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4.
Ephefanr,
Chàp.
6.
as
your prepoflerous
difpleafure
would
take, or fuch
as
your
owne
wifedome can
fuggefl, but
fuch
as
the Lord doth teach
in
the
wife-
dome
of
his
Word.
The
things to be marked
are
three.
i.
The
duties
that
parents owe
their children
:
Now theft
maybe called to
4.
heads, and
all
the 4.
found
in
the
Text.
i.
To
Education.
a.
Provifion.
A
little
to
open
them:
3.
Inftrudion.
g.
Corrm
bon.
r.
Parents
mull
bring
up
their children, which
I
conceive
as
taken
up
in
giving
them foode
and
raiment,
and fuch like neceffaries
for
fu-
flaining
of
them:
and here
the mother hath
a
fpcciall
part, till three
yeare
old,with her
nurferie,
though the
father may be
faid
ro educate
them, for he that keepeth
the nude
keepeth the childe, and this point
of
education
God hath
made helpefull
to the
foule
of
the mother;
for
by bearing children, that
is
through the
faithfull
and
patient endu-
ring
of
the trouble,
in
breeding, bearing, bringing
forth,
and bringing
up,
fhe
(hall walke
as
in
a
way to Salvation.
a.
It
is a
naturals
thing.
3.
It
is
a curfe
when
Gad
fendeth dry breads
in
difpleafure,
Hofea at.
14.
therefore to dry
up
our owne unfeafonably is
a
double curfe;
as
if
God
flrike
one with death
in
his
wrath,
it
is
a
eurfe, but
if
one
kill
himlelfe,
it
is
more heynous;
and
Sareh,
Gen.
a
r.
7.
fhe
tooke this
to
lye upon her,
as
fure as
fhe
had brought forth
a
fonne,
that
fie
was
to
nurfc
it.
So
joyntly
after
they mutt
raffe
them up, further
and
further
by
education, and
he
that doth not
this
is
worfe then the ravens, for
they
will feede
their young,
and
flic
with
them till they
can finde
for
them
felves.
a.
They
muff
provide for their children, parents mull
notonely
fu-
thine
them for the
peel
be
ft
oxen,
and
as
God
fhall bleffe
them
lay up
before-hand to
helpe them hereafter,
as
with fome flocke,
when they
flail
fet
up
daughters with dowries;
and
at
death,
a Car.
ta.
14.
For God
maketh
me
owner
of
all
that
I
have,
fo
that
I am
a
Feoffee
of
[Tuft
for others,
and
though the
poffetïion
is
mine inrirely,
yet
out
of
cafes
of
necefficie,
I
am flinred
in
the
ufe
to
a
part,
Ecdef.
5.10
.
When
God
cleated)
moll bountifully,
a
man muff
but
take his
part,
this
is
a
fecond
dude, which
mull thus be
underkood, that
future
,
mull not
let
us
from taking prefent
neceffaries, and
that
is
neceffarie for
one, that
is
finfull
fupertluitie in
another,
and
he
that
bath
not
thispointof
provifion, may goe
to fchoole to the Ants.
3.
We
owe them
Inftrudion:
now
this
is
civil!,
or religious.
I.
Their
civill
inftrudion
is
taken up
in
3.
things.
In looking to
their manners,that they
carry
themfelves,
At
home,
Abroade,
Before our
felves and
others,comely.
For
as
I
told you
inthe
end
of
the tall
chapter,curteûe
is
a
Chrif}ian
0
o o
venue,
68.9