248 Generalldire ions itbr'd tentment and fpirituall nobleneffeofminde ' cloth from time to time ditfolve and drive away all mills cf worldly mour- ning, flormes of bittemeffe and brawling , matter of fuch fenceleffe and braineleffe molefting one another ; and cloth with afweete and kindly heate refrefh and fupport the heart, againft all cholericke encounters and croffe accidents, by ver- tueoffuckheavenly andhealing cordialsas thefe,which were wont to calme and repell the moif tempefluous affaults upon the aided Saints, hb x . i SaM.3.18. 3. But above all, by leading his wife in the wayof life, andpath, that is called .HOly. This is the flower andcrowne of all his skill , tobe ableffed and manly guide unto her,. to- wards everlafling happineff:. For want of this wifedome, and will, many a poore foule lies bleedingunto eternall death, under the bloody and mercileffe hand of an ignorant, pro- phane , or Pharifaicall husband; which perhaps may have knowledge enough and toomuch, to thrive in the world, to profper in his outwardRate ; to provide for pofleritie ; nay to oppreffe , ever-reach, and defraud his brother : But no wit , no underflanding , nobraines at all , to teach , and tell his wifeone Foote of the right way to Heaven : w$fi to doe mill; 44 the 'Prophet fl,eakzs, Ierem. 4. 22. Eta' to doe good, Ito knowledge at all:. No holy habit or heart to pray with her, to inflrua , and incourage her in the great myftery and prafticeof godlineffe ; to keepe. the Sabbathholy, and dayes of humiliation; to read': Scriptures , repeate Sermons, and conferre of good things with her, &c. from which he is fo firre ; that although it be the ftrongeft barre to keepe her from grace, and the bloody cut-throat of both their foules ; he will needs perfwade her that all this is toomuch precife- , ki neffe. And yet heare a ChrRiorne Let them both goe to the .qu'rque acceclat, the Church, and afterward at home let the budband require of dictutrur, the voifi, and the rift ofthe Luoband , thole -things which were eceorum qua ibz guntu.vel prtem there ipoken andread,or at le41fame of them. :And in the fame aliab uxore , Sermon , Teach her, faith he, the of God ; and allthings guam & 5: autor a vivo exi- g2t. Frfl, ad Epb.Serm.20. CO.594. Doce cimoremDei, omnia tanquarn ex font: abunde adfitt- sra, e6tIlae dorms tua imaumcrisbows refetta. nod. Co1.895. Via
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