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A20720	An abstract of the duties commanded, and sinnes forbidden in the Law of God. By the Right Reuerend Father in God, George Dovvname, Doctor of Diuinity, and Lord Bishop of Derry	Downame, George, d. 1634.; Nicoll, Basill.	1620 (1620)	STC 7104; ESTC S117549	56,996	192

vnto him to be profited thereby as our need shall require Opp. To Be lifted vp in heart aboue others forgetting our account Abuse Bury the gifts of God Opp. To Deny extenuate or depraue the good gifts of God in others Mark 6. 3. Disdaine to make vse of them lest they should seeme to acknowledge their owne want or the excellency of the other The duties of the Ancient or superiour in age viz. To be sober and graue Tit. 2. 2. By their wisedome and experience to aduise and instruct the younger Tit. 2. 4. To bee patternes and precedents of good things to the younger sort Prou. 16. 31. The duties of the yonger sort to wards the Ancient to Reuerence them as Fathers 1. Tim. 5. 1. Leuit. 19. 32. Iob 32. 4 6 7. Ascribe experience and wisedome to their yeeres Iob 12. 12 32. 7. to hearken to their counsell Imitate their good example The duties of the Wealthy to vse their riches as instruments of bounty and liberality for the Publike vse of the Church Cōmon-wealth Priuate good of others Noble to vse their nobility and gentry as instruments of magnanimity and munificence their power as a refuge and protection of the innocent and helplesse The duties of those y ● be inferiour to them in outward estate to Esteeme of them as their superiours in respect of that high or better estate wherein God hath placed them Reuerence them as they are or may bee the instruments of God for the good of others either in priuate or publicke 1. Sam. 25. 8. Opp. To be light or lewdly giuen To be Counsellers Precedents of euill Opp. To Despise the aged Esa. 3. 5. Contemne their counsell 1. King 12. 8. Neglect their good example Opp. To abuse their Wealth to niggardlinesse Power to oppression c. Opp. To Disdaine the wealthy as vnworthy of their wealth Presume against the honourable Esa. 5. 3. Superiors as benefactors Act. 20. 35. Iob 29. 16. their duty in respect of the Act of giuing to doe it Cheerfully 2. Cor. 9. 7. Freely Luk. 6. 33 34 35. Quickly Prou. 3. 28. Discreetly and with choyce that Christ may take it as done to him Mat. 25. 40. Gift bestowed holily to dissemble it rather then to cast it in the parties teeth following therein the Lord. Iam. 1. 5. Duties towards the benefactors both Inward thankfulnesse in Acknowledging him the instrument of God for our good Esteeming as highly of the benefit after it is receiued as before Making the best of the benefit in respect of the gift it selfe and of the mind of the giuer Outward testification of our thankfulnesse in Word by thankesgiuing Rom. 16. 4. Deed by Requitall if wee be able Prayer to God for them 2. Tim. 1. 16. Opp. To Bestow a benefit Grudgingly and with ill will 2. Cor. 9. 7. Seeking his owne profit therin With delay qui serò dat diun●luit he that is long in giuing was long vnwilling Without choyce so as hee may seeme rather to cast away a benefit than rightly to bestow it Exprobrate the benefit bestowed Opp. Vnthankfulnesse in Not acknowledging the benefit Esteeming lightly of it after it is receiued Extenuating or deprauing it Forgetting it Not recompensing it either with The like when we are able Prayer Requiting ill for good Pro. 17. 