126. Quest. What is the general Scope of the Fifth ommandment ?T Anfw. The general Scope of the Fifth Commandment, is the performance of thofe Duties which e mutually owe in our feveral Relations, as Inriors, Superiors, or Equals *. 127. Queft. What is the Honour that Inferiors owe their Superiors? Anfw. The Honour which Inferiors owe to their uperiors, is all due Reverence in Heart', Word nd Behaviour"; Prayer and Thanksgiving for hem; Imitation of their Virtues and Grats; willing Obedience to their Lawful ComAmands onour 126. Eph. 5. 21. Submitting our felves one to another in the ar of God. I Pet. 2. 17. Honour I men. Love the brotherhood. ar God. Honour the king. Rem. 10. Be kindly affectioned one to nother with brotherly love, in preferring one another. 127. Mal, 1.6. A fon honoureth father,and a fervant his master: If en I be a father, where is mine onour and if I be a mafter, where my fear? faith the Lord of hosts to you, O priefts, that defpife my ame: and ye fay, Wherein have e defpifed thy name? Lev. 19.3. fhall fear every man his mother d his father, and keep my fabaths: I am the Lord your God. Prov. 31. 28. Her children arife P. Heb. 13. 7. Remember them P and call her bleffed; her huf- which have the rule over you, who and also, and he praiseth her. I Pet. have spoken unto you the word of 6. Even as Sarah obeyed Abra- God whofe faith follow,confidering am,calling him lord:whofe daugh- the end of their converfation. Phil. rs ye are as long as ye do well, and 3. 17. Brethren, be followers togere not afraid with any amaze- ther of me, and mark them which walk fo, as ye have us for an en before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the Lord. 1 Kings 2. 19. Bathsheba therefore went unto king Solomon, to speak, unto him for Adonijah; and the king rofe up to meet her, and bowed himself unto her, and fat down on his throne, and caufed a feat to be fet for the kings mother; and fhe fat on his right hand. ent. • 1 Tim. 2. 1. Fexhort therefore, that first of all, fupplications, prayers, interceffions, and giving of thanks be made for all men: v.2. For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honefty... * Lev. 19. 32. Thou shalt rife up fample. mands and Counfels ; due Sabmiffion to their Corrections; Fidelity to, Defence and main tam A Eph. 6.1. Children, obey your and fubmit your felves: for the parents in the Lord: for this is right.. watch for your fouls, as they 7.2. Honour thy father and mo- must give account: that they m ther, which is the first command- do it with joy, and not with gi ment with promise. v. 5. Servants, for that is unprofitable for be obedient to them that are your Prov. 4. 3. For I was my fathers mafters according to the flesh, with tender and only beloved in thei fear and trembling, infingleness of of my mother. v. 4. Heraught your heart, as unto Chrift: v. 6. alfo, and faid unto me, Le Not with eye-fervice, as men-plea- heart retain my words: keep fers, but as the fervants of Chrift, commandments and live. doing the will of God from the 23, 22, Hearken unto thy fathe heart; v.7. With good will doing that begat thee, and defpife not fervice, as to the Lord, and not to mother when the is old. Ed. 1 men. Pet. 2. 13. Submit your 19. Hearken now unto my voice, felves to every ordinance of man will give thee counfel, and God for the Lords fake: whether it be be with thee. v. 24. So Mofes heat to the king, as fupreme; v. 14. Or ned to the voice of his father in la unto governors, as unto them that and did all that he had faid. are fent by him for the punishment Heb. 19! Furthermore, of evil-doers, and for the praife of have had fathers of our fleh, them that do well. Rom. 13.1. Let corrected us, and we gave every foul be fubject unto the higher verence: shall we not much ra powers. For there is no power but be in fubjection unto the Father of God; the powers that be, are fpirits, and live? 1 Per. 2.18. S ordained of Gods u. 2. Whofgever vants, be subject to your mat therefore refifteth the power, re- with all fear, not only to the fiftech the ordinance of God: and and gentle, but also to the fro they that refift thall receive to then- v. 19. For this is thank-worthy, felves damnation. For rulers a man for confcience toward God are not a terror to good works, but endure grief, fuffering wrong to the evil. Wilt thou then not be v. 26. For what glory is it, if vie afraid of the power? do that which ye be buffeted for your faults, is good, and thou shalt have praife shall take it patiently? but if when of the fame: v.4. For he is the mi- do well,and fuffer for it,ye taken nifter of God to thee for good. But tiently; this is acceptable with G if thou do that which is evil, be Tit. 2. 9. Exhort fervants to tafraid; for he beareth not the fword obedient unto their own mat in vain for he is the minifter of and to please them well in allthing God, a revenges to exécuté wrath up- not anfwering again. u.10. onchim that doth evils. Where loining, but fhewing all good f fore ye muft needs be fubject, not tysthat they may adorn the do only for wrath, but also for con- of God our Saviour in all things fcience fake. Heb. 13. 17. Obey Sam. 26.15. And David them that have the rule over you, Nor th God tainance of their Perfons and Authority, according to their feveral Ranks and the Nature of their Places: bearing with their Infirmities, and coverng them in Love, that fo they may be an Ho our to them and to their Government*.* one në) 128, Queft the corn The labo › Abner, Art not thou a valiant scripture faith, Thou halt, nok aan? and who is like to thee in Ifthe ox that treadeth out ael? wherefore then haft thou not ept thy lord the king for there worthy of his reward. Gal. 6. 