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158 & should love one another as they love themselves. Ephes. 5. 25. Husbands love your wives, even as X also loved the church & gave himself for it. so ought men to love their wives as their own bodies, he that loveth his wife, loveth himself. Their interests & their cares are mutually one. The Woman was given to the man, as a comfort & relief from the glooms of solitude, by his merciful Creator, who said it was not good for man to be alone. The wife should therefore be recd & loved by the husband as a gift of heaven, & he who sendeth a wife, a viirtuous Wife, obtaineth a blessing, from God. Forsak.g all others, the husband is bound to the Wife, by the law of the marriage covenant which is founded in the law of Nature & make a precept of the christian religion. For this cause shall a man leave his father & mother, & shall be joined to his wife, & they two shall be one flesh. A Union of persons in the marriage covenant should ever be attended with a union of Affections & with increas.g kindness & love & in this duty will the relation be happy & love & in this duty will the relation be happy & blessed. Rejoice with the wife of thy youth, let her be as the lov.g kind & pleasant roe?, _ & be thou always ravished with her love. It is the duty of the husband to take the lead in all the religious exercising & government of the family & to pray with & for their wives & strive to promote their salvation. 1 Peter 3.7. Likewise ye husbands dwell with your Wives accord.g to knowledge, giving honor to the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, & as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindred.

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