13. Of superiours in authority who are not onely preferred before vs as our betters but also set ouer vs as our Gouernours in that society wherein we liue The duties of Gouernours in generall to Gouerne their inferiours in the Lord Containing them in the duties of Piety and Iustice. 1. Tim. 2. 2. Seeking not themselues but the Glory of God Rom. 13. 4 6. 2. Chr●n 19. 6. Good of the inferiours Rom. 13. 4. Correct offendors according to y ● quality of their offence wherein they are to vse Discretiō to discerne of The cause The disposition of the offendour Their owne affection y ● they doe not proceed to correction through Choler and hastines Hatred of the person but in iudgement seeking y ● good of the Party if hee be corrigible Society y ● the Euil may be taken away Iudgmēt of God may be preuented Rest may feare Moderation that neither they bee too Remisse and indulgent Seuere or cruell The generall duties of inferiours towards their gouernours besides reuerēce are to Be in awe of them Leuit. 19. 3. Eph. 5. 33 6. 5. Obey them though euill but not vnto euill Eph. 6. 1 2. Col. 3. 22 23 24. 1. Pet. 2. 13 18. Submit themselues to their corrections Gen. 16. 6 9. 1. Pet. 2. 19 20. Testifie their loue and thankfulnesse to them by their seruice or goods as their necessity shall require Math. 15. 4 5. Opp. Contempt of Gouernours and the fruit thereof which is mocking Prou. 30. 17. Iude vers 8. Disobedience to their lawfull commandements Rom. 13. 2. Refusing of correction and resisting of their power Prou. 15. 10 32. To be wanting to them in their need Math. 15. 6. Speciall duties Gouernours are distinguished according to the societies wherein they gouern viz. in the Family Schooles and Vniuersities Church Common-wealth Heere therfore are cōmanded duties Oeconomicall Scholasticall Academicall Ecclesiasticall Politicall Oeconomicall Duties of superiours and inferiours in the family of whom there are three combinations viz. the Husband and wife Parents and children Masters and seruants The mutuall duties of man wife are either Common to them both as coniugall Loue whereby they being vnited into one flesh doe loue one another aboue all others Gen. 2. 24. Ephes. 5. 27 28 29. and one anothers kindred as their owne Communication of their Bodies by Mutuall beneuolence performed by the one to the other 1. Cor. 7. 2 3 4 5. Prou. 5. 18 19. Coniugall fidelity either of them keeping themselues proper to the other Mal. 2. 15. Prou. 2. 17. Goods labours endeuours and mutuall helpe for the mutuall good and comfort one of another Gen. 2. 18. Both which require cohabitation and dwelling together 1. Pet. 3. 7. 1. Cor. 7. 10. A. See Peculiar Opp. Want of loue discord and dissension Mutuall beneuolence denyed the one refusing the others bed The bond of marriage broken by adultery Goods and helpes not communicated Separation of the one from the other without iust and necessary cause A. Peculiar to either as the duties of the Husband to behaue himselfe as a head to the body 1. Cor. 11. 3. Eph. 5. 23. in Guiding directing instructing his wife according to knowledge 1. Pet. 3. 7. 1. Cor. 14. 35. Protecting her according to his power Ruth 3. 9. Cherishing her as the more tender part of himselfe Ephes. 5. 23. 25 33. Prouiding things needfull according to his ability and communicating his goods to her c. Gouerning her by an amiable gouernment and giuing honour to her as the weaker vessell 1. Pet. 3. 7. Gen. 26. 8. Wife to Acknowledge her husband to be her head and Lord to reuerence him and to feare him 1. Pet. 3. 6.

