244 Genera/1direatOns for a Now all intemperate, exceffive, or any wales exorbitant pollutions ofthe marriage - beds though Magiftrates meddle not with thein,becaufe they lie without the walke ofhuman e° cenfare ; yet affuredly Gods pure Eye cannot looke upon them , but without repentance will certainelyplague them. Me thinkes therefore, if the feare of God, awefillneffe to his All- Peeing Eye , loveof purity, &c. will not reftraine from immodeflieand immoderation in this kinde ; yet that flavi fh horrour, left God should jultly punifh them therefore, with no children , mis-fhapen children, idiotes, or prodigioufly wicked children , or fome other heavy croffes, fhould fright them from fuch abhorred filth. In the next place, let us take a view of and tohart, duties peculiar and proper to each feverally. 1. To the Husband : I. Let him behave himielfe as an head to thebody, r . Car: 1. 3. Eph. 5, 23. a Non ianneritO I. Thehead is, 1 as it were , the a glory and crowne of iultort tuo cxt quail era con- pony : JO let t1e capiri husband Thine , and thew hirnfelfe in a niernbra famul3n- kinde ofeminencie, excellencie, and authority over the wife, cur ; be cIrcurnfe- 'um illud icruili Tobe an head, implies and imports a preeminence, fuperioi i- getumme tic" ty, and foveraignty, , as appeares by the Apoftles gradation, mine!) ; aurae in fublime 1.c.:tumer .Cor. r r .3.Man is the wornans head,Chrift is themans head, vehunt. 'Ambr' God is Chrifts head. For procuring and preferving which; liexalfs, I. 9 Let the husband be manly,grave, worthy ; not light, vaine, contemptible : Let him not bebitter, wayward, paffionate Let him not bee bale-minded, vicious, vaine glorious4 Let him not bee a drunkard, a gamefter, a good- fellow. Diffo- lureneffe , and a difordaed life in the Man, doth much abate and ditninifh the wives refpedfulneffe and reverenceunto him. Majdly , authority, venerableneffe in any Superiour is not any waits more leffened or {boner loft , thenby light behaviour, perfbnall worthlefnefre,or unworthydeportment in his place. Whereas true worth, goodneffe, grace , fhining from within, cloth beget a more loving reverence , and re- verent love, then all outward formes of pompe and flare titularly boy fteroufneffe , or big lookes can poffibly produce. 2. The
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