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 yet do not bring them up to damnation. Thoſe are not mothers, but monſters, that whilſt they ſhould be teaching their children the way to heaven, with their lips, are leading them the way to hell, with their lives. Good education is the beſt livery you can give them living: and it is the beſt legacy you can leave them dying. You let out your cares to make them great, O lift up your prayers to make then good, that before you die from them, you may ſee Chriſt live in them. Whilſt theſe twigs are green and tender, they ſhould be bowed towards God.

Children and ſervants are in a family, as paſſengers are in a boat; huſband and wife, they are as a pair of oars, to row them to their deſired haven. Let theſe ſmall pieces of timber be hewed and ſquared for the celeſtial building. By patting a ſceptre of grace into their hands, you will ſet a crown of glory upon their heads.

4. A help to his proſperity, by her faithful preſervation; being put a wanderer abroad, but a worker at home. One of the ancients ſpeaks excellently: She muſt not be a field-wife, like Dinah; nor a ſtreet-wife, like Thamar; nor a window-wife, like Jezabel.

Phildeas, when he drew a woman, painted her under a ſnail-ſhell; that ſhe might imitate that little creature, that goes no further that it can carry its houſe upon its head. How many women are there; that are not labouring bees, but idle drones; that take the hive, but bring no honey to it than are moths to their huſband's eſtates, ſpending when they

ſhould