How to treat your wife?
A wise husband, and one that seeketh to live in quiet with his wife, must observe these three rules. Often to admonish: Seldome to reproove: and never to smite her � The husband is also to understand, that as God created the woman, not of the head, and so equall in authoritie with her husband: so also he created her not of Adams foote, that she should be troden downe and despised, but he tooke her out of the ribbe, that shee might walke ioyntly [jointly] with him, under the conduct and government of her head' A Puritan
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