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

So also where the husband judges most convenient to dwell, there the wife must cheerfully consent to dwell with him, though it may be, either in respect of her friends, or of his, more uncomfortable to her. Thus when Jacob was resolved to carry his Wives from their friends to his Country, they readily yielded, Gen. 31.16. Thus when Ahasuerus sent for Vashti, though his command seemed inconvenient; yet she had been truer to her Duty, as well as to her Interest, had she come to him: for the husband is the Head of his wife, and she must obey him. He that appoints them to love their husbands, Tit. 2.4. doth in the next verse enjoin them to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the Word of God be not blasphemed. For though even good women be put to silence, yet good works never can

So also vvhere the husband judges most convenient to dwell, there the wife must chearfully consent to dwell vvith him, though it may be, either in respect of her friends, or of his, more uncomfortable to her. Thus when Jacob was resolved to carry his Wives from their friends to his Countrey, they readily yielded, Gen. 31.16. Thus when Ahasuerus sent for Vasthi, though his command seemed inconvenient; yet she had been truer to her Duty, as well as to her Interest, had she come to him: for the husband is the Head of his wife, and she must obey him. He that appoints them to love their husbands, Tit. 2.4. doth in the next verse enjoyn them to be discreet, chast, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the Word of God be not blasphemed. For though even good women be put to silence, yet good works never can

2. Her Real Reverence is required and showed in asking and hearkening to his Counsel, and Reproofs. The Husband hath been taught wisdom in his counsels, and mildness in his reproofs; and the Wife must be taught to express her Reverence in