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[ 1740] Man and Wife to be speak one another kindly.
SUch was the spiritual hatred of the Iews to the Lord Iesus,* 1.1 that they would not vouchsa••e to give him his name, when they talked of him, or with him; and to shew the utter dislike they had of him, they used to say, Is this be? Art thou be that wilt do such a thing? Whither will he go that we shall not find him? They would not say, Is this Iesus Christ? or the Son of God: This now was a spitefull kind of speaking, and did bewray abudance of malice that lay hidden in their hearts: and so it sometimes falleth out betwixt Man and Wife, contempt, dis∣dain, anger, and malice will not suffer the one to afford unto the other their names and titles, least they should be put in mind of such duties as those names and ti••les require, whereas the very names of Husband and Wife doth greatly help to perswade the mind, and to win the affections, yea the very mention of these names doth often times leave a print of duty behind in the Conscience, Ioh. 7. 11. 15. 35.