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A33522	A fruitfull and usefull discourse touching the honour due from children wherein both the respective duties of children to parents and of parents to children are cleared from Scripture, together with what may either further or hinder the same ... / by Thomas Cobbet.	Cobbet, Thomas, 1608-1685.	1656 (1656)	Wing C4777; ESTC R29964	162,603	256

relations so much in his way will not you honor them in your way Deu. 4. 2. Because he loved thy Fathers therefore he chose their seed after them to one and the same persons belong the glory and the Covenants Ro. 9. 4. to whom belong the glory the covenants if Gods the Churches covenant be long to Children the glory belongs to them take away Covenant church privileges ye take away their glory as the Israelites did when they would have dealt with the little ones of Judah as if they had rather been Pagans and out-Lawes than fellow-brethren in covenant-respects so they purposed to have kept sons their daughters under as bond-men women 2 Chro. 28. 8 9 10. They might only have of the heathen for bond-men and women Le. 25. 44. but not any of their brethren the Children of Israel they might not rule over them with rigour as over bond men and women v. 46. though waxen poor they must not be compelled to serve as bond-servants ver 39. Yea but for Israelites to take that course they intended was to make them as the heathen and so to take away their glory of Covenant and Church-privileges as Junius expounds that Mi. 2. 9. Of late my people are risen up as an enemy c. and from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever he referreth it in this way to that story 2 Chro. 28. 8 9 10. Now if by good Parents Children come to shame in such Honour and 3. Childrens lifts to their faith by means of good Parents glory they may well in way of gratefull retribution Honour their good Fathers and Mothers 3. In that Children have a mighty lift to their very faith in what ever concerneth their welfare outward or inward and that in all cases and charges from the covenant of God with their Parents therefore honor your Christian Parents hence Exod. 32. 13 14. In that almost desperate case of Israel Moses exerciseth his faith and thence pleadeth the Covenant with Abraham Isaac and Jacob remember saith he Abraham Isaac and Jacob c. Mic. 7. 20. The Prophet setteth his faith on work for himself and people upon that Covenant Thou wilt saith he perform the truth to Jacob and the mercy to Abraham which thou hast sworn to our Fathers from the dayes of old and this his faith therein was the ground of that which he believed vers 29. He will turn again he will have compassion upon us he will subdue our iniquities and thou wilt cast their sins into the depths of the Sea 2 Chro. 33. 12 13. Manasseth that notorious miscreant When in his affliction he besought the Lord his God viz. His God in the Covenant of his Father Hezekiah And humbled himself greatly before the God of his Fathers And prayed to live and he was intreated of him he then prayed in faith for hee prevailed with God but here was his hold and prop God was his God in the Covenant of his Father and Ancestors and therefore he will wrestle strongly with him for mercy even to surh a notorious sinner as he now seeth and feeleth himself to be Solomon's hold and bottome of his prayer in his case is this Let thy promise unto David my Father be established c. 2 Chro. 1. 9 10 11. So Kings 8. 25 26. And now Oh Lord God of Israel let thy word I pray thee be verified which thou spakest to thy servant David my Father David twise pleads his Mothers interest in God Psal 86. 16. Save the Son of thy handmaid Psal 116. 16. Truly Lord I am thy servant and the Son of thy hand-maid thou hast loosed my bonds Prov. 14. 26. In the fear of the Lord is strong confidence and his Children viz. The Children of him that feareth God shall have place and refuge No case so sad or so bad which such Children of fearers of God whose eyes and hearts God openeth in some measure to see and be sensible thereof but they have an asylum to fly too they have the Covenant and promises made and ratified in Christ to their Godly Fathers and Mothers to repair too and to keep up their faith at the deadest lift lift up Parents then high in Honor by whose Covenant-interest your faith may in saddest cases have such lifts 4. In that Children are many waies blessed and bettered by occasion of their Parents 4. Blessings of Children by good Parents prayers pleas Covenant-interests c. therefore Honour them Gen. 49. 26. The blessings of thy Father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors Every godly Ancestour addeth something to the Common stock of blessings of grace laid up for their posterity the latter still superadding somewhat more than the former left Psal 115. 14. The Lord shall increase you more and more you your Children Psal 102. 1 2 3. The generation of the upright shall be blessed Psal 103. 17. Gods righteousnesse or faithfulness in his Covenanted mercies is unto Childrens Children Deut. 4. 40. Thou shalt therefore keep his Statutes that it may go well with thee and with thy Children after thee So cap. 12. 28. If God then Honour you with such blessings for your good Parents sakes you may well Honour your Parents yea sometimes the very worst Children who had been many a time debased as low as hell by the destroying judgements of God yet are not out of Gods respect to their Parents or Ancestors Covenant-interests God would not destroy the house of David in wicked Jehoram's time because of the Covenant which he had made with David 2 Chro. 21. 6 7. And so the very worst might be provoked to Honour their good Parents for had it not been for their sakes its likely such had been in the lowest hell ere this let children of good parents know that by grace through your Parents instrumentally you have God for your God if not rejecting your interest if having hearts to improve the same for your help to Honour God and them Gen. 17. 7. 5. In that it is the ready way for Children to be Honoured by others to Honour their Parents 5. Childrens honour from others thereby and therefore Honour them Ruth 4. 14 15. The good woemen say of Obed Ruth's Son that his name shall be famous in Israel and adde that as an incouraging Argument to Naomi his Grand-Mother and he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life and a nourisher of thine old age a very observant and gratefull Grand-childe and no wonder then if his name would be so Honourable in Israel God records it in Scripture in honorem in the eyes of God Angels and men concerning Sem Japhet Joseph and others that they were such Honourers of Parents The very Pagan Grecians honoured Aeneas his piety to his aged Father so as that they honourably rewarded it with the gift of all his other estate which else was the Conquerers right 6. In that it is the ready way for Children to

