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Disobedience of children also toward their parents & tutors, hath ever been reprehended among all nations. God commandeth and saith: Thou shalt honour thy father & thy mother. Now doth the ¹obedience or disobedience of the children at no time de clare it self more than in contracting of wedlock. Greater honour canst thou not show unto thy parents, than when thou followest them herein: neither greater dishonour than when thou herein resistest them. Esau displeased his parents very sore, in taking his wife without their consent. Jacob followed their mind & was commē dead. This commandment also of honouring our parents, did our Lord Christ right faithfully, commit unto us. Math. xv. In the. vii. of Deu. doth God give this charge unto his people say enge: You shall not marry your sons & dough ters to the unbelievers. By the which words we may well understand, that the authority of marrying young folks, lieth in the parents & not in them selves, Wherefore Abraham before the law charged his servant Elieser, that concerning ⟨image 30⟩the contracting of marriage between Isaac & Rebecca he should do his message with Bathuell and not specially with Rebecca her self. The servant also did his errand to the parents and not to the daughter, although he found her alone without by the well side (and had time, place and occasion sufficient so to do. This law did Sampson observe. Judicū. xiiii. For though he had found & spied a damsel that ²pleased him, yet he toke her not, but first showed his parents, brought them with him unto her & toke her with the knowledge and consent of his father and mother.

Diso bediēce of chyldrē also toward theyr parentes & tutours, hath euer bene reprehended among all naciōs. God cōmasideth and sayth: Thou shalte honour thy father & thy mother. Nowe doth the ¹obediēce or disobediēce of ye chyldrē at no time de clare it selfe more than in contractynge of wedlocke. Greater honour canst thou not shew vnto thy parentes, than whan thou followest thē herein: neyther greater dishonoure than whan thou herein resistest them. Esau displeased hys parētes very sore, in takyng his wyfe wtout their cōsent. Iacob followed theyr mynd & was cōmē ded. This commaundement also of honouryng our parētes, dyd our Lord Christright faythful ly, cōmit vnto vs.