¶
The
seconde
booke
of
Tertullian
vnto
his
wyf
,
translated
into
Englyshe
,
wherin
is
conteined
most
godly
counsel
how
those
that
be
vnmaryed
,
may
chose
vnto
them selfes
godly
companyons
,
and
so
to
liue
quyetly
in
this
world
and
blessedlye
in
the
worlde
to
come
.
¶
Let
wedlocke
be
had
in
price
in
all
poyntes
,
and
let
the
Chamber
be
vndefiled
,
for
whore
kepers
and
aduouteters
god
wyl
iudge
.
Heb.
13.
✚
To
the
christian
Reader
,
Iohn
Hoper
wysheth
grace
&
knowledge
in
the
Lorde
.
THe
more
of
importaunce
&
weyghte
the
mater
is
,
a
man
takethe
in
hande
:
with
the
more
circumspectyon
and
aduised
counsel
he
shoulde
begyn
the
same
:
lest
the
thyng
lyghtly
&
vnaduisedly
begon
,
myght
eyther
constrayne
the
autour
with
shame
to
leaue
,
and
forsake
vtterlye
hys
facte
,
eyther
with
anxite
and
troble
of
mynde
to
perseuer
and
contynewe
in
the
same
.
Therfore
it
was
wyselye
counceled
by
wyse
men
when
they
sayed
:
before
thou
begynne
any
thyng
aske
counsell
,
and
then
put
the
thyng
councelled
vpon
in
fact
.
With
this
maketh
also
that
elegant
&
wyse
prouerbe
,
Dimidium
facti
qui
bene
cepit
,
habet
.
That
is
to
say
,
he
hat
halfe
ended
his
purpose
,
that
beginneth
wel
.
But
in
the
lyfe
of
manne
what
is
more
waightie
,
graue
,
excellent
,
or
wanteth
more
circumspection
,
good
counsel
,
ernest
praier
vnto
god
than
Matrimonye
?
What
and
thou
shouldest
begyn
it
vnwyslye
,
and
vngodly
:
how
many
inconuenience
and
troubles
should
there
folow
?
I
leaue
the
nombre
of
testymonies
,
and
examples
,
and
commende
the
vnto
experyence
.
We
see
daylye
moste
petifull
and
lamentable
alienations
,
and
separacions
not
onlye
of
the
mynde
but
lykewyse
of
the
bodye
,
by
meanes
as
well
of
frowardnes
and
morosyte
of
condicions
as
of
filthy
adulterye
,
and
vnlawful
diuorcementes
.
To
succour
and
helpe
so
great
euelles
in
the
begynnyng
of
matrymonye
required
counsel
,
and
not
suche
as
perswadeth
&
compelleth
the
moost
part
of
persons
to
marye
for
fond
,
flesshely
,
or
auaricious
affection
:
but
holye
,
iuste
,
prudent
and
well
aproued
counsell
that
teacheth
at
the
begynnyng
to
beholde
wysely
the
condicions
of
hym
or
her
that
is
wyshed
for
in
Mariage
:
and
so
in
tyme
wyth
wysedome
take
,
or
leaue
,
him
or
her
accordingly
,
with
tyme
aduised
vpon
:
And
then
appoynte
hym selfe
(
yf
anye
thynge
shulde
happen
after
the
Mariage
contrarie
to
hys
expectacyon
and
hope
that
he
or
she
had
of
others
helthe
,
maners
,
or
condicions
,
that
breaketh
not
afterward
matrimonie
)
with
patience
,
and
tolleraunce
to
beare
them
,
vntill
,
death
separat
the
one
from
the
other
,
or
God
redresse
and
amende
the
faultes
and
maners
to
be
redressed
and
amended
.
But
before
man
or
woman
marie
,
this
is
requisite
to
be
done
that
euery
one
and
of
euerye
sexe
and
kinde
examine
him selfe
whether
he
can
with
a
good
conscience
lyue
sole
and
vnmaryed
or
not
.
Yf
he
can
,
it
is
the
mynde
of
the
holy
ghost
and
of
sayncte
Paule
that
he
so
remayne
in
purite
,
&
cleanes
of
life
in
body
and
soule
to
the
glory
of
God
.i.
Cor.
vii
and
the
commodyties
of
this
trewe
and
vnfained
chastite
be
infinite
and
wonderful
,
but
not
geuen
to
all
men
.
And
great
hede
muste
be
taken
here
,
lest
vnder
the
pretext
,
and
name
of
chaste
and
sole
lyfe
lye
hyd
most
damnable
hordome
and
adulteri
.
In
case
thou
be
gyltie
and
fyndest
in
thy selfe
the
daunger
of
adustion
,
and
burnynge
of
concupysence
it
is
the
commaundement
of
God
thou
mary
i.
Cor.
vii
.
Wyth
this
commaundement
no
man
can
dyspence
,
nor
no
vowe
or
what
esti●acie
,
〈◊〉
,
or
estimacion
so
euer
it
be
:
for
obedience
vnto
the
commaundement
is
better
then
al
the
vowes
,
or
sacrifice
of
the
lawe
.
And
when
thou
hast
thus
aduisedly
apoynted
thy selfe
to
maryage
see
thou
first
chose
thy
make
or
companion
,
before
thou
lone
,
lest
thou
happen
to
be
deceaued
with
blinde
loue
which
sodenly
entred
,
and
sodenly
perisheth
agayne
.
Measure
not
thy
chose
,
from
ryches
,
bewtie
,
age
,
parentaige
,
or
from
suche
like
:
but
from
vertwe
,
godlynesse
,
wit
,
discreacion
,
&
tractablenesse
of
condicions
.
The
first
condycyons
be
not
to
be
refused
in
case
they
be
well
placed
in
a
man
or
woman
that
hath
them
with
the
feare
of
God
,
where
that
lacketh
:
they
be
better
refused
,
then
taken
.
And
because
we
may
be
deceaued
vnder
the
shewe
of
vertue
and
happen
vpon
a
woman
of
frowarde
condicions
and
troublous
,
when
we
thynke
our selues
best
bestowed
:
and
also
the
woman
many
tymes
hoping
to
haue
matcht
with
an
honest
man
,
where
as
she
afterward
findeth
her selfe
vtterly
deceaued
:
farther
bothe
manne
and
woman
manye
tymes
are
charged
and
in
daunger
to
loue
the
rich
,
the
faire
,
and
so
prefer
them
before
the
good
and
vertuous
.
