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

4. An husbands Love is to be showed in his yielding to the reasonable requests of his wife. So did David to Bathsheba, 1 Kings 1.28. So did Isaac to Rebekah, Gen. 28.1. So did Abraham to Sarah, Gen. 16.6. though the thing it self was grievous to him. So did Jesus Christ daily to his Church. He that loves, gives and grants, and that readily. And the Husband should rather prevent his wife, and give before she asks, than be difficult or hard to be entreated: she is to take care that her requests be reasonable, and then she needs no Intercessor for her. Famous is that instance in Story of Cleopatra, who after that her Husband Meleager his Father, Mother, Neighbours, had all in vain solicited his help to defend their City, they having disobliged him before, At length his Wife runs to him, when the enemy was entering, and cries,^(d) Help, good Husband, else we are lost: And this charmed and roused him to their rescue: One word from her prevailed more with him, than the cries and arguments of all the rest. And to this may be referred, His taking her counsel in divers cases: So did^(e) Elkanah; so did^(f) Abraham. For though you may not always perceive Judgment in her Counsel, yet you may be always sure to find affection; and that her aim in shooting her bolt is right, though her arm be not always with the strongest.

4. An husbands Love is to be shewed in his yielding to the reasonable requests of his wife. So did David to Bathsheba, 1 Kings 1.28. So did Isaac to Rebeka, Gen. 28.1. So did Abraham to Sarah, Gen. 16.6. though the thing it self was grievous to him. So did Jesus Christ daily to his Church. He that loves, gives and grants, and that readily. And the Husband should rather prevent his wife, and give before she asks, than be difficult or hard to be intreated: she is to take care that her requests be reasonable, and then she needs no Intercessor for her. Famous is that instance in Story of Cleopatra, who after that her Husband Meleager his Father, Mother, Neighbours, had all in vain solicited his help to defend their City, they having disobliged him before, At length his Wife runs to him, when the enemy was entring, and cryes,