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ging,inftead
ofdircl
ingthem, they
leduceand pervert
them,
provoke
them,
it
is
no wonder
if
they complaine
of
wives,when them
felves
are
fofoolifh; how
fhould
the
body
be well
in
frame,
if
the
head be light
and
diftempercd! Let
us
take heed
of continuing
fuch
difobedience
:
looke not
what others doe,thinkenot what thy
felfe
bringeft
in:
If
my
husband werethus
and
thus;
liften not
to
ill counfell
,
the Alpe bor-
roweth
poyfon
from
the Hedge hog.
V
En.
s
E
24. Therefore
as
the
Church
is
in
fubjellion
to
Chrifi,
even
VERS.
24o
fi
let
thewives
be
to
their
husbands
in
every
thing.
We
fee,
That
women
mull
not
onely
obey
,hut
in
all
goodmanner thew
Dotá.
z.
their
obedience,
as
the
Church,
and
P
fat.
r
t o.
Now
the Church for the
manner
of
her
obedience, it
is
in foure
things.
T.
It
is
willing.
2. Conftant.
3.
With
feare
and reverence,
Heb.r
a.
4.
It
is
in all
things.
Which
doth
meet
with the corruption
of
many,
that obey,
but
it
is
filch
a
patience
perforce, do
a
thing
as
Zipporab
circumcifed
the child,
with
fuch grudging termes
that
they marre the
thing they doe
in
the
making.
Again,many they will now
bee
in
good
mood,but
fick
of
the
fullens prefently and not do any
thing. Againe,fomethings they will
doe,
hut
if
it
pleafe
them not the better, they
are heavie
of
hearing,
th ugh
the
husband
call
twice, they will turne
a
deafe care
to
it.
VERSE
a
5.
Hu:
bands
loveyour wives
,
even
,ta
Chrifl
lovedthe
VERSE
2f.
Church, andgave
himfelfofor
it.
Now
the
dutie
of
the Husband
is
laid
downe
to
the lait verfe,
in
which
both
their
duties are
included,
and
conclude the
matter.
Now
this verfe laveth downe three things.
r.
What
is
asked
of
men.
a.
To
whom.
3.In
what manner;as
Chrift hath
loved
hisChurch:which
love
is
amplified
by the effeit
of
it;the
effcEt
enlarged by
the end.
a.
Smäification,
which
is
fct
downe
by the author
and in-
ftrument.
a. Glorification.
The
firft
teacheth
us,
That
husbands are to
be
loving,
Col.
3.
for
as
DoU:_
the
fpirit
of
a
woman
derraEteth
the yoake
;
fo a
mans fpirit
lufteth
af-
ter
a
leffe
liberali fubjeEtion,and
is
ready to turne
his
preeminence into
tyrannie,
and
to
lay
hold on
Wives be
fob
jet,as
making for him
;
for
we fooner claime morethen our owne
,
then bate
an ace
of
thatbe-
longs to
us.
Therefore
this
IefWon
is
feafonably
taken
us
forth
:
it tea.
cheth
us
two things.
1.
What
it is.
2.
In what
office it
doth
fhew it felfe.
a. Love
is
a
molt
intire
afre6tion
to
one
woman,
a
wife,
as
who
is
g?
ven
me
of
God to
bee
a
helper
and
ornament
of
my
life,
and one
p,:rfon
with
me
to
raife
a
feed
to God.
It
is
Inch
an affection as
doth
Kkka
tranllate