The
fyrst
election
&
begynning
of
Matrymony
ought
to
be
frome
prayer
,
in
the
whiche
suche
as
woulde
marie
shuld
aske
of
God
,
a
godly
companyon
from
whom
onely
it
is
gyuen
Prouer.
After
diligente
prayer
shoulde
be
like
inquisition
of
what
fayth
the
partye
is
that
is
desyred
in
Matrymonye
:
for
as
dyuersytye
of
religyon
betwene
one
man
and
hys
wyfe
is
daungerous
,
so
is
it
forbydden
by
God
Deut.
vii
.
Ios.
xxiii
.
Therfore
Abraham
the
father
of
the
faythfulles
bounde
his
seruaunte
by
an
othe
that
he
shoulde
not
take
any
of
the
doughters
of
Canaan
for
hys
sonne
Isaac
.
And
Isaac
commaundeth
Iacob
hys
sonne
to
beware
of
the
same
Gene.
xxviii
.
The
contempte
and
violacion
of
thys
commaundement
brought
the
children
of
Israel
into
greate
daunger
Iudic.
iii.
And
Salomon
the
kynge
into
Idolatrye
.iii.
Reg.
xi
.
Therfore
saynct
Paule
saythe
i.
Cor.
vii
.
That
it
is
lawful
to
marye
whom
we
wyll
,
so
it
be
in
the
Lord
,
as
it
neuer
can
be
where
as
the
persone
to
be
Maryed
abhorrithe
(
as
saynt
Ambrose
sayth
)
the
autoure
of
Matrimonye
.
It
is
not
ynoughe
for
the
man
or
the
woman
,
that
wyl
mary
,
to
chose
such
a
one
as
beareth
the
name
of
Christ
,
but
he
or
she
must
diligently
serch
what
the
practyse
and
obedyence
of
hys
conuersation
is
to
the
name
of
Christianite
.
And
when
suche
a
one
is
founde
,
then
chose
and
loue
honestlye
,
seke
wyth
the
counsel
of
thy
wise
frendes
,
and
neglecte
not
the
suffragies
,
nor
consente
of
the
parentes
and
frendes
of
the
persone
thou
sekest
:
and
commende
then
,
all
the
successe
to
God
,
and
desyre
hys
wyll
to
be
done
.
Thys
is
the
onely
way
to
begynne
Matrimony
if
it
shal
euer
prosper
wel
But
out
alas
howe
farre
be
men
nowe
adayes
from
thys
maner
of
waye
towardes
mariage
.
This
is
now
accompted
folyshnes
and
supersticion
.
And
in
the
place
of
these
vertues
is
entred
many
vnlawful
and
vngodlye
meanes
,
some
bye
&
and
sell
theyr
children
:
yea
from
the
cradell
and
maketh
mariages
betwene
those
,
that
hath
not
the
vse
of
reason
to
iudge
what
maryage
is
.
Another
sort
seketh
howe
with
flattery
,
collusion
,
defraude
,
&
gile
:
yea
by
the
meanes
of
bandes
and
vnhonest
persones
alure
the
sonne
and
daughter
to
a
contracte
wyth
oute
the
knowledge
,
aduyse
,
and
consent
of
the
parentes
,
and
thynketh
it
good
ynough
so
they
agre
wythin
them selues
.
Another
sort
wher
as
they
se
,
the
mairage
they
couet
to
be
aboue
theyr
reach
they
solicitate
theyr
frendes
letters
and
boroweth
,
many
an
honest
commendacion
in
their
maysters
or
frendes
letters
whiche
they
neuer
pay
after
,
to
the
person
that
honest
commendacions
pertayneth
.
I
do
not
condemne
nor
disalowe
the
reporte
and
lawde
of
an
honest
man
or
woman
,
nor
thynke
it
not
against
the
worde
to
make
mencion
trewly
of
the
persones
vertue
and
faculties
that
is
wished
for
in
matrymony
,
as
Abrahams
seruaunte
dyd
,
so
it
be
done
trewly
&
without
fraude
.
But
in
case
the
commendacions
&
good
will
of
the
suter
can
not
preuayle
,
I
would
not
that
the
commaundemente
of
anye
frende
that
s●weth
for
an
other
,
shoulde
forse
or
compell
the
free
parson
agaynst
his
or
her
will
.
Nether
where
as
this
meanes
can
auayle
,
with
tortoure
or
compulsion
of
perswation
to
constrayne
or
induse
the
vnarmed
,
and
euel
fenced
minde
,
of
him
,
or
her
that
of
it selfe
for
vertue
coulde
no
way
admitte
suche
a
coniunction
and
matrimonie
.
If
it
be
wel
begon
the
lorde
wil
prosper
it
in
grace
and
goodnes
.
If
the
contrarye
,
he
wil
sure
at
lengthe
punishe
it
,
as
it
is
to
be
seene
how
the
whole
worlde
for
violating
of
matrimonie
was
drouned
,
Sodome
burnte
.
Amonge
other
faultes
and
crymes
that
brought
the
children
of
Israel
into
Captiuite
the
leste
was
not
the
breakynge
of
Mariage
:
But
it
is
not
ynoungne
to
begynne
Matrimony
iustlye
,
it
must
so
contynewe
,
and
ende
,
if
it
be
of
God
.
This
shall
be
donne
,
incase
boothe
,
feare
the
Lorde
,
and
eche
knowe
his
duetie
to
the
other
.
And
to
th
ende
it
may
the
better
and
soner
be
put
in
experience
,
it
shal
not
be
a
lost
laboure
al
together
for
the
christiane
reader
to
see
the
godlye
writynges
of
this
olde
and
graue
writer
Tertulliane
that
here
liued
for
.
1340.
sithens
.
This
seconde
booke
to
his
wife
,
before
foure
yeres
past
,
I
translated
at
the
desyre
of
a
godlye
frende
of
myne
,
beyng
bothe
then
,
in
a
straunge
countrie
.
And
when
I
had
done
in
the
translation
,
I
commended
vnto
hym
the
iudgment
therof
:
so
that
with
his
labours
and
myne
he
sende
it
into
London
to
a
godlye
,
and
vertuous
widowe
his
mother
by
the
lawe
,
who
thankefullye
toke
it
for
the
tyme
of
her
lyfe
.
And
sithens
her
departure
the
godly
man
hath
geuen
the
same
godlye
councell
to
others
that
be
vnmaried
.
