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To be discreet; swfronav the word signifies temperate, and imports an ability to govern all our affections and passions. Discretion is but one piece of the fruit. Chaste; the word signifieth pure as well as chaste, and chastity only as it is a species of purity. Keepers at home; house-wives, not spending their time in gadding abroad, but in looking to the affairs of their own families. Obedient to their own husbands: the same is required of wives, Ephesians 5:22, and is due from them to their husbands, as being their head. That the word of God be not blasphemed: as for the discharge of their duty towards God, so for the credit and reputation of the gospel, that for their carriage contrary to the rules of nature and morality, as well as of religion, the gospel may not be evil spoken of, as if from that they had learned their ill and indecent behaviour.