A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…

Ephes. 5.33. Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular so love his Wife as himself, and the Wife [see] that she reverence her Husband.

MY business is to declare from this Scripture, What are the Duties of Husbands and Wives towards each other. A Subject of manifest Use and Need: For as this Relation is the^† Foundation of all others in the world, so the right discharge of the Duties hereof doth greatly promote the like in all the rest. But here it is easier to Direct, than to Persuade; and harder to please Man than God. And (you know) We must be faithful to Him, and we must be faithful to you: and you must labour to bring your Will to the Rule, and not to bring the Rule to your Will. And your Rule is laid down in these words, Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular so love his Wife as himself, and the Wife see that she reverence her husband.

MY business is to declare from this Scripture, What are the Duties of Husbands and Wives towards each other. A Subject of manifest Ʋse and Need: For as this Relation is the^† Foundation of all others in the world, so the right discharge of the Duties hereof doth greatly promote the like in all the rest. But here it is easier to Direct, than to Perswade; and harder to please Man than God. And (you know) We must be faithful to Him, and we must be faithful to you: and you must labour to bring your Will to the Rule, and not to bring the Rule to your Will. And your Rule is laid down in these words, Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular so love his Wife as himself, and the Wife see that she reverence her husband.

1. †[Greek or Hebrew]. Hieroc. de nupt. p. 210.〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Hieroc. de nupt. p. 210.