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 13 underminer ; 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 is 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 ruined before it be rooted. A 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 make the house more lightsome: or like two fragrant flowers, bound up in one nosegay, that aug- ments its sweetness ; or like two well-tuned instruments, which sounding together make the more melodious music, Husband and wife, what are they but as two springs meetings and so joining their streams, that they make but one current? It is an unpleasing spectacle to view any contention in this conjunetion. 3. To his progeny, by the fruitfulness of her education; that so her children in the flesh, may be God's children in the spirit, 1 Sam. i. 11. Hannah she vows, if the Lord will give her a son, she would give him to the Lord, to serve him. A spouse should be more careful of her children's breeding, than she should be fearful her children's bearing. Take heed, lest these flowers grow in the devil's garden.- Though you bring them out in corruption, yet.