A65285:2287
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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, &c.
If we are not just we cannot be holy. Having shown you how Servants are to honour their Masters, the Fathers of Families, I shall next show how Masters are to carry it towards their Servants, that they may gain Honour from them.
1. In General. Masters must remember that they have a Master in Heaven, who will call them to Account. Eph. 6.9. Knowing, that your Master is also in Heaven.
2. More Particularly.
(1.) Masters must have a care to provide for their Servants: As they cut them out Work, so they must give them their Meat in due season,