Rider for Family peace. 469 there is such a:thing diipleaies me, I but becaufe that difplea -- fesme, what dorh the other diápleafe me? The other is as well, done as it was done when I was moll pleafed : I am now pleafed with thi, one thing, let me keep the expretfion of nay difpleafure within bounds tothe thing that bath diipleafed me, let not me have my gill to run over, that's a great difeaiè that Phyf.cians oferve in the body, when the gall ruins over and do.h not keep in it's proper place: fo when any thing, difpleafes me, for me to have a heart angry and bitter againfi all. things,. this isa great make-ba e in a family. Fourthly, Ler fuperriors defre obedience out of love rather then out of feare,and let inferiours obey rather from love them from. feare, or from neceflity ; What's the caute of the dif}ur- bance in familyesbut this, the fervants they will never care for obedience, nor children, but meerly out of feare when they muff needs, or out of necelfity, they muff do ir, and therefore they do it, and Governours they carry themfelves towards their children and fervants,as if they did not regard 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 diflurbance there,but now when in a family the Matter or Miftris would 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 case to have his wife to be under him, but to do all, the Both out of love, and not out of neceffity. Now it's not a little will breed difiurbance in that family, but there's aboun- dance of peace there, where the fuperiours dodefire 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 neceffity , that they mutt doe it. Fifthly, Obferve, That when at any time there is mot+ caufe: to oppofe others in the family for anyevil, be fire to labour at that time to flew moll love, then above all -times manifefl your grearei loveunto them;. thatthey may beperffoaded that you
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