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your prayers to make them good, that before you die from them, you may see Christ live in them. Whilst these twigs are green and tender, they should be bowed towards God. Children and servants aro in a family, as passengers in a boat; husband and wife, they aro as a pair of oars, to row them to their desired haven. Let these small pieces of timber be hewed and squared for the celestial building. By putting a sceptre of grace into their hands, you will set a crown of glory upon their heads.
4. A help to his prosperity, by her faithful preservation, being not a wanderer abroad, but a worker at home. One of the ancients speaks excellently: She must not bo a field-wife, liko Dinah; nor a street wife, liko Thamar; nor a window-wife, like Jezabel. Phildeas, when he drew a woman, painted her under a snail-shell; that she might imitate that little creature, that goes no further than it can carry its house upon its head. How many women are there, that are not labouring bees, but idle droncs; that take up a room in the hive, but bring no honey to it; that are moths to their husbands' estates, spending when they should be sparing. As tho man's part is, to providc industriously, so tho woman's is, to preserve discreetly; the one must not be carelessly wanting, the other must not be causelessly wanting; the man must be seeking with diligence, tho woman must be saving with prudence. The cock and hen both scrape together in tho dust-heap, to pick up something for tho little chickens. To wind up this on a short bottom,
1. If tho woman be a help to the man, then let not the man cast dirt on tho woman.
Secundus being asked his opinion of a woman, said, Viri naufragium, domus tempestas, quietus
