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A77727 Pietatis in parentes disquisitio: or, The duty of children towards their parents: truly examined and stated. : In a letter to a friend in the city. Brydall, John, b. 1635? 1700 (1700) Wing B5266; ESTC R215721 10,447 12

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wisely to consider that in respect of that Dignity and Power received from above not of their Personal Virtues all this Honour and Reverence is due unto them Licet Legum Contemptor Impius Sit tamen Pater est Altho' he be a Contemner of the Laws and a Wicked Man yet is he a Father notwithstanding saith the Emperor Justinian Novel 12. Cap. 2. And Persona Patris saith the Lawyer Vlpian Filio semper Honesta Sancta videri debet The Person of the Father ought always to be accounted Honourable and Sacred to the Child D. 37. 15 9. Add hereunto these Texts of the Roman Laws C. 2. 42 2. D. 22. 3 8. N. 155. Cap. 1. D. 37. 15 1. D. 27. 10 4. D. 2. 4 6. C. 8. 47 3. which prove that the Duty of Piety and Reverence towards Parents is an Obligation never to be Cancelled and therefore let the Man be what he will the name of a Father to his Child is Venerable and Awful 2. The second Duty is that of Love which Children owe to their Parents as their Parents do also to them the want of which natural Affection is reckoned among the most odious Vices Rom. 1.31 They are to bear their Parents a real Kindness such as may make them heartily desirous of all manner of Good to them and abhor to do any thing that may grieve or disquiet them And seeing Children must labour to please their Parents in all things it is certain that no Action Gift or Disposition in them is more acceptable or contenteth Parents better than to see good Will and an assured and certain Friendship among themselves It is reported that Apollonida Mother to King Eumenes and to three other of his Brethren accounted her self Happy as she said and gave great Thanks to God not for her Riches or Principality but because she saw her three Younger Sons as it were a Guard to their Elder Brother who lived freely and most safely in the Midst of them with their Swords by their Sides and their Javelins in their Hands Contrariwise when King Xerxes perceived that his Son Ochus lay in wait for his Brethren to put them to Death he Died for Displeasure thereof Therefore Euripides said that Wars between Brethren are grievous but most of all to their Parents because he that hateth his Brother and cannot abide to look upon him must needs also be offended with him that Begat him and her that Bare him Sir I shall conclude this Duty of Children towards their Parents by putting this Case viz. If my Father and my Son happen to be in such a danger of Life as one only can be preserved and freed from it what can Prudence perswade me to do To which Question the Moralist offers to return this Resolution for me that I ought rather to Succor my Father than my Son 1. Propter Sunguinem 1. Propter Reverentiam Gratitudinem Patri Debitam 3. Propter Disparem Restitutionis Rationem Pater semel Amissus Restitui non Potest Filius Amissus Restitui quandoque Potest per Successionem alterius filii Fredericus Windelinus Lib. 1. de Recta vita Cap. 5. Quaest 12. And now you shall hear what the French-man Charron says in answer to the same Querie The Duty of Children towards their Parents quoth he is so certain so due and requisite that it may not be dispensed withal by any other Duty or Love whatsoever be it never so great For if it shall happen that a Man see his Father and his Son so endangered at one and the same instant as that he cannot Rescue and Succor them both he must forsake his Son and go to his Father tho' his Love towards his Son be greater And the Reason is because the Duty of a Son towards his Father is more antient and hath the greater Priviledge and cannot be Abrogated by any latter Duty 3. The third Duty that Children do owe to their Parents is that of Obedience which is not only contained in the Fifth Commandment but expressly enjoined in other places of Scripture as Ephes 6.1 Children obey your Parents in the Lord for this is right and again Colos 3.20 Children obey your Parents in all things for this is well pleasing to the Lord which Obedience must be yielded even to the roughest and hardest Commands of a Father according to that most remarkable Example of the Rechabites who to obey the Command of their Father never drank Wine in all their Lives But it may be here Queried Whether Children are obliged to yield Obedience to all the Commands that shall be given by their Parents It is Answered that Children owe their Parents an Obedience in all things unless where their Commands are contrary to the Laws of God and of Nature and to the Municipal Laws of their Country for in these Cases the Duty to God and Nature and to the Laws of the State must be preserved and therefore if any Parents should be so ●●●ked as to require Obedience to such kind of Commands Children then offend not against their Duty tho' they disobey those Commands which Solution of the Querie shall be fortified by these several Authorities following It was the Advice of St. Paul Children obey your Parents in the Lord upon which words St. Hierome thus glosseth For Children not to obey their Parents is a Sin but because Parents may haply Command that which is unlawfull therefore he adds in the Lord. And St. Chrysostom expounds them Children obey your Parents in the Lord that is in all things wherein you shall not disobey God Musonius expresseth himself thus If a Son shall refuse to yield Obedience unto a Father in such Commands as are impious and ungodly he shall not be accounted as disobedient injurious or wiced Aulus Gellius approves not of this Opinion That a Father is in all things to be obeyed For says he what if he command his Son to betray his Country to kill his own Mother c. therefore the middle way is best and safest In some things we must in other some we must not obey So Seneca the Father All Commands oblige us not unto Obedience So Quintillian There is no necessity that Children should execute all their Parents Commands for there may be many things which tho' commanded may not lawfully be done as if a Father command his Son to give his Suffrage or to pass a Sentence contrary to his Judgment or to bear Witness to that whereof he is ignorant If my Father command me to burn the Capitol to possess my self of such a Fort or Castle I may lawfully answer These things I must not do I will conclude this point of Duty with that Story of Agesilaus who may be unto Children a good School-master therein for being requested by his Father to give Sentence against Right he was not ashamed to deny him graciously with this Answer You have taught me O Father from my youth to obey the Laws and therefore I will now also obey