244. Gen.erall dirccáioris fir à Now all il:t_rnperate, exceffive, orany wayes exorbitant pollutions ofthe. marriage-bed, though Magiftrates meddle not with them, becaufe they Iie without the waIkeof hu- manecenfilre; yet affredly Gods pure eye cannot looke up, on them, but without repentance will certainely plague them. Methinkes,therefore, if the feare of God, awfullnefie tohis All-feeing Eye, loveof purity, &c. will not reffraine from immodeffy and immoderation in this kinde; yet that flavifh honour, left God fhould juftly punifh them therefore, with no children, mis-fhapen children, idiots, or prodit;ioufly wicked children, or tome other heavy croffes, fhould fright them from fuch abhorred filth. In thenext place, let us take aview of; and to heart, duties peculiarand proper toeach feverally. I. To the Husband : r. Let him behave himfelfe as a head to the body, z Coro 11.3. Ephef.5.23. a Novi.immeritó . I. The head is, as it were, the capiti quail con' a glory and crowne of faltorifuocætera thebody: So let the husband fhine, and thew hirnfelfe in a membra famulana kinde eminencie, excellencie, andauthoritie over the wife. tux; & 6mm- u- > > runt illud fervili To be an head,implies and imports a preeminence fuperiori- ._ geftamme scut t and foveraignty, as appeares by the Apoffles gradation, Women; argue in Y fublime Iocatum I COY, a t.3. Man isthewomans head, Chriff is mans head, xanmr.l. p.' God isChriffs head. For procuringand preferving which Let the husband be manly, grave, worthy ; not lighr, vaine, contemptible: Let him not be bitter, wayward, paflìonate Let him not be bate minded, vicious, vaiue-glorious: Let him not be a drunkard, a gat-miler, a good-fellow. Difo- lutenefl-e, and a difordered life in the Man, lothmuch abate and diminifh the wives refpe&iveneffe and reverence unto him. Majeffie , authority, venerableneffe in any Superiour, is not any wayes more leffened or fowler loft, then by light behaviour, perfonall worthlefneffe, or unworthy deportment in his place. Whereas true worth, goodneffe, grace, thining from within, doth beget a more loving reverence, and re- verent love, then all outward formes of pompe and (late; then anyboyfleroufneffe or big looker can poflibly produce. a. The
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