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Rh thou matched to the Lord; match in the Lord, How happy are such marriages, where Christ is at the wedding! Let none but those who have found favour in God's eyes, find favour in yours

2. Give God the tribute of your gratulation for your good companions. Take heed of paying your rent to a wrong landlord: When you taste of the stream, reflect upon the spring that feeds it. Now thou hast four eyes for thy speculation, four hands for thy operation, four feet for thy ambulation, and four shoulders for thy sustentation. What the sin against the Holy Ghost is in point of Divinity, that is unthankfulness in point of morality; an offence unpardonable. Pity it is but the moon should be ever in an eclipse, that will not acknowledge her beams to be borrowed from the sun. He that praises not the giver, prizes not the gift; and so I pass from the agent to the object, A help.

She must be so much, and no less: And so much, and no more. Our ribs were not ordained to be our rulers. They are not made of the head, to claim superiority; but out of the side, to be content with equality. They desert the Author of nature who invert the order of nature. The woman was made for the man's comfort, but the man was not made for 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 wile in the house, as it is between the sun and the moon in the heavens, when the