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Reties

for

Family-

peace.

there

is

such

a

thing,

dilpleaies me,

I

but

becaufe

that

difplea

fes

me, what

do:h the

other

difpleafe me?

The other

is

as

well

'

done

as

it

was

done when

I

was

naot+

pleafed

:

I

am now

dif-

pleafed

with

thi,

one

thing, let me keep the expreilion ofmy

difpleafure

within hounds

to

the

thing that bath diipleafed

me,

let

not

nie have my gall

to

run

over, that's

a

great difeafe.that

Phyfiians

oierve

in

the body, when the

gall runs over and

do

h

not

keep

in

it's proper

place:

fowhenany

thing,

difpteafes

me, for

me

to

have

a

heart angry

and

bitter

"againít

all

things,

.

this is a

great

make

-bare

in

a

family.

Fourthly,

Let luperiorsdetire

obedience out

of love

rather

then out of

feare,and

let

inferiours

obey

rather

from love then-

from

feare,

or from necetl'ity

;

What's

the

caule

of

the

dit+ur

bance

in

familyes,but

this, the

fervanrs

they

will

never

care for

obedience, nor

children,

but meerly out

of

feare

when

they

mutt

needs,

or

out of neceibty,

they mutt do

ir,

and

therefore

they

do it,

and Governours they

carry themfelves

towards

their

Children and

fervants,as

if

they

did notregard their love

at all,

but they

regard

to

have

their

will

:

Let

my fervant

do

my

work

and

will and

there's

all

that

I

care for:Now

if

you

will

be

carryed byfuch principles

as

thefe

are

in

a

family,certainly

there will be

a

great

deal

of

ditiurbance

there,but

now when

in

a

family

theMatter or Mifiriswould

have

them

obey,and

their

care

is,

O

that

I

might

have

obedience from love, that what

they

doe, they

may do for me out

of love,

and fo

the Husband

not onely

care

to

have

his

wife

to

be

under him, but

to do

all

the

cloth

out of love,

and

not out of neceibty.

Now

it's not

a

little

will

breed

difturbance in

that family, but

there's

aboun-

dance

of

peace

there,

where

the

fuperiours

ddefire

and

en-

deavour

obedience

out of

love

rather

then

feare,

and

where

the

.inferiours doe obey and ferve

rather

from

love

to

their fuperiours

then

from necellity

,

that

they

mutt doe

it.

Fifthly,

Obferve, That

when at

any

time there

is

mot+

caufe:

to

oppofe

others

in

the

family for

any evil, be

fire

to

labour

at

that

time to

thew

mot+

love, then

above all

-times

manifeft

your

greate

t

love

unto them;,thatthey

may

be

perfwaded

that

you

469.