things, that they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands.” And “young men” to be “sober-minded.” And it is remarkable that he ends this exhortation with urging the same reason as is given in the verse after the text: “looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ.” In like manner, he says, that Christ’s ministers must show
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