A Iudicious and painefull EXPOSITION vpon the ten Commandements Wherein the Text is opened Questions and Doubts are resolued Errours confuted and sundry Instructions effectually applied First deliuered in seuerall Sermons and now published to the glory of God and for the further benefit of his Church By PETER BARKER Preacher of Gods Word at Stowre Paine in Dorsetshire Psal 19. 7. The Law of the Lord is perfit conuerting the soule the testimony of the Lord is sure and giueth wisdome vnto the simple Esay 8. 10. To the Law and to the Testimony Printed at London for Roger Iackson and are to be sold at his shop neer the great Conduit in Fleet-street 1624. To the Right worshipfull the Deane and Canons of the Cathedrall Church of Sarum his very good Patrons RIght Worshipfull when contrary to my custome I had penned these Sermons I could not at first determine whether If I should smother them in my deske or send them out into the common light I should let them perish as soone as they were brought forth happily some would endite me of closenes If I should suffer the world to take a view of them others would condemne me for profusion especially seeing that this age being furnished with Bookes euen to satietie and surfet may say of the Priests as Bezaleel of the people The people bring too much and more then enough for the vse of the Tabernacle Ex. 36. 5. But while I was thus musing at last I resolued rather to presse then to suppresse them and now they lay open to all censures If your Worships shal thinke I sound from my emptines yet blame me no more then you wil the ful handed which commonly are most sparing herein mine owne heart sometime endited a good matter then with the spider did I weaue my webbe out of my owne breast at other times my tongue was the pen of other Writers then with the Bee did I gather hony out of the flowers yet so as with the Dogge at the Riuer Nilus I neuer did but touch and goe lappe and away and being desirous to be rather Scriptor then Exscriptor a water-spring then a leaden spout did in gleaning commonly make others mine owne for forme by many alterations If your Worshâ—ps shal marke these my poore pains with your starres you shall encourage mee the second time to put pen to paper but if with your spits your dislike shall driue me to a non plus my second Sermons shall neuer stand in white sheetes and so referring my selfe and my labour to your charitable censures I rest your Worships in all duty and true affection P. Barker A Briefe Table of the principall points Contained in this Exposition A ACcusation The punishment for false accusation 293. none to bâ— condemned vpon slender accusation 294. 296. lawfull for a man to cleer himselfe when falshly accused 302. Admonition Sinners to be admonished 294. why admonitions are doubled 59. who the worse for admonition 148. Adultery what it is 123. 259 bred of idlenes 182. of gluttony 274. how punished 269. the efects of it a bad name 267. a poore estate 266 a short life 245. 266. a common sin 117. 261. Affliction who most subiect to them 20. deliueraÌ„ce from them 24. 30. no argument of Gods anger 22. to Be prepared for before they come 24. Age old age to be honored 212. Anger must not be in the heart 252. nor appeare in the tongue 253. nor countenance 254 nor any kind of gesture 255. Apparel must be modest 273. 279. Articles of the faith gathered by the Apostles 6. Atheists of no religion 119. worse then diUels 120. B Bastardy a blemish 267. of what priuiledges bastards are barred ibid. Benefits from whom they proceed 234. Blasphemy how punished 168. Body parents the instrument in framing it 92. 194. the seuerall parts of it 92. Bounds not to be remoued 283. Britaine diuided into 3 Kingdomes 14. 166. made a Monarchy by K. Iames 14. 209. Buriall cruelty in taking vp the dead 107. the vsurer denied buriall 281. places of buriall held in great reuerence 196. C Chastity Man and Wife must liue sole and chast 123. 261. 269. 310. Children their naturall affection to their parents 36. 149. 199. vnnaturall 199. bad children of good parents 37. Children a great blessing of God 308. to be well brought vp 312. corrected 207. 267. reuerence their parents 194. obey them 196. relieue their wants 198. not glory of bloud but vertue 224. their duty dispeÌ„sed with 199 Christ deliuerance by Christ 31. 101. no pardon without Christ 75. 110. or mediator 102. Church of God is militant 250. Combat single combats vnlawfull 246. spiritual combats commanded 250. Company ill to be auoided 15. 97. good to be frequented 15. Compassion deriueth to reliefe 27. 257. foolish pity 243. Confusion required 68. hardly drawne from vs 29. Conscience may be asleepe 53. will accuse 297. sinne torments the conscience of the bad 53. as of murderers 242. 