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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75032	The whole duty of man epitomiz'd for the benefit of the poor. With select prayers suited to every partition. By Edm. Stacy, a minister of the Church of England.; Whole duty of man. Abridgments	Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681.; Stacy, Edmund, b. 1657 or 8.	1700 (1700)	Wing A1193A; ESTC R223863	44,918	146

Wife owes to the Husband Obedience Fidelity and Love and Wife this is the nearest Relation of all and yet there are several respective Duties which they owe to each other for the Wife in the first Place she owes her Husband Obedience which God has strictly commanded her to pay him in all things that are Just and Lawful she owes him Fidelity both to his Bed and his worldly Affairs she owes him likewise her Love and is bound to behave her self to him with the greatest friendliness and sweetness And this she is The faults of the Husband acquit her not from these Duties to do notwithstanding his faults which will by no means acquit her of any of these Duties There are likewise Duties from the Husband to the Wife Love several Duties owing from the Husband to the Wife the First Is Love by which he is enjoin'd to treat her with the utmost Tenderness and Compassion not to behave himself to her with any manner of harshness or severity but to use her in all respects as a part of himself Secondly He owes Fidelity to her Bed this Faithfulness to her Bed is as much the Husbands Duty as the Wife 's and the breach of it in either is an Act of Uncleanness and Perjury Thirdly He is bound to do his endeavour To maintain and instruct her to provide for her and to suffer her freely to partake of all his outward Blessings and amongst the rest of his Duties he is chiefly to take Care of the Salvation of her Soul and to instruct her as far as her need requires in the Principles of Honesty and Religion In brief Husbands and Wives are mutually Husbands Wives bound to pray for and assist each other bound to Pray for each other and to their utmost to propagate their Reciprocal Good and Happiness The true Ends of The true Ends of Marriage to be consulted and unlawful Marriages to be avoided Marriage are likewise to be consulted in which Case the Ornaments of the Mind are sooner to be chosen then either Wealth or Beauty or any other outward Appendage above all the rest unlawful Marriages are to be avoided 't is a Holy State and should never be enter'd into but according to the Direction of the Church Reverently Advisedly Soberly and in the Fear of God The next thing is Friendship which is Friendship with its Duties of that common good and concern that humane Life would be but a wretched thing Faithfulness Assistance Admonition Prayer Constancy without it the Duties of it are many but the most material are Faithfulness in our Trusts Assistance either with respect to our Souls or Bodies to our Souls especially in admonishing us of our faults which is the highest and most exalted Act of Friendship that can pass between Man and Man Prayer is the next Duty and after that Constancy and all these together render a Friend an inestimable Jewel The Last Relation is that between Masters and Servants and these too are mutually engag'd to each other The Servant is bound to obey Servants owe to their Masters Obedience Fidelity Submission Diligence his Master's just Commands and to execute them with Freedom and Satisfaction he owes him likewise an universal Fidelity in all his Concerns and is oblig'd by all the Rules of Modesty and good Manners to bear his Rebukes and Reprehensions with Submission and to discharge his Trust in every Particular with Diligence and Application The Masters on the other side owe to Masters owe to their Servants Justice Admonition Means of Instruction Moderation in Command Encouragement their Servants Justice in providing them with convenient Food and paying them their Wages as also Admonitions and Reproofs with regard as well to their Sins and Offences against God as Faults against themselves They owe 'em likewise good Example that is they are to make their own Lives and Actions a fit President for them to walk by they are to allow them opportunities for Instruction and convenient time for the Publick Worship of God moreover they are to command them with Prudence and Moderation to encourage their well doing and to treat their Faithfulness Diligence and Piety with a great deal of Kindness and Bounty PARTITION XVI Other Branches of our Duty to our Neighbour Of Charity to Men's Souls Bodies Goods and Credit THE next Duty Charity in the Affection to our Neighbour is Charity this is a Duty which the Blessed JESUS himself has solemnly enjoyn'd in his Holy Gospel and may be considered two Ways either in our Affections or Actions and First The Charity of Affections is such an universal Kindness that inclines us to wish well to the Soul Body Goods and Credit of all Mankind To their Souls in the first Place and to To Men's Souls Bodies Goods and Credit them we cannot sure but wish well when we consider that Christ thought their Ransome worth the Price of his own Blood we owe next all the good we can to the Bodies of Men this is an high Article of our Charity and without it we can never come up to that golden Rule of loving our Neighbour as our selves His Goods and his Credit are likewise to be very dear and precious to us and we are bound to propagate his Interest and Reputation and to esteem them upon all Accounts equal to our own This kind of Charity naturally begets The Effects of this Charity in us a quiet and peaceable Mind and a Compassion and Tenderness towards others it creates in us a Joy for their Prosperity and excites us to Pray for 'em and to importune Almighty God in their It casts out Envy Pride Censoriousness Dissembling Self-love and Revenge behalf besides all these too it guards our Minds against all sort of Envy or Revenge keeps down our Pride and impresses deep upon us the Grace of Humility it destroys Censoriousness and curbs the rashness of our Judgment suppresses Dissimulation and banishes and subverts all feign'd and pretended Kindness it casts away all Self-love and mercenary Designs and intirely roots out of our Minds all manner of Ranchor and Malice Nay this Charity goes further according The Motives to it Christ's Commands and the example of God to the Doctrine and Example of our Blessed Lord it extends it self even to our Enemies and what can be a greater Motive to it then to find it so solemnly commanded and enforc'd by God's own President This is a Subject well becoming our This Charity to extend even to Enemies serious Consideration and should put us in mind methinks to ballance our Sins against God with the Offences of our Brethren against our selves and would we do that we should find the first so much outweigh the last that from a fair Comparison we must needs judge our selves very unworthy to expect God should Pardon us The Disproportion of our Offences against God compar'd with Men's against us for so many great