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…

2 Children ought to express their obedience to their Parents, in hearkening to their good instructions. It being the duty of Parents to instruct their children, it must needs be the duty of children to hearken unto, and to obey their good instructions, which Solomon much presseth upon children.¹ My Son, saith he, hear the instruction of thy Father, and forsake not the Law of thy Mother. Where he doth not only command children to obey the wholesome instructions of their Fathers, but doth likewise insinuate, that they should not sleight and reject the advice of a Mother, because of the weakness of her sex. As children ought to hearken to the good instruction of their Parents in all things, so more especially in two things.

2 Children ought to express their obedience to their Parents, in hearkning to their good instructions. It being the duty of Parents to instruct their children, it must needs be the duty of children to hearken unto, and to obey their good instructions, which Solomon much presseth upon children.¹ My Son, saith hee, hear the instruction of thy Father, and forsake not the Law of thy Mother. Where hee doth not only command children to obey the wholesome instructions of their Fathers, but doth likewise infinuate, that they should not sleight and reject the advice of a Mother, because of the weakness of her sex. As children ought to hearken to the good instruction of their Parents in all things, so more especially in two things.

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