QeJfìons,andCafesofConfcience Chap.z6í 2. Its unlawful for children,under the governmen r of theirparents, or tu- tors tò cive aimes without the confent of their parents, or governors either exprefled by words, or allowed by the continual cuflorn ofthe family, except it be out of their own allowance. 3. Its unlawful fot fuch as arenot of fufficient age , or difcretion to give aimes , becaute they may wafle their eftates, or give CO unworthy perlons for want of difcretion. (Zuetl. whether it it lawfulfor the wife to give alms without theconfent of her husband ? Anfw. In divers cafes it is lawful for her to doit : As t. If he be a fool ,'or a madd man , and not able himfeff to manage his ellate. 2. When as he is far abfent , and fo his confent cannot be asked , efpe- daily if the conceive that if her husbandwere prefent, he would like ofher doings. 3. When he hath committed the adminiliration ofhis houfhold expences to his wife, his heart trufling in her. 4.When having a certain allowance made her byher husband,fhe fpares fome- what out of it to relieve others. 5. When the or he: friends for her , havebefore marriage,over, andabove her dowry referved fomething tobe at herdifpofal. 6. When the gets fomething by her own labour , the may difpofe of part of it to charitable ufes , if the Lawes of the Countrey be not a- gainft it. 7. Ifthe alms which fhegives be but of fmallvalue,as bread, bear, call apparel, and fuch like. S. Ifher husbandbe fo bafely miferable , as having much , he will part with nothing; or if he be fo wicked, that though. hefpendmuch vainly, and wicked- ly, yet he will giue nothing to thofe;thatwant;or if to any,yet not to them that fear God. 9. When its a received cufloi of the Countrey that the wives fhould give alms to the relief of the poor. Object. But the propriety of thegoods being wholly in the husband , its theft in the wife to give any parrof them away withoutthe confent ofher husband, either expreffed,or implied > Anfw. If the cafe be fo between man and-wife it were goodfor the woman not tomarry : Indeed it is granted , that a&God hath made them yoke-fellows, fo the mutt endeavour to perfwade her husband to draw with her in all. Chriflian duties : for which end , the muff ufe toward him all . duty refpect , reverence , loving and fweet behaviour , that the may move him to love all goodneffe ,. at leaf: for her fake : fhe muff alfo (hewfuch care, faithfulnefle and goodhúfwifery that theheart of her husband may mat in her; Pray.31. r t. Yet if after all this her husband be a Nabal,that will neither be charitable himfeff, norconfent that Ilse (hall be fo ; fhemay do it her Pelf, on- ly herein thefe cautions are to be obferved. a. Shemuff obferve the former rules; andgive difcreetly, not exceeding her husbands ability, the which if it be unknown to her, the mull give fpa- tingly , and things of fmaller value. For , Prev. 31. 12. fhe muff do him good, &e. x. She tnufl perform this duty with all meeknefs and humilityof fpirit, with all reverence and due refpec4'to her husbands authority:, with acknowledge- ment of her fubjedtion inall things lawful,that themay,wrnhim byher Chritlian carriage, r `Per.3. r; 3.In themanner, the mull fo do itas notto give her husband any jolt cauee of
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