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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

COVNSEL TO THE HVSBAND 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 AT LONDON Imprinted by Felix Kyngston for Richard Boyle 1608. TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVL AND my very Christian friends Master THOMAS GERVOYSE and his vertuous wife Mistris LVCY GERVOYSE true happinesse in this life and eternall glorie in the life to come be from God the Father through Iesus Christ. MY VVorshipfull deare friends in the Christian dutie which I owe vnto your worshipfull Parents who haue a long time deserued much at mine hands and much more then I can repay as also in the loue J beare to your owne and your beloued yok●fellow bethinking with my selfe wherein to shew some token of this loue as it well becommeth and concerneth a thankefull heart and weighing the estate whereunto God hath called you of the marriage band J did light vpon this argument thinking it the fittest for your vse and the easiest for my studie to labour in by reason of mine experience of the euils thereof which as a token of my loue to preuent the euill and to instruct vnto the godly duties and fruits of that Christian and honourable estate J doe humbly present and prefer vnto you not doubting but you will both accept and apply it as shall be most expedient in euery respect And so to a slender worke a short and briefe Dedication may well suffice that the porch of the house be not bigger then the whole building And so I commend it to Gods glorie and my self to your seruice in the Lord Iesus Yours in all Christian duty and seruice Ste. B. Counsell to the Husband To the wife instruction THE whole estate of mans happines may easily bee disposed into the consideration of two times The state of this life present and the glorie of the life to come This life being the first is both the Image to resemble and the foundation wherein to lay or worke that eternall happines Neither is there any estate wherein we may more liuely behold or sensiblie taste and feele any sparckle or iot of the Lord our God his eternall loue to vs then in that vnited estate of man and wife wherein two persons become but one Ephes 5.13 which still are two and mutually owe to othe● seuerall dutie A double vnion The vnion whereof as it is vnspeakeable where there is indeede an holy vnion so hath it pleased the Lord not seldome but often in his word and especially in that Song of songs called Salomons Canticles vnder the title of an husband reioycing with his wife to set forth his loue vnto vs what it is in Christ Iesus Whose mutuall kindnes expressed in that song I meane in termes in duties in wanting each other in seeking in sorrowing in finding in inioying in solacing and imbracing in vnwillingnes to leaue and depart each from other may well shew the coniunction to be vnspeakeable betweene man and wife rightly conioyned and yoked equally and bee a liuely paterne of more heauenly things Howbeit I say it is not in all coniunctions that this Image of spiritual happines doth appeare All mariages doe not resemble heauenly happines for in some it beareth rather a type of hellish sorrowes wherein our Sauiour saith shall bee weeping and gnashing of teeth Matth. 25.30 when the iudgement shall bee pronounced vpon the reprobate Goe away yee cursed ones into euerlasting fire Verse 41. Euen so where the match is vnmeete the coniunction vnequall the vnited in bodie disunited in spirit of contrarie affections harts and religions duties vnperformed each crossing other or any of the twaine vnwise that will not bee admonished what are the fruits there but wrath bitternes contention controlling contradiction taking all things in the euill parte ielousie vpbraiding discontentment false dealing secret iuggling conspiring wants without pittying each other toyle without helping each other seeking each one his credit with discredit vnto both with many other as grieuous to be spoken of as any past All which no doubt made Salomon so to speake Prou. 21.9.19 as his Prouerbes doe beare witnes namely that it were better to dwell in the corner of an house top yea in the wildernesse most desolate and solitarie and as another saith with dragons beares or other cruell beasts then with the contentious and froward wife So that as I said this Image of Gods loue and of our eternall and most happie coniunction with Christ he the head and we the members hee the husband and we the wife hee our welbeloued one and we his aswell beloued is not to bee found in euerie coniunction as wofull experience giueth cause of complaint to many but onely in the godly vnited match in the well ordered and gouerned match A necessarie caueat So that how necessarily doth it behooue them that would liue perfectlie happie by inioying the one and auoyding the other to bee instructed in the meanes which leade hereunto that is seeing this happines is in the right ordering of man and wife themselues each towards other and then both in the ioynt gouerning of their familie to know therefore both their seuerall workes and conioyned duties And whereas I called this estate before a foundation wherein to lay the worke of eternall happines I spake not without aduisement for that The Church is the schoole of Gods Kingdome as the Church generally is the schoole of Gods kingdome a place to make men fit before they can enioy his kingdome vnderstanding me of such as come to the state of discretion and iudgement as also the word of God is called the Gospell of this kingdome because that in this life it fitteth men thereunto so is euery mans house rightlie ordered and gouerned by the rules of godlines not vniustly or without cause by the holy Ghost called a Church Rom. 16.5 Reu. 1.6 the Gouernours Kings Priests and Prophets vnto God Kings to rule Priests to offer sacrifice and Prophets to instruct or see instructed The husband first and principally as the head and high Priest the wife in his absence or as vpon iust cause he shall require her She openeth her mouth saith Salomon with wisedome Prou. 30.26 and the Law of grace is in her tongue So likewise did Bathsheba teach her sonne Salomon Prou. 30. See the title therof Lest whereas the Apostle saith The wife shall learne at home of her husband 1. Cor. 14.34 1. Tim. ● 12 she should thinke her selfe absolutely excused or freed of this dutie No by no meanes may shee thinke it Vertuous women must teach in the familie as not being the meanest propertie of the virtuous wife In all which gouernment howsoeuer the Church oftentimes doth want the parts and members of her gouernment by reason wherof God