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 15 they should be bowed towards God. Child- ren and servants are in a family, as passen- gers 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 celes- tial 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. Phideas, when he drew a woman, painted her sitting under a snailshell, that she might imitate that little creature, that goes no far- ther 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 husbande estates; spending when they should be sparing? - As the man's part is to provide industriously, so  the woman's is to preserve discreetly; the one must not be carelesly wasting the man must be seeking with diligence, the woman must be saving with providence. The cock and hen both scrape together in the dust- heap, to pick up something for their little chickens. To wind up this on a short bottom. 1. If the woman be a help to the man, then let not the man cast dirt on the woman. Secundus being asked his opinion of a