This is gathered from verse 23, at the end. _Reason._ Because this is the rule of patience in such cases, not to revenge our selves, but to commit the whole businesse unto the Lord, and to rest well contented and pleased in his will. _Vse._ This may serve to admonish us, never to please our own carnall will, but to subject our selves wholly to the good will of God. Doctrine 9. _Christ by his death did not only leave us an example of our lives, but also expiated our sinnes, and procured for us such power, whereby we may imitate him in living well._ This is gathered from verse 24. _Reason_ 1. Because after the same manner are we restored in Christ, as we were lost in _Adam_, which was not by imitation and example only, _Romans 5._ 2. Because Christ ought to be a sacrifice to pacifie God towards us, which is not done by example. 3. Because an example would have nothing at all profited those that were dead in sinne and hated of God. _Vse_ 1. This may serve to refute the Socinians and others, which feine that the redemption of Christ consists in doctrine and example only. 2. To direct us, alwayes to joyne these two together, redemption, and the example of Christ. Doctrine 10. _Without Christ we are nothing else but sheepe going astray and lost._ This is gathered from the last verse. _Reason._ Because upon him alone depends our salvation and the direction of our lives. _Vse._ This may serve to admonish us, not to leave Christ so much as in the least thing, but to cleave faster and faster unto him. Illustration: (‡ decoration) Chapter III. Verse 1. _Likewise yee wives be in subjection to your owne husbands, that if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be wonne by the conversation of the wives._ Verse 2. _While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with feare:_ Verse 3. _Whose adorning, let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the haire, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparell._ Verse 4. _But |let it be| the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, |even the ornament| of a meeke and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price._ Verse 5. _For after this manner in the old time, the holy women also who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their owne husbands._ Verse 6. _Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him Lord, whose daughters yee are as long as yee do well, and are not afraid with any amazement._ Verse 7. _Likewise ye husbands dwell with them according to the knowledge of |God|, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessell, and as being heires together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindred._ The Analysis.