d Ap. 13. 10 if any kill with a sword hee must bee killed by a sword If a man did smite his seruant that he died vnder his hand though among the Romanes such a master went free because he bought his seruant with his money yet because the life is more worth then money God will not free him e Ex. 21. 20 puniendo punietur hee shall be surely punished If men did striue and hurt a woman with childe though there were no intent to kill either the mother or the child f Ex. 21. 22. yet if death followed life should be paid for life A man would thinke it had been no great matter if he had killed a theefe that should come and vndermine his house or breake it vppe but yet if this were done in the day time by the iudiciall law of Moses g Ex. 22. 2. hee that did it must dye for it a Deu. 21. 1 If one were found slaine in the field and he not knowne that committed the murther the next City should beare the blame should offer sacrifice protest before God that they were cleere of that fact desire God to be mercifull to them and not lay innocent bloud vnto their charge If a man did not lay waite for bloud but had b Ex. 21. 14. killed any vnawares he might take Sanctuary and flie to the Altar but if he had killed any wilfully the holynes of the place should not defend him and therefore Salomon biddeth Benaiah to smite Iâ—ab because he smote two men more righteous and better then he and slew them with the sword though c 1 Kin. 2. 28 Ioab had caught hold on the hornes of the Altar God would take vengeance on d Gen. 9. 5. beasts generally for the life of man particularly e Ex. 21. 28 the goaring Oxe that killed any should be stoned to death to shew that beastly minded man should not goe vnpunished who sheds his brothers bloud like water who oppresseth him round about for his soule and causeth his head to goe downe to the graue with bloud The lawes of other Nations as well as Gods lawe to the Iewes doe meete with this sinne and cutting them off from other men rewards them to their face to bring them to destruction which lift vp their hands against other to destroy them To let passe forraigne Countries in our land if a man did run into a premunire he should be put out of the Kings protection his lands goods and cattles forfaited to the King but yet there was a law made Eliz 1o. against such as should slea euen such a man as was attainted in premunire King Richard the first making orders for sea-faring men ordained that if one slew an other on the shippe-boarde he should be bound to the dead body and throwne into the sea if on the land he should be bound to him and buried with him quicke The land is clensed of the bloud that is shed in it by the bloud of him that shed it and therefore the statute law takes away all murderers like drosse walking more stubbornly and taking greater vengeance on those which shall imbrue their hands in the bloud of them to whom by nature or duty they are most bound by nature as if a woman since her husband and shee are one flesh shall kill her husband shee shall be accounted a paricide by the Ciuill law and by the Statute of the land a traitor and be punished accordingly by duty as if a seruant kill his master it is petie treason if one kill any Iudge sitting in his place it is high treason and such a man shall drinke more depely of the cuppe of vengeance but let one sâ—ay a man bee he neuer so meane feloniously his least punishment is suspension his death-bed is the gallowes say he doth escape and be not taken then the Towne where the murder is committed shal be amerced say the matter be compounded yet God himselfe will take the matter into his owne hand his vengeance by iustice shall waite his destruction that doth commit it he will euen set his face against the person and will cut him off from among his people for sometime he stirreth vp f Gen 6. 9. some other man to shed the bloud of him thar sheddeth bloud and therefore g GeÌ„ 4. 14 Cain is afraid that euery man that findeth him will slay him That valiant Hercules did cast Diâ—medes King of Thrace who fedde his horse with mens flesh to horses to bee deuoured Perillus was inforced to make tryall how his brasen Bull would roare and when the Tyrant Phalaris had burned many in it his owne Citizens falling vpon him put him into the same Bull and made him end his life with like kinde of death It is remarkable how the Duke of Burgundy dealt with a murderer A cruell minded man had taken a noble man prisoner his wife whose heart did cleaue vnto her husband was an earnest suiter for his life that no hand might be vpon him to put him to death the cut-throate answered if