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 22 to be a famous captain ; when a great person upbraided the meanness of his original," My "nobility, saith he, begins with me, but the "nobility ends with thee." Piety is a greater honour than parentage. She is the best gentle- woman that is heir of her own deserts, and not the degenerate offspring of another's virtue.- To present you with a good choice in three thing: 1. Choose such a one as will be a subject to your dominion. Take heed of yoking your selves with untamed heifers. 2. Choose such a one as may sympathize with you in your afflictions Marriage is just like a sea-voyage; he that enters into this ship, must look to meet with storms and tempests, 1 Cor. vii. 20. “They that marry, shall have trouble in the flesh." Flesh and trouble are married together, whether we marry or no; now a bitter cup is too much to be drunk by one mouth. A heavy burthen is easily carried by assistance 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 one the shore, the other should pity him that is tossed on the sea. Sympathy in suffer- ing, is like a dry house in a wet day.

3. Choose such a one as may be serviceable' to your salvation. A man may think he hath & saint, when he hath a devil: but take heed of a harlot, that is false to thy bed; and of a hy- pocrite, that is false to thy God. 2. To those women who have husbands, how it to use them. In two things.