I will
say again, that when the Saviour was come, woman rejoiced in him,
before either man or angel. I read not that ever man did give unto
Christ so much as one groat; but the women followed him and
ministered unto him of their substance. It was a woman that washed
his feet with tears, and a woman that anointed his body to the
burial. They were women that wept when he was going to the cross;
and women that followed him from the cross, and that sat by his
sepulchre when he was buried. They were women that were first with
him at his resurrection-morn, and women that brought tidings first
to the disciples that he was risen from the dead. Women therefore
are highly favored, and show by these things that they are sharers
with us in the grace of life.
All the glory of this world, had not Adam had a wife, could not have
completed this man's blessedness. He would yet have been wanting.
THE FAMILY.
A master of a family and a mistress of the same are those that are
entrusted of God with those under their tuition and care to be
brought up for him, be they children or servants.
Look to it and consider with thyself whether thou hast done such
duty and service for God in this matter, that, setting common
facilities aside, thou canst with good conscience lift up thy face
unto God; the which to be sure thou canst by no means do, if
iniquity to the utmost be not banished out of thy house.
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