To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
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Old disciples of Christ must behave in every thing agreeably to the Christian doctrine. That the aged men be sober; not thinking that the decays of nature will justify any excess; but seeking comfort from nearer communion with God, not from any undue indulgence.