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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12984	A Bartholmew fairing for parentes to bestow vpon their sonnes and daughters, and for one friend to giue vnto another: shevving that children are not to marie, without the consent of their parentes, in whose povver and choise it lieth to prouide wiues and husbandes for their sonnes and daughters. Wherin is sufficiently prooued, what in this point is the office of the fathers and in like maner declared the part and duty of all obedient children. By Iohn Stockvvood, minister and preacher of Tunbridge.	Stockwood, John, d. 1610.	1589 (1589)	STC 23277; ESTC S105880	52,324	112

greatest stroke in this most holy and heauenlie action And like as mariage is begon enterprised in the feare of God according to his word there God is well pleased there the parties so matched liue together in a ioyfull agreement and liking the one of the other there God is honoured and serued in synceritie and truth there the children when God giueth them with the rest of the familie are instructed and brought vp in the knowledge of religion and grounds of faith so on the other side the regard of that which God especially cōmandeth being shut out of our mariages there must needes ensue his dislike and displeasure there is iar and discord there Gods honour is neglected there houshold-discipline and christian-instruction of such as belong vnto our chardge goeth vtterly to wracke and is nothing at all regarded And no marueil for if where God blesseth all thinges goe well and doe prosper then consequentlie where he curseth there nothing thriueth hath good successe or goeth happily forward Now if anie shall suppose that these speaches are but wordes of course carrie a gallant shew without any substance or proofe of matter pointing rather vnto such an order as we would haue or wish to be obserued in the matches of our children then shewing by good euidence that so it ought indeed and of right to be it is now time that we drawe somewhat neerer vnto the question the which vpon waightie consideration we haue taken in hand The principal drift and purpose of this Treatise by Gods assistance mean to prooue which is that children may not mary without the consent agreement of their parentes And this I hope shall in such sort be performed as that it shall plainlie appeare that not only the consent of father mother is chieflie requisite in the case of mariage but also in the former ages and more ancient times of this world alwaies declining from better to worse that the choise it selfe of wiues for the sonnes and husbandes for the daughters rested wholly in the power authoritie of the parentes insomuch that not onely the better sort of the children of the godlie referred the whole care of their bestowing this way vnto the prouident election of their fathers and mothers but the verie heathen themselues that were not altogether past grace and had cleane shaken of the yoke of dutiful obediēce would not so much as once vouchsafe to heare of the motion of any match for themselues in the state of wedlock except the choise of their fathers mothers had gon before First then I willay this down for the foundation whereupon the rest of the building shall be framed the which is granted and agreed vpon among all the learned namelie that howsoeuer the minde of man since and through the fall of our first parentes is blinded and darkened God hath planted certaine generall principles groundes of true thin the hearts of all men yet God hath left some smal general sparkles of light in the same the which the verie heathen haue acknowledged and receiued for vndoubted trueths and there is none so blunt and shameles that he can gaine say them as for example That we ought not to hurt or wrong any man That we must giue to euery one that which is his And which is the head and chiefe of all concerning our outward behauiour and such dealinges as vsuallie doe fall out betweene man and man Doe not that vnto another the which thou wouldest not haue to be done vnto thy selfe with many other such like the which we otherwise tearme The law of nature or of nations be cause they are naturallie engrauen and written in the heartes of all men Rom. 1.13 and approoued and receiued with the generall consent of all nations yea and that so far foorth that those which do violate and breake them were worthy of death as the bolie Apostle himselfe somewhere in wordes doeth testifie and witnesse if therfore it be a principle that no man doubteth of That we should doe as we would be done vnto and that we ought not to doe vnto others that thing the like wherof we would be greeued and offended they should doe vnto vs The first reason from the law of nature I appeale to the conscience of all gracelesse sonnes and daughters as now a ●aies the more is the pitie in too great multitudes betroth themselues in mariage without the priuitie nay against the will of their fathers and mother whether that they would take it in good part at the hands of their children if they should in like maner prouide themselues of wiues and husbands their good wil and consent being not first obtained before if there bee none hauing any conscience at all but that the same dulie examined euerie night when he goeth vnto his bed telleth him that he woulde not thus himselfe be serued let this rule then be sufficient to teach him that he also ought not to marie without the well liking and agreement of his father and mother Wouldest not thou whatsoeuer thou art that thy childe if thou carrie any fatherly mind towards him should in his matching and marrieng be aduised and directed by thee And darest thou affiance and assure thy selfe vnto an other in the most honorable and holie estate of mariage without the knowledge and counsell of thy father Thou thy selfe the more dearly and tenderlie thou louest thine owne childe the more deeplie wilt thou bee touched with griefe and sorrowe in thy verie innermost bowels and affections he if he bestowe himselfe contrarie to thy liking and can those that begat thee thinkest thou reioice and bee glad when thou hast wedded contrarie vnto their mind and good liking Doe therefore as thou wouldest be done vnto Marie with the consent of thy