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

Observe we here the Apostles prudence. Having vers. 1, 2, 3. allotted to Children their share, viz. Obedience — Children obey your Parents in the Lord, and backed it both with divine Precept, and Promise; the just consequence seems to require, that he should have invested the Parents with Command, and Government for their Portion; but he fairly waves that, and as supposing, he had sufficiently sixth the Parents Authority, by putting their Children under the yoke of Obedience, he now consults the child's interest, or rather the mutual comfort both of Parent and Child, by advising Parents, to use the Power, that God had given them, moderately and tenderly; on the one hand, he sweetens the Obedience of the Child; on the other, tempers the Authority of the Parent. That the precept of Obedience may not fright the Child, nor the Prerogative of Power swell the Parent, let them both know; The child, that he is in subjection and must obey, but then 'tis his Father, who either doth or should love him: and the Father, that he hath Authority, and may command, but whom? 'Tis his Child, whom he must govern with that tenderness as not in the least to provoke. Thus by forbidding a Vice.

Observe we here the Apostles prudence. Having vers. 1, 2, 3. allotted to Children their share, viz. Obedience — Children obey your Parents in the Lord, and backt it both with divine Precept, and Promise; the just consequence seems to require, that he should have invested the Parents with Command, and Government for their Portion; but he fairly waves that, and as supposing, he had sufficiently fixt the Parents Authority, by putting their Children under the yoke of Obedience, he now consults the childs interest, or rather the mutual comfort both of Parent and Child, by advising Parents, to use the Power, that God had given them, moderately and tenderly; on the one hand, he sweetens the Obedience of the Child; on the other, tempers the Authority of the Parent. That the precept of Obedience may not fright the Child, nor the Prerogative of Power swell the Parent, let them both know; The child, that he is in subjection and must obey, but then 'tis his Father, who either doth or should love him: and the Father, that he hath Authority, and may command, but whom? 'Tis his Child, whom he must govern with that tenderness as not in the least to provoke. Thus by forbidding a Vice.