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3.
Daté.
Ephefians,
Chap.6.
E
R.
4.
And léttcth children
fce
what
equitie
welhall
find
with our heaven-
ly Father.
Now
followeth the parties,
iiO
öne child that
muff
not
be grieved,
but
indefinitely,
Provoke notyour chi
ldrex,
teaching that
The
Parentlike
afeelion and duties
of
love,
mwfli
he
affardedone
child
as
Iva
atr
another,
Some
arc fo
indulgent
to
force one
or two, that they
could
put
them
in
their bofomes, and know not how to
make
enough
of
them,
but
of
others they
are careleffe
:
and
fo
in
their
favours
they
are
as
unequalls,
giving
to
force one all
in
a
manner:
and
to
others
as
if
they were bale
borne,
rather then
legitimate children
:
thus
/pee
was
partially
affected
to
his Lfau,
thus
David
impotently loved
his
4..4
dfolon.
And it
is
to
be marked,
how that
our corrupt
natures are
ready to doate, not
on
thofe that
are
the
beft, but
on fuch
as
have
the
lcaft
grace. As
it
is
commonly feene,
that
fuch
children
as
are
of
outward
parts and
the
nimblefl head,
thofe
goe away with
all
the love, when thofe
of
better
defer
is and hopes in way
of
grace, are neglefted.
Wherefore
remember
that the
patently love mutt be extended
equally
to
your children
:
Doe not
like
Eagles which turne force out
of
their ncft, and
bring
up
otherfome.
I
would many
did like
them
in
regard
of
their
tryall,
but
as
the
refped
of
child-hood
is in
them
all
alike, fo
letthem
be
handled
accordingly: not that there
may not be
a
preemince in
love, but the Scripture alloweth it, and
a
double por-
tion, but
let
not
the
difference
of
more
and
leffe, take
away the
fob
-
fiance
of
a
patently love
:
the
fame difference
that
v
hraham
made
twixt Ifaac,
and
his concubines
children,
doe men now
make
twixttheir
legitimate
iffue.
Now
followeth the duty to
be performed by
them,
vie.
to
educate
them.
a. The
manner
of
it,in doctrine and
information;
amplified
bythe Author,the
Lord.
Some
make
the
difference
of
we/s4xsc,9
:t,
to be
civili
inftitution
and
religious. But
that in
the
Lord, feemeth
to
belong
atwell
to
doChine
as
the other. This
fenfe
therefore
in this
tranflation is the
ficteff
retained. See
that you
doe
not onelyavoyd
unkindneffe,
but bring them up,
and
let not the
backe and
belly be
all
your care, but
fo
bring them
up as feeding
their
foules
with
inftru ti-
on
:
and doe
not
otiely
teach them to knowthings,but
by
admonitions
fatten
in
their mindesand
affedioas the
things they underffand,
and
let
your doctrine and admonitionsnot
be
fuch which
your owne
wife-
dome doth fuggeft,
but
fuch
as
God doth
teach you
in his
Word.
The
firft
of
thofe
words
may be read , and
is (as
I
take
it)
otherwife
to be
confired here,
viz;
for
correEtion
:
fo is it
taken
in
the
rat' of
the
Neb.
9.
and
i
Car.
a
a. And the Apoffle
ufeth
two
other words,
sdy
,dsdda.re
not this, to my remembrance
though
in
the
r.tothe
Rornans,thereis
maims
for
an
inflruétor,
and
the
fecond
word
you
have
in
the
T.
to the
Calofsiens
the end,tranflated,we admonifh.
Now
then the
fenfe is
this, though I
bid you
not
provoke them
unjuftly
to anger, yet
you mull
not
runne
on
the
other hand to
cocker
them, but bring them
up
with
correétion
and
admonitions, not
fuch
as