And
now
wishyng
good
to
al
,
through
this
realme
that
he
cannot
speake
withal
,
thought
it
good
to
commit
the
same
(
for
a
farther
vse
therof
)
to
the
prynte
.
Prayinge
god
,
that
it
maye
do
asmuche
good
to
all
vnmaried
,
&
maried
persones
,
as
bothe
he
,
and
I
most
hartely
praye
for
,
in
the
Lorde
.
Amen
.
¶
A
leter
directed
,
vnto
a
certayne
godlye
and
vertuous
wyddowe
of
London
,
wrytten
by
the
husband
of
a
daughter
of
hers
.
RYghte
wourshypful
,
and
intierly
beloued
mother
,
with
moste
erneste
,
and
hartie
desire
,
I
besech
oure
heuenlye
father
,
almightie
God
,
for
to
encrease
the
knowledge
of
his
deare
sonne
,
our
sauiour
Iesus
Chryste
,
in
you
.
And
thorowe
hys
holy
spyryt
the
trewe
comforter
,
for
to
assyst
and
comfort
you
,
in
thys
your
present
heuynesse
,
for
the
departing
of
my
good
father
your
husband
,
and
to
councell
you
what
is
beste
for
you
to
do
,
in
the
estate
that
ye
be
now
in
.
&c.
For
,
as
for
my
comforte
,
or
counsell
specyallye
,
which
ye
desyred
to
haue
,
is
ouer
slender
,
for
to
do
you
anye
greate
good
,
in
so
waightye
a
matter
.
Neuerthelesse
good
mother
,
oute
of
the
loue
that
I
do
beare
vnto
your
soule
healthe
specyally
,
and
consyderynge
howe
muche
I
am
bounde
vnto
you
.
Firste
for
giuynge
of
youre
consente
,
that
I
myght
mary
your
doughter
,
my
beloued
wyfe
.
Then
for
the
greate
kyndenesse
(
to
your
greate
coste
,
&
charge
)
that
ye
haue
shewed
vs
two
,
in
the
keping
,
and
ouerseinge
of
oure
sonne
,
in
our
absence
,
and
for
manyfolde
other
benefytes
,
and
pleasure
donne
vnto
vs
,
by
oure
good
father
your
husbande
,
and
you
,
at
diuers
,
times
besydes
:
I
haue
caused
a
good
frende
of
myne
here
,
mayster
Iohn
Hoper
,
for
to
traunslate
and
wryte
out
in
to
Englyshe
,
a
lytle
treatyse
compiled
in
lattin
by
that
very
chrysten
and
godly
doctor
,
Tertulian
(
a
Martyr
also
of
Iesus
Christe
,
as
some
do
wryte
)
now
aboute
.xiii.
hundred
and
lxxxx
.
yeares
agonne
.
And
so
muche
the
soner
,
haue
I
sente
you
the
saide
treatyse
,
rather
then
annye
other
thynge
,
gathered
after
myne
owne
mynde
,
oute
of
the
holy
scriptures
:
because
that
no
man
should
dryue
you
,
from
the
folowing
of
the
same
,
as
from
a
new
found
doctryne
,
deuysed
but
yesterday
,
out
of
some
fonde
fellowes
brayne
.
For
that
is
one
,
of
the
cauylacyons
,
where
with
the
dyuell
goeth
aboute
,
for
to
let
the
goynge
forwarde
,
of
the
verytie
manye
tymes
:
euen
for
to
mou
emen
to
beleue
,
that
the
olde
truth
,
is
the
new
learning
,
yea
newe
fangled
heresy
,
and
I
wote
neare
what
.
The
occasyon
why
I
haue
nowe
sente
you
,
this
aforesaide
treatyse
,
called
the
seconde
boke
of
Tertulian
,
vnto
hys
wyfe
:
And
not
rather
translated
hys
fyrste
boke
,
in
whiche
he
instructeth
hys
wyfe
,
howe
she
shoulde
behaue
herselfe
,
and
order
her
lyuing
after
hys
death
:
Is
that
in
his
sayde
firste
boke
or
treatyse
,
he
exhorteth
her
,
for
to
contynewe
,
styll
a
widdowe
in
any
wise
:
yea
and
that
requireth
he
,
of
her
so
earnestely
,
&
so
straightely
,
that
he
(
but
in
that
no
doubte
he
erryed
greatly
)
semeth
plainly
to
affirme
,
and
to
go
aboute
,
to
make
her
beleue
,
that
yf
she
maryed
againe
with
any
man
,
she
shoulde
commyt
synne
.
But
here
in
thys
other
treatyse
,
he
semeth
after
my
mynde
,
rather
by
declarynge
vnto
her
,
what
maner
of
husbande
,
that
she
shoulde
chose
to
her
(
to
say
none
other
,
But
now
I
doubte
not
,
but
that
if
some
man
,
should
heare
this
saide
treatise
reade
vnto
you
:
he
woulde
saye
by
and
by
:
what
madde
fole
sente
this
boke
vnto
you
,
as
a
thynge
that
ye
shoulde
folow
?
&c.
This
exhortacion
serued
,
for
the
christen
wemen
of
Tertulyans
tyme
,
when
they
inhabyted
the
whole
world
ouer
,
here
and
there
,
amongest
the
infideles
and
heathen
,
and
for
suche
as
do
dwell
amongest
the
Turckes
and
Iewes
,
nowe
in
our
dayes
:
And
not
for
any
Uirgins
or
widdowes
,
in
oure
kinges
grace
hys
realme
,
where
as
be
none
other
to
take
,
but
onely
christen
,
if
a
woman
wyl
mary
,
any
man
at
all
.
That
is
truth
in
dede
,
yf
all
men
were
trew
christen
,
that
beare
the
holy
name
of
Chryste
.
But
oure
sauioure
hym selfe
saythe
Math.
vii.
Entre
in
at
the
strayte
gate
for
wyde
is
the
gate
,
and
brode
is
the
waye
that
leadeth
to
distruccyon
,
and
many
ther
be
which
go
in
thereat
.
But
strayght
is
the
gate
,
and
narrow
is
the
waye
whych
leadeth
vnto
lyfe
:
and
fewe
there
be
that
fynde
it
.
Item
:
not
euery
one
that
saith
vnto
me
,
Lord
,
Lord
,
shall
entre
into
the
kyngdome
of
heauen
:
but
he
that
doth
the
wil
of
my
father
,
whiche
is
in
heauen
.
