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Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…
Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of Sepulchres parish / by Tho. Gouge ...Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of Sepulchres parish / by Tho. Gouge ...
London: printed by R. Ibbitson and M. Wright, 1661
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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.
1 By a cheerful yielding to their Precepts and Commands, readily doing what they require of them, and that for conscience sake, even to the command of God, who requireth this duty at their hands; for saith the Apostle, Children obey your Parents in all things, 1for this is well-pleasing to the Lord. And again, Children obey your Parents in the Lord, 2for this is right. In the former place,3 it is in all things. In the latter, it is in the Lord; whereby is implied, that Children's Obedience must be in all things honest and lawful, agreeable to the Word of God; so that if their Parents should command them to do any thing contrary to the Word of God, they must therein obey God, and not their Parents. For children are no further bound to obey their earthly Parents, than may stand with obedience to God their heavenly Father.
1 By a cheerful yeelding to their Precepts and Commands, readily doing what they require of them, and that for conscience sake, even to the command of God, who requireth this duty at their hands; for saith the Apostle, Children obey your Parents in all things, 1for this is well-pleasing to the Lord. And again, Children obey your Parents in the Lord, 2for this is right. In the former place,3 it is in all things. In the latter, it is in the Lord; whereby is implied, that Childrens Obedience must be in all things honest and lawful, agreeable to the Word of God; so that if their Parents should command them to do any thing contrary to the Word of God, they must therein obey God, and not their Parents. For children are no further bound to obey their earthly Parents, than may stand with obedience to God their heavenly Father.