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…

3 As Christs love to his Church is a constant and continued love, for whom he once loveth, ¹he loveth to the end: So should the Husbands love to his Wife be a constant and continued love, no• only by fits, for a while, but constantly till death.

3 As Christs love to his Church is a constant and continued love, for whom hee once loveth, ¹hee love•h to the end: So should the Husbands love to his Wife be a constant and continued love, no• onely by fits, for a while, but constantly till death.

1. 1John 13. 1.

2 The Husband ought to l•ve his wife as his own body; as the Apostle St. Paul speaketh,¹ So ought men to love their Wives, as their own bodies. Though the former comparison, taken from Christs Example, be the more excellent, laying fort• a more perfect pa•tern, yet this other taken from a mans body, is more sensible, and better discerned of man. For every man knoweth how he loveth his own body, viz. with all tenderness and compassion; fitly therefore is it added by the Apostle. And it is to be taken both as a Motive to stir up the Husband to love his Wife, because she is as nearly joined to him▪ as his body; and also as a Pattern, to show him how he should love his Wife, even as he doth his body, truly and tenderly, as the Apostle in the following verses more fully expresseth it;