25'4 GeneY411 direilions for 4 don, to forecaft, contrive and manage, as her more proper and particular charge, houalold affaires, and hufineffes with in doore, as they fay. For which, fee a right nobleglorious patterne, Prov.3r. For the pride, vanity, idleneffe and luxury ofthefe laft times, wherein there is fomuchhell uponearth ; fuch an impetuous raigne and rage of finne inall forts, hath tranfported alto that fexe into many monftrous degenerati- ons : So that our great women in there dayes wouldbe ve I loth toworke afterthis fample, though let by theholy Gh himfelfe : Yet heretofore right noble Princeffes and daugfi- ters ofmighty Kings,madeconfcience ofa particularCAling, anddifdainednot to put theirhands to houfwifery, SeeGen. 18.6. and 27.14. 2 SaM. 3.8. But aboveall, let her be affiflant tohimin letting up,and forward the richand Royal! trade ofgrace ; in erefting and ettablifbing Chrifls glorious Kingdome, both in theirowne hearts, and in their houfe. This is that one neceirary thing, without which their family is but Satn i. feminary, and a nurcery for hell. And therefore let. her be fo farre from drawing a contrary way ( a curled villany of force wicked wives abroad in the world ) or dead-heartedneffe this It ay, which is the graveof all fpiritualI graces, that incafe ofZbeg- ligenceand flackneffe, the thould laboui byall wire,' iirodeft, feafonable infirmations, to flirre up and quicken her husband toconflancy, and fervency in religious exercices ofprayer, reading, catechizing,conference, dayes of humiliation, ar d other houfehold holy duties. As the twogreater lights of Heavendoegoverne this great world with their naturall : fo let the husbandandwife guide the little world of their fami- ly, with the fpirituall light ofdivine knowledgeanddi fcreti- on. When theSunne is prefent in ourfirmament, theMoore ont of a fenfe, as it were, of naturall reverence to the fountaine ofall her beauty and light, dothvaile her fplendor, and retireher beames. But when bee is departed to the o- ther Hemifphxre, thee (hewes her Idle, and (hines as a Princeffe amongft the leffer lights. When the husband is at houre, let the wifeonely, ifneede bel,ferve as aloving remem- brancer
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