Ephes. 5. 33. Gen. 20. 16. 24. 65. Bee subiect and obedient vnto him as to the Lord. Col. 3. 18. 1. Pet. 3. 16. Eph. 5. 22 24. 1. Cor. 14. 34. Be amiable and gracious seeking in all lawfull things to please him 1. Pet 3. 4. Cherish her husband as the better part of her selfe Tit. 2. 4. Bee his assistant and helper in gouerning the house and performing the duties of a good huswife Prou. 31. 10 11 12 c. 1. Tim. 5. 14. Be good house-keepers Tit. 2. 5. Opp. To be his wiues vnderling contrary to the order of nature and ordinance of God Genes 3. 16. 1. Cor. 11. 3 7 8 9. Ephes. 5. 23. 1. Tim. 2. 12 13 14. To betray his wiues chastity To hate or to strike her which is his owne flesh Ephes. 5. 29. To deny things needful vnto her being in his power To be too Vxorious fondly doting vpon his wife 1. King 11. 4. Imperious and rigorous towards her Col. 3. 19. Opp. Not to reuerence her husband as her head 2. Sam. 6. 16 20. To vsurpe dominion ouer him 1. Tim. 2. 12. To be of an vnquiet and prouoking spirit Prou. 21. 9 19. Not to cherish her husband Not to be an helper but a crosse to her husband Pro. 12. 4. To play the ill houswife either Idle at home Gadding abroad Prou. 7. 11. 12. Hitherto of the mutuall duties of man and wife now follow their duties towards their family in respect wherof they are gouernors either as Parents ouer their children Master and Mistresse ouer their seruants The duties of the hous-holders towards those of their houshold in generall are to Rule them in y ● Lord keeping them in godly obedience 1. Tim. 3. 4. by domesticall Instruction both by Doctrine respecting Priuate Catechizing Deu. 6. 6 7. 2. Tim. 3. 15. Gen. 18. 19. The publike ministery w ch they must Cause them to frequent Exod. 20. 10. Teach thē to vse aright by Preparing them Examining thē Example going before them in exercises of religion and in the practice of Christian duties Iob 1. 5. Iosh. 24. 15. Discipline vsing correctiō towards thē either verbal as moderate threatnings and reproofes Reall as stripes c. Prouide necessaries for them as food raiment rest and recreation 1. Tim. 5. 8. Prou. 31. 15 21. Gen. 30. 30. Duties of Parents towards their children viz. fatherly motherly Loue of them which is called Storgè Psa. 103. 13. 2. Sa. 18. 33. Care for thē And both in respect of their life Naturall as to Nourish and bring them vp 1. Tim. 5. 10. Traine them vp to some honest calling whereto they are apt by inclination and by gifts Direct thē in matters of moment namely in cōtracting mariage Gē 24. 1 2. 1. Cor. 7. 36 37. Prouide and lay vp for thē as God shall giue meanes 2. Cor. 12. 14. A. Spirituall Opp. To be without naturall affection Rom 1. 31. 2. Tim. 3. 3. To traine them vp in idlenesse or vanity To neglect their children neither prouiding for them by Education in some honest ●●ling Laying vp for them A. In respect of their life spirituall viz. 1. As they bring them into the couenant of of Grace so to procure vnto them the Sacrament of the Couenant Genes 17. 23. Exod. 4. 25 26. Luk. 1. 59 60. 2. To bring them vp in the feare of God Eph. 6. 4. Instructing them carefully Deut. 11. 19. Prou. 22. 6. Chastising them moderately Prou. 19. 18. 13. 24. 22. 15. 23. 13 14. 3. To pray for them and to blesse them Duties of Children towards their parents viz. to Be answerable to them in loue Reuerence them highly though their estate bee meane Gen. 31. 35. Math. 21. 30. Mal. 1. 6. Stand in awe of them Leuit. 19. 3. Obey them in the Lord. Ephes. 6. 1. Col. 3. 20. Prou. 23. 22. Luk. 2. 51. Shew themselues thankfull to their parents by helping them with their Goods Mat. 15. 4 5 6 1. Tim. 5. 4. Gen. 47. 12. Seruice Luk. 15. 29. Submit thēselues to their parents Instruction Pro. 1. 8. 22. 19. 4. 4. Correctiō Heb. 12. 7 9. Heb. 5. 8. Be content to be ruled directed by their parents in matters of importance as of marriage Gē 28. 1 2 7. Preserue their parents goods Loue and reuerence those which be neere and deare to their parents for their sakes Hitherto are to be referred the duties Hest. 2. 7 20 of Tutors guardians towards their pupils whose parents as they succeed in gouernment so they must succeed them in fatherly loue and care Pupils who are to behaue themselues to their guardians as dutifull children to their parents Opp. To take care for the bodies of their children but not for their soules Ecclus. 16. 1 2 3. Vsing no instruction In chastising either too Remisse and indulgent Pro. 29. 