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V
E
R.
I.
Ephefianr,
Chap. 6.
679
doe not give
Chrifi,
now by thoufands
ofyeares
glorious
in
heaven,
freedome
from
his
mothers
fubje&ion
:
Command thy
forme
by thy
fclfe
a
mother.
3. Their Monkith orders are not
religious callings, but Religion
falfely fo called
:
they
are idle bellies,and the houfes
of
their
religion
the trueftdens of theeves
that
ever
theworld
did know
:
for they
rob
King and
Countrey, Creditor,
Matter, Parent. Let
a
man
get thole
houfes on his backe, he
is
difcharged
his
allegeance
in fecular fervice.
Let
a
debter
get into one of their weeds, though by
leave
of
the
go-
vernours, he
may worke
and returne
fomething, yet he
is
not
bound
to
it, he
is
dead
to thisworld. A
fervant ffealing
thither,
his
Matter
mutt lofe
his
right
in
him
:
and
a
child running
thither,his
parent
muff
forgot
all
claime
in
him.
Lattly,
we
muff
learnt hence, how
obedient
we muff
be
to
our hea-
venlyFather;
If
he wil have
the parentthus
obtyed,what
fubjeiion
i
do
we
owe to
him who
is
the Father
of
all
the
family in heaven and
earth!
Let
us
thinke with our
felves,
whether God
might not
fpeake
to
us as
he
did
to thofe
Jewes, ler. 35. may
he
not fav, your children doe thus
and thus
when you bid them
:
how doe you ftirre
at
my commandse
how doe you
receive my
inffruitionst how
doe you regard my cor-
reóions
a
&c.
Now
followeth the fecond point, which
is
to
be marked, obey
your Parents, both
of
them, not
the Father
only;
which doth teach
us,
That
we
mall
of
confcience
be
ftibjett to
the mother
as well
as the
Fa-
ther, Prov,
1.8.
and fo we
havethe example
of
Jacob
to
Rebecca,
for
though the circumftances
are
not imitable, yet the fubjeétion
was
commendable:
fo
Solomon,
and
vacuous
Rath
to her mother
in
Law:
and the holy
Ghof
doth
fo
exprefly provide for the
mother,
becaufe
her
Sex
being the weaker,
the
is
the more
fubjeet
to
be defpifed;
for
the
devill will teach
us
to
breake over where
the
hedge
is
lowett.
Again, becaufe
of
theirowne indulgent converting with their chil-
dren; for
familiarity
Both
breede
contempt.
Let
us
therefore
learne
to
fubmit our
felves
to the mother,
of
con
-
fcience;
the
weaker
the
Sex
is, a
good childmutt put the more honour
upon
them.
Many are fcarce crept out
of
their
fhell,and yet
they
will
be
more then
halfe
Mailer with the mother.
It
is
good for the mother
to
thinke whether betide
the
confrdcrations above
this, be not the
pu-
nilhment
of
her
negleEl
of
duty,
as
hernulling her child, her not be-
ing
fubje
lto
husband which clippeth
halfe
her duty, but
fuch chil-
dren
as
(hake
off
the yoake
of
the mother the Lord
will judge.
The
third thing
is,
obey
them
in the Lord. Obferve
then, that
Our
obedience
to
Parents
mujt
be
in
confcience
of
Gods
Cammandement,
and
no
farther
then
is
?leafing
to
him:
We
muff love
them to the Altar,obey
them
as
farre
as
we can obey
God
in
fo
doing
:
which
is
to be marked,
for we may obey them
in
the Lord,
when
they command not
in
the
Lord;
as
if
a
youth
have a fpeciall inclination and capableneffe
of
lear-
ning,
and
his
parent be every way able
to
give
it
him,
and
fee
his
to-
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