Iotham his father for Ahaz was twentie yeare old when he namely Iotham began to reigne as Iehoiachin was eight yeare old when he namely his father Iehoiachim began to reigne for Iehoiachin was eighteene when he himselfe began to reigne Obiect Iotham was but twentie and fiue yeare old when he began to reigne how then could Ahaz his sonne at that time be twentie Answ Iotham was fiue and twentie yeare old when his father Vzziah was strucke with leprosie from which time he reigned as King euen in his fathers life time But after his father was dead the kingdome was established to him alone after a more solemne manner in which respect it is said that then he began to reigne and then was his sonne Ahaz twentie yeare old Iotham himselfe being about fortie Contrarie to the forenamed fitnesse of age is the practise of such parents or other friends of children as make matches for them in their child-hood and moue them to consent and so cause them to be maried such mariages are mock-mariages and meere nullities For children cannot know what appertaineth to mariage much lesse can they performe that which is required of maried persons their consent therefore is iustly accounted no consent vnlesse they doe ratifie it after they come to yeares §. 3. Of impotent persons that ought not to seeke after mariage 2. They are to be accounted impotent and in that respect vnable to performe the essentiall duties of mariage who to vse the Scripture phrase were borne Eunuchs from their mothers wombe or by any accidentall occasion are so made as they who are defectiue or closed in their secret parts or taken with an incurable palsie or possessed with frigidity or any other such like impediment These ought not to seeke after mariage for by those signes of impotencie God sheweth that he calleth them to liue single Contrarie to this manifestation of Gods will doe they sinne who conceale their impotencie and ioyne themselues in marriage whereby they frustrate one maine end of mariage which is procreation of children and doe that wrong to the partie whom they marie as sufficient satisfaction can neuer be made §. 4. Of barrennesse that it hindereth not mariage Quest Are such as are barren to be ranked among those impotent persons Answ No there is great difference betwixt impotencie and barrennesse 1. Impotencie may by outward sensible signes be knowne and discerned barrennesse cannot it is not discerned but by want of child-bearing 2. Impotent persons cannot yeeld due beneuolence but such as are barren may 3. Impotencie is incurable but barrennesse is not simply so Many after they haue beene a long while barren haue become fruitfull and that not only by an extraordinary worke of God aboue the course of nature as Sarah and Elizabeth with whom by reason of age it ceased to be