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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01541	Marriage duties briefely couched togither out of Colossians, 3. 18, 19. By Thomas Gataker Bachelar of Diuinitie and pastor of Rotherhith.	Gataker, Thomas, 1574-1654.	1620 (1620)	STC 11667; ESTC S102975	35,459	56

MARRIAGE DVTIES BRIEFELY COVCHED TOGITHER OVT OF COLOSSIANS 3.18 19. BY THOMAS GATAKER Bachelar of Diuinitie and Pastor of Rotherhith LONDON Printed by WILLIAM IONES for WILLIAM BLADEN and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Bible in Pauls Church-yard 1620. TO THE HOPEFVLL YOVNG COVPLE THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL Mr. ROBERT COOKE Esquire and the vertuous Gentlewoman Mistres DOROTHIE COOKE his wife many comfortable daies in Gods ●ea●e and ●auour to their mutuall and eternall good RIght louely and beloued in Christ giue me leaue to include you both in one Dedication whome heartie loue and affection hath conioyned togither and whome Gods ●●ne ordinance hath made one At the time of 〈◊〉 ●●l●mne knitting of you togither there was 〈◊〉 important considerations a dutie 〈…〉 absolutely necessarie yet at such times not vnseasonable To supply that defect I make bold now to present you with some passages of such a subiect as it is like had then beene handled if opportunitie had serued They are raw notes of a Sermon long since made on the like occasion Which finding by mee and willing to imbrace any opportunitie of expressing my loue there in any degree where I iustly owe so great a measure I suddainly reuised and prepared them for the pres●e And albeit in the reuising of them I obserued some defects and could well haue beene content to haue taken further time and paines for the better polishing and the more orderly digesting of them as also for the speciall applying of them to your selues to whome now they are addressed yet I supposed it would bee much more conuenient and behoouefull without further delay while the occasion is yet fresh to present you with them as they are that they might salute a New-married Couple at the entring in of the New-yeere An exact treatise or large discourse of Marriage Duties though the Title be such I hope they will not expect that shall vnderstand that they haue here but the Substance of one Sermon deliuered when it was within the compasse of little more then an houre and vpon the recollecting of my Meditations afterward at the request of some not much enlarged And though I doubt not but you may meete with many profitable Treatises of the like Argument yet I was desirous you should haue somewhat thereof from my selfe The truth of God I wot well is the same and deserueth all due regard by whomsoeuer it is deliuered But yet there is some efficacie added to it when it is brought vs by those whome we specially affect and of whome we are perswaded that they doe likewise in speciall manner affect vs. Of this mutuall affection betweene you both and my selfe as there is in diuers respects very great and iust ground so I hope there is no doubt at all made on either side of it The assurance whereof if it may helpe to supply some defects that may be found in this vntimely birth some good fruite I hope by the reading of it may redound to you both Much I heartily desire may daily both by this and by all other good meanes to all your friends ioy your owne mutuall comfort here and your eternall happinesse hereafter With which vnfained desire I end for the present and rest Your poore kinsman and heartie well-wisher THO. GATAKER MARRIAGE DVTIES Coloss. 3.18 19. Wiues submit your selues vnto your Husbands as it is c●mely in the Lord. Husbands loue your Wiues and bee not bitter to them WIthout Faith saith the Apostle Paul it is impossible to please God And Faith saith the Apostle Iames Is but dead without workes There bee two things therefore necessarily required of euery Christian true Faith and good Life A man cannot liue but by a liuely Faith and Faith is not liuely without ho●y Life The Apostle therefore accordingly spendeth this as he doth other of his Epistles partly in deliuering the grounds and doctrine of Faith and partly in directing the faithfull for the manner of their Life Now because euery man ordinarily hath two seuerall Callings a Generall and a Speciall the Generall calling of a Christian and some Speciall calling in that particular estate that God hath assigned each one vnto the Apostle giueth Rules here as else-where for our behauiour in either some generally concerning all men generally as they are Christians in the former part of this Chapiter some speciall concerning seuerall persons in their seuerall estates as they are inferiours or superiours tyed by naturall or ciuill bands either to other in the words of my text and so forward And in this part the Apostle deliuereth the Duties 1. Of Husband and Wife 2. Of Parents and Children 3. Of Masters and Seruants The Duties of Husband and Wife are in the words of my Text. the Wiues dutie in the former verse the Husbands in the latter In handling whereof we will obserue first the Order then the Matter For the Order the Apostle is here as euer vsually exact Before he began first with Faith and then came to Life because Faith is the Roote and good Life the Fruit and without the Roote there can be no Fruit in reg●rd whereof it is well said that The whole life of the Faithlesse is nothing but sinne and there can nothing be good without the chiefe good For it is no lesse true of speciall Faith which is spoken by the Apostle of the generall Faith that whatsoeuer is not of Faith is sinne He began first with rules of Life generall and then came to Rules speciall because howsoeuer the Heathen man thought that A man might be a good Man and yet not a good citizen or he might be a good Magistrate or a good Master and yet not a good Man yet indeed a man can not be a good Husband or Parent or Master vnlesse he first be a good Christian at least not so good as to reape comfort or benefit thereby himselfe or to performe offices to others in that manner as he ought Here likewise he beginneth first with the duties of married persons and of them first with the wiues First at the duties of married persons of man and wife the Apostle beginneth here as else-where and so proceedeth to the duties of Children and Parents in the second place and of Seruants and Masters in the third place First because this societie it is the first that euer was in the world and therefore as it was the first in nature so it is the first here in order the Apostle beginneth first with that which in course of nature is first Secondly because this is the fountaine from whence the rest flow and the streames can not flow pure and cleare vnlesse the fountaine be first clensed and kept cleane The Apostle therefore wisely beginneth at the Head-spring that a good course being setled in this principall societie it may be