249. and of the good 56. the wicked sin against their conscience 296. Contentation we must be content with our estate 141. 288. Couetousnesse the couetous makes his goods his God 39. would ingrosse the world 130. 278. 307. is a theefe 288. wanteth that he hath 278. must make restitution 289. Country loue to ones Country 15. Creation God wonderfull in creation 92. Crosse the Crosse made an Idol 85 117. the vertue of it 85. 112. Cruelty of an Adulterer punished 243. Custome hard to be left 146. no good excuse for swearing ib. D Dancers the better the worse 272. Dead which to be lamented 107. speake nothing but good of them 107. 298. not to be praied for 13â— Death terrible to the wicked 57. welcome to the Godly 58. vnwelcome to the carnall worldly man 229. sundry sorts of death 226. Delay a good deed not to be differred 291. not iustice 134. Defense a man is to defend himselfe when he is assaulted 250. an innocent when he is accused 303. Desperation the desperate abuse Gods iustice 161. Diuorse not lawful 264. except for adultery 128. bred through want of loue twixt man and wife 264. Dreames the order of Dominick Friers confirmed by a Dreame 106. no certainty in them 234. Drunkennes shortneth mans life 245. E Election of grace 123. Eloquence the force of it 61. not vsed to colour a bad cause 295. Enuy drinks it owne venome 245. Examination examine our solues 134. Example Iudgements on other must be examples to vs 155. God must be our patterne 188. giue good example 167. superiors to inferiors 178. 187. inferiors must follow good example 181. not liue by example but by law 181 198. Excuse sin is not without a shift 144 kindnes in excusing Scripture condemned 157. an excuse for periury 170. Experience a good proofe 62. Extremities to be auoided 114. in diet 41. in pastime 40. in labor 184. in reports 297. about the Crosse 113. about images 113. about the Sabboth 174. F Faith beleeueth Gods word 5. is aboue
of his fauour and vnlocke the closet of his benefits wee shall haue priuatiue blessings which consiste in deliuering vs from euill we shall haue positiue blessings which consiste in doing vs good some in possession some in expectation some in act some in hope corporall spirituall temporall eternall his grace shall preuent vs his mercy shall follow vs all the dayes of our liues Let therefore the end of the sixt day be a bound to ouâ— busines like the bound on the k Ex. 19. 12 Mount which the people must not passe like the riuer which Shemei l 1. Kin. 2. 37 must not goe beyond an Herculis columna wherein is gâ—â—uen non vltra no further then thus let nothing draw our busines without the gates within which God hath confined it let not now worldly affayres looke in at our windowes if our couetous affections would be to bold let religion ouer-rule them curb them put them to a non plus and with checke and frowne keepe them vnder goe no further then we are led by this law as the wise men went no further then they were guided by the starre let our Omer be filled the sixt day then set we downe our rest and gather now no more Manna for refreshing the body till the seuenth day be past neuer set vpon that day which God hath set apart for himselfe let our trading stand still when it is come to the Lords day as m Mat. 2. 5. the Starre when it came vnto Christ so God shall blesse vs and saue vs and shew the light of his countenance vpon vs which shall shine more and more vntill it be perfect day vntill we celebrate an euerlasting Sabbath and finde continuall rest in Christ Iesus to whom with the Father and the holy Ghost three persons and one God be all glory power Praise and Dominion now and for euer Amen The fift Commandement Exod 20. 12. Honour thy father and mother that thy daies may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giueth thee ON two Commandements hang the whole law and the a Mat. 22. 40. ver 37. Prophets The first thou shalt loue the Lord thy God with all thine heart with all thy soule and with all thy minde on this hangeth the first table of the law as vpon a great nayle of the Sanctuary The second is like vnto this thou shalt loue thy neighbour ver 39. as thy selfe on this hanges the second table as on another nayle fastned in the holy place When the loue of God doth carry vs along toward the hauen of happines we take a good course as when one riuer runeth towards the Ocean it goes as it should but when this doth meete with the loue of our neighbour as one riuer meeteth with another then there is a current indeed and we set forward with a maine streame to a sea of blessednes and therefore as b Act. 2. 