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Patròs kat́optra kan paidòs gonyklisiá: = The father's spectacles to behold his child by and the child's cushion to kneel before his parents. By a lover of parental and filial unity.
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Lover of parental and filial unity.
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by publick slander Which saith Solomon He that uttereth a slander is a fool Prov. 10.18 It was one of the abominable sins of Jerusalem Ezek 22.9 Take ye heed every one of his neighbour and trust ye not in any Brother for every brother will utterly supplant and every Neighbour will walk with slanders Jer. 9.4 Chap. 7.6 Micah 7.6 4ly This Sin may be committed by reporting of false Reports of thy Neighbour Thou shalt not receive a false report Exod. 23.1 Keep thee far from false matter Levit. 23.7 I heard the defaming of many fear on every side report say they and we will report it All my Familiars watched for my halting saying peradventure he will be enticed and we shall prevail against him and we shall take our revenge on him Jer. 20.10 5ly This Commandment may be broken by evil speaking In the latter days some shall depart from the Faith speaking lies in hypocrisie 1 Tim. 4.1 2. Wandring from house to house Tatlers also and busiebodys speaking things that they ought not 1 Tim. 5.13 Keep thy Tongue from evil and thy lips from speaking guile Psal 34.13 Let Bitterness and Wrath and Anger and Clamour and Evil-speaking be put away from you with all Malice Ephes 3.1 Wherefore laying aside all Malice and all Guile and Hypocrisie and Envies and all Evil-speakings 1 Pet. 2.1 6ly This Sin may be committed by false Accusations This is one of the six things that the Lord hates Prov. 19.6 A false witness shall perish Prov. 21.28 Not false Accusers Tit. 2.3 as Job's Friends in whose Answers there remaineth Falshood Job 4.34 7ly This Commandment may be broken by whispering Saith David All that hate me whisper together against me Psal 41.7 A froward man soweth strife and a whisperer separateth chief friends Prov. 16.28 The words of a whisperer are as wounds and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly Prov. 18.7 It is a right character of a wicked-man Rom. 1.29 But where no whisper is the strife ceaseth Prov. 26.20 8ly You may transgress by Back-biting This sin is so common a fault that it is hardly minded that many have committed this sin by speaking that which is true behind mens backs when Truth is spoken to gain favour or out of envy as the Ziphites 1 Sam. 23.19 And Doeg against David 1 Sam. 22.9 Or as the Men that accused Daniel Dan. 6.13 Neither Truth nor Falshood ought to be spoken behind a mans back if it tend to the hurt or damage of his Good Name slandering of his person or prejudicing of his Estate or Calling but all such speaking ought to be with sparingness vigilancy great care and true love 1 Cor. 16.14 9ly It may be broken by Scoffing and Jearing Many a bad man will deliver a false Testimony against another in this evil manner though manner and matter are largely forbid in Scripture Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth Ephes 4.29 Col. 3.8 For evil communication corrupts good manners 1 Cor. 15.33 Let your yea be yea and your nay be nay Mat. 5.37 Be ye not mockers Isa 28.22 nor Scoffers 2 Pet. 3.3 nor do not use filthiness foolish talking nor jesting Ephes 5.4 of this sort of people David greatly complains Psal 22.7 8. and Jeremiah that he was a derision daily Jer. 20.7.8 Every one mocked him and he became the subject of their song Lam. 3.14 A good man sitteth not in the seat of the scornful Psal 1.1 but his conversation is such as becometh the Gospel of Christ Phil. 1.27 10ly This Commandment is broken by Perjury Ye shall not swear falsly Levit. 19.12 I saith the Lord will be a swift witness against false Swearers Mal. 3.5 Every one that sweareth falsly shall be cut off Zach. 5.3 4. If any one make a covenant or vow and break the same himself 2 Chron. 