The principles of Christian Religion necessary to be knowen of all the faythful: set forth to the great profite in trayning vp of all youth, by Tho. Becon.
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The principles of Christian Religion necessary to be knowen of all the faythful: set forth to the great profite in trayning vp of all youth, by Tho. Becon.
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Becon, Thomas, 1512-1567.
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Imprinted at London :: By Iohn Daye, dwelling ouer Aldersgate,
An. 1569.
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Church of England -- Doctrines -- Early works to 1800.
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¶The dutie of wiues vnto their
husbandes.
THe dutie of an honest faythfull
woman vnto her husband is,
to knowledge her husband to bee
her head, to bee subiecte vnto hym,
to reuerence hym, to obey hym, qui∣etly
to learne of hym, to lead a
blameles life, to vse much silence,
peaceably & circumspectly to looke
vnto her housholde, and to tier her
self with such apparell as becom∣meth
a sober Christian woman.
☞Probations out of the holy Scriptures.
Ye women,* 1.1 submit your selues
vnto your own husbandes, as vn∣to
the Lord. For y• husband is y• wi∣ues
head, euen as Christ is the head
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of the congregation, & the same is
he yt ministreth saluation to the bo∣dy.
Therefore as the congregation
is in subiection to Christ, euen so let
the wiues be in subiection to their
husbandes in all thinges.
Ye wiues,* 1.2 submit your selues vn∣to
your owne husbandes, as it is
comely in the Lord.
I will that women aray them
selues in comely apparell,* 1.3 with
shamefastnes & discrete behauour,
not with broydered heare, eyther
golde, or pearles, or costly aray, but
as it becommeth women yt professe
godlines through good works. Let
the womā learne in silence with all
subiectiō. But I suffer not a womā
to teach, neither to vsurpe authori∣tie
ouer y• man, but to be in silence.
Ye wiues,* 1.4 be in subiectiō to your
husbandes, yt euen they which obey
not y• worde, may without y• worde
bee wonne by y• conuersation of the
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wiues, while they beholde your
••hast conuersation coupled with
feare. Who••e apparell shall not bee
outward with broydered heare, &
hanging on of golde, eyther in put∣ting
on of gorgious apparell: but
let the hid man, which is in y• hart,
be without all corruption, so that
the spirite be at rest & quiet: which
spirite before God is a thing much
set by. For after this maner in the
olde time did y• holy women, which
trusted in God, tier thē selues, and
were obedient to their husbandes,
euen as Sara obeyed Abrahā, and
called hym Lord: whose daughters
ye are, so long as ye do well.