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A second thing wherein children must obey their parents is in bearing their admonitions and corrections. As it is often said in the proverbs. Despise not the correction of thy father nor contemn not the admonition of thy mother. Set not light by them, but weigh them and consider well of them in thine heart. Now the child is bound to obey his father, as in doing the things commanded, so in suffering his rebukes and chastisement. Because it is a duty lying upon the soul of the father and commanded unto him from God; and secondly, because it is a testimony of his fathers love to him, for he that spareth the rod hates the child; but he that loves him corrects him betime. And then correction is a means of their salvation and keeps them from hell, for foolishness is bound to the heart of the child, it is tied there as with a cord or rather chained; so that nothing will make a separation but the rod of correction, that will part them, and he that is not corrected, is a fool and so shall continue still. Because then it is the fathers duty, and a token of his love and a means of the good of the child, he must suffer it patiently and humbly, and ⟨image 105⟩not only so, but he must see that he profit by it, and make a good use of it; for else he makes his father take much pains and undergo a great deal of grief in vain, and to no purpose; and therefore not profiting by correction is guilty of contemning Gods ordinance. This serves for the reproof of such children as are sour and angry at the admonition or correction of their parents, that although they be fond and light headed, and have neither experience nor knowledge, yet think they can tell how to carry themselves well enough, and scorn to be admonished or told of a fault. but of such that is verified that the wise men faith, a fool is wiser in his own conceit then ten men that render a reason. But for these parsons that pout and swell thus at an admonition, the best course that can be taken with the is, to beat out that pride by sharp correction. For this makes them so audacious when words are given unto them, because they have not been soundly and throughly corrected.

A second thinge wherein children must obey their parents is in bearing their admonitions and corrections. As it is often said in the prouerbs. Despise not the correction of thy father nor contemne not the admonition of thy mother. Set not light by them, but weigh them and consider well of them in thine heart. Nowe the childe is bound to obey his father, as in doing the thinges commanded, so in suffering his rebukes and chasticement. Because it is a dutie lying vpon the soule of the father and commanded vnto him from God; and secondly, because it is a testimonie of his fathers loue to him, for hee that spareth the rod hates the childe; but he that loues him corrects him betime. And then correction is a meanes of their saluation and keepes them from hell, for foolishnesse is bound to the heart of the childe, it is tyed there as with a corde or rather chayned; so that nothing will make a seperation but the rod of correction, that will part them, and he that is not corrected, is a foole and so shall continue still. Because then it is the fathers dutie, and a token of his loue and a meanes of the good of the childe, he must suffer it patiently and humbly, and