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Man ashiv le-Yahoweh, or, A serious enquiry for a suitable return for continued life,…
Man ashiv le-Yahoweh, or, A serious enquiry for a suitable return for continued life, in and after a time of great mortality, by a wasting plague (anno 1665) answered in XIII directions / by Tho. Doolittle.Man ashiv le-Yahoweh, or, A serious enquiry for a suitable return for continued life, in and after a time of great mortality, by a wasting plague (anno 1665) answered in XIII directions / by Tho. Doolitel.
London: printed by R.I. for J. Johnson, 1666
DIRECTIONS how to live after a wasting PLAGUE. › Part 4 › Section 17
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
SECTION XVII.
1Secondly, Children, if they would live answerably in their Relation, to so great a Mercy, as is, Gods sparing their Parents, and continuing them unto them, must be careful of filling up the Duties of their Relation: and, the Duty of Children is set down in Col. 3.20. Children, obey your Parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing unto the Lord: In which observe, 1. The Charge, Obedience. 2. The Persons charged; Children, younger, elder, poor or rich. 3. The Persons to whom this obedience is to be given. Parents, Father, Mother. whether Poor, or Rich. 4. The extent of this obedience; In all things. 5. The limiting and enforcing Reason, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord; therefore the all things are to be limited to things lawful, else it would not please the Lord; but, they must in those things, because it pleaseth God.
1Secondly, Children, if they would live answerably in their Relation, to so great a Mercy, as is, Gods sparing their Parents, and continuing them unto them, must be careful of filling up the Duties of their Relation: and, the Duty of Children is set down in Col. 3.20. Children, obey your Parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing unto the Lord: In which observe, 1. The Charge, Obedience. 2. The Persons charged; Children, younger, elder, poor or rich. 3. The Persons to whom this obedience is to be given. Parents, Father, Mother. whether Poor, or Rich. 4. The extent of this obedience; In all things. 5. The limitting and enforcing Reason, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord; therefore the all things are to be limitted to things lawful, else it would not please the Lord; but, they must in those things, because it pleaseth God.
- 1Duties of Children, whom God hath continued to their Parents.