And
saynt
Paule
,
speaking
of
the
false
chrysten
,
I
meane
such
,
as
be
but
chrysten
in
name
only
.
Unto
Titus
.i.
Saith
:
they
professe
that
they
knowe
God
(
wyth
theyr
mouthe
,
&
by
theyr
outwarde
vse
,
of
the
sacramentes
and
ceremonies
,
the
Apostle
meaneth
no
doubte
)
but
wyth
theyr
dedes
they
denye
him
:
In
as
muche
as
they
bee
abominable
lyuers
,
and
not
obedient
vnto
goddes
worde
,
but
reprobate
persones
,
as
touching
any
good
woorkes
.
It
is
good
to
thincke
then
,
that
the
man
of
God
,
Tertulian
,
toke
such
for
no
better
,
than
the
heathen
:
Specyally
seyuge
that
hys
mayster
,
and
Lord
Iesus
Christ
,
sayth
further
,
that
at
the
laste
daye
,
he
wyll
saye
vnto
such
,
christen
disciples
of
hys
:
de
parte
from
me
,
an
ye
that
worke
Iniquitie
:
I
knowe
you
not
.
&c.
Mat
.vii.
And
who
I
pray
you
,
shoulde
better
knowe
,
who
bee
the
trewe
chrysten
,
and
chrystes
disciples
in
dede
,
then
our
sauiour
Iesus
himselfe
?
which
saith
Ioh.
.viii.
If
ye
shal
abyde
in
my
worde
,
then
shall
ye
be
my
disciples
in
dede
.
Item
.
Ioh.
.xv.
He
that
abideth
in
me
,
and
I
in
him
,
bryngeth
fourthe
muche
frute
.
&c.
Then
they
that
bryng
forth
,
no
frutes
of
rightuousnes
at
al
:
but
lie
still
lyke
swyne
,
wallowing
in
theyr
voluptuousnes
,
or
els
lyke
cruell
dogges
,
do
barke
at
,
and
persecute
the
trewe
doctryne
of
Chryste
,
whyche
they
knowe
not
,
bee
none
of
chrystes
discyples
,
and
therfore
,
no
trew
christen
:
but
heathen
,
&
worse
then
infidels
,
in
the
syght
of
almightie
god
.
Yea
,
and
so
bee
all
suche
to
,
as
do
contynuallye
sryll
from
day
to
day
,
walke
or
lye
,
in
their
foruicacion
,
adulterie
,
dronke
nnesse
,
glotonye
,
extorcion
,
intollerable
vserie
,
inordinat
couetousnesse
,
blynde
supersticion
,
and
wiked
Idolatrye
,
wyth
suche
lyke
vyces
,
as
S.
Paule
sayth
.i.
Cor.
vi
.
and
Ephe.
v.
For
why
shulde
they
els
,
be
cast
oute
of
the
company
,
or
communion
,
of
al
christen
men
.
In
token
that
they
haue
no
parte
in
the
gospel
,
nor
of
the
kingdome
of
Christe
,
except
they
amende
?
Saynet
Paule
,
when
he
went
so
earnestly
aboute
,
to
dryue
the
christen
people
amongest
the
Corynthiaus
,
from
the
vsyng
of
the
Idolatrie
,
&
other
vices
of
the
gentyles
there
:
what
ment
he
when
he
sayde
.i.
Cor.
x.
I
woulde
not
haue
you
ygnoraunte
brethren
that
our
fathers
wer
al
of
them
vnder
the
cloude
,
&
as
passed
thorow
the
sea
,
&
al
of
them
wer
baptisid
into
Moses
,
in
the
cloud
,
&
in
the
sea
,
&
al
did
eate
one
,
&
the
same
spiritual
meate
,
and
al
did
drynke
one
spirituall
drinke
.
&c.
What
shuld
the
Apostle
meane
,
by
all
these
wordes
I
say
?
but
that
suche
of
those
fathers
,
as
were
afterwardes
noughty
fell
from
God
,
vnto
lust
,
and
synne
,
and
tempted
and
prouoked
god
,
vnto
wrathe
and
vengeaunce
in
the
wyldernesse
,
were
neuer
the
better
in
the
sighte
of
him
,
for
that
they
had
before
sene
and
felt
,
so
many
of
his
greate
miracles
,
or
wonderfull
dedes
,
nor
for
that
they
had
ben
partakers
,
of
so
many
,
of
his
holy
signes
and
sacramentes
.
Now
that
this
was
S.
Paules
meanynge
,
aperyth
playnly
,
by
that
he
sayth
by
and
by
after
the
afore
aleaged
wordes
:
out
in
manye
of
them
,
God
had
no
pleasure
.
And
that
same
the
Apostle
proueth
,
by
that
the
Lorde
did
after
ward
,
punishe
&
plage
them
so
greuously
&
often
,
in
the
wildernesse
.
For
they
were
ouerthrowen
in
the
wildernesse
,
saythe
S.
Paule
.i.
Cor.
x.
And
then
he
goeth
fourthe
there
,
to
his
purpose
and
sayth
:
but
these
are
examples
vnto
vs
:
that
we
should
not
luste
after
euel
thinges
,
as
they
lusted
:
nor
be
worshippers
of
Images
,
as
some
of
them
(
he
meaneth
the
forefathers
of
the
Iewes
,
that
prouoked
God
in
the
wyldernesse
)
were
:
And
so
fourth
,
as
ye
may
reade
there
,
at
your
leasure
.
And
at
the
the
laste
,
Sainct
Paule
concludeth
thus
:
al
these
thinges
happened
vnto
them
,
for
figures
(
or
examples
,
as
he
mighte
saye
)
&
were
wrytten
for
our
warning
,
vpon
whome
the
endes
of
the
worlde
are
come
vpon
.
Euen
as
thoughe
he
would
saye
.
It
shall
nothyng
auayle
you
,
O
ye
christen
amongest
the
Corinthians
,
that
ye
once
receaued
the
spirite
of
God
,
at
your
baptysme
,
that
ye
come
ofte
to
praye
togyther
,
and
synge
psalmes
in
the
commen
assembles
,
nor
that
ye
do
often
receaue
the
sacrament
of
Christes
bodye
and
bloude
&c.
As
other
good
christen
do
:
Excepte
that
ye
do
followe
youre
profession
in
dede
,
continew
in
the
spiryt
and
feare
of
the
lorde
,
auoydynge
all
deadly
synne
,
and
the
wicked
wourshypping
of
Images
,
that
is
vsed
,
amongest
your
neighbours
and
familiers
the
gentyles
there
,
at
Corrinth
.
