comfertable walking with Gods 5,[email protected]. .y No filfficiency ofgifts, or fingularity ofworth :nun In le outofthat ranke and Elation,wherein Gods wife providence and all-feeing wifedome , bath placed us. A man may bee a fuperiour in power and place, to his fuveriour, in parrs and perfonall endowments. No pretence then or plea on the wornans part can poffibly procure any difpenfation again. God and nature, of unwomanly domineering and &poling her head. 2. By an hearty and cheerefull fubmiffion Y. To all his lawful! and honeft diaates and direelions : For her per- fonall behaviour and carriage ; that it bee falbioned and addreft , with an ingenuous and loving accommodation of her feife to doe him all the honour, and give him all the con- tentment fbe can poffibly withgood confcience : for educa- ting, orderinganddifpofing her children, fervants, and other domefticall affa' ires ( wherein notwithflanding there are Tome paffages,More properand native toher fexe, in which, except fhe be witleffe, gracelefle, and ftrangely weake, it will bee very unmanly, difbonourable and unworthy for him to bee toomedling , pryingand pragmatical) ) But above all, for guiding her aright in the sweet and glorious path ofChri- flianity, that after their neareft, and dearthcomfort , and communion in the bell things and fpirituallbleffing6, which onely can allay the (mart of all croffe accidents , and fweeten the bitterneffe ofa few and evill dayes in this valeof reares they may for ever bee crowned together in heaven. 2. To all his reafonable, and Religious reftraints : not onely from wicked haunts, andcuflomes, finfull fafbions , and paffions but in cafeof inconvenience, difhonour or Mt dilpleafure for the abridging, or abandoning of her cafe , will, defires , delights , this or that company, conformity to the times in her attyre, &c. For the Spoufe, for Chrifts fake, foveraignty and love , doth deny herfelfe , herowne reafon , and wife- dome, her natural) witte, and wilfulneffe, her pafflons, plea- lures, and profits, her cafe and liberty, &c. And the wife is charged by bleffed Pout, tobee fubieft to her husband , the Chircb id to Chrifi, Ephe, 5.2q. 3. To all his motions, admonitions,
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