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A18965	A godlie forme of householde gouernment for the ordering of priuate families, according to the direction of Gods word. Whereunto is adioyned in a more particular manner, the seuerall duties of the husband towards his wife: and the wifes dutie towards her husband. The parents dutie towards their children: and the childrens towards their parents. The masters dutie towards his seruants: and also the seruants dutie towards their masters. Gathered by R.C.	Cleaver, Robert, 1561 or 2-ca. 1625, attributed name.; Deacon, John, 17th cent, attributed name.; Carr, Roger, d. 1612, attributed name.; Cawdry, Robert, attributed name.	1598 (1598)	STC 5383; ESTC S108061	199,347	392

example of the Scriptures are many that proue this As Sarah who nursed Isaack Genes 22.7 though shee were a Princesse and therefore able enough to haue had others to haue taken that paines as also hauing bin a beautifull woman euen in olde age being of great yeares yet she her selfe nurseth and giueth suck to her sonne 1. Sam. 1.23 Also Anna whom the holy Ghost hath lest it recorded as a commendation vnto her for that she nursed her owne sonne Samuel So when God chose a nurse for Moses he led the Hand-maide of Pharaohs daughter to his mother Exod. 2.8 Iudg. 13.24 Cant. 8.1 Psalm 22.9 Matth. 2.14 Luke 2.7.12 as though God would haue none to nurse him but his mother Likewise after when the Sonne of God was borne his father thought none fit to be his nurse but the virgin his mother It is a commendation of a good woman and set downe in the first place 1. Tim. 5.10 as a principall good worke in a widow that is well reported of if she haue nursed her children And therefore such as refuse thus to doe may well and fitly be called nice and vnnaturall mothers yea in so doing they make themselues but halfe-mothers and so breake the holy bond of nature in locking vp her breast from her child and deliuering it forth like the Cuckoo to bee hatched in the Sparrowes nest 3. Again the childrens bodies be commonly so affected as the milk is which they receiue Now if the Nurse bee of an euill complexion and as she is affected in her bodie or in her minde or haue some hidden disease the childe sucking of her breast must needs take part with her And if that bee true which the learned doe say that the temperature of the minde followes the constitution of the bodie needes must it be that if the nurse be of a naughty nature the child must take thereafter Yet if it bee that the nurse bee of a good complexion of an honest behauiour whereas contrariwise Maidens that haue made a scape are commonly called to be Nurses yet can it not bee but that the mothers milke should bee much more naturall for the childe then the milke of a stranger As by experience let a man bee long accustomed to one kinde of drinke if the same man chaunge his ayre and his drinke he is like to mislike it As the egges of a Henne are altered vnder a Hawke neuerthelesse such women as be oppressed with infirmities diseases want of milke or other iust and lawfull causes are to be dispensed withall but whose breasts haue this perpetuall drought Forsooth it is like the gowte no beggers may haue it but Citizens or Gentlewomen In the 9. of Hosea verse 14. drie breasts are named for a curse What a lamentable hap haue Gentlewomen to light vpon this curse more then other sure if their breasts be drie as they say they should fast and pray togither that this curse might bee remoued from them 4. And lastly that it is hurtfull to the mothers themselues both Phisitions can tell and some women full oft haue felt how they haue beene troubled with sore breasts besides other diseases that happen to them through plentie of milke The wife is further to remember that God hath giuen her two breasts not that she should employ and vse them for a shew or of ostentation but in the seruice of God and to bee a helpe to her husband in suckling the child cōmon to them both Experience teacheth that God cōuerteth her blood into the milke wherwith the child is nursed in the mothers wombe He bringeth it into the breasts furnished with nipples conuenient to minister the warme milke vnto the childe whom he indueth with industrie to drawe out the milke for his owne sustenance The woman therefore that can suckle her child and doth it not but refuseth this office and dutie of a mother declareth her selfe to be very vnthankefull to God and as it were forsaketh and contemneth the fruit of her wombe And therefore the bruit beasts lying vpon the ground granting not one nipple or two but sixe or seuen to their yong ones shall rise in iudgement against these daintie