The plea of the poore. Or A treatise of benificence and almes-deeds teaching how these Christian duties are rightly to be performed, and perswading to the frequent doing of them. Necessary for these times, wherein the workes of mercy are so much neglected, or so vndiscreetly practized. Published by Iohn Downame Bachelour in Diuinitie.
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The plea of the poore. Or A treatise of benificence and almes-deeds teaching how these Christian duties are rightly to be performed, and perswading to the frequent doing of them. Necessary for these times, wherein the workes of mercy are so much neglected, or so vndiscreetly practized. Published by Iohn Downame Bachelour in Diuinitie.
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Downame, John, d. 1652.
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London :: Printed by Edward Griffin for Ralph Mabbe, and are to be sold at his shop in Paules Church-yard at the signe of the Grey-hound,
1616.
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Charity -- Early works to 1800.
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"The plea of the poore. Or A treatise of benificence and almes-deeds teaching how these Christian duties are rightly to be performed, and perswading to the frequent doing of them. Necessary for these times, wherein the workes of mercy are so much neglected, or so vndiscreetly practized. Published by Iohn Downame Bachelour in Diuinitie." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A20764.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2024.
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Sect. 9. Of the superio∣rite and autho∣ritie of the hus∣band ouer the wife.
Concerning the former, it is to be acknowledg∣ed that the husband hath superioritie and autho∣ritie ouer his wife to rule and gouerne her as her head, and that she as his inferiour is to subiect her selfe to his rule and gouernement; and it cannot be denyed but that also he hath chiefe dominion ouer all their goods, and power to rule and ma∣nage the maine estate. So the Apostle saith, that as the head of euery man is Christ, so the head of wo∣man is the man. 1. Cor. 11. 3. In regard whereof she is in many places of Scripture inioyned to be sub∣iectvnto her husband in all things; and the reason hereof is giuen, because in the creation the man was not of the woman, but the woman of the man, nei∣ther was the man created for the woman, but the wo∣man
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for the man. 1. Cor. 11. 8. 9. and besides, theman was not first deceiued, but the woman, and so was first in the transgression, as it is 1. Tim. 2. 14. and therefore it was a part of her punishment, that her will should be to be subiect to her husband, and that he should rule ouer her. Gen. 3. 16. In regard of which superioritie it is not lawfull for the wife to take vpon her the managing of her husbands maine estate, or to dispose at her pleasure of great and weighty matters, because this is a royalty which belongeth to her superiour and head, who is the chiefe ruler and king in the little common∣wealth of the familie: howsoeuer euen in these things a wise and good husband will not neglect the aduice of his discreete wife, as being his most faithfull counsailour, and created of God purposely to this end that shee might be his helper.