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

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) chose him, and so you ought still to esteem him. And you are to remember the sin and punishment of Michal, 2 Sam. 6.16. She despised her husband in her heart: and ver. 23. she had no child to the day of her death. The wife ought to consider, that her honour and respect among her family and neighbours doth very much rise and fall according to that which she bears to her husband; so that in honouring him she honours her self.

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 answer'd roundly,