he might goe vp to her bed imbrace her bosome take his fill of loue and his pleasure in dalliance he would set her husband at liberty shee thought it were as death to her to breake her faith plighted in marriage yet so great was her loue that shee did deliberate and first craued leaue to confer with her husband who though this thing were grieuous vnto him because of his wife yet gaue her leaue that he might haue his deliuerance the deed done and this varlet hauing lyen with her fleshly and vsed her at his pleasure he notwithstanding the next day chopt off her husbands head and sent it vnto her whereupon shee complained to the Duke who sent for him compelled him to marry her that so she might challenge a right in his possessions and then causing him to drinke of the same cup cut off his head It is true that the Psalmist saith a Ps 5 5. 23 the bloud-thirsty man shall not liue out halfe his daies one dies fettered in prison another scalded in the brothel house many in warre when the land of the enemies doth eate them licke them vp as an Oxe lieketh vp grasse of the field when their enemies chase them as Bees vse to doe so that they cannot stand in the day of battaile but their carcasses fall to the earth and cannot escape thus the roaring of the Lyon the voyce of the Lyonesse and the teeth of the Lyons whelpes are broken This made Rebecâ—ah speaking of Esau and Iacob to say b Gen. 27. 45. Why should I be depriued of you both in one day not thinking that Iacob being of a gentle disposition would rise vp against his brother Esau and so they kill one another but her meaning was that if Iacob did not auoid the countrey Esau considering that Iacob had the birthright and the blessing would kill him then some iudgement of God would
reason 60. greater in some then in others 27. 65. Family housholders see their families well ordered 179. 203. pay their seruants wages 285. and performe other duties required 312. Fasting fishdaies why appointed 9. the body not to bee too much pinched 41. 256. 278. Feare whom to feare and whom and what not 46. 47. Flattery smootheth the vnworthy 299. no care to be giuen vnto it and why 300. Foruication finable at Rome 10. not so great a sin as adultery 259 262. Friendship no league of friendship to be made with idolaters 132. how all things common among friends 315. G Gaming gamesters giuen to swearing 148. not to be made an occupation 287. Gentiles made one people with the Iewes 14. 237. Gesture a reuerend gesture to be vsed in the seruice of God 4. 118. 119. malice and anger not to be shewed by gesture 255. 303. Gluttony gluttons make their belly their God 41. to be restrained 275. 279. it shorteneth life 244 God in God power and mercy goe together 11. iustice and mercy 67. 76. best acquainted with mercy 136. filleth all places 12. 71. 94. seeth all things 35. 66. 71. 89. his especiall properties 47. his image not to be made 88 no respecter of persons 127. 181 despised in his Ministers 214. must haue his titles 166. Gospell the law first to be preached then the Gospell 138. 214. Gouernment or dained by God 136. 205. a Monarchy the best gouernment 206. H Hatred malice would dispatch him whom it hates 257. Hearing preparation before hearing 4. 176. attention in hearing 3. 177. 216. meditation after hearing 6. 177. conference praier 178. a wanton care to be stopt 271. Heauen a place of rest 184. Hell torments euerlasting 184. Holy daies which to be obserued 105. by whom brought in 106. 111. 112. by whom put downe 106. Holy water the vertue of it 114. Honor vpon whom it is ill bestowed 222. is due to vertue 223. not to stand vpon reputation 249. Hospitality laid downe 279. Husbands must loue their wiues contra 263. 310 none to be bawdes to their owne beds 124. 261. 315. Hypocrytes haue faire shewes 118 but foule hearts 162. I Idolatry came in by the first fall 82 our nature prone to it 76. 86. Aegypt full of it 15. 16. so was Indea 81. so was England 16. 79. so all the world 83. 97 places full of Idolatry to be auoided 18. Idolaters like adulterers 123. spare no cost to set vp Idolatry 43. 77. 79. 97. haters of God 131. Idols the Masse an Idoll 85. the vertue of it 111. Iewes Gods peculiar people 13. 121 237. his spouse 122. Ielosie is the rage of a man 126. Ignorance the mother of superstition 85. Images said to be lay-mens bookes 83. 90. the simple seduced by them 89. may be made for ciuill vses 93. 95. not to be praied to 98. to the suppressed 92. their defacers punished 116. the preparation of the image-maker before he made it 87. not necessary for building Gods Temple 89. Incest permitted by the Pope 11. Inconstancy the inconstant alwaies variable 51. Ingratitude in forgetting Gods blessings 29. 