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 your good companions. Take head 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 abulation, and four shoulders for thy sustentation. What the sin against thothe [sic] Holy Ghost is, in point of divinity, that is unthankfulness, in point of morality, an offencooffence [sic] unpardonable. Pity it is, but that moon should bobe [sic] ever in an eclipse, that will not acknowledgoacknowledge [sic] her beams to be borrowed from the sun. He that praises not the giver, prizes not thothe [sic] 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 aroare [sic] not made of thothe [sic] 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 thothe [sic] man was not made for the woman's command. Those Shoulders aspiroaspire [sic] too high, that content not themselves with a room below their heads. It is between a man and his wife in thothe [sic] house, as it is between the sun and thothe [sic] moon in the heavens, when the greater light goes down thothe [sic] lesser light gets up; when the one ends in setting, the other begins in shining. The wifowife [sic] may bobe [sic] a sovereign in her husband's absencoabsence [sic], but shoshe [sic] must be subject in her husband's presencopresence [sic]. As Pharaoh said to Joseph, so should thothe [sic] husband say to his wife, thou shalt bobe [sic] over my house, and aceordingaccording [sic] to thy word shall all my peoplopeople [sic] bobe [sic] ruled, only on the thronothrone [sic] will I be greater than thou,” Gen. xli. 40. Tho body of that household can novernever [sic] makomake [sic] any good motion, whose bones are out of placoplace [sic]