Chapter
1 1| and thy mother. ~To this estate of fatherhood and motherhood
2 1| For God has assigned this estate the highest place, yea,
3 1| is all embraced in the estate of fatherhood and extends~
4 1| every one who is~in a divine estate to be angry, to reprove
5 1| detract from the religious estate, and infringe upon the~sanctity
6 1| boasted their hypocritical estate~and works as the most perfect
7 1| God honors and extols this estate, inasmuch~as by His commandment
8 1| as a divine and blessed estate; because, in the first place,
9 1| most richly blessed this estate above all~others, and, in
10 1| world, to the end that this estate might be well and~richly
11 1| always taught that this estate should not be despised~nor
12 1| and all be found in this estate as we shall hear. Therefore~
13 1| Therefore~it is not a peculiar estate, but the most common and
14 1| most common and noblest estate,~which pervades all Christendom,
15 1| shall be found in this estate; yet with some exceptions~(
16 1| not~fit for the married estate, or whom He has released
17 1| maintain chastity without this estate.~For where nature has its
18 1| unchastity, God has commanded the estate of matrimony, that every
19 1| a liking for the married estate, and know that it is a blessed~
20 1| know that it is a blessed~estate and pleasing to God. For
21 1| that is, especially in the estate of matrimony, but also~that
22 1| wife, servants, house and estate, land meadows, cattle, even
23 1| large inheritance, real estate, etc., they avail~themselves
24 1| higher and better life and estate than the Ten~Commandments
25 3| possessions, honor. house and estate, wife and children, body
26 4| also speak of the parental~estate and of civil government.
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