
We are delighted to announce our edition of Domestical Duties by William Gouge, which has a foreword by @ZacharyGarris. In Domestical Duties, William Gouge exposits that part of Scripture wherein we find domestical duties set forth, namely: Ephesians 5:21-6:9. He goes on to detail the right way that husbands and wives should be joined together in marriage, and their mutual duties. Gouge then sets forth the particular duties of wives, husbands, children, parents, servants, and masters. With over 3,000 footnotes, including several fresh translations, this book is an excellent resource for pastors and laymen alike. We have made two versions of this book: The first version is a two-volume hardcover edition, which is ideal for pastors, church officers, seminary students, academics, and theologically-minded laymen. The second version is an eight-volume paperback, which is designed to be read together in families. For example, a husband and wife may choose to read Volumes 1 and 2 together, and then the wife reads Volume 3 on wifely duties by herself, and the husband reads Volume 4 on husbandly duties alone; and then they swap volumes. Or for example, if you have children in your home, they could read the duties of children in Volume 5. Given the recent publication history of this work, we wish to emphasize that this reprint does include Volumes 7 and 8 on servants and masters: much of which is easily applicable to modern-day situations involving employees and employers, and so on. While some recent reprints have not included Gouge’s original margin notes, our version does do so. We have converted these marginalia into over 3,000 footnotes, which include the original Hebrew and Greek terms that Gouge cited from Scripture. This helps the reader to understand how Gouge drew his instruction from the text of the Bible itself, as all good teachers must do. These footnotes include, for the first time in this book’s publishing history, translations into English of Gouge’s Latin quotations, with key assistance from @postnuance. This helps the reader to understand the broader stream of historical thought on domestical issues, without having to know Latin themselves: something that was more familiar to 17th century students than ourselves, generally speaking. The hardcover full set is $65, and the paperback full set is $75. In the paperback set, every new section starts on a fresh page, as if it were a new chapter.















