The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved

7. In matter of duty and obedience; We must give that honour to our Parents, which we would expect from our Children; and pay that reverence to Masters, which we would exact from our Servants; We must rise up before the grey head, and give respect to old Age? For let not us think, but that the change of Relation, and of Age will have the same effect upon us, which it hath upon the rest of the World: It is a folly to talk, that when we are Old, we shall be pleased with the insolencies of Youth; when we are Masters, we shall not be at all offended with the contemptuous carriage of our Servants; that it will not touch our hearts, to have our Children undutiful, and void of respect, to see the fruit of our body, unnatural and unkind to us.

7. In matter of duty and obedience; Wee must give that honour to our Parents, which wee would expect from our Children; and pay that reverence to Masters, which wee would exact from our Servants; Wee must rise up before the gray head, and give respect to old Age? For let not us think, but that the change of Relation, and of Age will have the same effect upon us, which it hath upon the rest of the World: It is a folly to talk, that when wee are Old, wee shall be pleased with the insolencies of Youth; when wee are Masters, wee shall not be at all offended with the contemptuous carriage of our Servants; that it will not touch our hearts, to have our Children undutiful, and void of respect, to see the fruit of our body, unnatural and unk•nde to us.

8. In matters of freedom and liberty; Which are not determined by any natural or positive Law, we must permit as much to others, as we assume to our selves; and this is a sign of an equal, and temperate person and one that justly values his own understanding and power. But there is nothing wherein men usually deal more unequally with one another, than in indifferent opinions and practices of Religion; I account that an indifferent opinion which good men differ about, not that such an opinion is indifferent as to truth or error, but as to salvation or damnation, it is not of necessary belief; By an indifferent practice in Religion, I mean that which is in its own nature, neither a duty, nor a sin to do or omit. Where I am left free, I would not have any mn to rob me of my liberty, or intrench upon my freedom, and because he is satisfied, such a thing is lawful, and fit to be done, expect I should do it, who think it otherwise, or because he is confident such an opinion is true, be angry with me, because I cannot believe as fast as he. Now if another do ill, in doing thus to me, I cannot do well in doing so to another. And do not say that thou art sure thou art in the right, and he that differs from thee in the wrong, and therefore thou mayest impose upon him, though he may not upon thee; hath not every man this confidence of his own opinion and practice, and usually the weakest cause bears up with the greatest confidence; now if thou wouldest not have another that is confident