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

Now I shall open this Duty according to my former Method, 1. In its Nature. 2. In its Pattern. 3. In its Effects.

1. For the first, The nature of this reverence: It is a true cordial and conjugal reverence, such as is peculiar to a good woman. And I conceive it is made up of 1. Estimation, 2. Love, and 3. Fear.

1. The wife ought to honour and esteem her husband. Esth. 1.19. Then all the Wives shall give to their husbands [honour] both to great and small. And to this end, she ought to contemplate all the excellencies of his Person, whether of Body or mind, and to set a due^(o) value upon them; and not to think meanly of every thing in her husband. Thus when the wife of Tigranes was asked by her husband, after a great solemnity, what she thought of Cyrus, whom every one did commend as the most excellent person in all that company, she answered roundly,^(p) Truly I looked at no body there but at you my husband. And if the husband be but meanly accomplished, yet she ought highly to value the excellency of his Place, seeing the Holy Ghost hath in this very respect styled him the Image and Glory of God, 1 Cor. 11.7. So that whatever he is in himself or to others, yet to the wife he is a None-such. Such you esteemed him, when you^(q)