mending, and Rewarding fuch as do well; and Discountenancing, Reproving, and chastifing fuch as do Ill; Protecting, and Providing for them all thing neceffary for Soul, and Body : And by grave, wife, holy and exemplary Carriage, to pro cure Glory to God, Honour to themselves, and

P1 Pet. 2. 14. Orunto governors, as unto them that are fent by him for the punishment of evil doers, and for the praife ofthem that do well. Rom. 13.3. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil, Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the fame.

Efth. 6. 3. And the king faid, What honour and dignity hath been done to Mordecai for this? Then faid the kings fervants that minifred unto him, There is nothing done for him.

Rom. 13.3. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the

power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praffe of the fame: 7.4. For he is the minifter of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minifter of God, are venger to execute wrath upon him that doth evil.

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robe and a diadem. v.15 I was e to the blind, and feet was I toth lame. v. 16. I was a father to the poor:and the cause which I knew not, I fearched out. v. 17. And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and pluck the spoil out of his teeth. Ifa. 1.10 Hear the word ofthe Lord, ye rules of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah v. 17. Learn to do well, feek judg ment, relieve the oppreffed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow,

Eph. 6. 4. And ye fathers, pro voke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

Tim.5.8. But if any providence for his own, and fpecially for those of his own houfe, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

* 1 Tim.4. 12. Let no man defpe thy youth, but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in con verfation, in charity, in fpirit, in faith, in purity. Tit. 2. 3. The ag women likewife, that they be inbe haviour as becometh holiness, not falfe accufers, not given to much wine,teachers of good things; 4 That they may teach the young women to be fober, to love the husbands, to love their childre v. 5. To be difcreet, chafte, keepers at home, good, obedient to th own husbands, that the word of God

Prov. 29. is. The rod and reproof give wifdom: but a child left to himself, bringeth his mother to fhame. Pet. 2, 14. [See above in P.] *Job 29.12. Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherlefs, and him that had none to help him. v. 13. The bleffing of him that was ready to perish, came upon me: and I caufed the widows heart to fing for be not blafphemed. joy. v.14.I put on righteoufnefs,and it clothed me: my judgment was a

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o to preferve that Authority which God hath put pon them 2.

130. Queft. What are the Sins of Superiors?

Anfw. The Sins of Superiors are, befide the Nelect of the Duties required of them, an inordiate feeking of themselves, their own Glory, Eafe, rofit, or Pleasure ; Commanding Things unlawle, or not in the Power of Inferiors to per

the judgment which the king had dged, and they feared the king: arthey faw that the wifdom of God as in him, to do judgment. Tit. 2. 15. These things fpeak d exhort, and rebuke with all thority. Let no man defpife thee. 130. Ezek. 34. 2. Son of man, ophely against the fhepherds of rael, prophefy, and fay unto them, hus faith the Lord God unto the epherds, Wo be to the fhepherds Ifrael that do feed themfelves: ould not the fhepherds feed the ocks? v.3. Ye eat the fat, and ye othe you with the wooll, ye kill em that are fed but ye feed not he flock. v.4. The difeafed have enot ftrengthned, neither have ye ealed that which was fick, neither ave ye bound up that which was roken, neither have ye brought gain that which was driven away, either have ye fought that which as loft; but with force and with ruelty have ye ruled them.

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Ifa. 56. 10. His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; fleeping, lying down, loving to flumber. v. II. Yea, they are greedy dogs, which can never have enough, and they are fhepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain from his quarter. Deut. 17. 17% Neither fhall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not a way: neither fhall he greatly multiply to himself filver and gold.

• Dan. 3. 4. Then an herauld cried aloud, To you it is commanded, O people, nations, and languages, v.5. That at what time ye hear the found of the cornet, flute, harp, fackbut, pfaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of mufick, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath fet up. v. 6. And whofo falleth not down, and worshippeth, shall the fame hour be caft into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. Acts 4. 17. But that it fpread no further among John s. 44. How can ye believe, the people, let us ftraitly threaten which receive honour one of an- them, that they fpeak henceforth to other, and feek not the honour that no man in this name. v. 18. And cometh from God only? John 7. 18. they called them, and commanded He that fpeaketh of himself, feeketh them not to speak at all, norteach his own glory:but he that feeketh his in the name of Jefus, glory that fent him, the fame is true,

Phil. 2. 21. For all feek their own, not the things which are Jefus Chrifts.

