Col. iii. 19. Husbands love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

1 Pet. iii. 7. Husbands dwell with

your wives according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife as the weaker vessel, and being heirs together of the grace of life: that your prayers be not hindered. Ver. 9.

DUTIES TOWARDS CHILDREN. LXVI. To provide for their support. Gen. xxx. 30. Jacob said, And now when shall I provide for mine own house also?

Prov. xiii. 22. A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children. 1 Chron. xxviii. 8.

LXV. The wife, her duties. Prov. xi. 16. A gracious woman retaineth honour.lay up for their children. xii. 4. A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband; but she that maketh

2 Cor. xii. 14. The parents ought to

ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

xiv. 1. Every wise woman buildeth her house, but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.

Ver. 14. A prudent wife is from the Lord.

xxxi. 10-12. Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her. She will do him good, and not evil, all the days of her life. See to the end of this chapter.

1 Cor. vii. 34. She that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

Eph. v. 22-24. Wives, submit your selves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. (Col. iii. 18.) For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church. As the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be unto their own husbands in thing.

Ver. 33. Let the wife see that reverence her husband.

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1 Tim. ii. 11-13. Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve.

v. 14. I will that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occassion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

Tit. ii. 4, 5, That the aged woman teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children; to be discreet, cliaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands; that the word of God be not blasphemed.

1 Pet. iii. 1. Wives, be in subjection to your own husbands.-Ver. 6. Even as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him Lord.

Concerning woman's apparel. See 1 Tim. ii. 9. 1 Pet. iii. 3, 4.

1 Tim. v. 8.. If a man provide not for his own, specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

LXVII. To defend them. Neh. iv. 14. Fight for your sons and your daughters, your wives and your houses, See Exod. xxii. Numb. i. 12.

Gen. xvii. 18. Abraham prays for IshLXVIII. To pray for them. Instances. mael. Ver. 20..

2 Sam. xii. 6. David for his child. Ver. 21.

Job i. 5. Job for his sons.

LXIX. To instruct them. Gen. xviii.

19. I know Abraham, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judg ment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.

Exod. x. 2. Tell into the ears of thy son, and of thy son's son, what things have wrought in Egypt, that ye may know how that I am the Lord.

Deut. vi. 6, 7. These words which I command thee this day shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. Ver. 3. 20, 21. Ch. xi. 18, 19.

xxxii. 46. Ye shall command your children to do all the words of this law. Prov. xxii. 6. Train up a child in the way he should go, &c.

Isa. xxxviii. 19. The fathers to the children shall make known thy truth. Ps. lxxviii. 4. 7.

Joel i. 2, 3. Give ear all ye inhabitants of the land. Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.

Eph. vi. 4. Fathers, provoke not your

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children, but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. Col. iii. 21. See also Deut. iv. 9, 10.-xxxi. 12, 13.

LXX. Particular heads of instruction. Exod. xii. 26, 27. When your children shall ask, What mean ye by this service? Ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the Lord's passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he slew the Egyptians.

xiii. 7. Thou shalt shew thy son, saying, This is done because of that which the Lord did to me when I came out of Egypt. Ver. 14.

Josh. iv. 20-22. Those twelve stones which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal; saying, When your children shall ask their fathers, What mean these stones? then ye shall let your children know, saying, The Lord your God dried up the waters of Jordan before you.-Ver. 24. That all the people of the earth might know the hand of the Lord, that it is mighty.

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wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, &c. Ver. 4. 38.

See also, Ch. xxvii. 46.-xxviii. 1. 6. -xxxviii. 6. Transgressed by Esau, Gen. xxvi. 35.—xxviii. 8, 9.

Marriage with the heathen inhabitants of Canaan forbidden, for the ill consequences of such marriages: Ex. xxxiv. 16. Deut. vii. 3. Josh. xxiii. 12, 13. Judg. iii. 5, 6, 7. 1 Kings xi. 1 to 12. Ezra ix. 2. 12. Neh. xiii. 23 to 27.

LXXIV. Portions given to children by parents. Gen. xxv. 5, 6. Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac. But unto the sons of the concubines which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac.

xlviii. 21, 22. Israel said to Joseph, I have given thee one portion above thy brethren.

The oldest son by the law of Moses was to have a double portion, Deut. xxi. 15, 16, 17.

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MISED BLESSINGS.
LXXV. Children are among the pro-

LXXI. Parents careful to instruct children, were: Gen. xviii. 19. Abraham. 1 Chron. xxviii. 9. David. Prov. iv. 3. Lemuel's mother. Prov. xxxi. 1. Timo-mised blessings of God to mankind. Gen. i. 21. God blessed Adam and Eve, and thy's mother and grandmother, 2 Tim. said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply,

i. 5.

xiv. 8. Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

xxii. 15. Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

xxiii. 13, 14. Withhold not correction from the child. Thou shalt beat him with a rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.

xxix. 15. The rod and reproof give wisdom; but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.-Ver. 17. Correct thy son and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul. See Deut. viii. 5. 1 Tim. iii. 4.

This duty neglected by David, 1 Kings i. 6. By Eli, 1 Sam. ii. 22, &c.

LXXIII. Parents careful to marry their children into religious families. Gen. xxiv. 2, 3. Abraham said to his servant, Swear by the God of heaven and earth, that thou shalt not take a

and replenish the earth.

viii. 15-17. God spake unto Noah, saying, Go forth of the ark, thou and thy wife, and thy sons and thy sons' wives with thee; and be fruitful and mul. tiply upon the earth. Ch. ix. 1.7.

xiii. 14. 16. The Lord said unto Abram, I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth; so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. Ch. xxii. 16, 17.

xv. 5. The Lord said to Abram, Look toward heaven, and tell the stars if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.

xvii. 1. 5, 6. The Lord appeared unto Abram, and said unto him, Thy name shall be called Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee. I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee. See Hagar, Ch. xvi. 10.-xvii. 20.-xxi. 13.

xxvi. 2. 4. The Lord appeared unto Isaac, and said, I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven.

xxviii. 14. The Lord said unto Jacob, Thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth: and thou shalt spread abroad to

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the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. See Ch. xxxv. 9. 11.-xxxiii. 12.

