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V
E
R.
2.2.
Ephefians,
Chapa..
thy
inferior,
thou art
full
of
contempt,
Prov.
17.
5.
devoyd
of
the
feare
of
the
Almighty.
This doth
fhew
us
that
our
common
fubmiffion
of
curtefie,
is
not
2:
all
God rcquireth, we have formall phrafes, At
your command;Your
fer-
vant;
Remember
my
duty,
&c. but
like
the
Spanifh curtefie,
which will
kiffe
the
hand
they would
cut off;
it is
not for
confcience fake in
Gods
feare,
but
meere
hypocrite,
and a counterfeit femblance
of that
re-
verence
which
is
not
in
us.
VERSE
2
z. Wives
fubmit
your
(elves
to
your husbands
.es
unto
the VEa
.0
2
2.
Lord.
Now
the Apoftle
com
meth to
the particular precepts
which con
-
cerne
not
all
perfons,
but thofe that
have
a
refpect or reference, fuch
as
is
here named.
Now
thefe precepts
are
concerning
a
threefold
rank
or
order
of Authority
and
fubjeäion.
(Man
r.
The
moft
ancient
.
and
(
Wife.
(Father
Ito
the
t
o'5
verle
of
the
2.
The
{
and
¡
6t6 Chapter.
((Children.
Maftcr
3.
The
and
S_rvant:
For thefe doe the
one
beget the other
:
touching the
firft,
he layeth
downe the duty
of
the wife
in
three verfcs.
Of
the husband
in
the
refs
of
this chapter.
The
firft
is
laid
downe and enforced with
a
reafon.
This
verle hath
three
things
tobe
marked.
a.
What
is
required
at
the
hands
of
wives,
Subjechion.
a.
To
whom,
to
your
Husbands.
3.
In
what
manner,
as
to
the
Lord.
Which
phrafe
doth not
make
a
comparifon,
but
doth
film
the manner
of
obedience,
that
it
be not
outward, but
of
confcience,
as
who
in
obeying
muff
remember
they
have
to
deale
with
God,
not
with man,
thus
in
the
S. and
6. verfes,
of
the
next chapter, this phrafe
is
taken.
Wives,
be
fubmiffe and
dutiful', not where
you doe
not owe it,
but at
home, not with counterfeit femblances, but
as
having confci,
ence,thatyou
have
to
deale
with
God,
whofe ordinance this
is
that
women fhould
live
in
fubje&ion
to men.
a. Then
we
fee,
that
women
doe ewe
Jnbmifsien,
and fo
they
doe
as Dolt.
taught by
nature
it
felfe, which
bath
made them
the
weaker veffells,
and bound to
it
by their owne voluntary covenant
, as
well
as
by
Gods
ordinance.
But
to
open this dulie, we mutt confider
what this
fub
Wherein the
miffiondothlyein.
c,infr.
ifuóo,icta.of
I.
In
Reverence.
!
a
wife
dori.
2.
In Obedience.
tta
°d°
is
Reverence
is
inward,
viT.the
fearing
them, but
of
,this in
t
e
Ì