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which sence Solomon is said to have built the Temple.
Our weaker sex hath been over-strong in making and widening the Breaches in our English Zion, both by their Purses and Perswasions. To re∣deem their credit, let them hereafter be as active in Building, as heretofore they were in Breaking down.
Such wives, who not only lye in the bosoms, but lodge in the affecti∣ons of loving husbands, who are im∣powred with places of Command, joyning IMPORTUNITIE to their OPPORTUNITIE, may be marvellously instrumental to the happinesse of our Nation.
We read of Ahab [1 King. 21.25.] that none was like him, who sold himself to work wickednesse in the sight of the Lord whom Iezabel his wife stir∣red up. By the same proportion that person will prove peerlesse in piety, who hath a godly consort in his bo∣some, seasonably to incite him, who