A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved

Against Both these extremes, our Apostle doth here Arm, and fortify gracious Parents, by instructing them, how equally to hold the ⟨p. 152⟩Balance, and Discreetly to manage the reins, and rudder of their Parental Power and Discipline, so as they may not provoke their Children to a just disgust, and wrath on the one side, nor expose themselves to a base contempt, and scorn, on the other. And this he doth,

Against Both these extreams, our Apostle doth here Arm, and fortifie gracious Parents, by instructing them, how equally to hold the ⟨p. 152⟩Ballance, and Discreetly to manage the reins, and rudder of their Parental Power and Discipline, so as they may not provoke their Children to a just disgust, and wrath on the one side, nor expose themselves to a base contempt, and scorn, on the other. And this he doth,

1. By forbidding a Vice. Ye Fathers, provoke not your Children to Wrath, [Greek or Hebrew], ad iram, ad irae exuberantiam ne provocate, ne irritate: q. d. Fathers, I know, your Children are apt to be Vain, rash, foolish, disobedient, stubborn, able to roil the most sedate Spirit, to try the patience of a Job: and 'tis fit, yea necessary, that you admonish, reprove, rebuke, chastise them; but yet take heed, that while though they provoke you to a just displeasure; you, by an unjust abuse of your just authority, in a too strict, rigid, immoderate severity against them, give your offending Children any just occasion of, or urgent temptation to, any sinful anger, or inveterate wrath against you; whilst you are correcting for one sin, do not provoke them to commit another. Whilst you are plucking them out of a gulf, do not dash them against a Rock. Fathers provoke not your Children to wrath. But

1. By forbidding a Vice. Ye Fathers, provoke not your Children to Wrath, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, ad iram, ad irae exuberantiam ne provocate, ne irritate: q. d. Fathers, I know, your Children are apt to be Vain, rash, foolish, disobedient, stubborn, able to roil the most sedate Spirit, to try the patience of a Job: and 'tis fit, yea necessary, that you admonish, reprove, rebuke, chastize them; but yet take heed, that while though they provoke you to a just displeasure; you, by an unjust abuse of your just authority, in a too strict, rigid, immoderate severity against them, give your offending Children any just occasion of, or urgent temptation to, any sinful anger, or inveterate wrath against you; whilst you are correcting for one sin, do not provoke them to commit another. Whilst you are plucking them out of a gulph, do not dash them against a Rock. Fathers provoke not your Children to wrath. But