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Rh the flesh. Flesh and trouble are married together, whether we marry or not now a bitter cup is too much to be drunk by one mouth. A heavy burden is easily carried by the asistance [sic] of other shoulders. Husband and wife should neither be proud flesh, nor dead flesh. You are fellow-members, therefore, should have a fellow-feeling. While one stands safe on the shore, the other should pity him that is tost on the sea.—Sympathy in sufferings is like a dry house in a wet day.

3. Chuse such a one as may be serviceable to your salvation. A man may think he hath a saint when he hath a devil; but take heed of a harlot that is false to thy bed; and of a hypocrite that is false to thy God.

2dly, To those women who have husbands, how to use them. In two things;

1. Carry yourselves towards them with obedience. Let their power command you, that their praise may commend you. Though you may have your husbands' hearts, yet you must not have their heads; as you his love, so you should love his  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 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 blessing; and such a help, let him seek