Holy living in which are described the means and instruments of obtaining every virute, and the remedies against every vice, and considerations serving to the resisting all temptations : together with prayers containing the whole duty of a Christian, and the parts of devotion occasians [sic], and furnished for all necessities / by Jer. Taylor.

The duty of Husbands, &c.

See Chap. 2. Sect. 3. Rules for married persons.

1. Husbands must give to their Wives love, maintenance, duty, and the sweetnesses

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of conversation [and Wives * 1.1 must pay to them all they have, or can with the interest of obedience and re∣verence] and they must be com∣plicated in affections and interest, that there be no distinction be∣tween them of Mine and thine: And if the title be the mans, or the womans, yet the use must be cō∣mon, only the wisdom of the man is to regulate all extravagācies and indiscre∣tions: in other things, no question is to be made; and their goods should be as their children; not to be divided, but of one pos∣session and provision: whatsoever is other∣wise is not marriage but marchandise. And upon this ground I suppose it was, that S. Basil commended that woman,* 1.2 who took part of her Husbands goods to doe good works withall: for supposing him to be un∣willing, and that the worke was his duty, or hers alone, or both theirs in conjunction, or of great advantage to either of their souls, and no violence to the support of their fa∣milies, she hath right to all that: And A∣bigail of her own right made a costly present to David, when her husband Nabal had re∣fused it. The Husband must (a) 1.3 rule over his Wife, as the soul does over the body, ob∣noxious to the same sufferings, and bound by the same affections, and doing or suffer∣ing by the permissions and interest of each other: that (as the old Philosopher said) as the humours of the body are mingled with

each other in the whole substances: so mar∣riage may be a mixture of interests, of bo∣dies, of minds, of friends, a conjunction(a) 1.4 of the whole life, and the noblest of friendships. But if after all the fair deportments, and in∣nocent chast complyances the Husbands be morose and ungentle, let the (b) 1.5 Wife dis∣course thus: If while I doe my duty my Husband neglects me, what will he doe if I neglect him? And if she thinks to be separa∣ted by reason of her Husbands unchast life, let her consider, that, then the man will be uncurably ruined, and her Rivals could wish nothing more then that they might possesse him alone.

Notes

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• (a) 1.3

  Laetum esse debet & officiosum mariti imperium. Plut.

  Namque es ei Paeter & frater, venerandáque Mater: nec minus sacit ad dignitatem viri si mulier eum suum Praeceptorem, Philosophum, Ma∣gistrúmque appellet. Plutarch.
• (a) 1.4

  Convillio est quasi quaedam intentio benevolentiae
• (b) 1.5

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