parentes as thou wouldest that thy children should doe with thine And as thou wouldest not that those vnder thy gouernment should ioin in matrimonie against thy will so in any case take heed that thou contract not thy self according to thine own pleasure but stay for the direction and good aduice of thy father for it is an hard matter to haue the testimonie of thine owne conscience to bee alwaies accusing thee that thou hast done amisse and contrarie vnto that obedience the which thou owest vnto thy superiours and lookest also that thy children should performe vnto thee Secondlie that these priuie contracts that is to say The second reason taken from the authority of parents ouer their children such as are made in secret or in corners or otherwise in place neuer so publique without the consent of the parents are not lawful may this way more plainly appeare if we weigh consider that children are not at their owne libertie disposition nor as they say their owne-men but vnder the authority and power of their parentes like as seruantes are at the disposing of their maisters Nay they are so much more bound vnto their fathers

all you that either be in trueth Christians or otherwise would so be taken and accounted know you that this custome of the parentes placing and bestowing their children in mariage is as hath bene shewed most ancient and commēdable yea and approoued by our Lord and Sauiour Christ himselfe also in the xx of Luke Luk 20.11 where going about to confute the errour of the Saduces the which if there were a resurrection which they denie did suppose that there must be also mariage he auoucheth it to haue bene the ordinarie practise of the men of those times to giue their children to be maried saieng The children of this world mary wiues and are giuen or bestowed in mariage 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●th to place 〈◊〉 bestow in marriage as the parents 〈◊〉 ●hē as they giue their children to be married for so doeth the verb 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which in that place hee vseth most properlie in the iudgment of the learned signifie And by the men of this world as well the wicked as the godly least that otherwise wee might thinke that mariage dooth not appertaine vnto the children of God if we should here take children of this world as opposite and sette against the children of light or of God as I confesse it must some times bee taken which in this place cannot be leaste it might seeme to giue some countenaunce vnto the error before recited So that hereby clearely appeareth that in the dayes of Christ 1589 yeares sithens and more this was an order generally obserued for the parentes in mariage to place and bestowe their children the which also Beza Beza saith that this place most strongly proueth the power authority of parentes in bestowing their children in mariage and Feguernekinus who hath profitably abridged Marlorat his common places doth note vpon this place Let not Christians therfore dislike of that which Christ himselfe after whom they are named seemeth to commend But let them rather knowing what God looketh for at their handes in due season prouide wiues for their sonnes and husbandes for their daughters least by forslowing the time too long they bee either preuented by their childrens to rash contracting themselues or otherwise to their greater sorrowe see them runne into more greater folly as it often commeth to passe when as the sonnes and daughters think that their fathers and mothers haue no care of them in this behalfe yea in this busines let them carrie so gentle an hand towarde their children that they themselues feeling best their owne estate when as they be come vnto years and discretion conuenient may if their childly modesty will suffer them deale with their parentes concerning this matter in an humble and reuerend manner by themselues or otherwise by the godly intercession of their friendes who at their motion may put their parentes in minde in time conuenient to haue care of these cases by meanes whereof many inconueniences and disorders shal bee met with ill before hand the which for want of this Christiā foresight on both sides do too vsually fall out to the dishonour of God and offence of his Church The end of all is that both the parentes and the children vnderstanding what God looketh for on both their partes in this busines set aside all caueling and cunning gloses to shake of this dutie For I will not trouble my selfe wyth aunswering these many and vaine obiections on this behalfe vsuall to bee alleaged on both sides but refer them ouer vnto the thorow shifting of their seuerall consciences in these actions according vnto that the which by this treatise they shall learne to appertaine vnto their seuerall duties that they may in sincerity and truth effect the same being desirous as purposedly to offend none so gladly in this point to satiffie al the which if it be not alreādy performed accordingly so far as the question taken in hand to proue requireth I will endeuour as I shall heareafter by any the godly be aduertised and labour God willing more fully and largely so far as in me lieth to set downe to the full contentment of all such as are not purposedlye resolued and determined in this cause to cauill thwartle and dissemble hoping that the godly shall profite to the perfourming of a necessary dutie yet of a great parte left vnperfourmed and the wicked bee made vnexcuseles when the accounts must be rendred before that iudge which sha●l geue sentence without regarde of the person of any whatsoeuer that shall coulorably seeke to withdraw his necke out of his lawful and dutifull obedience Wherefore in this duty or any other the which the warrant of God his word may iustifie howsoeuer the same in any respect may seeme strange vnto vs let it bee our continuall and most earnest praier to desire God to subdue our corrupt and carnall affections vnto his most holie will and godlie pleasure so far foorth as we shall haue his word the infallible lode-stone to direct and guide vs vnto the same for Christ his sake Amen LONDON Printed by Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harison the yoonger dwelling in Paternoster-row at the signe of the golden Ancher 1589.