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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.
4. 6. To have their Children to the solemn Worship of God Parents must not suffer their Children to serve the Devil while they are serving the Lord. G. 35. 3. 7. To correct their Children They must not only charge and command their Children G. 18. 19. but correct them if they do not observe their Commands Prov. 13. 24. and 22. 15. and 23. 14. Elies indulgence cost him dear 1 Sam. 2. 31. 8. Not to exasperate their Children Parents shonld endeavour alway to evidence that what they do is out of love Eph. 6. 4. Col. 3. 21. 't is an exhortation to Parents not to be over harsh and sharp toward their Children that may give them occasion rather to hate than love them 9. To bring them up in honest calling's Adam that was Lord of the whole world and the father of all living brought up his sons in honest Callings one was a shepherd the other an Husband-Man G. 4. 2. Tit. 3. 14. 10. To guide their Children in their Matches the glory of God the credit of Religion the good of Children and comfort of Parents themselves are all concerned in it great evils have come into the world by ill Matches G. 6. 24. how careful Abraham was G. 24. 3. what a strict charge Deut 7. 3. the Father is to dispose of his daughter 1 Cor. 7. 38. 11. To provide for their Children G. 30. 30. 1 Tim. 5. 8. 2 Cor. 12. 14. 12. To give them good examples the Parents actions be copies for their Children very prevalent David resolved Psal 101. 2. Good counsel 's vain without good examples Of Servants 1. TO reverence their Governours of both Sexes t is an ill beseeming thing yea a thing contrary to Scripture for Servants to be saucy and checkmate with their Masters 1. Tim. 6. 1. all honour i. e. in speech and behaviour 1 Pet. 2. 18. they must inwardly reverence their Masters from the heart and outwardly declare it in word and carriage yea though they be not good and gentle but froward Servants are apt to despise and contemn those that are peevish and froward but this they must not do they must have respect to the Ordinance of God imply'd Mat. 1. 6. 2. To obey their Masters Religion doth not teach Servants to be loose and careless this obedience must be 1. Chearful not by compulsion but free willing 2. Sincere aiming at the good and welfare of their Masters 3. Universal in all things i. e. all lawful things for otherwise they must obey God rather than men Eph. 6. 5. 7. Col. 3. 22. Tit. 29. 3. To be diligent in their Masters business the wicked and slothful Servant are joyn'd together Mat. 25. 26. This diligence must not only be in the Masters presence but in his absence Eph. 6. 6. 4. To bear patiently the checks and reproofs of their Masters they must not be cross and currish not give word for word gain-saying is a great evil in a Servant Tit. 2. 9. 5. To be faithful to their Masters the other are nothing without this Let a Servant be skilful painful diligent and of good carriage 't is nothing without faithfulness all other properties of a Servant stink without faithfulness this is the prime vertue of a servant Christ joyns good and faithful Servant together Mat. 25. 21 23. a Servant can never be a good Servant that is not a faithful Servant Tit. 2. 10. Must shew all good fidelity This faithfulness must extend to their Masters name estate bodys soules relations and must be equal and entire in all parts of faithfulness in all kind of business Of Masters 1. TO be gentle not harsh and rigorous like the Task-Masters of Egypt this is unbecoming Chrstian Masters the Apostle joyns the good and gentle together 1 Pet. 2. 18. must not be outragious for every trifle but gentle kindly bear with their Servants Masters should be as fathers to their Servants not only in point of superiority over their Servants but in point of loving and tender respect to their Servants 2 King 5. 13. Eph. 6. 9. 2. To keep up their authority lose this and the beauty of a family is lost and 't is much if sad confusion don't creep into the family remember in whose stead thou art as a Master and Governour of a family thou representest God himself who is the Master and Governour of all and therefore thou shouldest maintain the dignity of the place wherein the Lord hath set thee 3. To provide convenient comfortable food and rayment for their Servants Prov. 31. 15 21. are clothed with scarlet or double garments i. e. they are well clothed against the cold Col. 4. 1. 4. To look to their commands both as to 1. The matter of them Masters must see their Commands be lawful and good must not impose any thing upon Servants which the Lord hath not warranted in his word not require Servants to lye or filch for them or break the Sabbath 2. The measure Masters must not impose more labour upon their Servants than they have strength well and comfortably to perfom this is oppression and cruelty Esai 58. 6. 5. To protect and shelter their Servants must not suffer them to be wronged and abused by others as the Lord is a shield to his Servants Psa 84. 11. 6. To take care of their Servants in their sickness and weakness and use means for their recovery Mat. 8. 6. 7. To endeavour the good of the souls of their Servants of all duties this is the greatest and yet most neglected good Joshua would not Serve God alone but have his houshold serve God with him Jos 24. 15. what a Religious family Abraham had as they were train'd in civil affairs and military postures Gen. 14. 14. so in Religious matters too LONDON Printed for Awnsham Churchil 1683.