15. 1. King 1. 6. Cruell Colos. 3. 21. Ephes. 6. 4. Not praying for them Opp. Not to loue but to Hate thy parents Reuile or curse them Leuit. 20. 9. Prou. 20. 20. Strike them Exod. 21. 15. To bee ashamed of thy parents because of their meannesse To contemne and despise them Deut. 27. 17. Pro. 15. 20. 30. 17. To scorne and deride them Gen 9. 22 24. To be disobedient towards them Deut. 21. 18. Rom. 1. 30. 2. Tim. 3. 2. 1. Sam. 2. 25. To be vnkind and vnthankfull towards them in not Relieuing their want with our store Helping them with our seruice To refuse or despise Instruction Correction Pro. 5. 12 13 15. 5 10. 32. To marry against thy parents good will thou being vnder their gouernment Gen. 26. 34. To diminish thy parents goods and to mis spend them Prou. 28. 24. Deut. 21. 20. To be vnkind or without naturall affection towards thy kindred Duties of Masters towards their seruants besides the ge●erall which heere are to be applied for they are to vse towards their seruants 1. Pet. ● 18. Equity and moderatiō Colos. 4. 1. Iob 31. 13. in their Commandements which must be Lawfull Possible to them Genes 24. 8. Profitable 1. Chron. 11. 17. Proportionable to their ability On the Sabbath necessary Gouernment vsing thē as Childrē thou sustaining the place of a father to them 2. King 5. 13. Brethren in Christ. Philem 16. Fellow-seruants of our Master in heauen Eph. 6. 9. Col. 4. 1. Bounty to bee good to them they deseruing not ill both Whiles they remaine to suffer them to thriue vnder vs. Deut 25. 4. At their departure with our liking to prefer them or reward them as we may Deut. 15. 13 14. Pro. 17. 2. After they are honestly departed to esteeme them as our poore friends Opp. To be Peruerse 1. Pet. 2. 18. Gen. 16. 6. Commanding things Vnlawfull Vnprofitable Aboue their power On the Sabbath vnnecessary Tyrannizing ouer them Exod. 5. 7 16. Ephes. 6. 9. Too remisse or indulgent towards them suffering them to liue in idlenesse not correcting them Prou. 29. 19 21. Hard towards them Deut. 24. 14 15.

23. 18. as the Vow of voluntary pouerty In our owne power as the Vow of single life in them that haue not the gift of continency Profitable as going on Pilgrimages c. Vowes therefore indefinitely conceiued as that of Iephthe Iudg. 11. 31. are vnlawfull because we know not whether they will be lawfull in our power or profitable Opp. To vow with the Papists such things as serue neither for the Glory of God but To superstitious and idolatrous ends For their owne glory with opinion of merit Profit of their neighbour but contrary thereto as the Vow of Monastical obedience making them renounce all duty to parents seruice to their countrey Voluntary pouerty making them drones c. Good of themselues as y ● Vow of continency from whence all the vncleannesse incontinency of the Popish Clergy proceedeth As touching the performance of Vowes the Scripture requireth that we should performe them or else we commit a sinne as bad or worse than Periury Num. 30. 3. that without Delay Eccles. 5. 3 4. Deut. 23. 21. Diminution Num. 30 3. Deut. 23. 23. Prouided alwayes that the thing vowed bee Lawfull In our power Otherwise wee haue sinned in vowing but wee are not bound to the performance No hing doth bind the conscience which is against the Word of God Vowes are of 2. sorts some Common to all Christians as the Vow in Baptisme whereby we consecrated our selues to God and is more carefully to be performed Proper to seuerall men and it is either a Renewing of the common Vow which is needfull to bee done when men come to yeeres of discretion New Vow concerning Certaine things commanded with limitation of circumstances Things indifferent to bee vsed or refused as wee haue found them by experience to bee profitable or hurtfull for vs. Not to performe lawfull Vowes being in our power To vse delay which argueth vnwillingnesse To performe it by the halues which argueth doubling as in Ananias and Saphyra Act. 5. To thinke our selues bound to performe vnlawfull or vnpossible Vowes Iudg. 11. 35 39. To pretend we cannot performe the Vow of Baptisme and such like lawfull Vowes when we will not Not to performe the Vow of Baptisme or those wherby it is renewed Or any other lawfull or profitable Vow which is in our power to performe if we will The fourth Commandement The Affirmatiue part Commanding vs to remember the Sabbath to sanctifie it Esa. 56. 