comfortable walking with God. 245 2. The Head is the (care of understanding ; wifedome, di(cretion, forecaft. Out of which confideration; Lec, the husband flirte up, quicken and inlarge his manly fpirit, to comprehend, and rightly conceiveall affaires,provifions,oc- calions, offers, ingenuous deportment, and worthyufages, which may any wayes procure and promote his wives true contentment, honour, and happineffe. It is his neceffary and noble charge, wich a fpeciall and pun&call care, and cafting about to provide for her foule, body, comfort, and credit; with all meekeneffe and love, toinftcu& and informe her in all pairages of her duty, and procurements of her good. 3. The Head indeede hath the precedency andpreroga- tive ofnoblefl operations, and the foules divinefl aas, by thebenefit ofits native temper and conflitution, feate of the fenfes, and other proper inftruments fitted for fach high em- ployments, and challenge of that excellencies yet notwich- (landing, thebody and other parts are animated and enlived with the very fame foule, both for fubtlance, faculties im- mortalitie,a&iveneffe every way 1So thatif the foot, forin- fiance, had an care, andeye, an animall fpirit, and an organi- zation, as the Philofophers fpeake,apted for filch functions, it would heare and fee, and undetftand aswell as the head. And thereforethe head, by a natuaall inflin&, as it were, and fympathie, doth continually and tenderly, withfrefh fucceffi- ons of a lively and quickning influence, cherifh, and refrefb ocher partsas well as it (elfe. Thehusband, by the benefit of a more manlybody, tempered with naturali fitneffc for the foule to worke more nobly in; doth, or ought ordinarily oucgoe the wifein largeneffeofunderftanding,height ofcou- rage, ftaiedneffe of refolution, moderation ofhis paflions, dexterity tomanage bufineffes, andother naturali inclinati- ons and abilities to doe more excellently; yet notwithflan=a Animaeuimfíèxt. . ding, let him know that his wife hath as noble a foule as stum iaeo fottaablere himfelfe. Sages have no Sexes, as a Ammhrofe faith. In the fmineumnren actiprt, gnód cans becter part they are both men. And ifthywives foule were ;ote.ttot æeur freedfrom the frailty f her fexe it were asmanly, as noble carn9s angit. 71e Y Y =Tg.a. a fvt.s4. P. 2 as N
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