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In the nineteenth of Matthew, A man must forsake his father & his mother, to dwell with his wife. In the sixteenth of Luke, he must forsake father, & mother, & wife too, to dwell with Christ: For He which forsaketh father or mother for me, shall receive more, saith our Saviour.¹ Nay, He which doth not hate father, or mother, or wife for me, can not be my Disciple. Showing, that our love toward God should be so great, that in respect of it, our love towards men should seem but hatred. Thus he which obeyed his parents more than we, yet would have some rule, some sentence, some example in Scripture of not obeying them too, because it is such a hard point, to know how far they are to be obeyed, which are set in authority over us.

In the nineteenth of Mathew, A man must forsake his father & his mother, to dwel with his wife. In the sixteenth of Luke, he must forsake father, & mother, & wife too, to dwel with Christ: For He which forsaketh father or mother for me, shall receiue more, saith our Sauiour.¹ Nay, He which doth not hate father, or mother, or wife for me, can not be my Disciple. Shewing, that our loue toward God should be so great, that in respect of it, our loue towards men should seeme but hatred. Thus he which obeyed his parents more than we, yet would haue some rule, some sentence, some example in Scripture of not obeying them too, because it is such a hard point, to know how farre they are to be obeyed, which are set in authoritie ouer vs.

1. 1Luk. 14. 26.

As none but God speaks always aright, so none but God must always be obeyed: we are not called only the sons of men, but we are called the sons of God. ¹Therefore, as Christ answered his mother, when she would have him turn water into wine, Woman, what have I to do with thee?