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A94915 The true and faithful discharge of relative duties, is a very great honour and ornament to the doctrine of the gospel without, which the talk of Godliness, and profession of religion, is vain; and therefore all Christians should labour to understand their relative duties, and be careful and conscionable in the discharge of them. 1683 (1683) Wing T2473; ESTC R222981 4,238 1

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The true and faithful Discharge of RELATIVE DUTIES Is a very great Honour and Ornament to the DOCTRINE of the GOSPEL Without which the talk of Godliness and Profession of Religion is vain and therefore all Christians should labour to understand their Relative Duties and be careful and conscionable in the discharge of them The Duties of Wives 1. T Is their duty to love their Husbands this is a duty that helps to the right performance of every duty no duty will be well discharged without it t is so necessary that the Apostle would not only have Titus press it himself but put the aged women upon teaching the younger to love their Husbands Tit. 24. 2. To be subject to their husbands this is the Cardinal vertue the prime vertue of a wife therefore the Apostles do so oft in plain express termes require and press it Eph. 5. 22. 23. Col. 3. 18. 1 Pet. 3. 1. 't is a breach of God's order when Wives are not subject 3. To be faithful c. they must not in word or action be unfaithful to their Husbands this is a breach of Covenant yea the Lords Covenant Prov 2. 17. 4. To be careful to please c. 1 Cor. 7. 34. the Apostle takes it for granted that a good wife dos so because she ought to do so 5. To endeavour to win the souls of their Husbands and that 1. By a holy Conversation a good carriage 1 Pet. 3. 1. 2. By gentle perswasions perswading them to mind the good of their souls 1 Cor. 7. 16. 6. To bear quietly and patiently with their Husbands 1 Pet. 3. 4. as wives should not provoke their Husbands so they should not easily be provoked by them 7. To reverence their Husbands the Holy Ghost takes notice of it as a commendable thing in Sarah she call'd her Husband Lord 1 Pet. 3. 6. t is mentioned as an usual thing done by her 8. To be helpful to c. one end of the Wives Creation was to help her Husband Gen. 2. 18. they must be helpful to their Bodies Estates Souls Pro. 31. 12. Of Husbands 1. TO love their Wives 't is the duty of Wives to love their Husbands Children their Parents Servants their Masters c. but more especially the Husband is to love the Wife or with a more special love this is the prime vertue of a Husband Col. 3. 19. Eph. 5. 25. Christ is the Pattern and Example 28 and 33. 2. To dwell with their Wives 1 Pet. 3. 7. the Husband must forsake Father and Mother and cleave to his Wife G. 2. 24. Where the Apostle states the question of separating for fasting and prayer by consent he shews must be only for a time and then they must come together again 1 Cor. 7. 5. Christ condemns the Jews putting away their Wives when they disliked them Mat. 11. 3. To pray for their Wives G. 25. 21. he did not curse his Wife nor was bitter against her because she had no children but intreated the Lord for her 4. To pray with his Wife 1 Pet. 3. 9. the Apostle takes it for granted that good Husbands and Wives pray together that t is their manner and custom to do so They have mutual need of protection direction many blessings 5. To be faithful to their Wives otherwise the Lord will be a witness against them Mat. 2. 14. 6. Wisely to manage their authority must not be with passion and bitterness but with wisdom meekness patience 1 Pet. 3. 7. 7. To maintain their Wives authority if t is weakened they will prevail the less in their Husbands absence G. 16. 6. 8. To honour their Wives 1 Pet. 3. 7. the Husband is to respect and esteem his Wife or otherwise he will discourage her and occasion unquietness 9. To cover the infirmities of their Wives Joseph had great cause to suspect his Wife of incontinency a foul crime yet he would not make her a publick example Mat. 1. 19. 10. To advise with their Wives God hath made the Wife of her Husbands Privy-Council G. 31. 4. 11. To comfort their Wives Have they trouble of spirit affliction of body loss of Children c. Husbands must endeavour to comfort them in all their troubles and afflictions outward inward Eph. 5. 29. Of Children 1 TO honour their Parents this is express in the fifth Commandment where 1. 'T is directly mentioned not by consequence 2. It hath a promise annexed to it that thy days may be long c. and under long life is included a prosperous life so far as shall be for Gods Glory their good which sheweth the special respect God hath to those that honour their Parents and how ready he is to bestow his Blessing on them Eph. 6. 2 3. Children must honour their Parents 1. in Heart they must keep an inward reverence of them Lev. 19. 3. 2. In Word give them honourable Titles and meek and courteous speech G. 22. 7. Pro. 31. 28. 3. In behaviour giving them obey sance thus we find the Saints of old even those eminent ones that are gone up to glory G. 46. 12. Ex. 18. 7. 1 King 2. 19. 2. To obey their Parents in their commands instructions repoofs Eph. 6. 1. Pro. 1. 8 9. 3. To submit to their corrections Heb. 12 9. the Apostle does not only mention what they had done but intimates what Children should do 4. To bear with the infirmities of their Parents cover them in love Pro. 23. 22. old Women are many times full of infirmities pettish sroward humerous but Children must not therefore despise them but bear with and cover their infirmities G. 9. 23. 5. To requite their Parents their kindness care and cost toward them 1 Tim. 5. 4. this Children should do 1. By acknowledging their Parents Love and paines 2. By a dutiful behaviour this is the crown of Parents a great comfort to them 3. By visiting of them especially in time of sickness and discomfort G. 48. 2. 3. and 37. 35. 4. By aiding and relieving them if they be low and in necessity G. 45. 10. Christ shews it was wicked doctrine to free persons from relieving their poor necessitous parents Mat. 7. 11 12. 5. By endeavouring to protect them in time of danger 1 Sam. 22. 3. 4. Of Parents 1. TO pray with and for their Children Your Children have their natural blindness and corruption from you and should not you pray for their good G. 17. 18. 2. To teach them the holy Scripture and that both by reading to them and bringing them up in reading it was the special commendation of Lois and Eunice 2 Tim. 1. 5. 3. 15. 3. To catechise their Children Pro. 22. 6. traine up or catechise 4. To inculcate spiritual instructions not only to teach but frequently diligently Deut. 6 6 7. and 11. 9. 5. To deliver to their Children those memorable passages of providence that have been in their days or their fathers have told them Josh 4. 21 22. Deut. 4. 9. Psa 78.