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self from henceforward, that I may hear no 

 more of them. 



*' And therefore, as I am your old school- 

 fellow and acquaintance, as I am your friend, 

 and a friend of your family, I do beg of you, I 

 do entreat you, as you have any love for your 

 own ease and peace, as you have any concern 

 for your reputation and your interest, both 

 which must needs suffer extremely by these 

 disorders in your family ; and, which is more 

 than all these, as you have any regard to give 

 a comfortable account hereafter to God of your 

 stewardship, either as a Christian or a clergy- 

 man ; that you would amend these matters, that 

 you would make up the breaches in your family, 

 and treat your wife with all that respect and 

 kindness, with all that love and tenderness, 

 which both the law of Christ and your own 

 solemn promise when you married her, oblige 

 you to do ; and that you will seriously consult 

 the common interests both of yourself, and her, 

 and your family, by making every one's life 

 about you as easy and as comfortable as may 

 be ; by minding your own business, and leaving 

 others to mind theirs ; by shewing respect to 

 all, according as in their several places they do 

 their duty ; but encouraging none to sow dis- 

 contents, and make parties among you ; and, 

 above all things, being so careful of your own 



