(a) Let thy words be few.
(b) And none of them savouring of a lording it over him; but speak thou still as to thy head and lord, by way of entreaty and beseeching.
(c) And that in such a spirit of sympathy, and bowels of affection after his good, that the manner of thy speech and behaviour in speaking may be to him an argument that thou speakest in love, as being sensible of his misery, and inflamed in thy soul with desire after his conversion.
(d) And follow thy words and behaviour with prayers to God for his soul.
(e) Still keeping thyself in a holy, chaste, and modest behaviour before him.
Object.
But my husband is a sot, a fool, and one that hath not wit enough to follow his outward employment in the world.
Answer.
1. Though all this be true, yet thou must know he is thy head, thy lord, and thy husband.
2. Therefore thou must take heed of desiring to usurp authority over him. He was not made for thee; that is, for thee to have dominion over him, but to be thy husband, and to rule over thee (1 Tim 2:12; 1 Cor 11:3, 8).