465 Rules fa Family-peace. concile Heaven and earth.together,thou knoweft how to-recon- cile . men and men, Pray much for this , and know , that thy prayers at laft thall return into thine own:. bofòme : This now in the generall. or peace in Now for the particulars,For'peace in families obferve th.fr amil es. rules. Firft, thus, Obferve mens tempers in your family, the huf- band obferve the temper of the wife, and confider ,then wh is tote indulged in, in regard of hertemper, la the wife the temper of her husband, the parent of the child, the matter of the fervant,and fervants totheir mafters,every one ob erve,. the tempers one of ano her, one fellow- ïervarn obferve the temper of the other, and it will help much topeaceinkhe fa-. mily. Secondly obferve., The fitteft times and feafons to debate things in a family, y 'u have the opportunity of any time, be not rafh in contefting one with another.: The husband is not to fall a debating things when he fees the wife in a diftemper,. and fo the wife : No, rather forbeare, a wife would live .ac peace, fbe complains of fuch and fuch evil carriages in her huf band, but I- appeal to you, what do you doe when there is any evil nufcarriage in a husband; why you prefently fiy out in words againit him and then you will debate the bufineife when, . he is in apailïon, whereas you fhould obferve the fitteft time, when you fee him to be in the molt loving difpofitiòn, then in a laving way debate what bath been unjuft and amiffein him, then fet it before him, and then tell him of it when he is in the fitteft condition tohear : and fo the husband fhould do accor- dingly to the wife; fomething I obferve hath been done amifs,. watch now for the time when it may be moft like an admoni tion will take, and this would much conduce to peace. Thirdly, If any be angry with one another for fotne one thing, let them take heed that they be not angry wi.h them for all things becaufe there's One thing amiffe ; That now you find. ordinarily, if there be any thing amifs in a family, there's no- thing will pleafe a contentious fpirit, but they ate angry with every thing in the £amily,now wifdome would teach you thus, there
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