31. Intent good intent no good excuse 134. Iudges to punish offenders 251. to defend the innocent 207. to determine a right ib. first to examine then to punish 70. 295. Iurors to haue a care of their verdict 295. K Kings ordained of God 205. their office 208. honor the King 205 210. but not aboue God 212. the blessing reaped by them 209. Knowledge the more knowledge the more duty expected 80. 86. L Labour man must labour 64. 181 punishment for idlenes 183. the idle man a thiefe 182. 286. Law of nature giues but a dimme light 1. is wrapped vp in three volumes 91. Law maral a directiō for our liues 1. 134. 282. the immediate word of Gods mouth 2. not to be dispensed with 9. enters to the very thoughts 396. 314. Law of the land slandered to defend vsury 282. Lawyers not to defend a bad cause 294. Liberality to whom to be extended 235. 315 rewarded 235. Life sweet 43 237 short 228. that to come to be most reckoned of 230. long life a blessing of God 226. be careful to preserue other mens liues 256. to defend our owne 151. Lying a lyer not beleeued when he sweareth 145. Lots how vsed how abused 248. Loue God 123. more then kinred 36. then substance 37. then life 44. then credit 146. Loue and feare concurre in the godly 46. loue one another 257. the nature of loue 257 315 316. not vncharitable in censures 304. Lust sin 270. to be weeded out 270 310 313. enters by the eye 271 restrained 263. M Marriage ordained for a remedy against sin 261. to be made with equals 122. with consent of parents 197. not with idolaters 132 165. what respected in marriages 122 196. what priuiledges second marriages are barred of 265 the marriage bed when to be forborne 262. Martyrs the mother and her infant 17. the Prophets Apostles and others 44 112. their kinds of death 44. feared not their persecutors 45 58. Meanes by what meanes God can worke 62. Gods graces not tied to meanes 64. must be vsed 63. Meates which may be eaten 40 274. hunger and thirst their best spices 287 288. Mercy God most prone to mercy 140. his mercy euerlasting 140 142 232. must restraine vs from sin 155. Merits no saluation by merits 138. Ministers must haue learning 214. take paine 65. yet not surfet of immoderate study 256. conforme themselues to their doctrine 153 187. are spirituall fathers 213. must haue reuerence 214. and maintenance 218. Murder not kill our selues 227 244. not others 238. what punishment for it 240. Paricides monsters in nature 200. N Name Gods name not to be abused to sin or to colour any wickednes 160. he that hath a bad name is halfe hangd 267. O Obedience must be absolute 8. due to God 13 32 135. induced by Gods loue 121. must proceede of loue 133 135. performed by winde and sea to none but God 301. wrested from the wicked 133. Oppression God vieweth it 73. curbed by good Princes 209. Oppressors their nature 72 258. 307. Oppressed to be relieued 258. Othes lawful to take an oath 163. lawfull oath to be performed 151 vnlawfull to be broke 150. by Saints forbidden 108. and by Crosse 112. not reckoned of by the crafty 169. nor by swaggerers 149. nor common swearers 145 circumstances to be obserued in oathes 164. formes of oathes 108 164. Papists lose their credit and how 10 continue obstinate and why 51. Parents their loue to their children 36 78. their duty 193. see children vnnaturall 193 haue no care of bastards 267. must be honoured and why 193. how their sinne punished in their ofspring 128 268. Patience in affliction 21 26. in oppression 73. when God taketh from vs 236. when man wrongeth vs 254. Patience in God before he punish 70 127. Patrons their duty 219 277. Peace a blessing reaped by good Kings 208.
Periury punished by God and man 168. the periured offensiue to God and man 152. 294. Persecutiō Gods Church persecuted by Tyrants 45. Persecutors cannot hurt the soule 58. Pleasures men addicted to them 311 their end bitter 268. Pledges what must be taken and from whom 284. Pope his reuenewes great in England 10. taken away 10 17. his power 12. assoileth subiects of obedience 11. 170. rewardeth traitors 211. buildeth a Stewes 269. a woman Pope 12. Pouerty a fruit of idlenes 182. and whoredome 266. to be content with pouerty 288. Powre of God vniuersal 11 to him nothing impossible 61 65. the deniers of it profane his name 161 Prayer must be priuate and publike 119. importunate 250. both with heart and tongue 71. not to be made to images 98. nor Saints 102. Preaching God maketh it profitable 65. Funerall Sermons must be without flattery 107. Presumption abaseth Gods mercy 161. Prodigality spends all 38 130. Profit all seeke their owne 311. common more to be respected then priuate 257. 