A65285:2258
A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
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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.
EXOD. XX.12. Honour thy Father and thy Mother, that thy Days may be long upon the Land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Having done with the First Table, I am next to speak of the Duties of the Second Table. The Commandments may be likened to Jacob's Ladder: The First Table, as the Top of the Ladder, reacheth to Heaven, it respects God. The Second Table, as the Foot of the Ladder, rests on the Earth; it respects Superiors and Inferiors. By the First Table we walk Religiously towards God, by the Second we walk Righteously towards Man. He cannot be good in the First Table, that is bad in the Second. Honour thy Father and thy Mother.
Having done with the First Table, I am next to speak of the Duties of the Second Table. The Commandments may be likened to Iacob's Ladder: The First Table, as the Top of the Ladder, reacheth to Heaven, it respects God. The Second Table, as the Foot of the Ladder, rests on the Earth; it respects Superiors and Inferiors. By the First Table we walk Religiously towards God, by the Second we walk Righteously towards Man. He cannot be good in the First Table, that is bad in the Second. Honour thy Father and thy Mother.
In this, 1. A Command, Honour thy Father and thy Mother.