comfortable walking with God. 245 ,-11,...... 2. The Head is the feate of underflanding ; wifedome, di'fcretion , forecaft. Out of which confideration ; Let the husband 'Erre up, quicken, and inlarge his manly fpirit, to comprehend, and rightly conceive all affaires, provifions, cc- cafions, offers, ingenuous deportment, and worthy ufages, whichmay any wayes procure and promotehis wives true contentment , honour , and happineffe. It is his neceffary and noble charge, with a fpeciall and punduall care, and calling about to provide for her Cottle , body, comfort, and credit ; withall meekeneffe and love, to inftt and informe her inall paffages of her dude , and me procurements of her good. 3. The Head indeed bath the precedency and preroga- tive of nobleft operations , and the fouler divinefl ads, by thebenefit of its native temper and conflitution, feate of? the fences, and other properin flruments fitted for fuch high im- ployments and challenge of that excellency.; yet notwith- ftanding , the body and other parts are animated and enlyved with the veryfame foule, both for fubilance, faculties, im- mortalitie aetiveneffe, every way : So that if the foot, for inftance, had ancare, an eye, ananimall fpirit, and an organi- ZatiOn as thePhilofophers fpeake, apted for fuch funetions, it would heare, and fee , and underftand as, well as the head. And therefore the head, by a natural( inftind, as it were, and fympathie,doth continuallyand tenderly,with frefh fucceffi ons of a lively and quickning influence, cherifh, and refrefh other parts as well as it felfe. The husband, by the benefit of a moremanly body , tempered with tiaturall fitneiTe for the foule to worke more nobly in ; cloth, or ought ordinarily outgoe the wife in largeneffe ofunderflanding,heightofcou- rage, flayedneffe of refolution, moderationof his paffions, dexteritie tomanage bufineffes , and other natural( inclinati- . . ons, and abilities todoe more excellently ; yet notwithflan- mn:::beaTentle`; ding, let him know that his wife bath as noble a foule as ideo fortatre fa. 111111fCife. Soules have no fexes , as a Ambrofh faith. In, the ":liegn,qu =I; better part they are both men. And if thy wives foulewere violentior zits '- freed from the fiailtie ofhericexe, it were as:manly, , R. 2 - as
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