And after Eve was deceived of the serpent, God said unto her (Genesis 3), thy lust or appetite shall pertain unto thy husband and he shall rule thee or reign over thee. God which created the woman knoweth what is in that weak vessel (as Peter calleth her) and hath therefore put her under the obedience of her husband to rule her lusts and wanton appetites. Peter (1 Peter 3) exhorteth wives to be in subjection unto their husbands, after the example of the holy women which in old time trusted in God, and as Sara obeyed Abraham and called him lord. Which Sara before she was married, was Abraham’s sister and equal with him: but as soon as she was *married was in subjection and became without comparison inferior. For so is the nature of wedlock by the ordinance of God. . . . Paul (Ephesians 5) saith: women submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the wife’s head even as Christ is head of the congregation. Therefore as the congregation is in subjection to Christ, likewise let wives be in subjection unto their husbands in all things. Let the woman therefore fear her husband, as Paul saith in the said place. For her husband is unto her in the stead of God, that she obey him and wait on his commandments. And his commandments are God’s commandments. **If she therefore grudge [grumble, complain] against him or resist him she grudgeth against God and resisteth God.
* Marriage altereth the degree of nature.
** The husband is to the wife in God’s stead.
(William Tyndale, The Obedience of a Christian Man, 34).
[Note: some spelling and punctuation I have modernized.] The subjection of the woman to her husband was not repugnant to the state of Innocence; but then as the authority of the man would have been used with justice and kindness, so the obedience of the woman would have been pleasant and cheerful; whereas now for holding a conspiracy with Satan, and abusing her familiarity with her husband, she was like to find less comfort tin her communion with him; for by sin conjugal kindness is turned to austerity, justice to injury, willing obedience to reluctance and frowardness; and so the yoke which would always have been sweet and easy, becometh many times (especially if any be unequally yoked in respect to their conditions) hard and bitter to be born; yet born it must be, 1 Cor. 14:3 4; Tit. 2.5; 1 Pet. 3:6 (Comments on Genesis 3:16 in Annotations upon all the books of the Old and New Testament. London: John Legatt and John Raworth (1645)).
A couple notes: Tyndale makes astute observation that marriage alters the degree of nature. Annotations highlight that obedience of wives unto their husbands (in marriage) has its basis in original creational order, pre-fall condition.