2. Whence two things are to bee considered 1. That we must sanctifie the Sabbath 2. That we must be mindfull and carefull of it to sanctifie it To the sanctification of the Sabbath two things are required viz. Rest which is signified in the word Sabbath The sanctifying of that rest The rest which is required is partly Outward from bodily labours and worldly businesse Vers. 9. 10. Inward from the seruile workes of sinne Of the outward Rest 3. things to be considered 1. Why it is required viz. as a remedy against distraction 2. From what workes viz. workes of our owne and seruile workes as Buying and selling Neh. 13. 15. Carrying of burthens Ierem. 17. 22. Iourneys Exod. 16. 29. c. 3. How farre forth works are forbidden viz. As they are meanes of distraction and hindrances of the entire sanctification of the Sabbath Not as they are referred either to the meanes or workes of sanctification To the Meanes as the Labours of the Ministers in and about their ministery Math. 12. 5. Trauell of the people to the places of Gods worship 2. King 4. 23. Workes as the duties of mercy and charity as to heale the sicke to helpe a woman in trauell c. Math. 12. 7 12. Hos. 6. 6. Nor as they are workes of necessity Mat. 12. 1. to 19. Of necessity I say Present so as they could not haue been done before nor may be done afterwards Sanctified not contracted through our owne negligence The Negatiue part Forbidding the profanation of the Sabbath Opp. The Extremes in Excesse a Iewish and superstitious obseruation of the outward rest preferring it before either the meanes or workes of sanctification Mat. 12. 1 2. Mark 3. 2. Luk. 13. 14. Ioh. 9. 14 16. 1. Mac. 2. 38. Defect the neglect of the outward rest following of bodily labours and worldly businesse Exod. 34. 21. ● 31. 13 14. Abuse of rest to Idlenesse when rest is not vsed as a meanes but men rest in it as the end which is worse than bodily labour Sabbathum Asino●um Vanity in profane sports and pastimes which more distract and more hinder our workes than honest labours Esa. 58. 13. Sabbathum Tituli Exod. 32. 6 18 19. Sinne as to gluttony drunkennesse whoredome c. Sabbathum Satanae By necessity therefore are excused the necessary Labour in prouision of food Tending of cattel Mat. 12. 11 Labours of Mariners being before the Sabbath on y ● sea Fight for defence of our Countrey 1. Mac. 2. 41. Labours of seruants and subiects enioyned by their masters and Magistrates c. Mark 2. 27. The Sabbath was made for man The inward and spirituall rest from sinne For as wee are to rest from sinne euery day that in this life wee may begin our eternall Sabbath Heb. 4. 9. 10. so especially on the Sabbath Esa. 56. 2. ● 58. 13. These workes are chiefly forbidden as being especially Seruile workes whereby men serue the diuell Our owne workes Now followeth the sanctification of the Rest by Vsing the meanes Doing the workes of sanctification The Sabbath is to be sanctified both Publikely Priuately The publike sanctification consisteth in Vsing the meanes of sanctification in the worship of God Wherewe are to consider the duty of y ● Ministers who are to be the chiefe actors in the publike sanctification of the Sabbath their duty is to Call vpō God in behalfe of the people Reade and preach the Word Administer the Sacraments at conuenient times and as occasion is offered People To vouchsafe their presence in the assembly Leuit. 19. 30. 67. ● 23. 2. Cōming duly Staying to the end Being present to behaue themselues religiously and vprightly as hath been shewed in the second Commandement in Hearing the Word Calling on y e name of God The vse of y ● Sacramēts Doing the workes of sanctification as namely in collections for the poore 1. Cor. 16. 2. Opp. Not to rest from sinne which maketh the obseruation of the outward rest odious vnto God Esa 1. 13 14 15. Amos 5. 21. Opp. In the Ministers Carelesse Non-residency Idlenesse People Absence vpon no iust cause through Negligence Mat. 22. 5. Luk. 14. 18 19 20. Contempt and obstinacy as in Recusants whether Hereticks as Papists c. Schismaticks as Brownists Heb. 10. 25. Departure without any necessary cause Irreligious and hypocriticall behauiour in the worship of God The Sabbath is also to be sanctified priuately The priuate sanctification consisteth in duties which either haue reference to the publike sanctification and those either Going before as preparation by