_Reason_ 1. Because it is the same Law-giver and the same law that commands every man his duty. 2. Because the disparity of the condition makes no disparity in the obligation, which is the formality of the duty; but only in those things, to which the obligation binds us, which is the materiality of the duty. _Vse._ This may serve to admonish us, not to cast off from our selves those things which we either reade or heare to be commanded men of another condition, but alwayes to consider, that _quamvis non ad similia, tamen similiter_, though we are not tyed to the like duties, yet we are in the like manner tyed to our own duties: when servants are commanded any thing, then masters should think, that they likewise are commanded something; when wives are commanded any thing, then husbands should think that they likewise; and when husbands are commanded any thing, then wives should think, that they likewise. Doctrine 2. _It is the duty of wives to be subject to their husbands._ This is gathered from verse 1. See _Colossians 3.18._ _Ephesians 5.22,23,24._ _Reason_ 1. Because the husband is the head of the wife, _Ephesians 5.23_: _1 Corinthians 11.3._ 2. Because there can be no order kept in a family, except all the rest be subject to the father of the family. _Vse._ This may serve to reprove those wives that are undutifull and will not be subject; and those husbands also, who by their owne fault lose this authority and dignity, and are themselves the causes that their owne power is lessened and diminished. Doctrine 3. _The conversation of wives should be such, that it should winne their husbands to approve of the true religion._ This is gathered from verse 1. _Reason_ 1. Because all should, as much as they can, co-operate with God for the conversion of men. 2. Because this generall Christian duty is in a speciall manner determined and intended in respect of those, with whom we have a neerer communion. 3. Because love, which doth in a singular manner belong to man and wife, requires that they should desire and seek for one anothers greatest good. _Vse._ This may serve to reprove those, which in wedlock so live, that they have no care at all, either to advance Gods glory, or to further their own salvation, in that state: and they are to be condemned much more, which so carry themselves in that state, that they doe more and more alienate their husbands from true religion and piety either touching the doctrine, or touching the practise of it. And if this belongs to wives toward their husbands, much more will it belong to husbands toward their wives. Doctrine 4. _Conjugall chastity should be joyned with feare._ This is gathered from verse 2. _Reason._ Because not only is impurity to be shunned, but also all suspicion of impurity, or of a minde inclining thereunto. _Vse_ 1. This may serve to admonish man and wife, to shun all those courses, that may any way be any blemish to their chastity, though it be but in shew or appearance.