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>;z4234,
8phefians,Chap.
5.
f
64,1
this circumftance which the Apoftle never forgetteth,
is
this,
becaufe
many women were adulterouflygiven,many had their friends,
as
men
betide their wives
had
their concubines
and miftreffes. Many
by
rude
behaviour canting themfelves
to
be divorced, did
leape
into
fecond
marriages, never
Peeking
to win the favour and returne to
them that
indeede were
their
husbands.
There
were
like
the
Samaritane,
¡oh.
q,.
18.
that
of
fixe
they
ferved had nor
one,
as
it
is
probable,
a
true
huf-
band
of
them
all
:
no
wonder
therefore
if
he faith,
to your
owne
huf-
bands.
Which
confederation
doth
meere
with many, who
are
good
to
Pfc.
every
body, but thofe towhom
they
owe
all
dutie
:
they will
fpeake
well
of
other
men, they
will
commend them,tell what they could doe
by
them, but
their owne they cannot
Pet
them
vile
enough.
But
let
us
make
the belt
of
our owne,
in all
other things
that which
we have
is
better
to
us,
then the
beft things
which
we have not.
Laftly for the
manner
:
we
fee
that
it
u
not enoughto
yeeld
dutie,
but
bllt.
it
mull
be
done
ritb
confcience,
that
it
is
the will
of
God.
And
this
is
of
great
ufe,for
it
will make
us
doe two things
at
once
:
ferve
God
in
ferving man: it will fecondly make our obedience
an eafie
yoake when
we have the
Lordbefore
us,
and
thus obeying
we may looke
for
our
recompenfe
of
reward from
God.
The
doctrine
doth
meere
with
many
who obey not
as
to the
Lord
Yfe.
whom they
ferve
in fo
doing, but
becaufe
they
have fuch boyfterous
men,
that they
dare not doe otherwife,
or
becaufe
theyknow
it would
beou;
of
theirway,
or
becaufe
they
would with
that outward
coun-
terfeit femblance
of
duty,
blanch over foule matters from
the
eyes
of
men,
or
thinking
the contrary
would be reproachful! to
them.
VERSE
23. For
the husband
is
the wives head, even
as
Chrifi
is VERS.
23.
she
head
of
the Church,
and
the
rame
is
the
Saviour
of
his
body.
Now
the Apoftle doth urge
it
by
a
reafon
;
you
mutt be
fubjeEt
to
him
who
is
made
of
God
a
head
to
you
:
Man
is
a
head; therefore you
mutt be
fubjed. The
ad.
part
in
this
verfe,
the
conclufion
in
the next.
Now
each
of
them
is laid
down,and illuftratedby comparifoni
Man
is
the
head
as
Chrift;
which mutt not
fimply be
underftood,
but
propor-
tionably
:
man
in
externall regiment,
doth
refemble
Chrift
io the
fpirituall
government
of
the
Church
Now
he
doth
defcribe
Chrìff
by
a
further
refpe5t,
that
we may know
what
kinde
of
head
he is,and
man
ought to be, who
is
to
refembie him;
the
fame
is
the
Saviour
of
his
body;
hence
he
repeateth
the
precept not femply,but amplified
by
corn-
parifon,
as
the Church obeyeth Chrift
her
head, fo let women obey
their husbands.
r.
Then
wehave to confidersThat
man
is
a bead
over
his
wife.
z.
VV
hat
kinde
of
head,
a
raving
head,
fuch
a
preheminence
as
is
beneficiall
to her, who
is
fubjeded.
3.
That
it
is
not
enough for women
to obey, but
they mutt doe
k
id
good fort
and manner, even
as
the
Churchdoth
obeying
Chrift.
Forthe
t.
Man
(as the
Scripture
witneffeth)
is
the head
of
the woman,
Dea,
Kkk
not