2. To exhort us, not only for civility sake, but also for conscience toward God to endeavour to get such a disposition.
Doctrine 7. Every man should seeke for examples of such vertues out of Scripture, and apply them unto himselfe according to his owne proper condition.
For women have holy women proposed unto them for examples, verse 5. So have men holy men.
Doctrine 8. In weighing of examples we should have the chiefest regard to those that are most commended in Scripture.
This is gathered from those words, Abraham, Sara, and the like, verse 6.
Doctrine 9. Then and not before are we the children of such holy ones, by a true imitation of them, when we do so persist in well doing, that no terrour or any other temptation is able to remove us from this our purpose and resolution.
This is gathered from the 6. verse at the end. For this is proposed in Sara to be chiefly imitated by women, that out of her duty, she followed Abraham in all his journey, nor could any terrour keepe her back.
Doctrine 10. Husbands should likewise doe their duty, as well as the wives doe theirs.
This is gathered from verse 7.
Reason 1. Because there is the same obligation of Gods law on both sides.