The Fountain of Life Opened

Fifthly, Faithfulness to all their interests is due to them by the natural and positive Law of God. What in you lies, you are bound to promote, not waste and scatter their substance. To assist not to defraud them. Who so robbeth his Father, or Mother, and saith it is no transgression, the same is the companion of a destroyer, Prov. 28.24. This, saith one, as far excels your wronging another as parricide is a greater crime than man-slaughter, or as Reubens incest, was beyond common fornication. God never meant you should grow up about your Parents as suckers about a Tree to impoverish the root.¹ But for a Child out of a covetousness after what his Parents have, secretly to wish their death, is a sin so monstrous, as should not be once named, much less found, among persons professing Christianity. To desire their death from whom you had your life, is unnatural wickedness, to dispose of their Goods, much more of your selves without their consent is (ordinarily) the greatest injustice to them. Children are obliged to defend the Estates and persons of their Parents with the hazard of their own. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man, so are Children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them. They shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemy in the gates, Psal. 127.5.

Fifthly, Faithfulness to all their interests is due to them by the natural and positive Law of God. What in you lies, you are bound to promote, not waste and scatter their substance. To assist not to defraud them. Who so robbeth his Father, or Mother, and saith it is no transgression, the same is the companion of a destroyer, Prov. 28.24. This, saith one, as far excells your wronging another as parricide is a greater crime than man-slaughter, or as Reubens incest, was beyond common fornication. God never meant you should grow up about your Parents as suckers about a Tree to impoverish the root.¹ But for a Child out of a covetousness after what his Parents have, secretly to wish their death, is a sin so monstrous, as should not be once named, much less found, among persons professing Christianity. To desire their death from whom you had your life, is unnatural wickedness, to dispose of their Goods, much more of your selves without their consent is (ordinarily) the greatest injustice to them. Children are obliged to defend the Estates and persons of their Parents with the hazard of their own. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man, so are Children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them. They shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemy in the gates,