The sons of Israel did unto him according as he commanded them: for, &c.-Gen. 1. 12, 13.

That thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son's son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs, &c. that ye may know that I am the Lord.-Exod. x. 2.

When thy son shall ask, What means the offering of the first-born? &c. Thou shalt say unto him, By strength of hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt, &c. and slew all the first-born.-Exod. xiii. 14, 15; xii.

25-27.

Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land, &c.-Exod. xx. 12.

Moses went out to meet his fatherin-law, and did obeisance, and kissed him; and they asked each other of their welfare.Exod. xviii. 7.

He that smiteth his father or his mother, shall be surely put to death, &c. He that curseth (or revileth) his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death.-Exod. xxi. 15. 17; Levit. xx. 9.

Ye shall fear every man his mother and his father: I am the Lord.Levit. xix. 3.

I will make them to hear my words, &c. and that they may teach their children, &c.-Deut. iv. 10.

These words which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: and thou shalt teach them diligently (or whet, or sharpen) unto thy children, and shalt talk of them, &c. Thou shalt say unto thy son, We were servants, &c.-Deut. vi. 6, 7. 21; xi. 18, 19.

A man may not disinherit his firstborn son. If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him,

Gather, &c. men, women, and children, &c. that they may hear, &c. that they may learn and fear the Lord. &c.-Deut. xxxi. 12.

Set your hearts unto all the words, &c. which ye shall command your children to observe, to do all the words of this law.-Deut. xxxii. 46.

When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones? Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land: for the Lord your God dried up the waters.-Josh. iv. 20-23; Deut. iv. 9, 10; vi. 20, 21.

Ruth's great love to her motherin-law recorded.-Ruth i. 15—17.

Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel; and how they lay with the women, &c. and he said unto them, Why do you such things? for I hear of your evil. dealings by all this people: nay, my sons, for it is no good report that I hear, &c. If a man sin against the Lord, who shall intreat for him?— 1 Sam. ii. 22-25.

I will perform against Eli all things which I have spoken, &c. for the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not, (or frowned not upon them.)-1 Sam. iii. 11–14.

Bathsheba, king Solomon's mother, went unto him: he rose up to meet her, and bowed himself unto her, and caused a seat to be set for her on his right hand.-1 Kings ii. 19.

David prays for his son Solomon, and instructs him to keep the law.— 1 Chron. xxii. 11-13; 2 Chron. ii. 1, &c.

Job offered burnt-offerings for his sons continually: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, &c.Job i. 5.

I will utter dark sayings of old,

which we have heard and known, and such as our fathers have told us: we I will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, &c. that the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children, that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, &c. Ps. lxxviii. 2-8.

Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord and the fruit of the womb is his reward: happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them.-Ps. cxxvii. 3-5; cxxviii. 3; Gen. iv. 1. 25; xv. 2,3; xxv. 21; xxx. 22-24; 1 Sam. i. 5, 6. 10, 11; Luke i. 24, 25. My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother. Prov. i. 8; iv. 1, &c.; vi. 20. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.—Prov. x. 1; xvii. 25.

A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children, &c. He that spareth his rod, hateth his son: but he that loveth him, chasteneth him betimes.-Prov. xiii. 22. 24.

Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.-Prov. xix. 18.

Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.-Prov. xx. 20.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it. Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child: but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.-Prov. xxii. 6. 15.

Withhold not correction from a child for if thou beat him with the rod, he shall not die: thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.-Prov. xxiii. 13, 14.

Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith it is no transgression, the same is the companion of a destroyer.-Prov. xxviii. 24.

The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth

Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive.-Jer. xlix. 11. In thee have they set light by father and mother.-Ezek. xxii. 7.

i.

A son honoureth his father.-Mal. 6.

He shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers.-Mal. iv. 6.

I am come to set a man at variance against his father, &c. He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me.-Matt. x, 35, 37.

God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and thy mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death. But ye say, &c.— Matt. xv. 4-6.

Jesus went down with his parents, &c. and was subject unto them.Luke ii. 51.

For the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.-2 Cor. xii. 14.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord; for this is right: honour thy father, &c. And ye, fathers, provoke not your children to wrath; but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.-Eph. vi. 1—4.

