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

6. Mutual endeavours for each others Salvation. This is clearly inferred from 1 Cor. 7.16. For what knowest thou, O Wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? O how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy Wife? q.d. This should be your chief design, and if you can attain this, though with trouble, you are Made. How Paganish, yea how brutish a thing is it, only to enjoy the comforts of marriage together, and then to go together into Hell? If you suffer one another to be damned, where is your^(q) Love? Nay how can you lie (with comfort) with a limb of the Devil in your bosom? 'Tis true, they must not pass uncharitable Censures on one another, either in heart or in speech; nor condemn them in their everlasting estate for every deviation, nor obtrude religions matters in a distasteful manner; but they ought affectionately to enquire into the spiritual estate of each other; and, if need require, use all proper means incessantly to bring the ignorant or vicious party into the good ways of God. And that by drawing them to the means of Grace, ⟨p. 368⟩and giving them no rest in the unsafe condition of unrenewed Nature.^(r) Let them both go to the Church (saith Chrysostom) and afterwards at home, let the husband require of the wise, and the wife of the husband, those things which were spoken and read, or at least some part thereof. And what knowest thou, O man, but hereby thou mayest save thy wife? that is, thou knowest nothing to the contrary. Nay, there is a^(s) Cloud of witnesses to verify the blessed effects of these endeavours.

6. Mutual endeavours for each others Salvation. This is clearly infer'd from 1 Cor. 7.16. For what knowest thou, O Wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? O how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy Wife? q.d. This should be your chief design, and if you can attain this, though with trouble, you are Made. How Paganish, yea how brutish a thing is it, only to enjoy the comforts of marriage together, and then to go together into Hell? If you suffer one another to be damned, where is your