278. not to be vnlawfully gotten 286. Promise Gods promise of temporall blessings conditionall 26. 225. God is true in his promises 60. 233. so is an honest man 145. Prosperity hath no perpetuity 23. makes vs forget God 33. Prouidence God hath a prouident care ouer all his creatures 60. they which deny it profane Gods name 161. Punishment differēce betwixt Gods punishing the good and the bad 23. R Reading in reading passe by that which maketh passage to sin 272 Recreation lawfull 40. the bounds of it 40. 287. Redemption wrought by the bloud of Christ 101. the worke of redemption greater then of creation 186. Religion men will hardly alter their religion 43. persecution causeth alteration 44. not dispensed with by good Princes 209. Reliques of Saints abused to idolatry 84. a relique sunday kept in their honour 84. and other holydaies 110. not to be honoured 109. Reproach feare of it hinders the performance of duty 50 67. Restitution goods ill gotten must be restored 289. to whom restitution must be made 290. when in what measure 291. Reuenge our nature subiect to reuenge 253. Riches not set our hearts on them 38. not be proud of them 235. no contentation in them if wrongfully gotten 289. ill gotten ill spent 130. Rumors not to be feared 50. S Sabbaoth therein rest from worke of our calling 173. 109. from sin 175. Psalmes for the Sabbaoth 176. the day altered and why 186. Sacriledge in Patrones 275. in profaning the Sabbaoth 185. Saints cannot helpe vs 100. to be worshipped 102. orpraied vnto ibid. Satan his malice 71. combating with Christ 249. fitting his temptation to euery mans humour 8. Scripture some more excellent then other 2 concealed 9 156. dispensed withall by the Pope 10. by the Pharisees 199. ill applied 12. 159. derided 155. altered 156. wrested 158. our tongues must talke of it 165. not prattle of it 152. may haue a double sense 159. Seruants to be respected in sicknesse 203. 312. their duties 203. 313 Gods iudgement vpon an vntrusty seruant 204. Seruice of God God must appoint the manner of it 91. Sicknes man subiect to diuers diseases 257. must vse meanes to recouer 64. 228. but not rely on the meanes 64. places infectious to be auoided 228. Sinne man hath a beloued sin 7. it reigneth in vs by nature 31. is subdued by grace ibid. men hide it 66. extenuate it 147. haue secret sins 66. 138. 306. crying sins 238. 285. will be discouered 99. restrained by feare 127. shrowded vnder vertues habit 270. to be stopt at entrance 305 309. sin in omission of good 117 163. sin originall man borne in it 128. Mary said to bee without it 105. God may in iustice punish it 128. Slander not to slāder 292. the slanderer robs a man of his good name 298. to be rebuked 221 302. Sorcery Gods word not to be abused to sorcery 154. nor his name 160 Subiects tender ouer their Kings life 211. to pay tribute ibid. Temple not to be profaned 185 189 to be visited 177. come to it to profit 217. tary in it till seruice be ended 177. Thanks for deliuerance from trouble 27. 30. from spirituall enemies 32. for rooting out superstition 18. for all blessings 236. Theft forbidden 275. 280. bred of idlenes 182. most punished in the rich 259. what Lawyer Phisition and Minister guilty of it 280 Time not to be neglected 231. Tithes must be paid 219. 277. theft to withold them 185. Tradition added to scripture 156. Treason gunpouder most detestable 30. not to be cōmitted with hand or heart 170. Traitors punished 30. Tyrants their cruelty 19. their will is a law 65. V Vsurers theeues 281. their arguments answered 282. to whom a man may let to vse 281. how God may be said an vsurer ibid. W Warre lawfull 251. meanes must be vsed in warre 63. yet not reliedon 61. valour in warre 222. Duels vnlawfull se Combate Will and Testaments to be fulfilled 149. vsurers will no will 281. bad Executors 285. trusty Executors 149. Witnes must testifie a truth 294. false witnes a murtherer 292. Wiues their loue to their husbands 265. 241. must giue no occasion of suspition 126. a bad wife a great punishment 126. 314. against community of wifes 216. 362. Words the tongue bound to the good abearing 143. 253. 272. must not run before the witte 169. Works good works must be well done 1 4. 290. our best haue imperfections 137. 