Certain disputations of right to sacraments, and the true nature of visible Christianity defending…

2. By Parents we mean principally Natural Parents, those who begat those Infants; but secondarily also (as I suppose) those that have Adopted them, or bought them, or received them as given or delivered to them, so that they any way become Their Own, and they have the dispose of them, and are enabled to enter them into Covenant, so as to oblige them on the highest terms; Though I know it is not properly that these are called Parents; The word [Parent] is primarily applicable to the Mother only, as not being à Parendo, but à Pariendo, and thence to the Father also, because of the Relation between Gigno & Pario; and so [Greek or Hebrew] is sometime used for Genero. And though the word [Parens] be not usually applied to those that Adopt, yet Pater is: And not unfitly, if, as some suppose, the word [Greek or Hebrew] came from [Greek or Hebrew], alo, to nourish; for so men may do by children that are any way their own. But it is only the immediate Parents that we here mean; though Festus saith, that Juris prudentes avos & proavos, avias & proavias parentum nomine appellari dicunt. And though the word Parens be sometime taken pro Consanguineo: And Hierom saith advers. Ruffin. lib. 2. That militari vulgaríque consuetudine cognati & assines nominantur Parents. But of this more anon.

2. By Parents we mean principally Natural Parents, those who begat those Infants; but secondarily also (as I suppose) those that have Adopted them, or bought them, or received them as given or delivered to them, so that they any way become Their Own, and they have the dispose of them, and are enabled to enter them into Covenant, so as to oblige them on the highest terms; Though I know it is not properly that these are called Parents; The word [Parent] is primarily applicable to the Mother only, as not being à Parendo, but à Pariendo, and thence to the Father also, because of the Relation between Gigno & Pario; and so 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 is sometime used for Genero. And though the word [Parens] be not usually applied to those that Adopt, yet Pater is: And not unfitly, if, as some suppose, the word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 came from 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, alo, to nourish; for so men may do by children that are any way their own. But it is only the immediate Parents that we here mean; though Festus saith, that Juris prudentes avos & proavos, avias & proavias parentum nomine appellari dicunt. And though the word Parens be sometime taken pro Consanguineo: And Hierom saith advers. Ruffin. lib. 2. That militari vulgaríque consuetudine cognati & assines nominantur Parentes. But of this more anon.