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Aeneid Anthologia Palatina 1872 Apostle Baptista Fregosa blessing bosom Catullus charity chast Christ Christians Church Clemens Alexandrinus commanded Conjugalia Praecepta 48 Didot Domina duty dwell Eniautos Epistola ad Philadelphienses eternal etiam Euripides evil fair felicity Flavia Domitilla flesh folly govern Heart Heaven holy honour Husband Ignatius Iliad Jeremy Taylor joys Juvenal Lord love his Wife Margin Marriage married Menander Modesty Moralia mystery necessities Nonius Marcellus numbers obedience Paris person Plautus Plutarch prudent publick quam Quintilian quod Quoted by Clemens Religion single life hath society sorrow Soul Stobaeus Stromata sweetness Tertullian things Tiberius Gracchus uxor uxorem Varro Vertue Virgin Vulgate wise Woman woman thou gavest ἀλλ ἀλλὰ ἂν ἀνδρὶ γυναῖκα δὲ δεῖ εἶναι εἰς ἐν καὶ κἂν λέγειν μὲν μὴ οὐ γὰρ οὐδέ πάντα πρὸς σέθεν τὰ τὰς τῇ τὴν τῆς τὸ τὸν τοῦ τοὺς τῷ τῶν ὑπὸ χρὴ δοκεῖν ὤνησε ὡς
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Page 1 - For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church (italics mine).
Page 19 - ... in the other is called reverence ; and what in the wife is obedience, the same in the man is duty. He provides, and she dispenses; he gives commandments, and she rules by them; he rules her by authority, and she rules him by love; she ought by all means to please him, and he must by no means displease her.
Page 27 - ... to his sanctuary and refectory, and his gardens of sweetness and chaste refreshments. No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear...
Page 14 - ... sun, and the kisses of heaven, brought forth their clusters, they can endure the storms of the north, and the loud noises of a tempest, and yet never be broken: so are the early unions of an unfixed marriage; watchful and observant, jealous and busy, inquisitive and careful, and apt to take alarm at every unkind word. For infirmities do not manifest themselves in the first scenes, but in the succession of a long society...
Page 15 - Some men are more vexed with a fly than with a wound; and when the gnats disturb our sleep, and the reason is disquieted, but not perfectly awakened, it is often seen that he is fuller of trouble, than if, in the day-light of his reason, he were to contest with a potent enemy. In the frequent little accidents of a family, a man's reason cannot always be awake; and when his discourses are imperfect, and a trifling trouble makes him yet more restless, he is soon betrayed to the violence of passion.
Page 16 - ... to the violence of passion. It is certain that the man or woman are in a state of weakness and folly then, when they can be troubled with a trifling accident ; and therefore, it is not good to tempt their affections, when they are in that state of danger. In this case the caution is, to subtract fuel from the sudden flame ; for stubble, though it be quickly kindled, yet it is as soon extinguished, if it be not blown by a pertinacious breath, or fed with new materials. Add no new provocations...
Page 38 - All those things that now please us shall pass from us, or we from them;"' but those things that concern the other life, are permanent as the numbers of eternity : and although at the resurrection there shall be no relation of husband and wife, and no marriage shall be celebrated but the marriage of the Lamb; yet then shall be remembered how men and women passed through this state which is a type of that, and from this sacramental union...
Page 27 - ... loves his children how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges. Their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society ; but he that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home and broods a nest of sorrows, and blessing itself cannot make him happy. So that all the commandments...
Page 38 - ... but those things that concern the other life, are permanent as the numbers of eternity ; and although at the resurrection there shall be no relation of husband and wife, and no marriage shall be celebrated but the marriage of the Lamb; yet then shall be remembered how men and women passed through this state which is a type of that, and from this sacramental union all holy pairs shall pass to the spiritual and eternal, where love shall be their portion, and joys shall crown their heads, and they...
Page 27 - No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges ; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society...