A guide to godliness or a Treatise of a Christian life showing the dutiesA guide to godlynesse or a Treatise of a Christian life shewing the duties

WE have more largely entreated of charity, righteousness, and sobriety, as those general virtues and duties, which comprise in them the whole sum of the second Table, because we would more briefly touch the particular duties which under them are contained, referring the Reader unto such Catechisms and Common places of divinity as handle them more fully and perfectly, especially to those exact Tables upon the Commandments, lately published by the right reverend, and my most honoured and dear brother, from whose full and living fountain, I have in a great part derived these streams: Not that I take any pleasure in doing that again, which was much better done before, but because this Treatise of a godly life should have been maimed, if I had not in some manner handled the main parts and principal duties required unto it; and I could add no more unto that exact abstract in so short a discourse, then light unto the Sun, by setting up a dim shining candle; nor alter the method and manner of it, unless I could have been content for varieties sake to have made it worse, and to go out of the right way, because I would not travail in the beaten path. The duties and virtues then required, and the vices and sins forbidden in the second Table, are either peculiar to superiors and inferiors in the fifth Commandment, or common to all in the five other. The duties and virtues required in the fifth Commandment, are, either common to all superiors and inferiors; or peculiar to the divers sorts of them. The general duties belonging to all superiors, are first to approve themselves worthy of honour, both in respect of their own virtues and good parts, & also in their carriage towards their inferiors; and as they desire the honour of parents, so to perform the duties which belong unto them. Secondly, to behave themselves moderately,