Reverend Benjamin Wadsworth wrote that wives were "under the rule of their husband" (Yazawa, 78). Wives had to follow their husband's word. He advised men to govern their wives with “the greatest love, sweetness, kindness and tenderness there can be” (Yazawa, 78). Men should not be harsh with their spouse but with kindness and love. But he later wrote how fear should not be excluded (Yazawa, 78), Wadsworth believed that a husband should still impose his authority on his wife and