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 16 objects, "To blast thy helper, is to blame thy Maker. In a word, we tools our rise from their bowels, and may take put rest in their. bosoms. 2. Is the woman to be a help to the man? Then let-the man he a-help to the woman. What makes some debtors to be such ill pays masters, but because they look at what is ow- ing to them, but not at what is owing by them. If thou would have thy wife's reverence. let her have thy respect. To force a tear from this relation is that which neither befits tho husband's authority to enjuin, nor the wife's duty to perform. A wife must not be sharply. driven, but sweatly drawn. Compassion may bend her, but compulsion will break her. Husband and wife should act towards each other with consent, not by constraint. There are four things wherein the husband is a meet- help to the wife : on In his protection of her from injuries. It is well observed by one, that the rid of which woman was made, was taken from un- der his arm : As the use of the arm is to keep off, blows from the body, so the office of the husband is to ward off blows from the wife. The wife is the husband's treasury, and the husband the wife's armoury. In darkness he should be her sun for direction ;, in danger he should be her shield for protection. 2. In his providing for her necessities.- The husband must communicate maintenance to the 'wife, as the head conveys-influence to the members; thou must not be a drone, and