comfortable walking with God. 247 tiency, (till waiting uponGod byprayer, in his good time, forafurther and more full redreffe and conformity. One of the rankeft rootes ofdiftaftes anddifcontentment in theMary riage-fiate, is thenegleél of a punauall obfervation of each othersproperties; oftaking theright meafureofeach others manners upon purpofe, that with mutual! patience and ion. bearance, they may fupport eachother in love, and lovingly beare one anothers burthens. Memorable is that fpeech, and may be a fir medicine again if marriage- jarres; which a re- verend man received from an husband, being askedhow fuch a cholericke couple couldfo confort together : Thus, faith he, whenherfit it uponher, Iyeeld to her, as Abraham did to Sara; andwhenmyfit isupon me, (Toe yeelds to me: andfowe neverfrive together, but afunder. 2 By a provident, difcreet, and patient ordering, gui. ding, and managing bufineffes abroad, and family affaires; without that carking, impatiency, prevention, and difiruil ofGods providence ; without that clamour, boyfleroufneffe, and confufion, with which worldlings arewont to trouble their owne houles. It is incredible to confider thevaft and unvaluable difference betweene the comforts, calmenef i, and many Tweet contentments ofan houlhould, governed by the patient wifedome of an heavenly-minded man: and theendleffe brawlings, bitter contefations about trifles, diforders, domef icall burly-burlies, &c. which haunt that family, where a cholericke, covetous, and hairebrained husband doth domineere. This latter, is like the middlere- gi onof theayre, continually torneand rent with fref$icont. motions, thundery, and many tumultuous {litres, which rife at firft from a thing of nothing; a thinne invifible fume drawne out oftheearth : So earthly things, vainer than the mo(c vanifhing vapour, doe ordinarilyrail infuchNource- tiesof difquietneffe andnoife, aworld ofneedleffe troublés, paffionate difcempers, and felfe-vexations. But the former is like the highe{t part of the ayre, full of calmene{fe,tran- quilitie, and confiant light, the Sunne of righteoufneife (hi- . mag Rill upon it with the bleffed beaniesof patience, eon- R 3 tentmeut
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