&c.
And
by
thys
good
mother
is
it
easy
,
to
applye
this
aforesayde
saying
of
sainet
Paule
:
vnto
our
corrupte
ryme
(
of
whyche
no
doubte
,
the
holy
goste
shewed
before
hande
.ii.
Timo.
iii.
)
And
to
esteme
those
persons
,
no
trew
chrystians
,
whiche
do
perseuer
wythoute
all
repentaunce
and
amendement
,
in
all
maner
of
vice
,
and
abominacions
,
of
the
world
.
For
Saynt
Iames
saythe
that
the
pure
and
vndefiled
religion
,
before
god
,
and
the
father
,
is
,
to
vysit
the
fatherlesse
and
wyddowes
,
in
theyr
afflyccion
(
by
these
two
good
workes
of
mercy
,
he
vnderstandeth
the
walking
,
in
all
other
good
dedes
,
ye
may
bee
sure
)
and
to
kepe
hym selfe
,
vnspotted
of
the
world
.
That
is
:
to
beware
,
that
he
defile
not
hys
soule
,
nor
body
nother
,
with
the
couetousnes
,
extorsion
,
adultery
,
fornicacion
,
Idolatrye
,
or
suche
lyke
abomynacions
,
whyche
the
worlde
commonlye
vsyth
or
commytteth
.
But
to
returne
somwhat
agayne
,
vnto
my
purpose
:
please
it
you
to
vnderstande
good
mother
,
that
whereas
ye
shall
hereafter
fynde
,
certaine
annotacions
in
the
mergent
,
of
this
treatyse
,
the
same
I
made
my selfe
,
with
out
master
Hopers
knowledge
:
(
but
the
faithful
,
may
sone
iudge
,
whyther
they
be
trewe
or
no
)
if
they
wyl
confer
the
same
,
wyth
the
righte
touche
stone
,
the
holy
scryptures
.
This
I
wright
for
none
other
intent
,
but
that
,
if
the
same
annotacions
do
not
lyke
you
,
ye
should
not
put
the
blame
in
mayster
Hoper
,
who
knoweth
not
yet
of
them
.
And
as
for
the
notes
that
I
haue
made
here
&
there
concernynge
the
Sacrament
,
I
amsure
that
ye
woulde
nor
be
offended
wyth
them
,
yf
ye
had
rede
the
same
doctors
mynde
,
in
other
places
of
hys
woorkes
:
Because
that
by
the
same
,
he
dothe
manyfestlye
declare
,
that
he
was
of
the
ryghte
opynyon
in
the
sayde
Sacramente
.
For
in
hys
fyrste
boke
agaynste
the
herityke
Marcion
,
who
dyd
saye
that
all
the
thinges
of
thys
world
wer
vncleaue
(
but
other
more
dampnable
heresies
then
that
dyd
he
stiffely
defend
)
he
sayth
these
wordes
folowing
:
The
Prologe
and
Argumente
,
of
this
booke
,
made
in
Latin
by
maister
beatus
Rhenamus
,
a
learned
man
of
Schleckstadt
,
nygh
vnto
Strasburge
in
Germany
.
Anno
Domi.
1521.
and
prynted
in
Englysh
.
An.
1550.
CErtayne
christen
wemen
(
and
speciallye
suche
,
as
were
ryche
or
wealthy
)
when
theyr
husbandes
were
deade
,
thorowe
ambition
and
vayne
glorye
,
dyd
marye
wyth
the
gentyls
afterwardes
,
because
they
were
ashamed
of
chrysten
men
,
as
personnes
of
a
lowe
degre
,
and
of
smale
substannce
.
For
in
those
dayes
,
the
heathen
had
at
the
wealth
,
&
highe
power
in
their
handes
.
They
did
raigne
,
bare
rule
,
and
had
all
the
dominion
alone
.
The
poore
chrysten
lyued
then
wyth
oute
all
maner
of
office
,
or
authorytye
,
in
the
commune
wealth
:
lyued
,
yea
rather
laye
hyd
,
&
wer
al
onelye
knowen
,
by
theyr
modestyousnesse
,
and
sobre
liuinge
.
Therfore
when
Tertulyan
saw
this
vnsemelye
example
,
of
the
wyddowes
,
whyche
so
dyd
mary
againe
,
he
in
this
latter
boke
,
going
aboute
for
to
warne
hys
owne
wife
of
that
inconvenience
,
intreateth
of
those
wemen
,
that
toke
vnto
theyr
husbandes
,
gentiles
:
declarynge
also
playnely
,
that
in
so
doyng
,
they
dyd
wickedlye
,
&
al
against
S.
Paules
sentence
,
with
that
which
they
defended
theyr
dede
.
By
and
by
after
he
doth
rehe
rse
,
the
impedymentes
and
inconueniency
,
that
came
of
such
wedlocke
,
seing
that
they
mighte
not
frelye
attende
,
vnto
the
obseruacions
of
the
christen
faythe
.
In
the
whyche
place
he
receyteth
the
chiefe
studies
and
offices
,
of
our
religyon
,
whiche
wer
vsed
in
those
daies
.
That
is
to
say
,
of
standing
,
of
fasting
,
of
processyon
(
whyche
represented
the
people
of
the
Iewes
,
that
went
fourthe
of
Ierusalem
,
for
to
mete
Chryste
:
And
also
the
Apostles
,
goynge
oute
,
vnto
the
Mounte
,
when
chryste
ascended
into
heauen
)
Of
the
vysyting
of
the
bretherne
(
that
was
of
the
christen
,
when
they
were
syche
,
and
diseased
)
of
the
watchinge
in
the
nyght
at
Easter
:
whyche
Sainct
Ierome
thoughte
therfore
to
be
celebrat
and
done
,
because
it
is
the
tradition
of
the
Iewes
,
that
Chryste
shal
come
at
mydnyghte
,
like
as
it
was
,
in
the
tyme
of
the
Egiptians
before
.
Wherfore
I
thynke
(
sayth
he
)
that
the
Apostles
tradicion
did
then
stil
remayne
,
that
on
Easter
euen
,
the
people
mighte
not
goo
awaye
,
tyll
halfe
the
nyght
wer
paste
,
but
shoulde
tarye
waightyng
for
the
comming
of
Christ
,
that
then
,
when
that
tyme
was
passed
,
they
myghte
al
of
them
,
with
the
more
securitie
,
&
wyth
out
feare
,
kepe
that
feaste
holy
.