306. God accepteth our willingnes 139. The Works of God to be deeply considered 162. are wrapped vp in three large volumes 167. Z Zeale and knowledge must goe together 80. must be shewed when God is dishonoured 253. Errata fol. 17 lin 24 for distinguishing Read disguising f 18 l 31 for wine R Egipt f 40 l 4 for salue R sale fol 41 l 22 for saue R seeme fol 42 l 34 for shew holy R their belly f 65 l 19 for Cipher R Ciser f 90 l 24 marg for Iohn 4 R 2 f 148 l 15 for Children R choler l 30 for but R for f 206 l 26 for both sometime R lothsomly f 219 l 8 for praying R paying f 220 l 36 for lynes R limmes f 232 l 24 for vse R loose f 278 l 11 for lines R limmes f 311 l 3 for his R her f 313 l 6 for him R time l 22 for Elizabeth R Elias f 180 l 36 for honesty R honour f 45 l 25 put in birds f 89 l 18 put in He leaue out in fol. 26 lin 3. he stingeth yet more f 27 l 24 that therefore she did aske him f 55 l 18 in body f 250 l 14 him f 255 l 32 looke for an answerne THE PREFACE vpon the ten Commandements IN the first age of the world from Adam to Moses men had no other guide to conduct them for the carriage of their liues then the Law of Nature which Saint Paul calleth a Rom. 2. 1◠a Law written in the heart and others ius gentium
and fall from sinne to finne as Gally slaues fall to rowing when they are fast chayned but God who is aboue Nature rescueth vs from our oppressors and wee that weâ—e seruants vnto sinne getting the maistry breake the yoake of iniquitie from our necke we breake it bandes a sunder and cast away it cordes from vs we withdraw our mindes from the yoke and bondage of those naturall perturbations that are in vs God hath set our feete at large and hauing broken the bounds of our yoke made vs goe vpright sauing hauing been long vsed to fetters wee halt a little after they are taken from vs and though wee beare about in our bodies the remnants of sinne yet sinne doth not domineire it is not so insolent against the spirit as it was nor keepes it vnder with so strong a hand f Gen. 16. 5. 6. nor with the seruant Hagar any longer set it foote in the necke of her-mistresse but is beaten out of doores when shee begins to ouer-rule g Mat. 8. 9. wee are Centurions ouer our affections and in all the regenerate that is true h Gen. 25. 23. the elder shall serue the younger for the flesh is subiect to grace though it pricketh it is not vnto death it doth not grow cankerous it is not like the stinging of an Aspe which let Art or Nature diuise what plaisters it can to helpe it is incurable for Christ hauing blunted the sting it cannot enter into the inward parts of the soule to destroy it i 1 Sam. 18 6. If the daughters of Ierusalem when Dauid returned from the warre and the slaughter of the Philistine came out singing and dancing in token of ioy and thankesgiuing for the victory then let all true Christians what little reckoning soeuer they haue heretofore made of freedome from spirituall enemies from their heart tell forth their deliuerance and say with Paul k 1 Cor. 15 57. thankes bee to God which hath giuen vs victory through Iesus Chist our Lord and no sooner mention with Paul their deliuerance from this present euill world and corrupt life without Christ but presently breaking out into the praise of God say with him l Gal. 1. 4. 5 to him bee glory for euer and euer Amen Lastly one vse more that God will haue the Israelites make of their deliuerance is this to learne thereby to serue him and be stirred vp to the obedience of his Law when Ioshua had distilled this and other blessings of God vpon his people the Quintessence that he wringeth out is this m Ios 24. 14. ver 17. 18. Feare the Lord and serue him and in consideration of this freedome they giue their honest words to serue the Lord and keeping touch are men of their words all the daies of Ioshua and all the daies of the Elders that ouerliued Ioshua The note is this The more God doth free vs from misery the more wee should submit our selues to his will but it fareth with vs as with the snake who being frozen lyeth quiet and still but waxing warme stirreth and stingeth Pharaoh so long as hee is vnder the crosse will not haue Israell vnder his rodde but promiseth their departure but farewell paine farewell promise deliuerance makes him forget what punishment promised n 2 King 8 8. Benhadad King of Aram in his sicknesse commanded Elysha the Prophet to be honoured o 2 King 6. 13. whom in his health he would haue killed what was the cause that p Ier. 48. 11 Moab was setled on the lees of their sinnes but this they liued at rest and were not powred like other nations from vessell to vessell The Moone the fuller it is the further it is remoued from the Sun The tree is neuer so much subiect to hurtfull winds as when it blossometh Segetem nimia sternit vbertas Rami onere pramuntur too much rancknes makes corne lye downe boughes are broken with their owne burden The horse too well cherished doth often cast his rider q Hos 13. 