2. the holy Ghost was giuen from heauen that we should loue God so was it giuen on earth that we should loue men and therefore the Scripture maketh â— 1 Tim. 2. 2 godlynes and honesty to meete together d Luc. 1. 75 holynes and righteousnesse to kisse each other or rather weaues them together as e o 19. 23 the coate of Christ without seame that they might not be put a sunder both of them make vp one perfect paire of compasses which can take the true latitude of a Christian heart the first like the top of Iacobs ladder reacheth to heauen the f GeÌ„ 28. 12 second like the foote of the ladder rests on the earth or rather walkes about in a perfect circle of all such duties as one of vs owe vnto another by the first we walke in reuerent regard of all that duty wee owe to Gods Maiesty by the second in simplicity we serue our brethren and yeeld to euery callings seuerall person that duty which belongeth vnto him The first of these I haue already with the helpe of God passed ouer to the second I am to set forward at this time God againe giue winde to may sayles that I may run the point aright and let my words be not only like Peters Angle g Mat. 27. which cast into the sea tooke a fish but like Peters net a Luc. 5. 6. which let downe to make a draught inclosed a great multitude of fishes Honour thy father The words rest your eares on these two heads 1. A charge Honor thy father teÌ„porall as the father of the house as thy father by Nature Office countrey thy betters in place thy Elders in yeeres Spirituall thy Pastor and Minister which begets thee to God by the immortall seede of his word 2. A motiue to induce vs to harken to the charge i. a promise of long life that thy daies may be long pleasant and fruitfull habitation in the land which the Lord thy God giueth thee HOnour thy father A duty so necessary that Philo the Iew placed this fift Commandement in the first Table as though wee had not performed our whole duty to the God of heauen except wee gaue the honour heere required to Parents to Magistrates to all such as represent the person of God vpon earth Frst therefore honour thy father thy naturall father because thou art 2 man b Heb. 12. â— God indeed is the father of Spirits and therefore called c Num. 16 22. the God of the spirit of all flesh and though he made all his workes in six dayes and then rested yet this resting was from workes of a new kinde â—ot of the same kinde for he that d GeÌ„ â— 7. breathed in the first mans â—ace breath of life so that hee was a liuing soule doth still after a wonderfull manner create the soule in the infusion of it and infuseth it in creating it but goe to the flesh he vseth our parents as instruments of the worke and they are meanes in framing that part and therefore should children yeeld honour vnto them The Scripture vseth diuers Arguments to draw vs on to the performance of this duty as the care which parents haue of their children good education of which the Apostle speaketh when he saith e Eph. 6. â— Bring them vp in instruction and information of the Lord bring them vp this respecteth meate drinke and apparell parents are not like the Rauen which forsakes her young till they are of colour like vnto her selfe nor yet like the Kite which grieueth to see her young in good plight Indeed we read of parents which haue cast out their children whom the wolues haue nourished which though it bee not true yet hath a semblance of truth for wolues may become fathers fathers haue become wolues but these are such as Saint Paul brandeth with this marke f RoÌ„ 1. 30. 1. without naturall affection but by nature parents seruant depositum keepe that which God hath giuen them and haue a care to preserue the
reason 60. greater in some then in others 27. 65. Family housholders see their families well ordered 179. 203. pay their seruants wages 285. and performe other duties required 312. Fasting fishdaies why appointed 9. the body not to bee too much pinched 41. 256. 278. Feare whom to feare and whom and what not 46. 47. Flattery smootheth the vnworthy 299. no care to be giuen vnto it and why 300. Foruication finable at Rome 10. not so great a sin as adultery 259 262. Friendship no league of friendship to be made with idolaters 132. how all things common among friends 315. G Gaming gamesters giuen to swearing 148. not to be made an occupation 287. Gentiles made one people with the Iewes 14. 237. Gesture a reuerend gesture to be vsed in the seruice of God 4. 118. 119. malice and anger not to be shewed by gesture 255. 303. Gluttony gluttons make their belly their God 41. to be restrained 275. 279. it shorteneth life 244 God in God power and mercy goe together 11. iustice and mercy 67. 