halfe-mothers who for feare of wrinckling of their faces or to auoid some small labour doe refuse this so necessary a dutie of a mother due to her children The properties due to a married wife are that shee haue grauitie when shee walketh abroad wisedome to gouerne her house patience to suffer her husband loue to breed and bring vp her children courteous towards her neighbours diligence to lay vp and to saue such goods as are within her charge a friend of honest company and a greater enemie of wanton and light toyes 1. So then the principall dutie of the wife is first to bee subiect to her husband Ephes 5.22 Col. 3.18 1. Pet. 3.1 2. To be chaste and shamefast modest and silent godly and discreet 3. To keepe herselfe at home for the good gouernement of her familie and not to stray abroad without iust cause Srepfathers Stepmothers their duties Here it is not to be pretermitted but that we must say somwhat touching men and women that bee twise married and so become Step-fathers The Husband and Wife must so praise his first Wife and she her first Husband so as it be not done to the offence or reproach of either to the other Iealousie which is the suspecting of adultrie in the married parties ought wiselie carefully to be suppressed on both parties without apparant matter and Step-mothers Such husbands and wiues as marrie againe after the death of their first wiues or first husbands are carefully to remēber that they do not displease their wiues or their husbands which they now haue by ouermuch rehearsing of their first wife or first husband For the course condition of the world is such that husbands and wiues doe account and recouer things past better then things that be present And the reason is because no commoditie or felicitie is so great but it hath some griefe and displeasure and also some bitternesse mingled with it which so long as it is present grieueth vs sore but when it is one gone it leaueth no great feeling of it selfe behinde it and for that cause wee seeme to bee lesse troubled with sorrowes and discommodities past then with those that are present Also age stealeth and commeth on apace which causeth both men and women to be the lesse able to sustaine and indure troubles and griefes now then before Therefore such men and women as bee twise married and be wise and religious ought not to esteeme their wife or husband which is dead better then her or him which they enioy now aliue remembring the common prouerbe That we must liue by the quick and not by the dead and that wee must make much of that we now haue The very name of Stepfather and Stepmother teacheth them their dutie Let the name of

her out of which fountaine springeth this dutie that hee must beare with her infirmities and not by and by to enter into bitternesse and wrath Colos 1. Pet. 3.7 3.16 To the same end S. Peter exhorting husbands to behaue themselues discreetly and with knowledge and wisedome toward their wiues her requireth of them 2 things First that they neuer say nor do any thing that may iustly offend their wiues as some there be who being prodigall great spenders or idle and slacke in their businesse do cause their wiues and children to languish in pouertie Others who haunting Tauernes Alehouses and Gaming doe consume and waste that which should maintaine their familie Others who cōming home drunke doe beat and vexe their wiues and as it were driue them into dispaire Others who by vile bitter speeches by threatnings other vnchristian actions vnworthy a husband doe prouoke their wiues and so stirre vp such strife and debate as do conuert the cōfort of marriage into an hell Seeing therefore that the husband is head he ought in such wisedome reason and discretion to beare himselfe that he giue his wife no iust occasion of offence or prouocation yea he must remember that if the head be drunke the whole body is in danger of weake gouernment euen of lying in the myre Secondly that albeit the wife should minister iust cause of griefe and displeasure yet that the husband should not thereof take occasion against his wifes infirmities or enter into bitternesse tauntes or disquietnesse but discreetly and patiently beare with her that so they might quietly and louingly liue togither The hurt or weaknesse of any one member of the bodie prouoketh not the head to wrath or bitternesse but rather to compassion and an inclination to helpe it And indeed whereas God hauing created woman the weaker vessell as Saint Peter noteth did so ioyne her to man it was not to the end that hee striuing with so fraile a vessel should bruise and breake it but that by gentle and discreet intreating he should quietly enioy the helpe