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

8. Mutual care of each others Health, Wealth, Credit and Contentment. This the nature of their Relation, the Ordinance of God, and the sameness of their Interests requires from them. They ought to be tender of each others Health, and^(e) sick in one another's sickness: The husband must improve all his skill and strength to procure a competence of estate, and the wife all hers to help and further it. The Reputation of the wife the husband must tender as the apple of his eye, and the wife must every way advance the good name of her husband. And in short, the Holy Ghost hath determined, that he that is married careth for the things of the world, how he may please his wife; and she that is married, careth for the things of the world, ^(f)how she may please her husband, 1 Cor. 7. 33, 34.

8. Mutual care of each others Health, Wealth, Credit and Contentment. This the nature of their Relation, the Ordinance of God, and the sameness of their Interests requires from them. They ought to be tender of each others Health, and^(e) sick in one anothers sickness: The husband must improve all his skill and strength to procure a competence of estate, and the wife all hers to help and further it. The Reputation of the wife the husband must tender as the apple of his eye, and the wife must every way advance the good name of her husband. And in short, the Holy Ghost hath determined, that he that is married careth for the things of the world, how he may please his wife; and she that is married, careth for the things of the world, ^(f)how she may please her husband, 1 Cor. 7. 33, 34.

1. (e)Qu•d si unus estis homo. non du•: aegrotare ille non potest, quin tu aegotes: nec illa esse pauper, te divite: quodque inter amicos contingere non potest, quomodo in tanta amoris & animorum copula continge? Lud. Vives de off. mar.