CHAP./4. Commentsrie vponthe 38z be young, it is their proper employment, to be about them , and among themwithin the houle, while(+ the fathers occafions for mot+ part call him abroad. The ltflofthefeduties of motherly loue , is tonssrfc her child her fclfe,except health and ;}rength fuffer not, or elle Come loband weighty caufe, which in the court ofconfcience will be warranted, do hinder. A dutiehowfoeuer,vnnaturally negleefedby many ofthe richer fort ( for this difeale ofdriebeads is fomew hat a kin to the.gowte, for the one is guments to of rich men , the other of rich women ; neither of the poore ones for enforce it. mobpart) yet it is motl kindly in the mother , modprofperous to the babe , and the refufall of it very preiudiciall to both : betides, if nature in euery bruit beat+ cinor crie loud inough in fumemothers cares, brace in the prefidents of the godliefi womenweeuer heard of, calleth for it. Gen seq. Sarahhauiogapromifeofafonne, lard , who would haue thought that euer Sarah fouldhauegiuen fucke: it was taken for granted in thofe dales, that the that bare a chlld,fhould allo gifle it Lucke, and lc did Sarah al- thoughher age might iuf+ly haue required difpenfacion. Who was r.sam.t.n3. nude to Samuel, but his owne mother ? and when the Lord would chufe a nutfe for Mofes,the greatedProphet that euer was:whom did he deli- Fxor.:.a. uer himvnto rather then hu owne mother ? Who did giue fucke unto Chril+ ,but his ownemother? lonke whole wombebarehim , her pappet tuk.n.:'. game himfucke. And what kindof women were they, whom the Apo - lllewould chufe into office in the church,but filch as among other notes of diligence, honelly, and grace, hadgiura fucke to their owne chil- dren ? r. Tim. g. ro. Let women confider feriouflynotoncly howvn naturall, but how ungodly a praaife it is, without iufl ground on idle pretenfes to departfrom the tleps of thefe holy women , thrufling forth their children fometimes to fuch, as by whole negligence they are Brought (tort home ; and fometimes ( which is worle) to fuch who ought neither to glue milke nor yet flue by the law of God 1meane luck as by diflronefiy hauefilled their breads: but to whomfoeuer, they come fhort of that loue which cuen the bruite creatures cary to their young. a Secondly, feeing the vnreafonable creatures can and doe performe rnfhu&ion in this officeofloue,rhere muti needs be more required in the loueof mo- godhorts. chess toward their children. The fecond duty therefore of motherly loue is, by ánfruliion to frame them vp to godlines : and this two wales, a.By deliuering them precepts ofpiety,foToone as they can con - ceiue them, that ifit werepoìble they might fucke in with the milke, principies ofgrace and godlineffe. Salomon wifheth the parent to teach a child , while he is a child in the trade of his way : and lead mothers fhould The olñ-e of t nue motherly toue. r Nag flog
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