that God hath giuen him Let him therefore after the counsell of Saint Peter 1. Pet. 3.7 Gen 3.18 so respect her as one who albeit she be weake is neuerthelesse a profitable vessell for him Moreouer let him loue and honour her as one whom notwithstanding the frailtie of her sexe God hath so honoured and Jesus Christ so loued that being togither with man redeemed with his blood shee is togither with her husband coheite of life euerlasting A christall Glasse is a precious and profitable vessell yet brittle so is the married woman For albeit she be brittle yet is she profitable to her husband and precious in the sight of God as a child of God and member of Christ As therefore a man doth more carefully take heed of breaking such a glasse then some earthen or tinne vessell the one being more base and the other more strong so likewise should the husband haue such regard of the frailetie of his wife that hee may beare with her and intreate her with gentlenesse and discretion that hee may vse her as a precious and profitable vessel to his comfort ioy And in as much as prayer is an excellent seruice that God requireth of vs and the ready meanes to purchase his blessings let the husband discreetly beare with his wife least otherwise through their strife and contention their prayers as S. Peter saith might be letted and interrupted 1. Pet. 3.7 Yet must we not say but the husband both may and ought to tell his wife of her infirmimities that she may amend But here we are to enter into consideration of sundrie points First hee is especially to reproue her offences against God As when Rachell said vnto Iacob Gen. 30.1 Giue me children or else I die Hee reproued her of importunitie saying Am I in Gods stead who hath withholden from thee the fruite of thy wombe Also when Iobs wife saide to her husband Doest thou abide in thy integritie Iob. 2.9 Curse God and die He wisely reproued such a wicked speech saying Thou speakest as an vnwise woman What shall we receiue good at the hand of God and not receiue euill Secondly that it be with gentlenesse and testimony of good will as Helcana dealt with his wife Hanna 1 Sam. 1. when she mourned because she had no children And indeede it is meet that the husband should reproue his wife louingly rather by perswasion then by force For as in a great stormie winde a man lappeth his cloake about him and holdeth it fast for feare of loosing but when the wind is downe and the weather calme he letteth it hang easily so when husbands will as it were perforce wrest away their wiues infirmities many of them will obstinatly resist yet contrariwise by sweet words and louing exhortations they might bee wonne voluntarily to forsake them Thirdly the husband must seeke diligently to remoue the occasion and stone whereat his wife stumbleth and taketh occasion of griefe So when Sarah was moued against Abraham Gen. 16. because of Agar and obiected vnto him albeit wrongfully that hee was the cause that shee contemned her bearing with his wife hee remoued the cause of the contention in suffering her to turne Agar out of doores He must also take heed that he himselfe bee not tainted with the same vice which hee reproueth in his wife least shee stop his mouth with the reproach of the same fault but rather by giuing her example by the contrary vertue let her be induced and led to follow him In reprouing the wife the husband must alwayes vse such discretion that shee be not brought into contempt and therefore it should neuer bee done in the presence of moe then themselues For as it is meere folly for a husband to praise and commend his wife in company so is it as dangerous to checke and reproue her before witnesse For indeed thereof it commeth that women not being able to beare that disgrace will replie and so prouoke strife and dissention in open presence which wil redound to great reproch offence And therefore as the husband must not flatter his wife so hee must not reproue her before strangers A wise husband and one that seeketh to liue in quiet with his wife must obserue these three rules Often to admonish Seldome to reproue And neuer to smite her Let the husband also remember that the infirmities of his wife must bee eyther taken away or borne withall So that he that can take them quite away maketh his wife farre more commodious and fit for his purpose and hee that can beare with them maketh himselfe better and more vertuous The husband is also to vnderstand that as God created the woman not of the head and so equall in authoritie with her husband so also he created her not of Adams foote that shee should be troden downe and despised but hee tooke her out of the rib that she might