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but if the father and mother have once given this witness, Behold, this our son will not be amended: by and by thereupon let him be stoned (sayeth he,) and let the world be rid of such an infection. Gods saying so, is too show us, that it is too outrageous & horrible a crime, when children cannot find in their hearts too yield submission too their fathers and mothers: for it is all one as if they were full bent too abolish the whole order of nature. That therefore is the end that we must begin at, to profit our selves well by this doctrine.

but if the father and moother haue once giuen this witnesse, Behold, this our sonne will not bee amended: by and by thereuppon let him bee stoned (sayeth he,) and let the world bee rid of such an infection. Gods saying so, is too shewe vs, that it is tootoo outrageous & horrible a cryme, when children cannot fynd in their hartes too yeeld submission too their fathers and moothers: for it is al one as if they were full bent too abolish the whole order of nature. That therfore is the end that wee must begin at, to profit our selues well by this doctrine.

And the same also is the cause why Saint Paul sayeth, that we ought too be subject too our fathers and mothers in God: meaning thereby, that the thing which the Paynims and unbelievers conceive darkly, ought to• be much better known unto us. For the Paynims wi•t not well, how too yield a reason why children ought too yield this subjection and obedience too their fathers and mothers, saving that it appeared that there is a certain equity and right that required it, and that that was the reason. But as for too […] too this ground of the matter, that God is our father, and that he requireth this subjection at our hands: that could they not do. And why? For they knew not whether there were a God that created and fashioned them, or no. But we which know that God who is our Creator, is also our father, and that too be so, belongeth unto him, and that he hath reserved that honour and dignity too himself: and again, that he will have fathers and mothers too be also partakers of that privilege: we must of necessity conclude, that we ought too obey our fathers and mothers, ye even in God, as though he received at our hands the honour and service which we do to them that represent his person and majesty here (as I said afore,) which is despised in the stubbornness and disobedience of children too their fathers and mothers.