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V
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R.
Z.
Epheana, Chap.5.
Children: for they
are
churlifh: Yea tome
are found
,
that
will
put
their naturali Parents
in fuire
for
trifles.
They
are againe careleffc
of
them,
live
in
the
fame
towne
with
them,
and by
the quarter not
have
them home, nor
vifit
them
:
forgetting
rhankfulneffe
,
and like birds
when
they
can
flye and
finde
their meare, they
regard not
the
old
ones any
longer. Yea
fome
that long to
be
dealing
with that they
Fidler
ate
di-
have,
and
fee
them
well
buried,
like
Ef:u
;
and
after death they will
9m
Ref
not
fatisfie
their debts,
and fomake
their
names flinke
:
and
if
you
tell
oeid.
met.
them when they tread contrary
Reps
to
theirParents;they
live by
laws
not
by
example.
Wretchesthat
delight to call dung
in
the
face of
the
Parent,
infiead
of
giving them
that
honour
that
God required). So
pupils
that
have no reverence
ofTutor,
nay
they will limper before
him, and make
a
Pageant
play
of
him behinde
his
back.
No
love
and thankfulnefi'e, longer then with them
,
whereas thankfulneffe
fhouldeverbegreene;
they
should
like
David,
when
lornuL'aa
was
dead,
ask
if
there
were,&c. Others
fo
living
that
they
are
the fhame
of
the
Tutor,
furely
they
had
not
fo
good example, they
were not
fo
looked to
as
they
fhould. And for
honour to our Teachers
in
life,
after death remembring them with reverence,
and
lookingwhat po-
ficrity they
have
that
we may thew love
to
the
deceafcd parent
in
them,
there
is
not
a
fhadow
of
this amongft
us.
Finally, no reverence
of young
to
old, that we
may well live
in
the dayes
of
fuch
as
are
difobedient
to
parents. And
though we
live under gracious
govern-
ment,
yet
this vice
is
as rife as
if
we had an Anarchy
,
the
v;le riling
againe, and honour
no
man. But
let fuch
know
that Gods
curfe will
finde
them, Curfed
is
he
that
maketh
light
of
Father
or
Mother,
and
all
the
people
fhall fay,
Amen.
It
mutt alwayes be before
us,
when wefinde others
vile
in
our eyes,
Yfe
s:
whofoever
goe one before another giving
honour,
when wee
finde
our
hearts
not
with
reverence refpecting our Parents
,
that
wee are
about
to fhoote out
any
1peech,
which
is a
fpecch
of
the
leaft difho-
flour
to
any Superiour, let this
come before
us;
Honour, &c. that
as
it
may
draw
us
to
repent
on
theone
fide,
fo it may teach
us
the
ubedi-
encti
of
faith on
the other.
The
Papills doe many wayes
crofl'e
the obedience
of
this
Com-
3
mandement:
for the Father
of
the Countrcy to whom
every
foule
is
to
be
fubjeCt
according to the flea), that
is
the outward
man;
They
plead exemption
from
the
fecular
authority:
for
the Churches
ho-
nour they
fpeake
enough
:
For
as
they
cut
the
skirt
of
the
Common-
wealth,
fo
they
inlarge
their owne
fringes, giving
to
Parr
what they
rob from
Piul,
as
we
fpeake
in
the Proverb
:
But
for honour to Pa-
rents, they doe
by
donaries to
Churches, Altars,
by their
Corbans,
oblations
to God,
Saints, for foules
in
Purgatorie,
fo
milke
them,that
they often are not able
to
yeild
their
naturali Parents due benevo-
lence, that
this way may
bec faid
what Chrift
faith
of
the Pharifee,
Mat.
r
5.15.
Againe, by their entring Religions which they put
in
the power
of
the
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