246 Generalldtrellionsfor el as anderflanding, and every way as excellent as thine owne Nay, and if it were poffible for you to changebodies; hers wouldworke as manlily in thine, and thine as womanly in hers. Let the husband then be fo faire from infultingover, contemning,or undervaluing his wives worth,for the weake- neffe of her fexe ; that out of confederation that her foule is naturally every way as good as hisowne ; onely the excel- lencie ofits native operations, fomething damped,as it were, and difabledby the frailtieof that weaker body, with which Gods wife providence hath clothed it nponpurpofe, for a more convenient and comfortable , but ingenuous fervice. ableneffe to his good ; that, I fay, bee labour the more to enterraine and intreat her with all tenderneffe and honour, torecoaipence , as it were, her fuffering in this kinde for his fake. 4. The Head is the well-fpringof all quickeningmotion and fence, livelineffe and lightfomneffe to thebody. If the derivation of animall fpirits,from the braise, were refrained and intercepted for a while ; the body would bee prefently furprized with a fenceleffe dampeand dead palfey. The wife for thehusbands fake, bath forfaken her nativehome, fathers houfe, father,mother, and many comforts in that kinde : And therefore,good reafon Thee should expert now, and receive from her Head new matter, and a continued influence of light-heartedneffe,comfortable enjoying her felfe,and cheere- full walking. If hee to wholecompany and conditions Thee is now foneerely and neceffarily confined, and, as it were en. chained, proove dogged, thee holds her felfe utterly undone for any outwardcontentment. 2. Let bin"dwellwith her , according toknowledge, t Pet. 3. v erf. 7. I. By a wife difcovery at the firft , and timely ac-s quaintinghimfelfe with her difpofition, affections, infirmi- ties, paffions, imperfeeiions : and thereupon with all, holy difcretion apply andaddreffe bimfelfe in a faire and loving manner, to re6tificand reformeall bee can ; andto beare the reit withpatience, paffing by it without pailionand imp. tiency,
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