Graphautarkeia, or, The Scriptures sufficiency practically demonstrated wherein whatsoever is contain'd in Scripture, respecting doctrine, worship or manners is reduced to its proper head, weighty cases resolved, truths confirmed, difficult texts illustrated and explained by others more plain.

1st. Husbands to Wives, and Wives to Husbands. Of Marriage, &c.

AND the Lord said, It is not good that the man should be alone: I will make him a help meet for him, &c. Adam said, This is now bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh, Gen. 2. 18, 23, 24.

Jacob loved Rachel more then Leah, &c. and when the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren, Gen. 29. 30, 31.

And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister and said unto Jacob, Give me children or else I die. And Jacobs anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, Am I in Gods stead: who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb? Gen. 30. 1, 2.

Moses sanctified the people, &c. and he said unto them, Be ready against the third day: come not at your wives, &c. Exod. 19. 14, 15.

None of you shall approach unto any who is near of kin unto him (or, remainder of his flesh) to uncover nakedness. I am the Lord, the nakedness of thy father or thy mother, &c. Lev. 18. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, to the 19.

The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth to a man: neither shall a man put on a womans garment: for all who do so, are an abomination un∣to the Lord thy God, Deut. 22. 5.

Hannah wept and did not eat. Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am not I better unto thee than ten sons? so Hannah rose, &c. 1 Sam. 1. 8.

Saul sent messengers to Davids house, to watch him, and slay him, &c. And Michal Davids wife told him, &c. And let him down through a window: and he went and fled, and escaped, 1 Sam. 19. 11, 12, 13, &c.

Jobs wife said unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God and die. But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What, shall we receive good, &c? Job. 2. 9, 10.

A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband; but she who maketh ashamed, is as rottenness in his bones, Prov. 12. 4.

The contentions of a wife are a continual dropping, &c. A prudent wife is from the Lord, Prov. 19. 13, 14.

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman, Prov. 21. 19.

Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good, and not evil, all the days of her life. She seeketh wool and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands, Prov. 31. 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, &c.

Whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery; and whosoever shall marry her who is di∣vorced, committeth adultery, Mat. 5. 31, 32. ch. 19. 9.

The Pharisees said, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for eve∣ry cause? And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he who made them at the beginning, made them male and female, &c. Where∣fore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath join∣ed together, let no man put asunder, &c. Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered, &c. But it was not so from the beginning, Mat. 19. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.

The woman who hath an husband, is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth: but if the husband be dead, she is free from the law of the husband. So then, if while her husband liveth, she be married to ano∣ther man, she shall be called an adultress: but if her husband be dead, &c. Rom. 7. 2, 3.

It is good for a man not to touch a woman: nevertheless to avoid forni∣cation, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. The wife hath not power over her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his, but the wife. Defraud you not one the other, except with consent for a time; that you may give your selves to fasting and to prayer, and come together again, that Satan tempt you not, for your inconti∣nency, &c.. I say to the unmarried and widows, it is good for them, if they abide even as I. But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is bet∣ter to marry than to burn. And unto the married, I command, not I, but the Lord; Let not the wife depart from the husband: but if she depart, let her remain unmarried, &c. Let not the husband depart from his wife, &c. And if any brother hath a wife who believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away, &c. for the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, &c. else were your children unclean, but now they are holy, &c. For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband, &c? The time is short; it remains, that they who have wives be as though they had none, &c. An unmarried life commended, 1 Cor. 7. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 29, 32, 33, to the end.

Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other Apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas? 1 Cor. 9. 5.

The head of the woman is the man, &c. The man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man. Neither was the man created for the woman: but the woman for the man, &c. Nevertheless, neither is the man without the woman, neither is the woman without the man, in the Lord: for as the wo∣man is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman, &c. 1 Cor. 11. 3, 8, 9, 11, 12.

Let your women keep silence in the Churches: for it is not permitted to them to speak, but to be under obedience, as also saith the law. And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for a woman to speak in the Church, 1 Cor. 14. 34, 35.

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? 2 Cor. 6. 14.

Wives, submit your selves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord: For the husband is the head of the wife, &c. therefore as the Church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also Ioved the Church, &c. So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies: he who loveth his wife, loveth himself: for no man ever yet hated his own flesh, &c. Let every one of you in particular so love his wife, even as him∣self: and the wife see that she reverence her husband, Eph. 5. 22, 23, 24, 25, 28, 33.

Wives submit your selves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. Husbands love your wives, and be not bitter against them, Col. 3. 18, 19.

In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, &c. Let the women learn in silence with all subjection: But I suffer not a woman to teach, or usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve: and Adam was not deceived, &c. 1 Tim, 2. 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.

I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully, 1 Tim. 5. 14.

The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, &c. that they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, &c. discreet, chast, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed, Tit. 2. 3, 4, 5.

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers, &c. Heb. 13. 4.

Wives, be in subjection to your own husbands, that if any obey not the word, &c. Holy women, &c. being in subjection to their own husbands, even as Sarah obeyed Abram, calling him lord, &c. Likewise ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledg, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindred, 1 Pet. 3. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.