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

2. This Conjugal Love is to be showed in the Tenderness of the husband towards the wife. And this Duty is incumbent on him, as he is the Head of the wife, 1 Cor. 11.3. the head of every woman is the man. And hence the husband is bound to Protect his wife from dangers, and to Sympathize with her in them. Thus Abraham was a Covering to Sarah, Gen. 20.16. not only to confine her eye, but to defend her person. And upon this account he must protect her Soul from temptation, her Body from harm, her Name from reproach, and her Person from contempt either of Children, Servants, or others: For as much as she hath forsaken all her friends, and cast her self upon his care and kindness; and it would be unpardonable cruelty in him to desert or betray her. And ⟨p. 376⟩then he ought to sympathize with her in her troubles: but of this before. In short, his whole carriage to her should be full of tenderness, and composed of Love and Pity.

2. This Conjugal Love is to be shewed in the Tenderness of the husband towards the wife. And this Duty is incumbent on him, as he is the Head of the wife, 1 Cor. 11.3. the head of every woman is the man. And hence the husband is bound to Protect his wife from dangers, and to Sympathize with her in them. Thus Abraham was a Covering to Sarah, Gen. 20.16. not only to confine her eye, but to defend her person. And upon this account he must protect her Soul from temptation, her Body from harm, her Name from reproach, and her Person from contempt either of Children, Servants, or others: For as much as she hath forsaken all her friends, and cast her self upon his care and kindness; and it would be unpardonable cruelty in him to desert or betray her. And ⟨p. 376⟩then he ought to sympathize with her in her troubles: but of this before. In short, his whole carriage to her should be full of tenderness, and composed of Love and Pity.