Tertulian
makyth
also
mention
,
of
the
lordes
feaste
,
or
supper
,
of
the
vysyting
of
men
in
prison
,
of
the
kyssing
of
bretherne
,
that
is
chrysten
men
,
of
the
washyng
of
feete
,
of
the
impartynge
or
dealynge
of
meate
and
drynke
,
and
lodginge
,
of
the
sygne
or
token
of
the
crosse
,
of
the
prayers
made
In
the
nyghte
:
of
the
sacrament
,
of
the
lordes
bodye
and
bloude
(
whiche
was
then
taken
,
before
they
dyd
eate
anye
meate
)
and
of
the
holy
synginge
,
of
the
christen
people
then
.
Laste
of
all
,
he
extolleth
,
that
matrymonye
,
by
the
whyche
a
chrysten
manne
,
is
coupled
vnto
a
christen
woman
,
because
that
then
,
one
may
kepe
theyr
chrystianity
,
when
as
(
that
I
maye
vse
Tertulyans
owne
wordes
)
the
sycke
is
freely
visyted
,
the
neby
susteyned
,
when
almesse
is
done
without
torment
,
or
feare
:
the
comunion
vsed
and
frequented
,
wythout
all
scrupulosyte
and
doubte
(
that
is
to
say
,
when
the
husband
himself
,
beynge
also
present
at
the
same
,
is
not
afrayde
of
his
wyfe
)
dayly
dylygence
without
any
impedyment
,
no
markynge
of
one
,
wyth
the
sygne
of
the
crosse
,
by
stealthe
.
(
For
a
chrysten
woman
then
,
durst
not
,
that
her
husband
myghte
see
,
crosse
her selfe
:
but
did
it
secreatly
)
no
tremblyng
or
fearfull
gretyng
(
for
the
wyfe
in
saluting
of
a
chrysten
man
,
dyd
cause
her
vnbeleuing
husbande
,
for
to
suspecte
her
of
adulterye
)
nor
yet
no
domme
praysynge
of
god
.
For
in
the
presence
of
an
heathen
man
,
hys
wyfe
durste
not
openly
,
or
alowde
gyue
thankes
vnto
chryste
.
Whych
thinge
he
hym selfe
dothe
so
expound
,
when
he
sayth
,
afterwardes
.
psalmes
and
holye
himnes
,
are
songe
betwen
them
two
,
and
the
one
striueth
with
the
other
,
who
can
sing
best
vnto
their
God
.
FINIS
.
The
seconde
boke
,
of
the
blessed
martir
Tertulyan
vnto
his
wyfe
.
OF
late
,
my
deare
beloued
wyfe
&
companion
in
the
lord
,
as
wel
as
I
coulde
,
I
aduertysed
you
,
what
lyfe
best
besemed
:
&
was
moste
decente
for
a
godlye
woman
,
that
was
losed
by
any
occasion
,
from
Matrimonie
.
Nowe
hauynge
regarde
vnto
the
infirmites
of
man
,
beyng
moued
therunto
by
the
example
of
certayne
persons
,
the
which
by
reason
of
diuorsement
or
deathe
of
their
housbande
,
had
occasion
geuen
them
to
lyue
chaste
,
they
not
withstandynge
,
haue
not
onlye
,
forsaken
〈…〉
of
so
great
a
perfection
,
but
also
in
maryinge
againe
,
for
gote
the
disciplyne
,
and
commaundement
of
the
lawe
,
which
geueth
the
wydowes
lybertie
to
marie
agayne
,
vnto
whome
they
wyl
,
onely
that
it
be
done
,
in
the
lorde
.
Therfore
I
am
in
greate
perplexitie
and
troubled
,
leste
that
I
whiche
of
late
exhorted
you
,
to
perceauer
and
continewe
in
the
state
of
wydowheed
,
as
a
woman
contented
with
one
husbande
.
Nowe
makynge
mencion
of
mariage
,
shulde
gyue
you
occasion
to
fall
from
the
hygher
perfeccion
:
But
in
case
ye
wyll
consyder
your
healthe
,
ye
wyll
liue
in
that
state
of
lyfe
,
that
shal
be
moste
commodiouse
,
thoughe
ye
do
it
with
payne
and
force
.
If
the
thinge
be
harde
and
dyfficile
,
the
more
it
requireth
the
〈…〉
of
God
.
I
woulde
not
haue
wrytten
,
vnto
you
of
this
matter
,
but
that
I
fynde
myne
owne
conscience
,
and
iudgment
,
careful
of
your
health
.
Incase
the
chastitie
of
the
body
,
that
preserueth
the
state
of
wyddowhed
,
be
so
greate
a
gyfte
,
that
it
maye
not
be
suffred
or
kepte
,
it
maye
be
had
excused
,
This
approueth
the
apostle
,
when
he
speaketh
of
wyddowes
:
I
woulde
saythe
he
they
shoulde
contynue
,
in
the
same
estate
.
I
would
they
should
folow
myne
example
.
And
when
he
licenceth
them
to
marye
in
the
lord
,
when
he
sayeth
onely
in
the
Lorde
,
he
doth
not
geue
councel
,
so
to
do
,
but
earnestlye
commaundeth
them
.
Therfore
as
concernynge
mariage
agayne
,
yf
we
folowe
not
the
commaundement
,
we
fal
in
daunger
of
damnacion
.
For
he
that
passeth
not
of
holsome
councel
,
wil
lykewyse
neglecte
,
the
commaundement
,
the
one
is
a
councel
,
and
put
to
the
choyse
of
man
,
but
to
offende
in
the
other
,
is
contempte
,
and
iniuries
to
the
lawe
.
Therfore
seyng
,
that
a
certayne
woman
,
forsoke
to
mary
with
one
,
of
the
housholde
of
faithe
,
and
ioyned
herselfe
,
to
a
gentyl
as
I
haue
sene
the
lyke
done
,
before
by
other
.
I
wounder
they
could
not
aproue
their
so
doynge
,
to
be
lawful
by
the
scripture
,
to
excuse
their
wantonnes
,
and
pryde
,
and
the
transgression
of
suche
holy
counselles
.
Doe
they
thicke
they
can
excuse
their
faulte
,
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Bounde
al
that
wyll
mary
agayne
:
onelye
sayth
he
in
the
lord
he
hathe
.
