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 23 1. Carry yourselves towards them with obedience. Let their power command you, that their praise may commend you. Though you may have your husband's heart, yet you should love his will. Till the husband leaves commanding, the wife must never leave obey- ing. As his injunctions must be lawful, se her subjection must be loyal, 2. With faithfulness. In creation, God made not one woman for many men, or many woman for one man. Every wife should be to her husband, as Eve was to Adam, a whole world of women ; and every husband should be to his wife, as Adam was to Eve, a whole world of men. When a river is divided into many channels, the mane current starve To conclude, Good servants are a great blessing : good children a greater blessing : but a good wife is the greatest blessing; and such a help let him seek for her that wants one, let him sigh for her that hath lost one, let him take pleasure in her that enjoys one. Where there is nothing but a picture of virtue, or a few shadowy qualities that may subsist without any real excellency, death will hide them for ever in the night of despair. The blackness of darkness will close upon the naked and wandering ghost; whilst its loath- some remains are consign'd to oblivion and putrifaction in the prison of the grave, with the prospect of a worse doom hereafter. But where there is a living image of true goodness begun in this state, death will deliver it with