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Wrath"; or any way Dishonouring themselves, or Leffening their Authority, by an unjust, indifcreet, rigorous or remifs Behaviour °.

131. Queft. What are the Duties of Equals? Anfw. The Duties of Equals are, To Regard the Dignity and Worth of each other P, in giving Ho1our to go one before another; and to Rejoice in ach others Gifts and Advancement, as their own. 132. Quest.

e knew her again no more. As 1. 17. Then all the Greeks took ofthenes, the chief ruler of the fyagogue, and beat him before the udgment-feat and Gallio cared or none of those things.

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in faying, Why haft thou done fo?-1 Sam. 2. 29. Wherefore kick ye at my facrifices, and at mine offering which I have commanded in my habitation, and honoureft thy fons above me, to make yourselves fat, with the chiefeft of all the offerings of Ifrael my people? v. 30. Wherefore the Lord God of Ifrael faith, I faid indeed, that thy house, and Gen. 9. 21. And he drank of the the house of thy father should walk vine, and was drunken, and he was before me for ever: but now the ancovered within his tent. I Kings Lord faith, Be it far from me; for 12. 13. And the king (Rehoboam) them that honour me I will honour, anfwered the people roughly, and and they that defpife me, fhall be forfook the old mens counfel that lightly esteemed. v. 31. Behold, they gave him; v. 14. And fpake the days come that I will cut off to them after the counsel of the thine arm, and the arm of thy fayoung men,faying, My father made thers houfe, that there fhall not be your yoke heavy, and I will add to an old man in thine house. your yoke; my father alfo chaftifed you with whips, but I will chastise you with fcorpions. v. 15. Whereforethe king hearkned not unto the 9 Rom. 12.10. Be kindly affectioned people; for the caufe was from the one to another; with brotherly love, Lord,-- v. 16. So when all Ifrael in honour preferring one another. faw that the king hearkned not un- Rom. 12. 15. Rejoice with them to them, the people anfwered the that rejoice, and weep with them king, faying, What portion have that weep. v. 16. Be of the fame

131. PI Pet. 2. 17. Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

we in David? neither have we inhe- mind one towards another. Mind ritance in the fon of Jeffe: to your not high things, but condescend tents, O Ifrael: now fee to thine to men of low eftate. Be not wife own house, David. So Ifrael de- in your own conceits. Phil. 2. 3. parted unto their tents, 1 Kings 1. 6. Let nothing be done through ftrife or And his father had not difpleafed vain glory,bus in lowlinefs of mind, him (viz. Adonijah) at any time, V 3

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132. Queft. What are the Sins of Equals?

Anfw. The Sins of Equals are, befide the Neglect of the Duties required, The Undervaluing of the Worth, Envying the Gifts, Grieving at the Advancement or Profperity one of another" and Ufurping Preeminence one over another *.

133. Quest. What is the Reafon annexed to the Fifth Commandment, the more to enforce it ?

Anfw. The Reason annexed to the Fifth Commandment, in thefe Words, That thy Days may be long upon the Land which the Low thy God giveth thee, is an exprefs Promite of long Life and Profperity, as far as it fhall ferve for God's Glory and their own Good, to all fuch as keep this Commandment ?.

ler each efteem other better than themselves. v. 4. Look not every man on his own things, but every man alfo on the things of others.

132. Rom. 13. 8. Oweno man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another, hath fulfilled the law.

2 Tim. 3. 3. Without natural affection, truce-breakers, falfe accufers, incontinent, fierce, defpifers of thofe that are good.

▾ Acts 7. 9. And the patriarchs moved with envy, fold Jofeph into Egypt: but God was with him. Gal. 5. 26. Let us not be defireous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

w Numb. 12. 2. And they faid, Hath the Lord indeed spoken only by Mofes hath he not spoken alfo by us and the Lord heard it. Efth, 6. 12. And Mordecai came again to the kings gate: but Haman hafted to his houfe, mourning, and having tus head covered; v. 13. And Ha

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mantold Zerefh his wife and all his friends, every thing that had befallen him. Then faid his wife men, and Zerefh his wife unto him, If Mordecai be ofthe feed of the Jews, before whom thou hast begun to fall, thou shalt not prevail againf him, but fhalt furely fall before him.

*3 John 9. I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have preeminence among them, receiveth us not. Luke 22.24. And there was alfo a ftrife among them, which of them fhould be accounted the greatest.

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Deut, s. 16. Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. 1 Kings 8.25. There fore now, Lord God of Ifrael, keep with thy fervant David my father