36.13 Or as Samson did by shewing Dalilah where his great strength lay by it he broke his vow of a Nazarite Numb 6.5 Know this that breaking of Vows and Covenants the Scripture calls false swearing Hosea 10.4 Ezek. 17.15 16. And by perjury our Lives are not safe but always in jeopardy our Liberties are enfringed and always in danger our Estates are not our own being always subject to the malice of perjured Persons besides it is a grand abuse and great affront to the dignity of the Name of the most high it roots out all moral duty in them that use it it undermines the Christian Religion it greatly abuseth the Magistrate and condemneth justice and mercy and taketh away all security from all persons and by it they renounce the divine omnipotency and bring themselves under an high degree of Atheism and the Sentence of Eternal Punishment Mal. 3.5 Prov. 6.19 Chap. 19.5 Chap. 21.28 11ly It may be broken by passing of rash and false judgment Mat. 7.1 We ought to enquire into all the Circumstances of a matter before we pass Sentence Deut. 1.16 and then to be very sparing without prejudice Prov. 27.4 or slander Psal 101.5 Jer. 9.4 12ly It may be broken by false Letters forged Jer. 25.25 29. by scandalous books or infamous Libels or false Records Ezra 4.19 13ly This Command may be broken by Tatlers which walk about with Tales Levit. 19.16 1 Tim. 5.13 Prov. 11.19 Chap. 18.8 Chap. 20.19 Chap. 26.22 Ezek. 22.9 14ly It may be broken by those who make it their business privately to abuse men without a cause Him that privately slandereth his Nieghbour him will I cut off Psal 101.5 15ly This Commandment may be broken by misconstruing of mens words and giving forth another meaning than they intended when they spoke them Job 23.3 Tenthly Thou shalt not covet c. The Root 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of whence Covetousness is derived signifieth 1st Solent homines avari He or she that is accustomed to be greedy 2ly Defraudavit He that taketh away the profit of another by guile 3ly Complevit He that filleth up his Desires to the top 4ly Scalpo To scratch scrape to rake together 5ly Saucio To hurt or wound They that are covetuous do not only hurt and wound others whose goods and lives they take away but they pierce themselves through with many sorrows 1 Tim. 16.10 The Covetous Man is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Luke 16.14 Amator pecuniae one that loveth Money Which is the reot of all evil This Commandment forbids the least motion of the heart in consenting to desire after the least thing that is our Neighbours without his free consent as not to ask nor desire any thing that is not properly ours is it not out of Covetousness that the Riotous and Prodigals get what they car and how and study how to bestow all on their concupiscible lusts and the Usurer extorteth great excessive interest of the poor by its instigations the Adulterer brayeth after his Neighbours Wife and the Landlord raketh his poor industrious Tennant by it Neighbours trespass one another and go to law in hopes
Parents if they know any thing at all know that sin is a transgression of the Law and by it the Lord is offended with them that break his Commandments He that keepeth the whole Law and offends in one point is guilty of all James 2.10 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth the Law for sin is a transgression of the Law 1 John 3.4 Parents knowing this if they love their Children they will keep them from sin if possible Reason 2. Parents know that the wages of sin is death Rom. 6.23 not only the death of the Body but the second Death or the eternal depravation of the Soul from Eternal Happiness and sentenced to eternal wrath Mat. 25.41 I pass to the Third Doctrine which is Doct. 3. That they that are true Christians indeed have such entire love to their Childrens Souls that they will use all means possible to nurture them up in the right way of the Lord This Doctrine seems to be one perfect Character of a Christian and it naturally ariseth from the Text viz. Bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. The 1st Reason is Because Parents know that if the Soul be eternally lost there is no recovering of it again There is a great gulf fixed Luke 16.26 'T is the eternal decree of the Lord that none can pass it none can enter in when the door is shut Mat. 25.10 2d Reason is Because Nurture and Instruction is the way to eternal Life This is life eternal to know thee saith Christ the only true God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent John 17.3 As 1st To know him in his Titles John 1.5 14 29 45 49 51. 2ly To know him in his Nature Rom. 1.3 Acts 13.23 Gal. 4.4 3ly To know him in his Attributes as he is all Wisdom Justice Life Light Mercy Power Majesty Immortality Incomprehensible and Immutable 1 Cor. 1.24 John 1.4 Mat. 28.18 1 Tim. 6.16 James 1.17 4ly To know Christ in his Person in his Excellencies and in his Offices as 1st King 1 Tim. 6.15 2ly Priest Heb. 7.21 3ly Prophet Acts 3.22 23. 5ly To know him in his Promises John 14.16 Mark 10.29 30. 