A Body of Practical Divinity

(2.) Obedience to Parents is shown in subscribing to their Commands. A Child should be the Parents Echo: When the Father speaks, the Child should Echo back Obedience. The Rechabites were forbidden by their Father to drink Wine, and they did obey him, and were commended for it, Jer. 35.6. And Children must obey their Parents [Greek or Hebrew], in all things, Col. 3.20. Things that are more against the Grain, and which they have some Reluctancy to, yet they must obey their Parents. Esau would obey his Father, when he commanded him to fetch him Venison, because it is probable he took pleasure in hunting; but refused to obey him in a matter of greater Concernment, namely, in the Choice of a Wife. But tho Children must obey their Parents in all things, yet ^*restringitur ad licita & honesta, it is with this Limitation, Things just and honest. Obey in the Lord, Ephes. 6.1. That is, so ⟨p. 355⟩far as the Commands of Parents agree with, and are consonant to Gods Commands. If they command against God, here they lose their Right of being obeyed, and in this Case we must unchild our selves.

(2.) Obedience to Parents is shown in subscribing to their Commands. A Child should be the Parents Eccho: When the Father speaks, the Child should Eccho back Obedience. The Rechabites were forbidden by their Father to drink Wine, and they did obey him, and were commended for it, Ier. 35.6. And Children must obey their Parents 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, in all things, Col. 3.20. Things that are more against the Grain, and which they have some Reluctancy to, yet they must obey their Parents. Esau would obey his Father, when he commanded him to fetch him Venison, because it is probable he took pleasure in hunting; but refused to obey him in a matter of greater Concernment, namely, in the Choice of a Wife. But tho Children must obey their Parents in all things, yet