admonish, and advise all our children, without partiality, for their
general good; and that we ardently endeavour to promote both their
temporal and eternal welfare.

"7th. That each of us use our best endeavours to inculcate upon the
minds of our respective stocks of children a venerable and honourable
opinion of the other of us; and avoid as much as possible any
insinuation that may have a different tendency.

"8th. That in matters where either of us is more capable of judging
than the other of us, and best acquainted therein, that the person so
most capable of judging, and best acquainted, do follow his or her own
judgment without control, unless the other shall be able to give a
sufficient reason to the contrary; then, and in such case, the same to
be conclusive; and that we do adhere to each other in things reasonable
and expedient {194} with a mutual condescension, and also advise with
and consult each other in matters of importance.

"9th. That if any misunderstanding should arise, the same be calmly
canvassed and accommodated between ourselves, without admitting the
interposition of any other, or seeking a confident to either to reveal
our mind unto, or sympathise withal upon the occasion.

"10th. That no suspicious jealousies of any kind whatever be harboured
in our breasts, without absolute or good circumstantial evidence; and
if conceived upon proof or strong presumption, the same to be
communicated to the suspected person, in temper and moderation, and not
told to another.

"11th. That we be just, chaste, and continent to each other; and should
either prove otherwise, that then we separate, notwithstanding the most
solemn ties to the contrary, unless it shall suit the injured party to
forgive the injury and continue the coverture; and in case of
separation, each of us to keep such share of wealth as we were
possessed of when are came together, if it remains in the same state,
as to quantum; but if over or under, then in proportion to what we
originally had.

"12th. That we neither give into, nor countenance any ill advisers who
may have a design to mar our happiness, and sow discord between us.

"13th. That in matters of religious concernment, we be at liberty to
exercise our sentiments freely without control.

"14th. That we use our mutual endeavours to incre