6ly To know him in his Conception and Birth Mat. 1.20 25. 7ly To know him in his Life and Doctrine Acts 10.38 8ly To know him in his Death 2 Cor 5.15 Heb. 2.9 Rom. 5.10 9ly To know him in his Resurrection Rom. 8.11 1 Cor. 15.14 20. 10ly To know him in his Ascention John 3.13 Acts 1.11 Eph. 4.9 10. 11ly To know him in his Glorification Mat. 25.31 John 17.5 12ly To know him in his infinite and special Love John 3.16 Mark 16.15 13ly To know him in our hearts by Faith Eph. 3.17 2 Cor. 13.5 This is a Work that is not truly attained to but by Nurture and wholsome Instruction and God's gracious Inspiration Rom. 10.17 And it requireth great labour diligence and care 3d. Reason is Because Nurture and Instruction in the right way of the Lord is a thing that is hard to be attained As 1st All the promises of the Gospel are spiritual and they that embrace the Gospel must be spiritual men 1 Pet. 2.5 John 15.19 2ly The Doctrine of the Gospel holds forth a state of self-denial Luke 14.26 3ly The way of truth is a way of of Persecution either in word or deed 2 Tim. 3.12 4ly In spiritual Communion all true Believers must separate from sinners Jer. 51.6 Isa 52.11 2 Cor. 6.17 Revel 18.4 John 15.19 5ly There is required great diligence in that there are so many voices in the World and all conclude themselves in the truth that a person that will find the right way had need as Paul saith To prove all things but let them remember to hold fast that which is good 1 Thes 5.21 That Doctrine which is according to the commands of Christ the practice of the Apostles and that in which all the first Churches were constituted must needs be the truth and no other 4th Reason is Because He that believeth and walketh in the way of the Lord with a perfect heart shall be by Christ made free from the law of sin and death Rom. 8.2 He that is in Christ is a new Creature 2 Cor. 5.17 Parents if they truly love their Children will endeavour their conversion 5th Reason is Because all the promises in the Gospel do belong to those that believe and walk uprightly in the right way of the Lord All is yours saith St. Paul 1 Cor. 3.22 I must not travel any further in this large field but pass to the fourth Doctrine which is The Second Part. Wherein the Duty of Children to God and their Parents is opened 4th Doct. That Children ought to yield obedience to all their Parents commands in the Lord with boly Reverence Honour and Zeal If in our Text Parents are commanded to bring up their Children as t is plain in the nurture and admonition of the Lord Then it is most certain that those Children are Rebels if they do not obey and this Obedience must be performed according to the best Rule or Rules prescribed in the Holy Scriptures And they are these two First What they must not do to their Parents Secondly What they must do to and for their Parents But First What you must not do to your Parents You must not do any thing that doth withdraw and withhold from them that Honour or diminish their Dignity nor that holdeth you back from Love Reverence Obedience and Thankfulness or that which doth seem to lessen their Authority And therefore 1st You must not mock at them when they command you to do that which is lawful right you must not scornfully imitate their words nor their Gestures Looks or Carriages least the Lord be offended with you as he was with those Children 2 Kings 2.23 who by two Bears slew forty two of them Job counts Mockage a great Provocation Job 17.2 As Parents are commanded not to provoke their Children so likewise by Childrens wicked Carriages Parents may be provoked several ways as you will find these Negative Precepts do declare and confirm The eye that mocketh at his Father and dispiseth to obey his Mother the Ravens of the Valley shall pluck it out and the young Eagles shall eat it Prov. 30.17 Jeremiah enters his complaint to the Lord very Pathetically saying Every one mocketh me Jer. 20.7 'T is a grievous sin in the sight of God and a great offence to Man therefore do not use it at all to any least thou forget thy self and use it to thy Parents and so thou provoke them and offend the Lord Job 21.17 2d Direction is You must not revile or reproach your Parents He that revileth his Father or Mother shall surely be put to death Exod 21.17 Thou shalt not revile the Gods nor curse the Rulers of thy People Exod. 22.28 Margin Judges Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dijs non detrahes Thou shalt not report ill against the mighties that is they that have Power and