Reason 1. Because they are not servants, but companions.
2. Because their conjugall love should shew it selfe in all such duties.
Use. This may serve to admonish as well husbands as wives to beware of harshnesse and bitternesse.
Doctrine 13. That duty which we owe unto all the coheires of grace and life eternall, should direct and governe our particular duties towards our superiours, inferiours and equalls.
Reason 1. Because that is the principall duty; to which all the rest are subordinate.
2. Because that love doth vertually at least containe in it all vertues.
3. Because the dignity which redounds from the relation to grace and eternall life, makes all those that are partakers of that grace, in some sort equall, and therefore restraines contempt, opposition, and all kinds of injuries.
Vse. This may serve to direct us, in all parts of our conversation with Christian men, to have chiefe regard to this duty.
Doctrine 14. All our conversation, as well in publique as in private, should be so ordered, that it should not hinder, but rather further our Prayers.
This is gathered from the last words.