A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved

1. A great part of their cure lieth in pleasing them, and avoiding all displeasing things as far as lawfully can be done: Displeasedness is much of the Disease, and a Husband that hath such a Wife, is obliged to do his best to cure her, both in Charity and by his relative Bond, and for his own peace. It is a great weakness in some men, that if they have Wives, who by natural passionate weakness, or by melancholy or crazedness, is wilful and will not yield to reason, they show their anger at them to their further provocation: You took her in marriage for better and for worse, for sickness and health: If you have chosen one that, as a Child, must have every thing that she crieth for, and must be spoken fair, and as it was rocked in the Cradle, or else it will be worse, you must condescend to do it, and so bear the burden which you have chosen, as may not make it heavier to you. Your passion and sourness towards a person that cannot cure her own unpleasing carriage, is a more unexcusable fault and folly than hers, who hath not the power of reason as you have.

1. A great part of their cure lyeth in pleasing them, and avoiding all displeasing things as far as lawfully can be done: Displeasedness is much of the Disease, and a Husband that hath such a Wife, is obliged to do his best to cure her, both in Charity and by his relative Bond, and for his own peace. It is a great weakness in some men, that if they have Wives, who by natural passionate weakness, or by melancholly or crazedness, is wilful and will not yield to reason, they shew their anger at them to their further provocation: You took her in marriage for better and for worse, for sickness and health: If you have chosen one that, as a Child, must have every thing that she cryeth for, and must be spoken fair, and as it was rockt in the Cradle, or else it will be worse, you must condescend to do it, and so bear the burden which you have chosen, as may not make it heavier to you. Your passion and sourness towards a person that cannot cure her own unpleasing carriage, is a more unexcusable fault and folly than hers, who hath not the power of reason as you have.

If you know any lawful thing that will please them in speech, in company, in apparel, in rooms, in attendance, give it them: If you know at what they are displeased remove it, I speak not of the Distracted that must be mastered by forces, but of the sad and melancholy, could you devise how to put them in a pleased condition, you might cure them.