A39662:1693
An exposition of the assemblies catechism with practical inferences from each question as it…
An exposition of the assemblies catechism with practical inferences from each question as it was carried on in the Lords Days exercises in Dartmouth, in the first year of liberty, 1688 / by John Flavell.
London: printed for Tho. Cockerill, 1692
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.
Q 1. What Relatives are directly and more especially concerned in this fi•th Commandment?
A. All Superiors and Inferiors are concerned in it: Especially (1.) Political Fathers and their Children; that is, Kings and Subjects: Mark 11.10. Blessed be the kingdom of our father David, &c. (2.) Spiritual Fathers and their Children; that is, Ministers and their People: 1 Cor. 4 15. For though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: ⟨p. 134⟩for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel. (3.) Natural Parents and their Children; Ephes. 6.1. Children obey your parents in the Lord. (4.) All Civil Superiors and Inferiors, as Husbands and Wives, Masters and Servants; Ephes. 5.22. Wives submit your selves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. And Ephes. 6.5. Servants be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh. &c.
A. All Superiours and Inferiours are concerned in it: Especially (1.) Political Fathers and their Children; that is, Kings and Subjects: Mark 11.10. Blessed be the kingdom of our father David, &c. (2.) Spiritual Fathers and their Children; that is, Ministers and their People: 1 Cor. 4 15. For though you have ten thousand instr•cters in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: