A25478:1802
A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…
A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers
London: printed for Thomas Cockerill, 1676
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
And therefore all possible care must be used to avoid all occasions and incentives of wandering desires from home; and the rather, because he or she that is not content with one, will not be content with more; for sin is boundless, and nothing but Grace and the Grave can limit the desires of the Heart.
And therefore all possible care must be used to avoid all occasions and incentives of wandring desires from home; and the rather, because he or she that is not content with one, will not be content with more; for sin is boundless, and nothing but Grace and the Grave can limit the desires of the Heart.
The same Faithfulness is necessary in the wise concealment of each others secrets, whether Natural, Moral, or Civil, unless in such cases wherein a superior Obligation doth release them. For there cannot be a more unnatural treachery, than when Husband or Wife (the nearest of Friends) make one another obnoxious to shame or harm. Bad, when it is done by Inadvertence; worse, when in their Passion; worst of all, when it is through ill will and malice.
4. Mutual Helpfulness. Hence they are called Yokefellows. And of the Woman it was said at her Creation, that she should be an(g) Help meet for him, which may be rendered, an Help like him: for they should be both of them Helps to each other. There are Three Yokes which they must jointly carry, 1. The Yoke of Cares. This all people must expect to bear in a married condition, and (for the most part) that of Labour also. And these lying always on one shoulder will overload; but when some help comes in, the husband takes care without, the wife takes care within; the husband travels abroad, the wife is busy at home, then the burden is easier. To this end, it behoves the Wife to read often the last Chapter of Proverbs, and the husband the rest of that Book, for their quickening hereunto. 2. The Yoke of Crosses and troubles. For such as are married, though they expect nothing but pleasure, yet