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

1. Tenderly. No one can touch or handle a mans⁽⁾ sores and griefs so tenderly as himself: ver. 29. No man ever yet hated his own flesh (how unlovely soever) but nourisheth and cherisheth it. Such ought the Husbands love to be towards his Wife, accompanied with the greatest tenderness. For they are like Chrystal Glasses, soon broken, if not tenderly handled. Their Constitutions are such as inevitably make them liable to^(t) fears and passions and griefs innumerable; and therefore the Husband must deal as tenderly with his Wife, as a man would deal with himself.

1. Tenderly. No one can touch or handle a mans⁽⁾ sores and griefs so tenderly as himself: ver. 29. No man ever yet hated his own flesh (how unlovely soever) but nourisheth and cherisheth it. Such ought the Husbands love to be towards his Wife, accompanied with the greatest tenderness. For they are like Chrystal Glasses, soon broken, if not tenderly handled. Their Constitutions are such as inevitably make them lyable to^(t) fears and passions and griefs innumerable; and therefore the Husband must deal as tenderly with his Wife, as a man would deal with himself.

1. ()Innumera eveniunt cu• que nostrum à corpore suo incommoda, nemo tamen corpus suum odit aut non diligit, non indulget, quantum potest: & si aliquando illi irascitur, continuo post tamen redit cum illo in gratiam. Lud. Vives de off. mar.
2. (t)Est etiam meticulosa, quandequidem calor animosos facu; ava•a, •nctu ne d sit; & tacito naturae admoni•s infirmam & invalidam se esse, cui multa sint oput. Suspicax ex metu, querula, invida — I qu•ei as illis partim ex varieta e cogitationum affectionumque proficiscitur, partim ex suspitione, & mtu. Id. ib.