joyes and delights as of the kingdome of grace here so of that of glory hereafter so in Deut. 30. 15 19. I set before thee life Rom. 8. 6. To be spiritually minded is life Act. 11. 18. Repentance unto life Psal 36. 9. With thee is the fountaine of life John 3. 36. He shall not see life CHAP. II. Of Honour in generall due to Parents HAving explained the words of the 5. Commandement shewn the weight of the duty therein injoyned to Children we now come to make further inquiry into the duty it self which we shall consider of in the method propounded 1. More Generally 2. More particulaly First then of Honour of Parents in a generall consideration wherein we shall 1. Consider what kind and manner of honour this honour of Parents so generally considered must be 2. Make some uses thereof To the first inquiry we answer 1. Honour not due to Parents which is 1. In way of dishoner to God Negatively what Honour is not due to Parents 2. Affirmatively what manner of Honour is due In a negative way we say the Honour of Parents 1. It must not be in any way of dishonour to God either by sinnes of Omission or of Commission Children must not so respect esteem and love Father or Mother as to love and prefer them in their respects to the Lord. He that loveth Father or Mother more then me is not worthy of me saith Christ Matth. 10. 37. Children may not be so transported with affection to Parents as thereby to be hindered from a call of Christ or attending upon it As he in Luk. 9. 65. when called to follow Christ would have gon first and buried his Father but vers 60. is answered by Christ Let the dead bury their dead but go thou and preach the Kingdome of God or as the other in Luk. 9. 61. that would ingage to follow Christ but he would first bid farewell to those at home namely Parents Kindred c. But Jesus Christ accounteth such inordinacy of affection in those who professe to set their faces towards heaven to be a looking back to the world and the like and therefore vers 62. Jesus said unto him No man having put his hand to the Plough and looking back is fit for the Kingdome of God Children may not have such carnall affection to Parents or be so glued to them as not to be able to part with them and forsake them and deny themselves in them for the sake of Christ when they are thereunto called The Spouse of Christ Solomons Antitype must forget her Kindred and Fathers house for her Lords sake and nearer Communion with him Psal 45. 10. Children may not so love Father or Mother as out of respect to them to forsake Christs truth or faith or to imbrace any thing contrary to the faith or truth of Christ a sin too common amongst the Children of Papists and other Heretiques and Opinionists this is also to love them more then Christ Better that the Daughter in such a case of Christs faith and truth be at variance against the Mother that she contend even with her for Christs truth for the faith once delivered to the Saints that she beat down with all her might the Mothers errors and evils In which case also Christ saith Matth. 10. 35. He commeth to set a man at variance against his own Father and the Daughter against her Mother He that more desireth after his Parents presence then after the Lords or more delighteth in them then in the Lord himself or is more moved in their causes then in the Lords or is more troubled for them and their disgrace then for the Lords dishonour or the like he doth not honour his Parents according to Gods mind and heart yea he that comparatively and where the love of Father or Mother and the love of Christ are not compatible where the condition and case is so qualified that love to Parents and love to Christ become flat contraries and must one give place to the other one or the other must be laid aside in such a case He that hateth not his very Father and Mother cannot be Christs Disciple Luk. 14. 26. In such a case Godly zealous Levi is commended Deut. 33. 9. Who said to his Father and his Mother I have not seen him The like might be said in that honour of Reverence and Fear Children may not be so afraid of Parents or of their frownes or blowes or distastes or disinheritings c. as not to be afraid of Gods displeasure but to adventure that in some way of sin rather then run the hazzard of ● Fathers or Mothers displeasure Christ 〈…〉 his Mothers displeasure or rebuke so as 〈◊〉 her sake to omit any duty to God his Father or to neglect his heavenly Fathers business 〈◊〉 in answer to that check of Maries Luk. 2. 48. Son why hast thou thus dealt with us behold thy Father and I have sought thee sorrowing he sayth vers 49. Wist ye not that I must be about my fathers business 〈◊〉 was a notable speech of that Pagan Priest C●r●alus being to sacrifice and at the same time required to come away to his Father he boldly answered He must first dispatch the duties of publick Religion or of Religion which was of publick Concernment and after that those of private piety to Parents Children must indeed honour their Parents Counsels and Commands with the honour of obedience and observance yet not so as in a way of dishonour to God to neglect what he requireth or to do any thing which he forbideth Ahaziah King of Judah is branded for this 2. Chron. 22. 3. That he walked in the waies of the house of Ahab for his Mother was his counsellour 2. It must not be in way of Inaequality to either Parent The Father is not to be preferred 2. With In equality to either Parents by the Child as a Child before the Mother or the Mother more loved reverenced obeyed or recompensed then the Father The Parents are equally Parents and equall causes of the Children and so by the law of nature as Parents they are to share equally in the honour of such instrumentall causes of the be ing of their Children Hence though in Exod. 20. 12. Honour thy Father and thy Mother the Father is set before the Mother yet in Lev. 19. 3. which is an exposition of the 5. Commandement the Mother is set before the Father Yee shall fear every man his Mother every man his Father to shew that the Father being set before the Mother for honour which comprehendeth fear and the Mother being set before the Father for fear which is a speciall branch of honour they are both alike for honour in the generall and for fear in speciall This Willet in his sixfold Commentary upon Leviticus and Ainsworth in his notes upon Levit. 19. 3. They both do note from Maimony So Musculus in his common places and exposition of this fifth Commandement he