§. 48. Of neglecting their wiues edification.
Contrary is their practise, who hauing their calling in pla∣ces where the word is plentifull, yet vpon outward respects of pleasure, delight, ease, and profit, remoue their families into remote places where preaching is scarce, if at all; and there leaue their wiues to gouerne the family, not regarding their want of the word, for as much as they themselues oft comming to London or other like places by reason of their calling, en∣ioy the word themselues. Many Citizens, Lawyers, and o∣thers are guiltie of great neglect of their wiues in this respect.
So also are they, who abandon all religious exercises out of their houses, making their houses rather stewes of the deuill, then Churches of God. If for want of meanes, either publike or priuate, a wife liue and die in ignorance, profanenesse, infi∣delitie, and impenitencie, which cause eternall damnation,