&c.
added
the
great
waight
of
his
awe
:
by
the
whiche
wayes
and
meanes
,
thou
mayste
declare
this
sayinge
,
and
it
is
of
greate
waighte
.
For
now
he
chargeth
,
then
he
speketh
faire
,
nowe
he
geueth
commaundemente
,
then
he
exhorteth
,
nowe
he
prayeth
,
another
tyme
he
threatneth
.
This
sentence
is
often
tymes
repeted
and
approued
,
brefe
&
shorte
,
not
withstandynge
verie
plentuouse
and
copiouse
.
This
is
the
condicion
of
the
scripture
:
Continually
obserue
it
my
godly
wife
:
In
these
mariages
,
that
the
apostle
forbyddeth
men
to
entre
and
ioyne
them selfes
,
who
can
perceaue
how
many
perils
,
and
ieoperdies
of
faith
there
be
.
The
firste
is
to
beweare
,
leste
the
fleshe
of
a
christen
woman
,
be
defyled
by
the
comyxtion
of
gentilite
.
Some
man
would
moue
this
question
:
Then
what
dyuersite
,
is
there
betwene
hym
that
is
called
by
the
lorde
in
matrymonye
beynge
a
gentyl
,
and
him
that
is
one
of
the
housholde
of
faythe
before
his
mariage
,
that
bothe
they
shoulde
not
a
lyke
avoyde
,
the
defylynge
of
their
steshe
.
The
one
beyng
an
infydele
,
is
constrayned
to
leaue
his
matrimonye
with
the
christen
,
the
other
is
souffered
to
contynue
in
matrimonie
.
Yf
then
we
be
defiled
,
by
mariyng
,
one
that
is
not
of
the
housholde
of
fayth
,
maye
not
the
one
be
seperated
,
as
well
as
the
other
is
not
suffered
,
to
be
ioyned
?
I
aunswer
,
yf
the
spirite
of
God
,
would
so
gyue
chastite
,
better
it
were
before
all
other
thinges
,
a
man
not
to
couple
him selfe
in
matrimonie
,
then
afterwarde
vtterly
to
breake
,
&
dyssolue
matrimonie
:
For
the
lorde
forbyddeth
any
deuorce
to
be
made
,
excepte
it
be
for
fornication
.
As
for
chastite
the
lorde
alwayes
commendeth
,
the
one
by
the
law
is
commaunded
to
hym
with
his
wife
,
the
other
,
hath
no
lycence
to
marye
.
Therfore
accordynge
to
the
scripture
,
they
that
in
matrymonye
be
called
of
god
,
shall
so
continue
,
and
yet
not
therby
defiled
,
yea
the
other
partie
,
is
rather
therby
sanctified
:
with
out
doubte
suche
as
be
of
the
housholde
of
faythe
,
before
they
marie
,
yf
they
couple
them selues
with
suche
,
as
be
not
of
their
religion
,
they
cannot
sanctifye
that
matrimony
.
For
that
appertaineth
onely
to
the
grace
of
god
,
to
sanctefye
that
it
fyndeth
,
then
yf
it
cannot
be
sanctifyed
,
it
is
vncleane
,
and
that
that
is
vncleane
hathe
no
parte
with
that
that
is
holye
,
but
rather
with
the
same
fylthynes
to
deflye
and
distroye
it
.
These
be
thre
thinges
:
faythful
persons
to
marie
with
them
,
that
be
not
of
the
housholde
of
fayth
,
they
be
to
be
condempned
of
fornication
,
and
to
be
excomunicated
from
the
company
&
felowshyp
,
of
the
christiane
congregacion
,
by
the
auctoryte
of
the
Apostels
saying
.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
a
person
cate
not
,
and
yet
shall
we
bryng
the
tables
of
this
matrimonye
,
before
the
iudgment
seate
of
the
lorde
?
And
shall
we
saye
that
this
matrimonie
,
is
to
be
alowed
,
which
god
condempneth
?
is
it
not
adultery
that
is
forbydden
?
is
not
the
mariage
with
one
that
is
not
of
the
housholde
of
faythe
,
vncleane
?
He
doth
lesse
violate
the
temple
of
god
,
&
doth
lesse
iniuries
to
the
membre
of
Christ
,
that
accompeneth
him selfe
with
an
harlot
:
For
I
knowe
,
we
be
not
at
our
owne
lybertie
,
but
redemed
,
and
that
with
the
raunsom
of
Christes
bludde
.
Doinge
therfore
iniuries
to
oure
fleshe
,
we
do
hurte
him
.
Then
what
meaneth
he
that
sayeth
,
it
is
synne
in
dede
,
to
mary
with
a
straunger
,
but
it
is
but
a
lytel
pretye
synne
.
Where
as
yf
I
shoulde
set
asyde
the
iniuries
of
the
fleshe
,
that
appertayneth
to
the
Lorde
,
euery
transgression
that
is
voluntarye
,
is
greate
in
the
syghte
of
the
lord
.
The
more
power
was
geuen
to
ouercome
,
the
more
is
the
defaulte
worthy
to
be
condemned
of
contumary
,
and
pryde
.
Let
vs
reherse
the
other
perilles
and
daungers
of
the
faithe
,
whiche
the
apostle
sawe
before
,
whiche
are
not
onely
troubelous
to
the
bodye
,
but
also
to
the
spirite
,
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To
be
it
is
:
this
the
scrame●●
of
christes
bo●●
&
blou●●
&
he
that
knoweth
not
that
mysterie
:
can
he
be
satisfied
or
quyer
with
him selfe
,
withoute
the
suspection
of
breade
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*
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*
Of
brede
that
is
of
commune
bread
:
as
though
,
be
wolde
say
thus
will
he
not
thinke
,
that
it
is
but
bare
breade
,
&
not
an
holy
sacrament
&c.
or
poyson
?
There
be
some
that
bearethe
with
their
wyfes
in
dede
,
but
they
do
it
of
crafte
,
to
deceaue
them
,
and
to
begile
them
,
whose
secreates
they
hyde
,
vntyl
suche
tyme
as
they
maye
detect
and
dysclose
it
,
to
their
wyfes
daunger
and
peril
,
whose
substaunce
,
and
dowerie
shall
recompence
well
ynoughe
,
their
husbandes
silence
,
&
preserue
,
the
reproche
of
their
defamacion
,
or
els
at
their
pleasure
,
they
might
accuse
them
,
to
the
higher
powers
.