76. best acquainted with mercy 136. filleth all places 12. 71. 94. seeth all things 35. 66. 71. 89. his especiall properties 47. his image not to be made 88 no respecter of persons 127. 181 despised in his Ministers 214. must haue his titles 166. Gospell the law first to be preached then the Gospell 138. 214. Gouernment or dained by God 136. 205. a Monarchy the best gouernment 206. H Hatred malice would dispatch him whom it hates 257. Hearing preparation before hearing 4. 176. attention in hearing 3. 177. 216. meditation after hearing 6. 177. conference praier 178. a wanton care to be stopt 271. Heauen a place of rest 184. Hell torments euerlasting 184. Holy daies which to be obserued 105. by whom brought in 106. 111. 112. by whom put downe 106. Holy water the vertue of it 114. Honor vpon whom it is ill bestowed 222. is due to vertue 223. not to stand vpon reputation 249. Hospitality laid downe 279. Husbands must loue their wiues contra 263. 310 none to be bawdes to their owne beds 124. 261. 315. Hypocrytes haue faire shewes 118 but foule hearts 162. I Idolatry came in by the first fall 82 our nature prone to it 76. 86. Aegypt full of it 15. 16. so was Indea 81. so was England 16. 79. so all the world 83. 97 places full of Idolatry to be auoided 18. Idolaters like adulterers 123. spare no cost to set vp Idolatry 43. 77. 79. 97. haters of God 131. Idols the Masse an Idoll 85. the vertue of it 111. Iewes Gods peculiar people 13. 121 237. his spouse 122. Ielosie is the rage of a man 126. Ignorance the mother of superstition 85. Images said to be lay-mens bookes 83. 90. the simple seduced by them 89. may be made for ciuill vses 93. 95. not to be praied to 98. to the suppressed 92. their defacers punished 116. the preparation of the image-maker before he made it 87. not necessary for building Gods Temple 89. Incest permitted by the Pope 11. Inconstancy the inconstant alwaies variable 51. Ingratitude in forgetting Gods blessings 29. 31. Intent good intent no good excuse 134. Iudges to punish offenders 251. to defend the innocent 207. to determine a right ib. first to examine then to punish 70. 295. Iurors to haue a care of their verdict 295. K Kings ordained of God 205. their office 208. honor the King 205 210. but not aboue God 212. the blessing reaped by them 209. Knowledge the more knowledge the more duty expected 80. 86. L Labour man must labour 64. 181 punishment for idlenes 183. the idle man a thiefe 182. 286. Law of nature giues but a dimme light 1. is wrapped vp in three volumes 91. Law maral a directiō for our liues 1. 134. 282. the immediate word of Gods mouth 2. not to be dispensed with 9. enters to the very thoughts 396. 314. Law of the land slandered to defend vsury 282. Lawyers not to defend a bad cause 294. Liberality to whom to be extended 235. 315 rewarded 235. Life sweet 43 237 short 228. that to come to be most reckoned of 230. long life a blessing of God 226. be careful to preserue other mens liues 256. to defend our owne 151. Lying a lyer not beleeued when he sweareth 145. Lots how vsed how abused 248. Loue God 123. more then kinred 36. then substance 37. then life 44. then credit 146. Loue and feare concurre in the godly 46. loue one another 257. the nature of loue 257 315 316. not vncharitable in censures 304. Lust sin 270. to be weeded out 270 310 313. enters by the eye 271 restrained 263. M Marriage ordained for a remedy against sin 261. to be made with equals 122. with consent of parents 197. not with idolaters 132 165. what respected in marriages 122 196. what priuiledges second marriages are barred of 265 the marriage bed when to be forborne 262. Martyrs the mother and her infant 17. the Prophets Apostles and others 44 112. their kinds of death 44. feared not their persecutors 45 58. Meanes by what meanes God can worke 62. Gods graces not tied to meanes 64. must be vsed 63. Meates which may be eaten 40 274. hunger and thirst their best spices 287 288. Mercy God most prone to mercy 140. his mercy euerlasting 140 142 232. must restraine vs from sin 155. Merits no saluation by merits 138. Ministers must haue learning 214. take paine 65. yet not surfet of immoderate study 256. conforme themselues to their doctrine 153 187. are spirituall fathers 213. must haue reuerence 214. and maintenance 218. Murder not kill our selues 227 244. not others 238. what punishment for it 240. Paricides monsters in nature 200. N Name Gods name not to be abused to sin or to colour any wickednes 160. he that hath a bad name is halfe hangd 267. O Obedience must be absolute 8. due to God 13 32 135. induced by Gods loue 121. must proceede of loue 133 135. performed by winde and sea to none but God 301. wrested from the wicked 133. Oppression God vieweth it 73. curbed by good Princes 209. Oppressors their nature 72 258. 