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A question deeply concerning married persons and such as intend to marry propounded and resolved according to the scriptures.
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profitable then comfortable For she being the l 1 Pet. 3.7 weaker vessel and consequently easier to be deceived in judgement and perverted in affection as m 2 Tim. 3.6 silly women led with divers lusts are soon led captives therefore hath God set her Husband over her as her n Prov. 2.17 guide and o Eph. 5.23 head not only by p 1 Cor. 14.35 teaching and informing her judgement but by q Gen. 3.16 ruling to master her affections that he may thus be the instrumental saviour of his wife as r Eph. 5.23 Christ is the efficient Saviour of his Church Now when God doth thus in ſ Hab. 3.2 wrath remember mercy and t Jam. 4.15 offereth such grace to the humble Wife that in u Mat. 11.29 taking his yoke upon her she shall finde rest to her soul and that in her subjection shall be her preservation will ye * Deut. 32.6 so reward the Lord O ye foolish women and unwise as with that frowardgeneration to x Isa 30.16 say no we y Isa 28.12 will not hear it and z Ier. 5.5 altogether break the yoke and burst the bonds Hearken O ye Wives and hear my speech I pray you Is not this a miserable a Ier. 5.4 foolishnesse yea a b Ier. 18.12 desperate stubbornesse not to know the way of the Lord and the judgement of your God but to sling off the plaister whereby God would c Ier. 3.22 heal your backsliding For what saith the Scripture d 1 Tim. 2.14 Adam was not deceived but the woman being deceived was in the transgression What was not Adam deceived at all yea as appeareth first in that both their eyes are e Gen. 3 7. said to be opened after they had eaten and secondly in Gods ironicall upbraiding him saying f Gen. 3.22 The man is become as one of us to know good and evil both which sayings have relation to the devils sophisticall promise g ver 4.5 set down before wherein he insinuated as if he had been a fecret friend of theirs and wished them more good then God himself So that Adam was not primarily deceived but the woman being first deceived became the devils Proctor h ver 6. and prevailed with Adam to be in the same transgression with her For the devil as a cunning Pyrate intending to i 1 Tim. 6. drown them both in perdition for which cause Christ saith k Iohn 8. he was a lyer and a murderer from the beginning began first to board the weaker vessel and drawing her to a parley and she presuming without her Husband to hold tattle with the subtill Serpent was soon seduced and she l Gen 3.1 2 3. earing m ver 6. gave also to her husband presuming to school him and to prescribe what he was to do and so he did eat by hearkning to the voice of his wife as God n ver 17. charged him in his arraignment O that Women were o Deut. 32 29. wise that they understood this that God who p 2 Cor. 9.6 commanded the light to shine out of darknesse and q Isa 53. healeth us by his Sons stripes and by delivering him to r Rom. 8. death and ſ Heb. 12. shame t 2 Cor. 9.15 brings us to life and u Heb. 2. glory hath been pleased to cure the * 2 Tim. 5.13 pratling infirmity of women by x 1 Cor. 14 34. commanding that whole sex to perpetuall silence in the Churches her presumption in taking on her to teach y 1 Tim. 2 11 12. and usurp authority over the man by requiting the woman to learn in silence with all subjection And because Eve being a wife aggravated that her presumption against her own husband who z Gen 2.17 hearkned to her voice and she a ver 6. gave him and he did eat therefore for the cure of her and every elect wife◠subject to the like corruption God chargeth them that they not only c 1 Cor. 14 34. ask their own husbands at home that they learn of them being men of d 1 Pet. knowledge above all others in private but that their e Gen. 3 16. desires shall be to their husbands and they shalt rule over them so that they must f Eph. 5.22 submit themselves to their own husbands as to the Lord and be g ver 24. subject to them in every thing as the Church is unto Christ And therefore the Apostle after he had largely discoursed of both their duties summarily concludes all in this saying h ver 35. Let every husband love his wife as himself and for the wife i 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fear her husband * 1 Pet. 3.2 fear I say to displease him in any thing wherein God is not displeased though it never so much crosse her desires how else can she be subject in every thing as God requireth Thus Sarah k 1 Pet. 3.6 Gen. 18.12 obeyed Abraham and called him Lord acknowledging in word and deed her husband to be her governour and therein is commended as the l 1 Pet. 3.8 mother of all beleeving wives And whatsoever wife is m Joh. 1.13 born of God to be a daughter of Sarah and to walk uprightly she will finde and feel these words and commandements of the Lord to be n Micah 6.7 good and not o 1 John 5.3 4 grievous and with sul mission and obedience she will take them upon her as a p Matth. 11.3 easie yoke and a light burden because she thus q 1 Tim. 2.15 continuing in faith and charity and holinesse with sobriety shall be saved and r Phil. 21.12 make an end of her own salvation with fear and trembling Contrariwise if any wives ſ 1 Pet. 2.8 stumble at the word being disobedient and t Isa 2.20 refuse and rebell whatsoever u 2 Tim. 3.3 shew they make of godlinesse denying the power thereof God will refuse to acknowledge them as * 1 Tim. 2.15 daughters of Sarah and will prove to their wo that no promise of salvation belongs to them if they refuse to obey as Sarah did And therefore God in his promise of * 1 Tim. 2.15 saving wives coupleth faith and charity and holinesse with sobriety which sobriety implyeth both their x verse 11. learning in silence with all subjection and their not y verse 12. usurping authority over the man Object 1. But may not a Wife speak to inform her Husband wherein he erreth and whet him on in good duties wherein he is dull and negligent Yea if her Husband be such a Nabal that by his folly he is drawing a mischief on himself and his houshold and is such a son of Belial that he may not be spoken unto may not a wife in such a ease without his direction or consent take and