CHne.=+ ti'Commentavie upon the 38o contrarie to the praCtife ofmany Iefabels, who though there be nò need to fpurre freehones, yet are powerful! enough to perfwade and worke them tovngodlines. 3 Thirdly,this loue muff be teflified to his outwardelateand perfotr.t. In hercheerefull behauiour at all times, out officknef a or other afAiéli- ons, whichcall vnto humilitieandmourning, which oppofeth it felfe to 2 the ordinary fullennesofa number. a. In her wife obferuing his difpo- Ction, and inclinatfon,that the may in all things frame her felfe to pleafe him, fo farre aswithout Cane the may ; in wife palling by, and couering his infirmitis ,and bearing his burthen : the difcouetie of which vnto othcrs,and taking vantageofwhich again(# himfelfe, were both to chi-- cafe her felfe,and vncouer her owne nakednes: and further, in a wife pa- cifying of his difpleafure, not growing impatient by his impacience,bur rather by meeknes offpirit call milke into his flame, and be as Dauids 3 harpe toappeafe Sauls furie. 3. In her careful! diligence to prepare himoutward comfortsin iicknes andhealth,and that in due feafon:wic- ked Iefabel comforted her husband in his fickneffe, Jeroboams wife as wicked ashe and (he were,yet fought out for his health:fee the fame du- Gt4av,v. ty in a betterpacterne ofRebecca,who prouided for Ijaacfuchmente as 4 he lowed 4.In wariecircumfpe&ion,if God giue her to fee more then her husband,with the leaft prejudice towards htm,to turne away and hinder whatfoeuer would be dangerous to their good elate , andwelfare: thus 5 Abigail faued Nabal,and Micol Dauid. S.In louing, and to her abilitie, liberall entertainement ofher husbands kinred and freinds , as Ruth did to the friends ofher deadhusband, In thefe things flandech the true loue of the wife towards the hus- band, all which the oweth him, be he a foole, a frowardNabal,or what- focuer elfe;nothing can look her from there duties which difrolueth not the marriagebond. Nowalthough this text fpeaketh nothing expreffely of the husbands duty , yet may not the husband thinke hinifelfe lawles, or to expeél the payment of there duties,and hue as hc liii. For not oncly other places ofour Apofile bindhim as firaite as this doch the wife; but euer this place fecretlyputtech him inmindeofhis dude , bothbecaufeheisthe founcaine of all marriage duties ( as of marriage it (elfe) as alto in that all there offices of loue in the wife, fhould be acoufequent of his loue, yea a thankful! returneofloue for loue ; for fo is the loue of the Church- toward. Chrift. Wee will therefore in few words fhewe (al- Husbands duty though not fo direéìly laid downe in the text) wherein the husbands loue mull bewra it felfe cowards his wife that fo he maythe more iuft3 wiEt:wherein. y require the duties fromher. And he mull expref a it foure waies. Firft, by
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