comfortablewalkingwith God. 247 sa. 401111111111M!1 tiency, fill' waiting upon Godby Prayer, in his good time, fora further and more full redreffe andconformitie. One of the rankeft rootesofdiflaftesand difcontentment in the Mar. riage-ftate , is the neglect of apualuall obfervation of each others properties;oftaking theright meafure ofeach others manners, upon purpofe , that withmutuall patience andfor- bearance, theymay fupport each other in love, and lovingly beare one anothers burthens. Memorable is that fpeech, and may be a fit medicine againft marriage-jarres ; which a rave- rend man received from an husband , being asked how fuch a cholericke couple could fo contort together : Thm, faith he, when herfit Uupon her , I,yeeld to her , Abraham did to Sara ; andwhen myfit u upon me, Peeyeelds to mee andliwo neverfirive together, butaliinder, z. By a difcreet, and patient ordering , gui- ding, and managing bifineffes abroad , and family affaires without that carking , impatiency, prevention, and diftruft ofGods providence; without that clamour, boyfleroufneffe, and confufion . with which worldlings are woont to trouble their owne houfes. It is incredible to confider the vaft and unvaluable difference betweenc the comforts , calmeneffe, and many fweet contentments of an houfhold , governed by the patient wifedome of an heavenly-minded man : and the endleffe brawlings , bitter contefiations about trifles, diforders, domefticall hurly burlies, &c. which haunt that family, where a cholericke, covetous , and hairs- brained husband doth domineere. This latter, is like the middle re- gion of the ayre, continually tomeand rent with frefhcoal- motions, thunders, and many tumultuous flirres, which rife at &II from a thing of nothing ; a thinne invifible fume drawne out of the earth : So earthly things, vainer then the molt vanifhing vapour, doe ordinarily raife in fuch Nurfe- ries of difquietneffe and noife, a world of needleffe troubles, paffionate diftempers , and felfe-vexations. But the former is like the higheft part of the aire , full ofcaltneneffe , tran- quillitie and confiant light; the Sunneof righteoufneffe fhi- fling (till it with the bleffed beames of patience, con- R 3 tentnient
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