6. Let him that is taught in the word, communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things. Gen. 45. 11. And there will I nourish thee (for yet there are five years of famine) left thou, and thy houfhold, and all that thou haft, come to poverty.Gel. 47. 12. And Jofeph nourished hit father and his brethren, and all his fathers houshold with bread accord ing to their families. me one of the people in to deftroy king thy lord. v.16 This ing is not good that thou haft one: the Lord liveth, ye are orthy to die, becaufe ye have not pt your mafter the Lords anoint 12 Sam. 18. 3. But the people afwered, Thou shalt not go forth: if we flee away, they will not ire for us; neither if half of us e, will they care for us: but now on art worth ten thousand of us : erefore now it is better that thou ccours us out of the city. Efth 12. Andit was found written, that fordecai had told of Bigthana and eresh, two of the kings chamberins, the keepers ofthe door, who bught to lay hand on the king Aha Mat. 22. 21. They fay unto im, Cefars. Then faith he unto tem, Render unto Cefar the things hich are Cefars: and unto God, ie things that are Gods. Rom. 3. 6. For, for this caufe pay you ribute alfo for they are Gods miifters, attending continually upon his very thing. v. 7. Render there. ore to all their dues: tribute to thom tribute is due, custom to whom uftom, fear to whom fear, hoLour to whom honour. Tim, s. 17. Let the elders that rule well, be counted worthy of double honour, efpecially they who labour in the word and doctrine. v, 18. For the WI Per. 2. 18. Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward. Prov. 23. 22. Hearken unto thy father that begatthee, and defpife not thy mo ther when he is old. Gen. 9. 23! And Shem and Japheth took a gar ment and laid it upon both their fhoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their fat ther; and their faces were backward, and they faw not their fathers nakedness. 52 0135 * Pfalm 127.3. Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a migh ty man: fo are children of the youth. vs. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they fhall not be ashamed, but they fhall speak with the enemies in the gate. Prov. 31. 23. Her husband is known in the gates, when he fitteth among the elders of the land, 128, Mas 128. Quest. What are the Sins of Inferiors again their Superiors? on Anfw. The Sins of Inferiors against their Supe riors, are all Neglect of the Duties required toward them; Envying at, Contempt of, and Rebe lion against their Perfons and Places, in the Lawful Counfels, Commands, and Corrections Curfing, Mocking, and all fuch refractory a Abfalom prepared him chariots horses, &c. Exod. 21. 15. And he tharf eth his father or his mother, furely be put to death. 128. Mat. 15. 4. For God commanded, faying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death. v. 5. But ye fay, Whofoever shall fay to his father or his mother, It is a gift by whatso ever thou mightest be profited by me, v.6. And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the command- 1 Sam. 2. 25. ---Notwithtak ment of God of none effect by your tradition. z Numb. 11. 28. And Joshua the fon of Nun, the fervant of Mofes, one of his young men answered and faid, My lord, Mofes, forbid them: v. 29. And Mofes faid unto him, Envieft thou for my fake? Would God that all the Lords people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his Spirit upon the 1 Sam. 8.7. An unto Samuel, F voice of the fay unto th rejected me, th n d 1 Sam. 10. 27. But the childre of Belial faid, How fhall this m fave us? And they despised him, brought him no prefents; bu held his peace. ing they (viz. the fons of Eli) heus ned not unto the voice of the ther, becaufe the Lord would is them. Deut. 21. 18. If a man hura ftubborn and rebellious for, will not obey the voice of his fri or the voice of his mother, when they have chaftned him not hearken unto them: 1 fhall his id hold he ur his ndalous Carriage, as proves a Shame and Difnour to them and their Government ". 129. Quest. What is required of Superiors toward ir Inferiors? k Anfw. It is required of Superiors, according to Power they receive from God, and that Relan wherein they ftand, to Love, Pray for *, Blefs their Inferiors 1 : to Inftruct", Counsel, Admonish them"; Countenancing, Com curfeth their father, and doth blefs their mother. v. 17. The that mocketh at his father, and ifeth to obey his mother, the as of the valley fhall pick it out, Hthe young eagles shall eat it. Prov. 19. 26. He that wafteth other, and chaseth away his mois a fon that caufeth fhame, bringeth reproach.. 9. Colof.3.19. Husbands,love ewives, and be not bitter against el Tit. 2. 4. That they may the young women to be fober, Betheir hushands, to love their elleren. mend rael, with a loud voice, faying, in Deut. 6. 6. And thefe words which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart. 7.7. And thou shalt teach them diligently unSam, 12. 23. Moreover, as for to thy children, and fhalt talk of God forbid that I fhould fin them when thou fitteft in thine the Lord, in ceafing to pray houfe, and when thou walkeft by teach you the the way, and when thou lyeft down, Job 1. 5. and when thou rifeft up.... 1ys of their Eph. 6. 4. And ye fathers, but I that Job provoker and rofe wrath: b and of nurture tood, and th children to m up in the tion of the ewife ye hufem according ng honour unto the weaker ing heirs togee of life; that not hindered. |