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willingness and cheerfulness in performing their duties to their fuperiors, as to their parents'.

Q. 126. What is the general scope of the fifth commandment?

4. The general scope of the fifth commandment is the performance of thofe duties which we mutually owe in our feveral relations, as inferiors, fuperiors, or equals.

Q. 127. What is the honour that inferiors owe to Juperiors?

A. The honour which inferiors owe to their fuperiors is, all due reverence in heart', word", and behaviour"; prayer and thanksgiving for

because ye were dear unto us. As ye know how we exhorted and comforted, and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children. Num. 11. 11, 12, 16.

i1 Cor. 5. 14, 15, 16. 1 write not these things to fhame you, but as my beloved fons I warn you for though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Chrift Jefus I have begotten you through the gofpel. Wherefore I be feech you be ye followers of

.me.

k Eph. 5. 21. Submitting yourfelves one to another in the fear of God. I Pet. 2. 17. Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king. Rom. 12. 10.

Be kindly affectioned one to another, with brotherly love, in honour preferring one another.

1 Mal. 1. 6. A fon honoureth his father, and a fervant his mafter. If then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a mafter, where is my fear? Lev. 19. 3. Ye fhall fear every man his mother and his father.

m Prov. 31. 28. Her children arife up, and call her bleffed her husband alfo, and he praiseth her. I Pet. 3. 6. Even as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord.

n Lev. 19. 32. Thou shalt rife up before the hoary-head, and honour the face of the old man. 1 Kings 2. 19. And the fat on his right hand.

them; imitation of their virtues and graces"; willing obedience to their lawful commands and counfels; due fubmiffion to their corrections; fidelity to', defence and maintainance of their perfons and authority, according to their feveral ranks, and the nature of their places'; bearing

o 1 Tim. 2. I, 2. I exhort therefore that firft of all, fupplications, prayers, interceflions, and giving of thanks be made for all men: For king, and for all that are in authority

p Heb. 13. 7. Remember

them who have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whofe faith follow, confidering the end of their converfation. Phil. 3. 17. Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them who walk fo, as ye have us for an enfample.

q Eph. 6. 1, 2, 5, 6, 7. Children obey your parents in the Lord-Servants be obedient to them that are your matters, according to the flesh. Pet. 2. 13, 14. Submit your felves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's fake: whether it be to the king, as fupreme; or unto governors. Rom. 13. from 1 to 6. Heb. 13. 17. Prov. 4 3, 4. and 23. 28.

r Heb. 12. 9. Furthermore, we have had fathers of our Alefh, who corrected us, and we gave them reverence. 1 Pet. 2. 18, 19, 20. Servants be fubject to your mafters, with all fear,— but if when ye do well, and fuffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God,

s Tit. 2. 9, 10. Exhort fervants to be obedient unto their own mafters, and to please them well in all things not anfwering again. Not purloining, but fhewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in al things.

t I Sam. 26. 15. 16. Wherefore then haft thou not kept thy lord the king? As the Lord liveth, ye are worthy to die, becaufe ye have not kept your mafter, the Lord's anointed. 2 Sam. 18 3. Efth. 6. 2.

v Mat. 22. 21, Renderunto Cæfar the things which are Cæfar's. Rom. 13. 6, 7. For this cause pay ye tribute alfo : for they are God's minifters attending continually upon this very thing. Render therefore to all their dues; tribute to whom tribute is due, cuftom to whom cuftom, fear to whom fear, honour to whom honour. 1 Tim. 5. 17, 18. Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, efpecially they who labour in the word and doctrine-Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn: and the labourer is worthy of his reward. Gal. 6. 6. Gen. 45. 11. and 47. 12.

with their infirmities, and covering them in love", that so they may be an honour to them and to their government*.

Q. 128. What are the fins of inferiors against their fuperiors?

A. The fins of inferiors against their fuperiors are, all neglect of the duties required toward them'; envying at2, contempt ofa, and rebellion" against their perfons and places", in their lawful counfels, commands and corrections;

w Gen. 9. 23. And Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it upon both their fhoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakednefs of their father; and their faces were backward, and they faw not their father's nakednefs. I Pet. 2. 18. Prov. 23. 22.

x Pfa. 127. 3, 4, 5. Lo children are an heritage of the Lord. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they fhall not be ashamed, but they fhall fpeak with the enemies in the gate. Prov. 31. 23. Her husband is known in the gates, when he fitteth among the elders of the land.

y Mat. 15. 4, 5, 6. But ye fay, Whofoever fhall fay to his father or his mother, It is a gift by whatsoever thou mightest he profited by me, and honour, not his father or his mother, he fhall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.

z Num. 11. 28, 29.

