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The way for a people to live long in the land that God hath…
The way for a people to live long in the land that God hath given them. A sermon preached before His Excellency, the governor, the Honoured Council and Assembly of the province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England, on the 26. of May 1703. At the election of Her Majesties Council there. / By Solomon Stoddard, A.M. and Pastor of Northampton.The way for a people to live long in the land that God hath given them. A sermon preached before His Excellency, the governour, the Honoured Council and Assembly of the province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England, on the 26. of May 1703. At the election of Her Majesties Council there. / By Solomon Stoddard, A.M. and Pastor of Northampton.
Boston: printed by Bartholomew Green and John Allen for Benj. Eliot, 1703
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.
Quest. 1. Who are meant by Father and Mother?
A. Nextly natural Parents: But the words are not to be limited to them, they are particularly instanced in: but all Superiors are comprehended; for other Superiors are called Fathers in the Scripture: 2 King. 5. 13. 2 King. 2. 12. And there is an honour due to them, which is required in this Commandment.
A. Nextly natural Parents: But the words are not to be limited to them, they are particularly instanced in: but all Superiours are comprehended; for other Superiours are called Fathers in the Scripture: 2 King. 5. 13. 2 King. 2. 12. And there is an honour due to them, which is required in this Commandment.
Quest. 2. What is the Honour here required?