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.