5oa Duties of Children. will be aboundant in fervice when you ferve out glove, Fourthly, And further, you mutt be obedient to God, the principlemull be love, and look that in all your wayes you be as obedient children, In the 5 Ephe: c.fls obedient children, a command of God should be more to you then all the world beldes : I'le give you one inftance that the Holy Ghoft makes ufe of for the obedience of children to their Parents, and that is, the obedience of the fops of the Rechabites, that the Holy Ghoft Both record for their honour, fer: 3 5. 5, 6. end I fet4before the fons of the, houfe ofthe Rechabites, pots full of wine,-and cups: and I faid 'unto them, drinke ye wine : mark their anfwer, but they faid, we will drink no wine,.why, for Joua.. dab the f m ofRechab our father commanded us Paying, ye -fhall drizhno wine, neither ye , nor your fans for ever, that was argu- ment enough, this was a long time after the command, and though it was.fuch á command that fonadab had no power to injoyn upon his iòns,but that was theobedience that they pro - fell to owe to their father, that becaufe their father comma., hied them,they would never drink wine though they might:- - Nowhow many will call God Father, and fay , Our Father whioh art in Heaven, and the like, yet yeeld'no obedience to him ; Nov though God their Father Both but command them that they fhould not be excetfively in ir, and if they be prone to wine or Rrong drink,that they fl ould aviod the ocaafions of coming where wine and wrong drink is, they regard it not I but remember it is thy Father that commands thee : The Re- chabites would drink no wine at all if their Father commanded them ;`O the command of a Father fllould b; flrongAuto us if we profeffe our felves to be children. Fifthly, Another Duty is to truft in our Father, and to re- lye upon hin, if the Father Both but promife any thing, the child relies upon him: A child relies upon his father for provi- fions, and all things needful. A child -when he comes to defire- any thing of his father, he doth not ftudy arguments to per- fwade his father, it's enough to call him but Father : The word Father bath enough argument in it, to perfwade out all argu- ments whatiiazver,if a firanger come to defire a thing, he mull bring
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