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Mofes faid unto him, Envieft thou for my fake? Would to God that all the Lord's people were prophets.

a 1 Sam. 8. 7. For they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them. Ifa. 3. 5The child fhall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.

b 2 Sam. 15. from verfe I to 12. And it came to pafs after this, that Abfalom prepared him chariots and horses, &c.

c Exod. 21. 15. And he that fmiteth his father or his mother fhall be furely put to death.

dr Sam. 10. 27. But the children of Belial faid, How fhall this man fave us? And they defpifed him, and brought him no prefents.

e I Sam. 2. 25. Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because the Lord would flay them.

curfing, mocking, and all fuch refractory and fcandalous carriage, as proves a fhame and difhonour to them and their government".

Q. 129. What is required of fuperiors towards their inferiors?

A. It is required of fuperiors, according to that power they receive from God, and that relation wherein they ftand, to love', pray for*, and bless their inferiors'; to inftruct", counsel and admonish them"; countenancing", commend

f Deut. 21. 18, 19, 20, 21. And they shall fay unto the elders of his city, This our fon is ftubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice, he is a glutton and a drunkard. And ail the men of his city fhall ftone him with ftones, that he die.

g Prov. 30. II. There is a generation that curfeth their father, and doth not bless their mother. Verse 17. The eye that mocketh at his father, and defpifeth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley fhall pick it out, and the young eagles fhall eat it.

h l'rov. 19. 26. He that wafteth his father, and chafeth away his mother, is a fon that caufeth fhame, and bringeth reproach

iCol. 3. 19. Hufbands love your wives, and be not bitter against them. Tit 2. 4.

ki Sam. 12. 23. Moreover as for me, God forbid that I fhould fin against the Lord in

ceafing to pray for you Job 1.5.

11 Kings 8. 55, 56. And he food, and bluffed all the congregation of Ifrael, with a loud voice. Gen 49. 28.

m Deut. 6. 6, 7. And thefe words which I command thee this day fhall be in thine heart. And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and halt talk of them when thou fitteft in thine houfe, and when thou walkeft by the way, and when thou lieft down, and when thou rifeft up.

n Eph. 6. 4. And ye fathers provoke not your children unto wrath; but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

o Pet. 3. 7. Likewife ye hufbands dwell with themi according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife as unto the weaker veffel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

ing", and rewarding fuch as do well; and difcountenancing, reproving, and chastifing fuch as do ill, protecting', and providing for them all things neceffary for foul', and body": And, by grave, wife, holy, and exemplary carriage, to procure glory to God, honour to themselves', and fo to preferve that authority which God hath put upon them".

Q. 130. What are the fins of fuperiors?

A. The fins of fuperiors are, befide the neglect of the duties required of them, an inordi

p Rom. 13. 3. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil-Do that which is good, and thou fhalt have praise of the fame. I Pet. 2.

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q Efth. 6. 3. And the king faid, What honour and dignity hath been done to Mordecai for this?

r Rom. 13. 4. He is the mi. nifter of God-a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.

Prov. 29. 15. The rod and reproof give wifdom; but a child left to himself, bringeth his mother to fhanie. Rom. 13. 4.

t Job 29. from the 12th verfe to the 18th, Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him, &c. Ifa. 1. 10, 17. Relieve the oppreffed, judge the fatherlefs, plead for the widow.

v Eph. 6. 4. See above in letter n.

w Tim. 5. 8. But if any provide not for his own, and fpecially for thofe of his own houfe, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

x 1 Tim. 4. 12. Let no man defpife thy youth, but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in converfation, in charity, in fpirit, in faith, in purity. Tit. 2. 3, 4, 5.

y I Kings 3.18 And all If rael heard of the judgment that the king had judged, and they feared the king; for they faw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do judgment.

z Tit. 2. 15. These things fpeak and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man defpife thee.

a Ezek. 34. 2, 3, 4. Should not the fhepherds feed the flocks? The difeafed have ye

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