Blog : A Spouse's Soul Continued

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15/9/2007 1:17 am

A Spouse's Soul Continued

CONTINUED from Richard Baxter's
"The Duties of Husbands and Wives"

Direct. XI. If different religious understandings come between you, be sure that you manage it with holiness, humility, love, and peace, and not with carnality, pride, uncharitableness, or contention.

Direct. XII. Do not either blindly indulge each others faults nor be too critical of each other's state, allowing Satan to alienate your affections from one another.

Direct. XIII. If you are married to one that is an ungodly person, yet keep up all the love which is due for the relation's sake. ( 37 )

Direct XIV. Join together in frequent and fervent prayer. Prayer forces the mind into sobriety, and moves the heart with the presence and majesty of God. Pray also for each other when you are in secret, that God may do that work which you most desire, upon each other's hearts.

Direct. XV. Lastly, Help each other by an exemplary life. Be yourself, what you desire your husband or wife should be; excel in meekness, and humility, and charity, and dutifulness, and diligence, and selfdenial, and patience. ( 38 )

Direct. VII. Another important duty in marriage is, to help in the health and comfort of each other's bodies. Not to pamper each other's flesh, or cherish the vices of pride, or sloth, or gluttony, or the sensual pleasures in each other; but to increase the health and vigor of the body, making it fit for the service of the soul and God.

1. In health, you must be careful to provide for each other (not so much pleasing as) wholesome food, and to keep each other from that which is hurtful to your health; warning each other from the dangers of gluttony and idleness, the two great murderers of mankind. ( 39 )

2. Also in sickness, you are to be caring of each other; and not to spare any costs or pains, by which the health of each other may be restored, or your souls confirmed, and your comforts cherished. ( 40 )

References:

37. 1Pe 3v1; John 13v15; 1Tim 4v12; 1Cor 11v1; 1The 1v6; 2The 3v7-9;

38. Tit 2v6; Jam 3v17; 2Pe 1v5-8

39. 1Cor 6v19; Deut. 21v20; Pro 23v21; Pro 19v15; Pro 6v9; Pro 10v4;

40. 2 Thess. 3v10 Pro 19v24; Pro 20v13; Pro 23v21; Pro 24v33; Isa 56v10; 1 Tim 5v13 Eph 5v29, Job 19v17

CONTINUED in......A Dutiful Helpmate

Vincit Veritas~Truth Conquers