156 Children andRelations how to be denied. make fure work for their immortal hate. 3. And as for Ap- parel, I grant, that rich men that are Magiftrates or in any office or calling that requires it, may lawfully go in richer ap- parel then the poor : But this fhouldnot be one jot to pleafe their carnal proud fancies,or gratifie inordinate flefhlydefires, but meerly for health, and for fuch ornament as tendeth to the honour of their office : fo that God and not ftlf mutt be the end of all. Take warning therefore by the mines offo many thoufands asProfperity hath undone, and by fo many dreadful Paffages of Scripture which thew the danger of it ; and fee that if you profper in any worldly thing, you offer it all to God, and Deny your felves, and profper not to the flefh. CHAP. XXIX. Children and Relations how to be denied. 12. ANother felflfh interest is in friends and cWleiren and other neer and dear Relations, and this is alfo to bedenied. Not that you should imitate thofe unnatural Hereticks that tell us that Fathers and Mothers, and Brethren, and Sifters, and Husbandsand Wives, and Princes, and Subjed-s, are all Carnal Relations that mutt be difowned any further then justice binds us to a Retribution to -parents or others that ig have been at pains or colt upon us : No, this is worfe then heathenifh impiety , and not only againft the fifth Command- ment, but abundance of the plaineft paffages through the scripture: To be without natural affection, and &obedient to parents, is part of the Charader of thofe impious profef, fors of whom Paul prophefied, 2 rim. 3 . 2, 3. If Chriftian fervants haveHeathens to their Mailers, theymuff not there- fore call off the yoak, but count them worthy of all ho- hour, that the name of God and his dodrine be not blaf- phemed : And if they have believingMailers, they muff not defpife
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