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

The great Duty of every wife is to reverence her own husband. She stands §IIIobliged to many other Duties, as you have heard, which lye common between them; but she is still signalized by this. This is her peculiar qualification as she is a wife. Let her have never so much wisdom, learning, grace; yet if she do not reverence her husband, she cannot be a good Wife.

The great Duty of every wife is to reverence her own husband. She stands §IIIobliged to many other Duties, as you have heard, which lye common between them; but she is still signaliz'd by this. This is her peculiar qualification as she is a wife. Let her have never so much wisdom, learning, grace; yet if she do not reverence her husband, she cannot be a good Wife.

Look to her Creation; she was made after Man, he has some honour by his seniority, 1 Tim. 2.13. For Adam was first formed, then Eve, She was made out of Man: he was the rock whence she was hewen. 1 Cor. 11.8. For the man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man. She was ⟨p. 378⟩made for man, 1 Cor. 11.9. Neither was the man created for the woman, but the woman for the man. So that it is not Man, that hath set this Order, but God himself. Look again to the Fall, and there you hear what God saith, Gen. 3.16. Thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. See in the New Testament, lest Christ his being made of a woman should seem to alter this inviolable Law.