Children, obey your parents in all things; for this is well pleasing unto the Lord fathers, provoke not your children, lest they be discouraged.— Col. iii. 20, 21.

One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity.-1 Tim. iii. 4.

f any widow have children, &c. let

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spect of persons with him.-Eph. vi. 5-9; Col. iii. 22—24.

Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.-Col. iv. 1.

Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed. And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren: but rather do service, because they are faithful (or believing) and beloved, partakers of the benefit: these things teach and exhort. If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, &c. he is proud, knowing nothing, &c.-1 Tim. vi. 1-4.

Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things, not answering again, (or gainsaying:) not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.-Titus ii. 9, 10.

Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries, &c. Behold, the hire of the labourers which have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord. -James v. 1. 4.

Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward. For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully. For what glory is it, if when ye be buffetted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? But if when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God. For even hereunto were ye called.-1 Pet. ii. 18-21.

SECT. 4.-Magistrates to Subjects,

and Subjects to Magistrates. See Magistrates and Magistracy at large.

CHAPTER XVII.

BELIEVERS, THEIR DUTY TOWARD ALL

MEN, THOSE WHO ARE WITHOUT, UN-
BELIEVERS, ENEMIES.

SECT. 1.-In General. THOU shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. Ye shall not afflict any widow or fatherless, &c.-Exod. xxii. 21, 22.

Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling-block (or offence) before the blind, &c.-Levit. xix. 13, 14.

He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, &c. . Love ye therefore the stranger, for ye were strangers, &c.-Deut. x. 18, 19; Job xxxi. 32.

Who shall dwell in thy holy hill? &c. he that doeth no evil to his neighbour.-Ps. xv. 1. 3.

Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassion every man to his brother, and oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor: and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.-Zech. vii. 9, 10; viii. 16, 17; Prov. iii. 29; Isa. lviii. 6, 7.

Give not that which is holy unto the dogs neitheir cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you. Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.Matt. vii. 6. 22; Luke vi. 31.

Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.-Matt. x. 16.

And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God and toward men.

-Acts xxiv. 16.

Render therefore to all their dues, tribute to whom tribute is due, custom to whom custom, fear to whom fear, honour to whom honour. Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another, hath fulfilled the law, &c. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour.Rom. xiii. 7-10.

Give none offence, neither to the Jews nor to the Gentiles, &c. even as I please all men in all things, not seek ing mine own profit.-1 Cor. x. 32,33. Charity thinketh no evil.-1 Cor. xiii. 5.

Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.-2 Cor. viii. 21.

Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others, &c. Do all things without murmurings and disputings: that ye may be blameless and harmless, (or sincere,) the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine (or shine ye) as lights in the world.-Phil. ii. 4. 14, 15.

Let your moderation be known unto all men: the Lord is at hand.— Phil. iv. 5.

Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, &c. Let your speech be always with grace, &c. that ye may know how to answer every man.Col. iv. 5, 6.

The Lord make you to increase and abound in love, &c. toward all men. -1 Thess. iii. 12; Eph. v. 2.

That ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, &c. That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing, (or of no man.)1 Thess. iv. 11, 12.

That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, charity, patience. The aged women likewise, &c. In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works, &c. sound speech that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.-Titus ii. 2, 3. 6-8.

Put them in mind, &c. to be ready to every good work, &c. To be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men: for we, &c. -Titus iii. 1-3.

Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and envies, and all evil speakings, &c. abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul; having your conversation honest amongst the Gentiles, that whereas they (or wherein they) speak against you as evil doers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation. For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men, &c. Honour (or esteem) all men.- -1 Pet. ii. 1. 11, 12. 15. 17; Job xvii. 5.

Sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear having a good conscience; that whereas they speak evil of you, as of evil doers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ, &c.-1 Pet. iii. 15—17.

SECT. 2.-In particular; not to judge

them, or speak evil of them. THOU givest thy mouth to evil, &c. thou sittest and speakest against thy brother, &c. thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself, &c.

Judge not, that ye be not judged: for with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged.-Matt. vii. 1, 2.