THE TRUE STATE OF ICELAND ad. 



1592. 

 there ought to bee so great favour, so great estimation, 

 so great love unto our neighbour, then how great affec- 

 tion doe wee owe unto our children ? The most neare 

 and inseparable love of whom, besides that nature hath 

 most friendly setled in our mindes, the love of God also 

 commandeth us to have speciall regard in trayning them 

 up (Exod. 12. 24. Ephes. 6. 4.) namely, that there may 

 be in holy marriage certaine seminaries of Gods Church, 

 and exercises of all pietie and honestie : according to the 

 excellent saying of the Poet. 



God will have each family, 

 a litle Church to be. 

 Also 



Of humane life or mans societie, 



a Schole or College is holy matrimonie. 



That it may be manifest, that among Christians their 

 sonnes are more to be accompted of and regarded, then 

 their dogges : and if any doe no otherwise esteeme of 

 them, that they are no Christians. 



But this naturall affection towarde our most deare of- 

 spring is plainely seene in the heathen themselves : that 

 whomsoever you totally deprive of this, you denie them 

 also to bee men. The mothers of Carthage testifie this 

 to be true, when as in the third Punic warre the most 

 choyse and gallant young men in all the Citie were sent 

 as pledges into Sicilia, whom they followed unto the 

 shippes with most miserable weeping and lamentation, 

 and some of them being with griefe separated from their 

 deare sonnes, when they sawe the sayles hoysed, and the 

 shippes departing out of the haven, for very anguish cast 

 themselves headlong into the water : as Sabellicus wit- 

 nesseth. Egaeus doth testifie this, who when hee sawe the 

 shippe of his sonne Theseus, returning out of Creete with 

 blacke sayles, thinking that his sonne had perished, ended 

 his life in the next waters : Sabell. lib. 3. cap. 4. Gor- 

 dianus the elder. Proconsul of Affrica, doth testifie this, 

 who likewise, upon rumors of the death of his sonne, 



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