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 12   the man's comfort, but the man was not made for the woman's command. Those shoulders aspire too high, that content not themselves with a room below their head. It is between a man and his wife in the house, as it is between the sun and the moon in the heavens, when the greater light goes down, the lesser light gets up; when the one ends is setting, the other begins in shining. The wife may be a sovereign in her hus- band's absence, but she must be subject in   her husband's presence. As Pharaoh said to Joseph, so should the husband say to his wife, Gen. xii 40. Thou shalt be over my   house, and according to thy word shall all my people be ruled; only in the throne will I be greater than thou The body of that household can never make any good motion whose bones, are out of place. The woman must be a help to the man in these four things; 1. To his piety. 2. To his society. 3. To his progeny, 4. To his prosperity. To his piety, by the ferventness of her excitation. To his society, by the fragrant- ness of her conversation. To his progeny, by the fruitfulness of her education. To his prosperity, by the faithfulness of her preser- vation. 1. To his piety, by the ferventness of her excitation, 1. Pet ii. 7.   Husband and wife should be as two milch- kine, which were coupled together to carry the ark of God; or as the two cherubims, that looked one upon another, and both upon the