307. Oppressed to be relieued 258. Othes lawful to take an oath 163. lawfull oath to be performed 151 vnlawfull to be broke 150. by Saints forbidden 108. and by Crosse 112. not reckoned of by the crafty 169. nor by swaggerers 149. nor common swearers 145 circumstances to be obserued in oathes 164. formes of oathes 108 164. Papists lose their credit and how 10 continue obstinate and why 51. Parents their loue to their children 36 78. their duty 193. see children vnnaturall 193 haue no care of bastards 267. must be honoured and why 193. how their sinne punished in their ofspring 128 268. Patience in affliction 21 26. in oppression 73. when God taketh from vs 236. when man wrongeth vs 254. Patience in God before he punish 70 127. Patrons their duty 219 277. Peace a blessing reaped by good Kings 208.
thoroughly sifts them out 1 Pet. 2. 25 then ministers the quantity of the punishment according to the quality of the offence this is the right visitation Among vs are some visitations non morum sed nummorum visitationes But God visits not the purse but visits the sinne he will not spare the poore for pitty nor the rich for bribes hee will not commute the penance or respect any externall thing whither it be comelines of body excellency of wit nobility of stocke antiquity of descent the soule that sinneth shall die and there is Rō 2. 11. no respect of persons The sinne of the Fathers vpon the children Men are dull vpon the spurre and doe not easily bend when God bids them bow therefore God threatneth to extend his rigour to their posterity hee will lay vp the sorrow of the father for his children but Iob. 21. 19. doth this stand with the iustice of God to punish the childe for the fathers offence how then is the Scripture true euery Gal. 6. 5. man shall beare his owne burden how is the prouerbe true euery fat shall stand on his owne bottome if it be so let that prouerbe which was out of date be renewed againe the fathers haue eaten Eze. 18. 2. sowre grapes and the childrens teeth are set on edge The Ciuill law to fetch this point from our first originall saith Partus sequitur ventrem the birth followes the wombe that is the child shall be as the mother if shee be free her child shall bee free though shee marry a bond-man and according to the lawes of the Realme the child shall be as the father but when father and mother are bond both as ours are then there is no question but the children are bond The whelps of wolues though they can doe no hurt with hunting yet already doe sport themselues in biting and delight in bloud the brood of serpents like the disciples of the Pharisees yonger in yeeres Mat. 22. 16 but like in malice are shorter in stature but aequall in poyson and who will blame him that shall kill these whelpes and destroy the young serpents though they haue yet no strength to hurt and cast forth their poyson non prius nati quam damnati And though children being young bring forth no bad fruit in the boughs yet are they infected at the roote but leaue this originall and goe on if the father be a traitor to his Prince doe you maruaile if his children doe smart for it if the husband hath publike notice of his wiues adultry shall hee not giue her a publike discharge shall he smother the fault which shee is not ashamed to set abroach the disease of marriage is adultry and the medecine is deuorcement shall he put away the mother and retaine her children which he knoweth to bee an adulterous generation now God is the husband of his Church he marryed Israell to himselfe but she in ioyning her Hos 4. 12. selfe to Idols went a whoring from vnder her God God therefore Hos 4. 12. Esa 50. 1. forsakes her and giues her a bill of diuorcement and therefore if her children feele the smart God bids them reason the case with their mother and not lay the blame vpon him pleade Hos 2. 2. with your mother with an ingemination pleade with her Againe God may punish the sinne of the parents on the Children yet the cause of punishment may be in themselues as if any being sicke of the plague infect other and they dye euery one of them is said to dye of his owne plague God will not haue this prouerbe vsed in Israell the fathers haue eaten sowre grapes Eze. 18. 3. the Childrens teeth are set on edge but if they eate sowre grapes as their fathers did no maruaile though their teeth be set on edge When God takes away his grace they eate sowre grapes and drinke their owne poyson then are they as shippes cast vpon the rockes dashed in pieces or sunke in the sandes when God not giuing them his grace they want all their tackling then are they as a house which falles of it selfe because God as a Sampson Iud. 16. 