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676
EphefianJ,
Chap.6.
.
Dolt.
r.
It isio
be marked,
That
children
Eland
charged
from God to
fub-
je&
themfelves
to
the Parent. Col.3.2o.
Be fubjcét
in
all
things ;
and
our Saviour
Chriff
did leave
an
en(ample of
it,
Luke
a.
5
r.
he was
fubjcél
to
both,
though the
one was
his
Father
reputed
onely.
But
for the more fruitfull confidcring
of
it
;
you mutt
know that this
fob
-
jeEtion
hath
five
principal)
branches.
r.
To
their inftruéltons.Prov.t. 8.
and
6.2o.
we mutt when they
teach
uslend
the.eare
of
our hearts.
2.
Vint
mutt fubjeót our
felves
to their commands, bee
it
never fo
homely,
if
we
may
doe
it without fin, and
that readily,
in
alithings,
faith the Apoftle, and
we
have example
of
Iefeph, Gen.37. r 3.
Here
I
am, though
he waslent
to
thofe
that bare
him no great
good
will, yet
he went roundly.
tSame17.zo. Davids
example.
3.
To
their correélions,
for
many
can
indure
to
be
told
gently, or
put
up
a
more fmart word; but
for
blowes, they
will not beare them
:
but the Scripture
is
plaine,
Neb.13.9.
r
Pet.a.18. A
fervant
mutt
a-
bide the correction of
his
Mafter,though over rigorous
and caufeleffe,
how much moremutt
a
childe fubmit himfelfe
to
his
Fathers corre-
ctione The Heathens
faw
it fo
equal!, that
going
too
farre on
a
good
ground
,they
did
allow the Parents power
of
life and
death
over their
children.
The
power
of
life
is in
Gods
hand
that
1äl1
createth
it, yet
Dog.
21, 8. you may fee,
that
if
they did not profit by correction,
the Parents might bring themto the Magiftrate
and caufe them tobe
(toned.
4.
We
muff
obey thcm,in
taking
the Callings
of
life
to
with
they
trame us:
forchildren are under the
power
of
the Parent tobe
ordered.
this way
:
and
if
the Parent be charged to bring them
up in a
Calling,
as
I
thall
thew you
inthe
fourth
verfe,
then children
muff be fubjeét
in
this
point;
thus
laeob
brought
up his
children
to be
Grafiers,as
him
-
felfc,and
1
Sam. Annah
with Elkanahs
confent,
devoted Samuelto
divine
Miniftcry,
and
the outward
profeffion
of
the Recabites
Cal-
ling
,
they
Cooke
from their Parents,
and
Chril (it
is
probable)
did
thew fubjeclion
in
this
point, for
one
Gofpel calleth
him
the
Carpen-
ters
fon
; in
another they
fay,
Is nor this the Carpenter
e
Whence
it
may be probably inferred,
that
he did worke fometime in
his
Fathers
Handie- crafr,
which
Juftin
of
irmeth.
5.
Laltly,The
Parent
mutt have obedience
of
the child
in
the
mat-
ter
of
marriage
:
for the
reafon
is
plaine ,
r.
That
which
is
mine
cannot lawfully bealtered from
me
without
my content who
am
the
owner;
now
the
child
is a
part
of
the Fathers
quick
felfe-
moving
fubfance.
Tel 1.
When
the Devitt
had Commit.-
lion
to
meddle with that which
was lobs, his
children were compre-
hended
in ir.
a.
Againe, the Scripturedoth teach it,
;
cer.7.37,38
3.
Continual)
pradife
doth
make it
evident.
Abraham tookeTfaac;
Ifaac
appointed
I4cob
; Thamar bade
Ammon aske
his
Father that
he
would
give
her;
yea
ifraelftood to
his
Mothers choice
in this
point.
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