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

And if you be both married to Christ Jesus, your work is to build up one another in your most holy faith, and in all wisdom and holiness. And to that end you ought carefully to watch over each other, lest at any time you fall into temptation. To study each others dispositions, consider each others snares, observe each others decays in zeal and piety, that you may speedily apply remedies, and exhort one another daily, lest either of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. Your^(t) Curtain-talk should often be of God, and of your eternal estate, and you should improve that Analogy which is between Jesus Christ and his Church, and the married couple, to your comfort and direction. In short, you should in both your carriages declare plainly, that you are going together to seek a Country.

And if you be both married to Christ Jesus, your work is to build up one another in your most holy faith, and in all wisdom and holiness. And to that end you ought carefully to watch over each other, lest at any time you fall into temptation. To study each others dispositions, consider each others snares, observe each others decays in zeal and piety, that you may speedily apply remedies, and exhort one another daily, lest either of you be hardned through the deceitfulness of sin. Your^(t) Curtain-talk should often be of God, and of your eternal estate, and you should improve that Analogy which is between Jesus Christ and his Church, and the married couple, to your comfort and direction. In short, you should in both your carriages declare plainly, that you are going together to seek a Country.

1. (t)Desinat paulatim in vobis sexus discerni, & incipite ad coelestem illam vitam prae•ud• re, in qua nullus est s•xus. Lud. Vives. de •ff mar.