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 14 do not bring them up to damnation. Those are not mothers, but monsters, that whilst they should be teaching their children the way to heaven with their lips, are 'leading them the way to hell with their lives. Gad education is the best livery you can leave the living; and it is the best legacy you can leave them dying. You let out your cares to make them great, O lift up your prayers to make them good, that before you die from them, you may see Christ live in them. Whilst these twigs are green and tender. they should be bowed towards God.- Children and servants are in a family, as pas- sengers are in a boat ; husband and wife, they as a pair of oars, to row them to their desired haven. Let these small pieces of timber be "hewed and squared for the celestial building. By putting a sceptre of grace into their hands, you will get a crown of glory upon their heads. 4. A help to his prosperity, by her faithful preservation, being not a wanderer abroad, but a worker at home. One of the ancients speaks excellently. She must not be a field-wife, like Dinah; nor a street wife, like Thamar; nor a window-wife, like Jezabel. Phildeas, when he drew a woman, painted her under a snail shell; that she might imitate that little creature, that goes no further than it can car- Ty its house upon its lead. How many wo- men are there; that are not labouring Bees, but idle drones; that take up a room in the hive, but bring no honey to it; that are moths to their husbands' estates, spending when they