E/iflleof S. Pad to Titus. CxAN2.3. ly, young women in the next verfe ; and the leé'tures they are to fit vnto 373 them ; themoll or all of which are private duties,and the ende to make the younger women wife vnto all godly conuerfation ; namely, both thole within the family, and thole that are without, fo farce forth as they (hail be occal ovally called to infirué them, both by Chriflian (peach and example. Now that this cluticbelongeth vnto matrons, it will ap- peare, if we confider them, a, as Chriflianwomen : a. as fuperiours in the family. For the former:It is not fuflicient that aChriflian woman line vpright- Adude enjoy: ly and vnblameably inher felle, vnleffe (he allo endeauour to driue or áianewna'co drawe the younger women to the like godly courte. For, t. eueryChri- call on others thanmull gather withChrif3, & he or the that gathereth not,fcattereth: c%, Raç whence are all thole exhortations, 'Moo beeing concerted, flre.ogthen thy I I brethren : obfcrue one another, admenfi, and prouokeone another to loue and lieb 10.24.. good workes, 2. The rule of(peach for all Chrtfiians is, that for the mat- i 2 ter it be good, that is, ofgood things: and for the vfe that it tend to edi- j fie : and whobut elder Chriflian women fhould proceed in this duck? 3. From the obferuation ofthis rule, the godly are dcfcribed tobe fuch, 3 as wl ofe bpsfeede many, and they fpeakc pleafant words,which are health to the bones, and fvvectnes to the foule, theirtongues are treesof f e,vt- terwifedome, talk! ofiadgemsnt, ofhigh matters, &c. And that women Pfat'"' fhould not thinks that they are exempted from all this qualification of their fpeach, Salomon afcribeth it in fpeciall to a vertuous woman, that fee openeth her mouth with wifedome,and the/aweofgrace isunder her lrppes; anfwerable to this text, which requireth that the be a teacher of honefi things. As for the latter, this clinicof teachinghor.èfi things,uelongethvnto them as gouernours oftheir fatnily:whereinSalomons mother is a nota- ble prefident, who infiruEied her tonne, What myforme? andwbatthe vedr,' forme ofmy wombe? &c. and 'irnothies mother , and grand-mother Lois, who acquaintedhimwith the Scripturesfroma child: and what clfc prop "p3'$ ued thefe, but rare mcn,full ofgraceand picric? Vfe. j. This reprooueth loch as neither are able, nor willing to call on others vntolthe praElifeof Chriflian andhoneli duties, the know- ledge of God feateth not in their hearts nor thelaw of grace in their lips. a. Others are teachers, but ofdifhonefithings, their mouthes are euer open, but like the open vettells, which in theLawe were accounted vncleane; nothing but idle and lewd fpeach, nothing but impertinent 'tumb.ry.t$. or detra&ing (peach proceedeth out of them : all kind of language fit - teth their mouthes,but that which befitteth holines and honellie : inch as whole yeares calleth for grannie andgracious fauourie fpeacb,encn in A a z cite
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