29. hath withdrawen the pillers then are they as olde lame men which sinke of themselues when God will not lend them his grace as a staffe to vpholde them This God doth visit the iniquitie of the fathers on their Children not by taking away any thing they had but because he will not supply that they wanted this is no iniustice in God for euery good gift commeth from him grace is his he may giue it to whom hee will he may withold it from whom he please it is lawfull for him to doe with his owne what he list and hee many times withholdes Mat. 20. 15 it from the Childe when he considers the sinne of the father and for that the father ran further and further into wickednes he giues ouer the Children so that they sell themselues to worke wickednes that filling vp the the iniquitie of the fathers they might haue their punishment cast into their bosome And this is that wich Hosee saith concerning Israell because Hos 2. 5. the mother played the harlot and shee that conceiued Hos 4. 13. them did shamefully therefore their daughters shal be harlots that they might be punished for their owne faults but mediately for the sinne of their parents which caused God to giue ouer their of-spring that so they might giue head to their lusts and bring a speedy destruction vpon themselues This must teach both parents and children each of them a seuerall lesson Parents to haue a greater care then other of discharging their duty to God for the neglect hereof brings a plague on themselues and on those which come out of their loynes and if God accomplish not his iudgements assoone as a sinne is committed hee can well worke them vpon the ofspring of such as seeme to haue escaped his hand I haue seene saith Eliphaz the foolish well rooted and suddenly I cursed his habitation saying his Children shall be farre from saluation and they shall be Iob. 5. 3. 4. destroyed in the gate iudgement shall finde out the Children though happely sometime it passe by the father his bloud be on Mat. 27. 25 vs and on our Children say the Iewes to Pylate concerning the bloud of Christ cruenti plane genitores saith Saint Augustine qui ante facti sunt paricide quam parentes O cruell fathers which were paracides before they were parents but though this wish had not been yet this cruell crying sinne had come home to their Childrens doores and been powred into their bosomes Wee haue a prouerbe happy is the Childe when the father goes to the diuell for example the father not so much as rouing at God makes the world his standing marke he neuer thinkes of compassing heauen but as Satan came from compassing the earth to and fro and from
tender bud of their decaying stocke Againe they bring them vp in instruction this respecteth ciuility and good manners nurture helpes nature forward and though among Iacobs sonnes foure were borne of his maides â—et Iacob did so instruct his younger sonnes borne of the lawfull mothers that they gaue place to their elâ—er brethren g Gen. 43. 33. the eldest sat according to his age and the youngest according to his youth Thirdly they bring them vp in the information of the Lord this respecteth the feare of God they seeke as much to fashion their mindes to goodnesse as they are carefull for the comely behauiour of their bodies Better not borne then not brought vp better not brought vp then not taught better not taught then not taught the feare of the Lord and therefore the Apostle ioynes them together bring them vp in instruction and information of the Lord but say parents are backward in performing these duties yet children should be forward in giuing this honour and though there were no other reason yet this must be sufficient to driue them to it they are their parents by them they are brought into the world by their meanes they haue their being without them they had not been and if a Mar. 12. 2 the Lord of the vineyard sent to the husbandmen for the fruit thereof because he planted it b 1 Cor. 9. 7 for who planteth a vineyard and eateth not of the fruit then euen in this respect for the Philosopher said se plantare hominem should children pay to their parents that fruit which this Commandement as a Collect or goes to gather from them and this is that which Salomon saith c Pro. 23. 22. 25. obey thy father that hath begotten thee and dispise not thy mother when shee is old thy mother that beare thee This honour consisteth 1. in reuerencing their persons 2. obeying their precepts 3. in relieuing their wants For the first when d Heb. 12. 