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 yet do not bring them up to damnation. Thoſe are not mothers, but monſters, that, whilſt the 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 them good, that before you are 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 putting 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 not 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 Jezebel.

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