Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…

I. A loving affection of one to another. I call this a mutual Duty, because as the Husband is to love his Wife,¹ so the Wife is to love her Husband.² Love is a duty which every Christian oweth to another,³ Love thy neighbour as thy self, saith our Saviour. Where by Neighbour is meant every man, every woman, so that we are bound to love every one, even our enemies, for Christs sake. But the nearer any are knit together, the more they are bound to this duty of love, and to abound therein. Now, who are so nearly knit together as Husband and Wife? and therefore there ought to be a mutual loving affection between them, and that love which one showeth to the other will stir up the other to requite that love again, so as there is nothing lost by love.

I. A loving affection of one to another. I call this a mutual Duty, because as the Husband is to love his Wife,¹ so the Wife is to love her Husband.² Love is a duty which every Christian oweth to another,³ Love thy neighbour as thy self, saith our Saviour. Where by Neighbour is meant every man, every woman, so that we are bound to love every one, even our enemies, for Christs sake. But the nearer any are knit together, the more they are bound to this duty of love, and to abound therein. Now, who are so nearly knit together as Husband and Wife? and therefore there ought to be a mutual loving affection between them, and that love which one sheweth to the other will stirre up the other to requite that love again, so as there is nothing lost by love.

1. 1Ephes. 5. 25, 28, 33,
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