comfortable walking with God. ti 5 i No îuffìciency of gifts, or fingularityofworth muff jutile us out of that ranke andtiation, wherein Gods wife providence andall-feeing wifedorne, bath placed us. Aman may be a fuperiour in power and place, to his fuperiour in parts and perfonall endowments. No pretence then or plea on the womanspart, can poffibly procure any difpenfation againíl God awl nature, of unwomanly domineering and depofing herhead. 2. By an hearty and cheerefull fubmi(lion : r. To all his lawfull andhoneddi&ates and direEions : Forher per- fonall behaviour and carriage ; that it may be fathioned and addreft, with am ingenuous and loving accommodation of her felfe todoe him all thehonour, and give him all the con- tentment fhe can poflibly with good confcience : for educa- ting, ordering anddifpoting her children,fervants, andother dometticall affaires ( wherein notwithilanding there are Tome patfages, more proper andnative toher fexe, in which, except the bee witleffe, gracelefl'e,and fl:rangely weake,it will be very unmanly, dithonourable and unworthy for him to be toomedling, prying andpragmatical' :) But above all, for guidingheraright inthe fweet and glorious path ofChri- fkianitie, that after their neared and deareft comfort, and communion in thebeft things and fpirituail bleffings, which onlycan allay the (mart of all croffe actions, and fweeten the bitterneffe of a few- and evil' dayes in this vale of teares, they may for ever be crowned together id heaven. 2. To all his reafonable, and Religious reftraints : not onely from - wickedhaunts, and cuftomes, finfull fathions, and paflions : but in cafe of inconvenience, dithonour or juft difpleafure, for the abridging, or abandoningof her eafe, will, delires, delights this or that company,conformity to the times in her attyre, &c. For the Spoufe, for Chrifls faite, foveraignty and love,doth genie her felfe, her owne reafon, and wife- dome', her naturali wit, and wilfulneffe, her paftions, plea lures and profits, her eafe and libertie, &c. And the wife is charged by bleffed S.Pau , to be fubjett to her husband, At tin Cbacrcb is to Cbrifi, Epbef. 5.24.. 3. To all his motions, adraonitio.ns
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