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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

so they both helping doing their best together may be one perfect bodie 2. It doth greatly increase loue when the one faithfully serueth the other when in things concerning mariage the one hideth no secrets nor priuities from the other and the one doth not vtter or publish the frailties or infirmities of the other and when of all that euer they obtaine or get they haue but one common purse together the one locking vp nothing from the other and also when the one is faithfull to the other in eating drinking and so in all their necessities and affaires Likewise when the one harkneth to the other and when the one thinketh not scorne of the other and when in matters concerning the gouernment of the house the one will be counselled and aduised by the other and alwaies the one to bee louing kind curteous plaine and gentle in words maners and deedes 3. Let the one learne euer to be obsequious diligent and seruiceable to the other in all other things And this will the sooner come to passe if the one obserue and marke what thing the other can away withall or cannot away withall and what pleaseth or displeaseth them And so from thence-forth to do the one and to leaue the other vndone They must secretly keepe no euill will in their mindes but tell their griefe And if one of them bee angrie and offended with the other then let the partie grieued open and make knowne to the other their griefe in due time and with discretion for the longer a displeasure or euill will rageth in secret the worse will be the discord And this must bee obserued that it bee done in a fit conuenient time because there is some season in the which if griefes were shewed it should make greater debate As if the wife should goe about to tell or admonish her husband when he is out of patience or moued with anger it should then bee no fit time to talke with him 1. Sam. 25.36 37. Therefore Abigail perceiuing Naball her husband to bee drunke would not speake to him vntill the morning Both the husband and wife must remember that the one be not so offended and displeased with the maners of the other 1. Cor. 7.10 11 12 13 14 15 16. Matth. 19.6 Matth. 19.9 5.33 Luke 16.18 that they should thereupon forsake the companie one of the other for that were like to one that being stung with the Bees would therefore forsake the honie And therefore no man may put away his wife for any cause except for whoredome which must be duly proued before a lawfull Iudge But all godly and faithfull married folkes are to commend their state mariage to God by humble and feruent prayer that he for his beloued sons sake would so blesse them and their mariage that they may so christianly and dutifully agree betweene themselues that they may haue no cause of any separation or diuorcement For like as all maner of medicines and speciallie as they that goe nighest death as to cut off whole members c. are very lothsome and terrible euen so is diuorcement indeed a medicine but a perilous and terrible medicine Therefore euery good Christian husband and wife ought with all care and heedfulnesse so to liue in mariage that they haue no need of such medicine As the holie Scripture maketh mention of many wiues and women that were wicked and vngodly as partly may be seene by these quotations 1. King 11.1 2. Prou. 21.9.22.14 and 25.24 and 27.15 Eccles 7.28.30 So contrariwise the same sacred Scripture also commendeth vnto vs many women that haue been deuout religious and vertuous as partly is manifest by that which hath already been said and also by these places of Scripture Ruth 3.11 1. Sam. 25.3 Pro. 14.1 and 31.10 Matt. 28.1.8.9.10 Luk. 8.2.3 23.55.56 and 14.1 Act. 16.14.15 and 1.14 and 17.4 and 9.36.39 2. Ioh. 1. 2. Tim. 1.5 And whosoeuer shall obserue it in the reading of the word of God shal finde that it speaketh of the praise of as many and moe good women as men yea and we are perswaded that if at this day a due suruey shuld bee taken of all men and women throughout her Maiesties dominions that there would bee found in number moe women that are faithful religious and vertuous then men The wife ought to obey her husband in all things that be honest and agreeable to Gods word Now if a wife be desirous to know how farre she is bound to obey her husband the Apostle resolueth this doubt where he saith Eph. 5.22 saying Wiues submit your selues vnto your husbands as to the Lord. As if hee had said Wiues cannot bee disobedient to their husbands but they must resist God also who is the author of this subiection and that she must regard her husbands will as the Lords will but yet withall as the Lord commandeth one that which is good and right so she should obey her husband in good and right or els she doth not obey him as the Lord but as the tempter The first subiection of the woman began at sinne for when God cursed her for seducing her husband when the Serpent had deceiued her he said He shall haue authoritie ouer thee Genes 3.16 And therefore as the man named all other creatures in signe that they should bee subiect to him as a seruant which commeth when his master calleth him by his name so he did name the woman also Hest 1.20.22 Numb 30.7 8 9. 1. Pet. 3.6 Iudg. 19.26 in token that she should bee subiect to him likewise And therefore Assuerus made a law that euery man should beare rule in his owne house and not the woman Because she sinned first therefore she is humbled most and euer since the daughters of Sarah are bound to call their husbands Lord as Sarah called her husband that is to take them for heads and gouernours Amongst the particular duties that a Christian wife ought to performe in her familie It is a speciall dutie of a mother to giue her children sucke her selfe this is one namely that it belongeth to her to nurse her owne children which to omit and to put them forth to nursing is both against the law of nature and also against the will of God besides it is hurtfull both for the childes bodie and also for his wit and lastly it is hurtfull to the mother her selfe and it is an occasion that she falleth into much sicknesse thereby 1. First Nature giueth milke to the woman for none other end but that she should bestow it vpon her childe We see by experience that euery beast and euery fowle is nourished and bred of the same that did beare it onely some women loue to be mothers but not nurses And as euery tree doth cherish and nourish that which it bringeth forth euen so also it becommeth natural mothers to nourish their children with their owne milke 1. Tim. 5.10 2. Secondly the