6 as in their pastures so was Israell filled and when they were filled their heart was exalted and r Deut. 32. 15. when he waxed fat he spurned with his heele when hee was fat and grosse and laden with fatnesse hee forsooke God that made him and regarded not the strong God of his saluation when Nebucaduezar Å¿ Deut. 4. 31. had been bound seuen yeers prentise to the crosse he knew from whom his Kingdome came and honoured him that liueth for euer in a word aduersity can teach vs more of God and our selues in one weeke then we can learn of prosperity all our life long Man cannot manage a prosperous estate but if he be of great power he forgets God if he abounds in pleasure he forgets himselfe whereas God would haue our freedome from affliction to be a hand to lead vs and a foot to carry vs to the remembrance of him and obedience to his law that we might say now thou hast set vs at liberty we will run the way of thy commandements and now thou hast set our feet in a large roome as it is in Michas t Mic. 4. 5. we will walke in the name of the Lord our God for euer and euer If Israell must u GeÌ„ 5. 22. like Henoh walke with God conforme themselues to the obedience of his law and x GeÌ„ 6. 22. like Noah doe according to all that he commandeth euen so doe because hee deliuered them from â—ondage which was grieuous to the body then must wee entertaine obedience determine to keepe his word and by obseruing his will get him honour because he hath redeemed vs by Christ from the bondage of sin which was grieuoâ—s to the soule which went ouer our heads and was like a sore burden too heauy for vs to beare This as Saint Paul writeth to Titus y Tit. 2. 12. must teach vs to deny vngodlinesse and worldly lusts and to liue soberly righteously and godly in this present world this as z Luc. 1. 74 it is in the song of Zachary was the end of our redemption that wee should serue God without feare in holinesse and righteousnesse all the daies of our life AN EXPOSITION Of the ten Commandements COncerning the tenne Commandements this is generall to them all euery one hath an Iniunction and a Prohibition that which enioyneth vs to any vertue forbiddeth the contrary vice that which forbiddeth any vice enioyneth the contrary vertue The first fiue haue speciall reasons annexed to them to bind vs to obedience the first foure make the first Table and comprehend that duty wee owe vnto God of which The first Commandement containeth the inward worship of God in these words Exod. 20. 3. Thou shalt haue no other Gods before mee The Iniunction Thou shalt haue one God The Prohibition Thou shalt haue but one THe reason in these words Before mee as if the Lord should say the seruice which I will and
shalt see wee set not so much by the life of the liuing as bones of the dead What an euill sonne then was this Euilmerodach who himselfe would worke that cruelty the like whereof the Barbarians to dye for it would not suffer their enemies so much as to attempt But I proceed The second point of honour required in children is to obey their parents precepts and to suffer themselues to be led and guided by them in matters of marriage men are commonly carried by affections their choise is not so much led by vertue and religion as by gaine or pleasure their flesh sleepeth not while their wines are chufing as Adam slept while his wife was â— Gen. 2. 21 making this makes them like those whom they soone mislike againe and to take wiues as men doe flowers which they cast away when they are once withered but Isaac in matching himselfe is well content to be at his fathers disposition for otherwise f Gen. 24. 3. Abraham had reckoned without his host wheÌ„ he sent his seruant to take a wife vnto his sonne Isaac and the seruant would haue cast a doubt of Isaac as well as of Rebecca but he sayd onely what if the woman will not come with me he makes no question of Isaac for he saw before g Geu 22. 6. how obediently he went with his father to the Altar though he saw no burnt offring he perceiued that he shewed no semblance of dislike though hee saw no reason of the thing commanded Mordecai was not father but in stead of a father to Easter yet being made Queene a Est 2. 