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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00554	Counsel to the husband: to the wife instruction A short and pithy treatise of seuerall and ioynt duties, belonging vnto man and wife, as counsels to the one, and instructions to the other; for their more perfect happinesse in this present life, and their eternall glorie in the life to come.	Ste. B.	1608 (1608)	STC 1069; ESTC S118841	33,892	104

to enforce the euill of contention by discouering the cause and fault therof that by wisdome it may be preuēted or with speed remoued which being absolutelie I meane the fault of contending in the wife she must of necessitie take care to remoue it or beare the blame thereof Neither yet is it a vile estate whereunto the wife is thus subiected as partly hath bin shewed though her will and desire bee both captiued neither yet the ●ight way for her to relieue her selfe if the burthen be too heauie to contend for ease For as the husband may lawfully if he will impart his authoritie with his wife which who so doth not is not wise if his wife bee virtuous and fit to vse it so yet it behooueth her to take the best course to obtaine and winne it Now contending as hath been proued is absolutely denied her what then may compasse it Surely her subiection shall get her gouernment True subiection the right vvay to rule and her obedience rule the more subiect the greater power shall shee obtaine and the more humble in her obediēce the more libertie shall she win If therefore there were not an euill spirit a corrupt nature to blind the wife rather with the wind to contend by force for her will then patiently with the sunne to gaine it by virtue and diligence they might much more preuaile for rule and gouernment then by the warre of contention Contention consumeth loue which consumeth loue I will giue that by intreatie which by constraint I will not and remit a debt Matth. 18.26 if the debter craue patience whereas if he be insolent he may rot in prison for it why then do not wiues consider this that virtue rather then violence submission then contention refusing then vsurping patience then stubbornnes will more preuaile for peace in their fellowship and libertie to their will then al their crossing inuentions can euince and conquere But what if no grace or virtue will preuaile to whom then are they subiect if the husband be vnreasonable is it vnto man or vnto God I say vnto God The threefold pledge 1. To loue 2. To cherish 3. To obey and vnto his ordinance to whom shee sweareth obedience in the mariage knot Now out of all this deare friend I shall neede no great exhortation vnto you to imbrace this wisedome seeing the course I prescribe is not onely the euidence of the word of God but in all sense and reason both the easiest the faithfullest and most honorable for the wife yea of both good and bad it is most commendable except some rare woman for wickednes that excelleth other For was there euer commendation giuen to Sarah aboue her obedience of whom the holie Ghost saith 1. Pet. 3.6 That shee obeyed her husband and called him Lord whose meeke and quiete spirit opposed to the contentious spirit the Apostle saith Vers 4. is a thing much set by of God Whose daughters saith hee againe yee are whiles yee do well Vers 6. not being affraid with any terror Or is there a more odious reproch vnto a wife whoredome set aside which dissolues the knot how much more then when whoredome and contention are met in one I say is there a more shamefull reproch vnto the wife then to bee Salomons contentious woman of whom wee spake before Prou. 6.33 there can be no greater that euerlasting blot excepted for that it ouerthroweth the virtue of the wife prooueth her to haue neither meeke nor quiet spirit but froward insolent and contentious Which meeknes quietnes if it be as the Apostle auouched a thing of God so much set by then needes must frowardnes and contention bee vnto him most detestable and so consequently that which is so odious to God and so offensiue to man as to stand vnder the dropping of a gutter must needes be a diuellish nature and a reprochfull qualitie Prou. 12.4 But saith Salomon the virtuous wife is a crowne to her husband shee will doe him good and not euill Prou. 31.12 and that not a day or twaine but in an vnwearied course all the daies of her life giue her therefore the fruit of her hands and let her owne workes praise her in the gates Now in all the subiection that I haue spoken of in the wife I haue meant no seruil subiectiō or dutie but dutie with a kind of equalitie and equalitie with reuerence For the dutie Obedience according to degree or word of obedience is very large and generall and must bee considered according to his degree There is the seruants dutie the sons dutie and the wiues dutie The sonnes differeth from the seruants dutie because the seruant abideth not in the house for euer whereas the sonne being heire shall inherit and abide His obedience is with loue the seruants with feare The wiues dutie or obedience also differeth from the sonnes and is by degree more excellent in that it is graced and seasoned with a kind of equalitie being fellow heires as Peter saith or heires together of the grace of God 1. Pet. 3.7 to whō the holy Ghost there commandeth honour as to the weaker vessell that is by honour hee meaneth tender regard as not to prouoke or discourage but as a vessell so profitable for vse and as the weaker vessell so with wisedome to be gouerned And this putteth a difference also and exceedeth the sonnes obedience in boldnes in kindnes and in equalitie 1. Cor. 7.4 The husband saith the Apostle hath not power ouer himself but the wife so then the wise hath that interest in and ouer the husband the faithfull and dutifull wife I meane which neither the seruant nor son can require nor the husband impart with any other Hitherto you will say I haue wholly as it were intreated of the dutie of the wife And you will further say I haue laid loade vpon their shoulders who are the weaker vessels longing it may be to heare the dutie of the husband in like sort set forth to see what bonds he is to bee tied withall in his conuersation to his wife It is true that the further our duties are discouered vnto vs the more grieuous and tedious it doth seeme vnto vs each delighting to heare rather the others dutie then their owne and proper dutie the husband is pleased when the wiues dutie is extended to the vttermost and the wife likewise when the husbands is enlarged Jt is a good token of a good spirit to delight in the ●earing of our ovvne duties especially but this is no good signe either of a good husband or a virtuous wife The better husband the more hee delighteth to see and vnderstand both the properties of the good husband that hee may the better follow them and the qualities of the bad husband that he may auoid them The good wife likewise hath her eyes bent to the things that may be excellent that her obedience may bee perfect