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life
2.
3°
EpheJaur,
Chap.6.
V
E
R. I
bafely intrcatcd. Children obey
,
be
fubjed
to Parents
, and thofe
who
are
in
the
place
of
Parents
in
correcting
you , it
is
not
hatred but
love the Scripture faith
,
Heb.
13.4.
it
will
not
make
you fooles, but
wife men
,
Prov.
r
3.I.
your proud hearts will
make
you
foòles,
our
provcrbiall fpeech,
Thou
art
a
proud foole
, fheweth
that pride
and
folly
are
companions, but
lowlineffe
is a
mother
of
wifdome
:
So to
obey corrcQion
(ball
make thee glorious
,
Pray.23. 18.
but to
refufe
inflruétion
fct on
with
correûion
(for the word
fignifieth
both)
(hall
make
thee reproached:
refuting the
Parents
and
Tutors
correcîion
is
the high rode to the Gallowes, when
a
man
is a
fpedacle
of
fhatne
to
God,
Angels,
and
men:
and
what
untowardneffc
is in
children,
they
will
not
take
thatthey
are fet
to;
what
fclfe-
willedneffe
in
mar
riage, calling themfelves away without Parents
privity,
like
&fan,
Gen.26.
Well,
let us
repent
and amend
thefe things,
for
fearful!
is
the
judgement that
(hall
follow
fuch difobedience,
the
R
avens
of
the val
ley
!hall
peck out
the
eyes
of
fuch
a
childe
:
and
what
became
of
that
&fan,
ofElies fons,
of
Ammon, ofAbfalom,
Adoniah;
did ever any
profper
e
No,
though temporali
punifhment doe
not
(till finde
them,
eternal!vengeance
doth
never
miffc
them.
We
muff be
exhorted to
lay
up
there things and praétife
them,that
in
your Callings
.
and hereafter
in
change
of
your conditions,
you
may know
your
duties and
Thew
your obedience
of
faith
in
them.
Thefe things
muff be
held againft the
Church
of
Rome, who
in
two
principles croffe this
doélrine. a.
They
teach that
a
child may
enter Religion,
as
they
call
their
Monkifh
Orders, without
his Parents
confent,at
14.
yearesa
man,
I2.a
woman.
2.
Though
they
like
not
blinde marriages for the conveyance
of
them,yet
their Counfell doth
ratifie marriages,
wheretheconfent
of
the
Parent
is
notfought.
A man mightas
well juftifie
theft fromprefent
poffefGon
:
But for
that other; you
muff
know that the child oweth this obedience to
his
Parents,to
take
the
kind
of
life
they depute him
to.
And about
this re-
member three things.
r.
Chriffian Callings
are
general!, the Chriftian
profeffion; or par-
ticular
kinds
of
life
in
which the
general!
is
exercifed
:
For
the
firft
a
child mutt betake himfclfe
to
that
profeffion
of
Chrifts
Religion ,
though
Parents
be never fo
unwilling, and the
Papiis
proofs
run upon
this
point.
2.
A particular
Calling
the
Parent
is
bound
to let his children to,
and they are
boundto obey
him
in
being ordered this way,
till either
a
Parent do
leave
a
childe
to
himfclfe,
or
in marriage
giveth
him free
-
dome; for
then
not man, but
God
alfo
in
fome fort
doth
unfranchife
a
child
as
that
Charter
above, For
this
(
halla
man leave, doth feeme
to
imply, no
years doe
not,
the 24.
of
Civili Conflitution,
nor
that
Papifls 12. I
doubt not but the terme
of
Chrifts
fubjeclion in Like
2.
51.
is
to
be
extended at 3o. yeares old,and the Papifts doe greatly
for-
get
themfelves to make children at
their owne hand before they
bee
adultes,
pall the rod
, efpeciaily teeing
their bla(phemous Hymnes
doe!