Gen. xxxiii. 5. Jacob said, These are the children that God hath graciously given thy servant. Isa. viii. 18.

LXXVI. Children promised. Gen. xlviii. 19. Jacob said, Ephraim's seed shall become a multitude of nations.

xlix. 22. Joseph is a fruitful bough.— Ver. 25. The Almighty shall bless thee, with the blessings of the breasts and of the womb.

Lev. xxvi. 19. I will make you fruitful, and will multiply you.

Numb. xxiv. 7. It is said of Jacob, His seed shall be upon many waters.

Deut. vii. 13, 14. The Lord thy God will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee. Thou shalt be blessed above all people; there shall not be male nor female barren among you. Ex. xxiii. 26. xxviii. 4. Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body. Ver. 11.

Josh. xxiv. 3. I took your father Abraham, and multiplied his seed.

Neh. ix. 23. Their children thou tipliedst as the stars of heaven.

Job v. 25. Thine offspring shall be as the grass of the earth. Isa. xlviii. 18, 19. xlix. 20.

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xv. 2, 3. Abram said, Lord, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless? To me thou hast given no seed. Ch. xviii. 10. 12. The angel said, Sarah shall have a son. (Ch. xvii. 19.) Sarah heard it and laughed.

xxiv. 60. They blessed Rebekah, and said, Be thou the mother of thousands of millions.

XXV. 21. Isaac entreated the Lord for his wife, because she was barren; and the Lord was entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

xxviii. 1. 3. Isaac blessed Jacob, and said, God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee.

xxx. 13. Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed.Ver. 20. I have born six sons.

xxix. 31. Rachel was barren. Ch. xxx. 1. 23. She envied her sister, and said unto Jacob, Give me children or else I die. Rachel conceived and bare a son, and said, God hath taken away my reproach.

1 Sam. i. 3. Hannah had no children. mul--Ver. 10. 19. She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the Lord, and wept sore: and the Lord remembered her.—Ver. 20. She conceived and bare a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the Lord.-Ver. 27. For this child I prayed, and the Lord hath given me my petition.

Ps. cxiii. 9. He maketh the barren woman to be a joyful mother of children.

cxv. 14. The Lord shall increase you more and more, you and your children.

cxxvii. 3. Children are an heritage of the Lord, and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

cxxviii. 3. Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house; thy children like olive plants round about thy table.-Ver. 6. Yea, thou shalt see thy children's children.

cxliv. 12. That our sons may be as olive plants, our daughters like corner

stones.

See also, Deut. i. 10.—x. 22.—xüi. 17. -xxviii. 62, 63. Josh. xxiv. 3. Job xlii. 12, 13. Ps. cvii. 38. Prov. xiv. 28. Jer. iii. 16.-xxx. 19.-xxxiii. 22. Ezek. xvi. 7.—xxxvi. 10, 11.—xxxvii. 26.

LXXVII. A desire of having children is natural to mankind. Instances. Prov. xxx. 16. The grave and the barren womb are not satisfied.

Gen. xi. 30. Sarah, Abram's wife, was barren. Ch. xvi. 1, 2, 3. She gave her handmaid to Abram, and said, It may be that I may obtain children by her.

Luke i. 7. Elizabeth was barren.Ver. 13. The angel said unto Zacharias, Thy prayer is heard, thy wife shall bear thee a son.-Ver. 24. Elizabeth conceived, and said, Thus hath the Lord dealt with me, to take away my reproach. Ver. 25.

LXXVIII. God's care of mothers. Gen. ii. 16. Unto the woman the Lord said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children. 1 Tim. ii. 15. Nevertheless she shall be saved in child-bearing, if they continue in faith and holiness, with sobriety.

xlix. 25. The Almighty shall bless thee with the blessings of the breasts and of the womb.

Deut. vii. 13. He will bless the fruit of thy womb. See Exod. xxi. 21. Hurt not a woman with child.

LXXIX. God's care of children. Ex. i. 17. The midwives saved the menchildren alive.-Ver. 21. And God made them houses.

The Wicked punished in their Children.

Jonah iv. 11. God said, Should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand per-quity of the fathers into the bosom of sons that cannot discern between their their children after them. See an inright hand and their left? stance, 2 Sam. xii. 14, 15.

Isa. xliv. 3. I will pour my blessing xliv. 7. Thus saith the Lord, Whereupon thine offspring. See Ch. Ixi, 9.-fore commit ye this great evil against

LXXXII. The wicked punished in the calamities of their children. Exod. xx. 5. I am a jealous God, visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of xxi. 19. 21, 22. compared with 2 Kings

LXXXV. That they shall suffer by Numb. iv. 33. Your children shall famine. Jer. v. 15. I will bring a nation

xiii. 1. A wise son heareth his father's LXXXVII. Erroneous principles in re-instructions, but a scorner heareth not ligion have destroyed the natural affection of parents toward their children. 2 Kings xvi. 3. Ahaz made his sons to pass through the fire.

LXXXIX. Want of children to the Ver. 2, 3. Honour thy father and thy wicked. Hos. ix. 14. Give them a mis- mother, (which is the first commandcarrying womb and dry breasts. 2 Sam.ment with promise;) that it may be vi. 23. Lev. xx. 20. Jer. xxii. 30.