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 1 Carry yourſelves towards them with obedience. Let their power command you, that their praiſe may commend you. Though you may have your husband's heart yet you should love his will. Till the husband leaves commanding, the wife muſt never leave obeying. As his injunctions muſt be lawful, ſo her ſubjection must be loyal.

2. With faithfulneſs. In creation, God made not one woman for many men, or many women for one man. Every wife should be to her husband, as Eve was to Adam, a whole world of women; and every husband should be to his wife, as Adam was to Eve, a whole world of men. When a river is divided into many channels, the main current ſtarves.

To conclude, Good ſervants are a great blesſing: good children a greater bleſſing: but a good wife is the greateſt: and ſuch a help let him ſeek for her that wants one, let him ſigh for her that hath loſt one, let him take pleaſure in her that enjoys one.

Where there is nothing but a picture of virtue, or a few shadowy qualities that may ſubſiſt without any real excellency, death will hide them for ever in the night of deſpair. The blackneſs of darkneſs will cloſe upon the naked and wandring ghoſt; whilſt its loathſome remains are conſigned to oblivion and putrefaction in the priſon of the grave, with the proſpect of a worſe doom hereafter. But where there is a living image of true goodneſs begun in this ſtate, death will deliver it with ſafety