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Rh the right side. 2dly, On the left. On the right side, when the wife should run in God's way, the husband will not let her go: When the fore-horse in a team will not draw, he wrongs all the rest: When the general of an army forbids a march all the soldiers stand still. Sometimes on the left: How did Solomon's idolatrous wife draw away his heart from heaven? A sinning wife was Satan's first ladder, by which he scaled the walls of paradise, and took away the fort-royal of Adam's heart from him. Thus, she, that should have been the help of his flesh, was the hurt of his faith; his nature's under-propper, became his grace's under-miner! and she that should be a crown on the head is a cross on the shoulders—The wife is often to the husband, as the ivy to the oak, which draws away his sap from him.

2. A help to his Society, by the fragrantness of her conversation.

Man is an affectionate creature: Now the woman's behaviour should be such towards the man as to require his affection, by increasing his delectation. That the new-born love may not be blasted as soon as it is blossomed; that it may not be ruined before it be rooted. А spouse should carry herself so to her husband, as not to disturb his love by her contention, nor to destroy his love by her alienation. Husband and wife should be like two candles burning together, which makes the house more lightsome: or like two fragrant flowers bound up in one nosegay, that augments its sweetness; or like two well tuned instruments, which