20. she was obedient to him that had brought her vp This serueth to reproue First those children which shaking off their fathers yoake slatly deny their obedience Secondly those which promise fayre but are slacke in performing patternes of both these we haue in the Gospell by Saint Mathew for of the two sonnes which the father bids goe worke in his Vineyard b Mat. 21 28. the elder sayd I will not yee afterward he repeuted himselfe and went the younger sayd I will sir yet he went not in the one is a deed without shew in the other a shew without deede worse are they in whom is neither deede nor shew of obedience such were those graceles waggestringes in Terence Clitipho and Clinia of which the first when his father Chremes giues him good counsell to wit that he should not giue himselfe to Wine and women that he should resist the beginning of euill for that by continuance it gathereth more strength and more and will hatch if her eggs in time be not broken O saith he Quam iniqui sunt patres in omnes adolescentes iudices qui aequum esse censent nos iam a pueris ilico nasâ—i senâ—s c. is not this a prety matter that our fathers would haue vs in our dotage before we are past our nonage shall not we take our swinge as well as they did when they were of our yeares the crafty old fox telles me now that I should make vse of other mens harmes ne ille haud sâ—it quam mihi nunâ— surdo narrat fabulam I wis little wots he what a deafe eare I lend to all his talke let him say what he will I will doe as I list here is true patterne of a child past grace to whom truth is vntoothsome because it treadeth downe his owne likeing to him I send other children to schoole but as that cunning Musition who set his schollers to an ignorant and homely minstrell but before hee sent them out he bad them take this lesson with them see you shunne your masters doings the matter of his songs the manner of his playing his lessons his fingring is naught so when you see graceles Clitipho pensiled out vnto you see you follow not his floting iumpe not in his steps he treades too much outward and will not be vnderlayde yet make this vse of such carrions gather hony out of their weedes by their enormities learne to correct your owne otherwise goe ye not after them fashion not your selues like vnto them be not as c 1. Sam 2. 25. Hophni and Phinehas the sonnes of Eli for they obeyed not the voice of their father therefore d 1. 5. 4. 11. the Lord slew them harken rather what Saint Paul saith e Eph. 6. 1. Children obey your parents but hee addeth in the Lord obey your parents in the Lord for parents loose their right to be obeyed when they command against God f Luc. 2. 51 ver 29. Our Sauiour Christ went downe with his parents to Nazareth and was subiect to them but yet preferreth his dutie to God before any dutie to them and therefore he saith g Heb. 12. 9 knew yee not that I must goe about my fathers busines Wee haue fathers of our bodyes and of them we haue esse naturae our being in Nature we haue a father of our spirit and of him wee haue esse gratiae of the one our being of the other our well being both these we call father we obey both so long as they both inioyne the same duties but when they command contraries and he whose sonne thou art by nature will haue superioritie ouer thy faith and lye in thy way as thou art going to God in this case a Mat. 23. 9 call no man your father vpon the earth for their is but one your father which is in heauen now goe from thy father as b Gen. 12. 1 Abraham from his fathers house now c Luc. 14. 26 hate thy father as charitie it selfe doth exhort now let thy holy carelesnes make thy father thy footestep The third thing wherein this honour of children consisteth is in supplying their parents wants if they be in case able to relieue them to raise their fathers out of the dust when they are impouerished and fallen in decay and cannot see the riuers nor the floudes and streames of hony and butter this doth very nature teach for we see that all boughes doe incline and bend themselues toward the roote from which they tooke their originall and more then so in sommer time receiuing from the roote leaues and flowers and fruite doe in winter time let them fall againe to the fatting and nourishing of the roote The Storkes and Pliny writeth the same of the birds Meropes doe feed their dammes when they are old because their dammes did feed them when they were young if Nature worketh thus in creatures which haue life without sense and sense without reason shall not Nature and grace doe the like in children which besides life and sense haue a reasonable soule The good nature of Ioseph shall be remembred to his great commendation d Gen â—6 29. 31. who after that for honours sake he had gone to meete his father comming into Egyt had his next care that hee might dwell in the land of Goshen the fatt of the