9 the Apostle speaketh of the fathers of our bodies he speaketh also of giuing reuerence Among the Lacedemonians the arrogancy and saucines of a child was the cause that one of the Ephories men of great place and authority among them published the law of testaments by which it was lawfull for euery man to appoint whom he would to be his heyre And among the Romaines when the father was dead the child was not admitted to pleade his fathers will by way of action but onely by way of request speaking very humbly and reuerently of his disceased father leauing the whole matter to the Iudges discretion this serued to bind children to haue their parents in greater reuerence and estimation This reuerence must shew it selfe in word and in gesture in word by speaking submissiuely and reuerently vnto our parents as the prodigall child doth vnto his father who hauing drawne much of his patrimony through his throate and spent the rest among harlots so that now he became fellow commoner with swine vseth all reuerence in his words 1. When hee attacheth himselfe and brings himselfe into his fathers presence e Luc. 15. 18. I will rise and goe to my father 2. When hee indites himselfe Father I haue sinned against heauen and against thee 3. When he iudgeth himselfe I am no more worthy to be called thy sonne such a reuerent submission is an Adamant to draw the heart of an hard-hearted father and f Gen. 32. 24. wrasleth with him according to the pollicy of Iacob it winneth by yeelding and the lower it stoopeth towards the ground the more aduantage doth it get to obtaine a blessing Salomon though he were a King yet speaketh to his mother with great reuerence for when shee is to make a petition to him he saith vnto her Aske on my mother for I will not say thee nay he that builded the Temple was himselfe a true temple of God built g 1 K. 2. 20 with a low roofe and therefore he disdained not his mother but giueth her so good words that shee that beare him might reioyce This reuerence is shewed in gesture by vncouering the head bending the knee and giuing place it is written of Thanu a Stoicke Philosopher that though for his deserts he was made Consull and chiefe Ruler of the City yet meeting his father at a banquet gaue him the highest roome saying naturaeleges in conuiuio debere obseruari sicut in praetorio ciuiles in place of iudgement let the order of the Ciuill law be obserued but at a place of merriment let the law of nature goe before it How reuerently did the foresaid Salomon carry himselfe in his gesture toward his mother when shee came to desire a Request of him a 1 K. 2. 19. the King rose to meete her and bowed himselfe vnto her and sate downe on his throne and he caused a seate to bee set for the Kings mother and shee sate at his right hand this hee did in token of reuerence and to giue good example to other neither let the child count this any disgrace for now it is true that Aristotle saith honor est in honorante non in honorato and the more we abase our selues before our parents the more we increase in honour both before God and men and the b Ps 128. 3 children which like olyue branches stand round about the table shine like the seuen starres which goe about the pole brighter then the rest c Cursed then be Canaan cursed be Ham and the wicked nation of the Canaanites that proceed of him for when his father ouercome with wine was vncouered for drunken poâ—ters keepe open gates in the midst of his tent hee had no reuerence as Shem and Iapheth but in token of derision and contempt tolde it his brethren let Adoniahes bad carriage against his father King Dauid be still remembred to his euerlasting shame for when his â—ather is growne old he gets a gard to set forth his estate and exalting himselfe saith d Kin. 1. 5 I will be King So did the sonne of King Henry thâ— second for when his father ioyned him with him as King and at his coronation renouncing the name of a King for that day did as Sewer serue at the table my father saith he is not dishonoured in attending on me for I am both a King and a Queenes sonne and so is not he Euilmerodach as the Hebrewes report went further then thus for he vsing his father Nabuâ—adnezzar very irreuerently after he was dead drew his body out of the graue burnt it to ashes parted the ashes put them in foure seuerall purses bound them to foure Aegles neckes and caused them to flye to the foure quarters of the world The Scites a barbarous people yet held the very Sepulchers of their fathers in great reuerence in so much that when Darius seeing them flye before him would know how far they would flye they answered to our fathers Sepulchers vnto which when thou shalt approach O King Darius thou