The
which
experyence
some
haue
felte
in
dede
,
by
losing
of
their
goodes
,
that
they
had
,
or
be
deniynge
of
their
faith
:
The
hande
mayde
of
God
,
dwelleth
,
where
false
goddes
be
wurshypped
,
is
trobled
&
vexed
,
with
supersticious
reuerence
of
ydolles
,
at
such
solempne
feastes
,
as
be
appoynted
in
the
begynnynge
of
the
yere
,
and
of
the
monethe
,
to
the
honoure
of
princes
,
or
kynges
,
with
the
flames
and
odowre
of
franckinsence
:
And
departeth
out
of
her
house
,
decked
with
laure
leaues
,
and
candellis
,
as
it
were
out
of
a
new
brodel
house
,
or
commen
place
of
horedome
,
she
kepeth
companye
with
her
housbande
in
such
fellowshyppes
,
and
manye
tymes
,
in
commen
tauernes
:
And
many
tymes
she
shall
mynister
to
the
wycked
,
which
before
,
was
wont
to
mynister
vnto
saynctes
,
and
yet
not
hereby
so
gracyous
to
knowe
the
daunger
of
her
damnacion
:
She
shall
wayte
vpon
them
,
of
whome
she
should
haue
ben
iudge
,
at
whose
hande
she
muste
take
breade
,
and
of
whose
cuppe
she
muste
drynke
:
what
godlye
songe
maye
her
husbande
synge
to
her
,
or
she
to
her
husbande
?
Tushe
,
let
hym
heare
a
tale
,
of
a
good
supper
,
of
the
tauerne
,
and
of
the
dyuel
,
or
of
hel
.
What
communication
is
there
of
god
?
What
inuocation
of
Christ
?
there
is
no
nourishment
of
faith
,
but
rather
mencion
,
howe
to
destroye
the
scripture
.
Where
is
the
consolacion
of
the
spryte
?
Where
is
the
holy
praisynge
of
god
?
All
thynges
be
turned
of
a nother
sorte
,
all
thynges
odiouse
,
contrarye
and
all
thynges
damned
and
reproued
,
layde
in
bayte
to
brynge
personnes
,
from
theyr
soules
healthe
.
These
thynges
thoughe
they
happen
to
suche
to
,
as
were
called
to
the
faythe
,
in
the
state
of
heathen
,
or
gentyle
matrimony
,
yet
they
are
excused
,
as
personnes
called
to
the
fayth
,
in
the
state
of
gentyle
matrimonye
,
and
therfore
be
they
commaunded
,
to
contynue
,
and
the
one
is
sanctyfyed
by
the
other
,
&
lykewyse
there
is
hope
of
wynnynge
the
other
partie
.
If
then
suche
a
matrimonye
,
be
alowed
of
god
:
Why
hathe
it
no
better
successe
?
Why
is
it
not
defended
from
affliction
,
from
oppression
,
trouble
,
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By
burdens
,
he
vnder
standeth
the
ryches
&
thynke
,
which
hindereth
the
cammels
of
this
world
,
to
go
thorowe
the
straighte
dore
vnto
lyfe
.
burdens
in
:
fildes
of
pleasure
,
where
as
her
ambicious
pryde
maye
solace
or
delyte
it selfe
.
The
congregacyons
of
the
faythfull
do
stynke
in
the
eyes
of
suche
a
woman
,
it
is
harde
to
fynde
a
riche
man
in
the
churche
of
god
,
and
also
suche
a
one
as
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As
liuith
chast
:
after
they
haue
ben
once
losed
from
matrimony
I
thinke
he
meuethe
&c.
lyueth
chaste
.
What
then
shall
wyddowes
desyre
,
mariage
of
the
dyuel
?
shall
they
bestowe
their
gooddes
,
to
be
caried
in
a
chartet
(
or
on
a
goodlye
chayre
or
sladde
)
or
to
bye
straunge
mules
to
carrye
theyr
bagage
with
al
?
A
christen
man
,
ye
beynge
tytche
,
would
not
paraduenture
,
maintaine
these
thinges
.
I
beseche
the
to
calle
to
thy
remembraunce
,
the
women
,
that
amongest
the
heathen
,
suche
as
be
of
noble
progenye
and
rytche
withal
,
do
marye
them selues
to
●erye
slaues
,
and
vyle
persons
,
of
smalle
or
no
estimacion
:
either
bycause
,
they
wyl
satysfye
their
carnal
pleasure
,
or
else
because
they
maye
lyue
,
at
their
owne
libertie
:
Also
many
of
them
wyll
marye
with
their
owne
seruauntes
,
and
suche
as
be
set
at
libertye
,
yea
with
suche
as
be
paste
leste
of
,
amongest
al
men
,
so
that
they
maye
haue
suche
a
one
,
as
wyll
not
breake
them
,
of
theyr
wyll
.
Shoulde
then
a
christen
woman
beyng
rytche
,
despice
to
marie
a
christian
brother
that
is
not
as
rytche
as
she
?
Naye
,
she
shal
be
the
rytcher
for
maryinge
of
this
poore
man
,
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For
yf
the
Kingdome
of
heauen
belonge
vnto
the
pore
,
and
not
to
the
ritch
:
the
ritch
woman
shal
finde
in
poore
man
&c.
a
rytcher
ioynter
,
then
the
ritch
man
is
able
to
make
her
.
Well
,
yf
they
be
of
one
condicion
and
lyke
rytche
,
concernynge
worldlie
substaunce
,
paraduenture
there
is
dyfference
betwene
them
in
the
kyngdome
of
God
.
Shoulde
a
christian
woman
doute
,
inquire
and
delyberate
,
whether
that
man
be
poore
,
to
whome
god
hathe
geuen
,
the
talent
of
his
gospel
?
Nowe
can
I
sufficientlie
praise
,
and
magnifye
the
felicite
of
that
matrimonye
,
whiche
the
church
doth
ioyne
to gether
,
confirmed
by
offringe
,
the
Aungelles
declare
it
to
be
sealed
,
and
so
sygned
,
God
the
father
dothe
alowe
it
:
And
here
in
the
worlde
the
children
cannot
lawfullye
,
and
of
ryghte
,
marye
without
the
consente
,
and
good
wylles
of
their
parentes
.
O
lorde
howe
godlye
is
the
matrimonye
of
thy
faythfull
,
that
be
of
one
hope
,
of
one
desire
,
FINIS
.