1. Of goods and portion euer remembring the distinction of age and goodnesse so that the eldest haue his double portion and the youngest their single portions 2. Of yoke-fellow husband or wife in due season fit for them one that at least is not impious nor Infidell 3. The seruants in a twofold regard 1. To imploy them moderately in worke neither toyling them nor giuing them leaue to be idle 2. To reward them liberally with wages and gifts according to euery mans estate and abilitie and Gods blessing vpon their labours Hitherto the Masters dutie the Dames followes and that is twofold 1. Towards her infants to nurse them with her owne milke if it may stand with her health as the law of nature teacheth why else doth God giue breasts and milke at that time and as godly women haue done 2. Toward the whole familie to ouersee their wayes as the husbands deputie and helper still according to his good will and liking and chiefly to attend to the maidens So much of the gouernours of the familie in priuate The duties of the publique gouernours follow These are of two sorts 1. The highest and chiefest gouernours 2. The subordinate and inferiour 1. The highest and chiefest gouernours who must obserue these foure things 1. To establish the true religion and worship of God in their iurisdiction and prohibit the contrary 2. To see good vertuous and wholesome lawes made for the welfare and good behauiour of the people 3. To defend their owne country and their oppressed neighbours by iust warres defensiue or offensiue 4. Being a King to sit personally in the seat of iudgment diuers times yea vsually for the Kings in Israel succeeded Iudges 2. The second sort of gouernours are subordinate and inferiour 1. Iudges truly to administer distributiue iustice in finding out and sentencing malefactors with all iust seueritie and equitie of proceedings 2. Other officers of all sorts to be helpfull to the vtmost of their power to the execution of all good lawes and orders according as for the most part their oaths doe binde them So farre of the duties of gouernours next are the duties of the gouerned 1. Common to all 2. Peculiar to each 1. The duties of the gouerned common to all are twofold 1. To the persons of their gouernours 2. To their power and authoritie 1. To the persons of their gouernours reuerence and that twofold 1. Inward in heart by standing in awe of them and not daring to offend them for conscience sake to God that hath setled gouernours in the world 2. Outward reuerence 1. In words and speeches 2. In gestures and behauiours 1. In words and speeches three wayes 1. To themselues that they be submissiue and dutifull mannerly and reuerent as Sarah called Abraham Sir 2. To others before them that they be neither ouer many nor loud and vehement but moderate temperate 3. To others of them behinde their backs that they be respectiue and loyall for so was Sarahs very thought of her husband 2. Outward reuerence is in gestures and behauiours as bowing the knee doffing the hat arising vp to them and all other like respectiue cariages 2. The dutie of the gouerned common to their power and authoritie two wayes 1. By a willing obedience to all their lawfull commandements 2. A due receiuing of all their reproofes and corrections 1. Submissiuely gently patiently though they be vniust and ouer-rigorous 2. Fruitfully and with care of reformation if they be iust and causefull The peculiar and proper duties are 1. Those that are priuate 2. Those that are publique 1. Those that are priuate in the familie viz. Of 1. The wife 2. The children 3. The seruants 1. The peculiar and proper duties of the wife and yoke-fellow are twofold 1. Sociable cariage and cheerefull behauiour to his person 2. Huswifely sauing and thriftie disposing of the goods of her husband 2. The peculiar and proper duties of the children are twofold 1. To maintaine the parents if need be in sicknesse and age yea rather to want ones selfe and that his owne children want then suffer them to want 2. To be ruled by them in the choice of a yoke-fellow wife or husband 3. The peculiar and proper duties priuate of the seruants are twofold 1. To be trustie in sauing and keeping their Masters goods committed to them 2. To be painfull and diligent in their businesses as well in the absence as the presence of the gouernours 2. The peculiar and proper duties publique in the Common-wealth are two 1. Defence of their persons against all treasons conspiracies violence offered to them by any according to their places 2. Payment of accustomed and iust dues as tole tribute and the like for their maintenance in their places So much of the duties depending vpon speciall naturall bonds Now follow spirituall bonds with the duties on them dependant for there is a spirituall life and things that doe pertaine to the spirituall life and therefore it cannot be but that some consideration should be set from them to binde men to diuers speciall duties Now there is 1. A spirituall kinred 2. A spirituall degree 1. A spirituall kinred betwixt all Christians members of Christs bodie 2. Betwixt some Christians peculiar 1. Betwixt all Christians members of Christs bodie to whom euery other member of the same bodie oweth two things 1. Brotherly loue which is an accounting of them specially deare desiring their good and delighting in it and grieuing for the contrary and taking content in their societie aboue all other kinde of people 2. Speciall helpfulnesse to them in their crosses and afflictions doing good chiefly to the houshold of Saints 2. There is a spirituall kinred betwixt some Christians peculiarly whom God hath made especially beholding or beneficiall each to other as 1. The father in Christ 2. The sonnes in the faith 1. The father in Christ is that man by whose Ministerie it hath pleased God to conuert another to the faith and to true pietie he owes three things 1. A speciall care to further their proceedings whom he hath brought to goodnesse by bold and diligent admonishing comforting exhorting and that frequently as occasion will serue 2. Ioy and thankfulnesse to God for their well-doing and good proceedings in pietie 3. Sorrow and speciall humiliation before God for their disorders decay or reuolting 2. The sonnes in the faith they owe two things 1. A singular thankfulnesse such as should make them thinke no cost nor paines too much to doe them good making account that they owe to them euen themselues 2. They owe a greater readinesse to receiue their admonitions exhortations as men hauing a speciall power ouer them Hitherto of kinred 2. Now of a spirituall degree and that is twofold 1. Of gifts 2. Of gouernment 1. Of gifts in regard of which some are 1. Stronger Christians 2. Weaker Christians 1. Stronger Christians that haue a greater measure of sanctification these must vse their strength in a milde and
other as vnkindnesse taking suspitions iealousies c. 2. By doing all things that may more and more shew affection each to other and winne the same and that most abundantly and plentifully each striuing to exceed other and these offices are twofold 1. Lesse necessarie 2. More necessarie 1. Lesse necessarie in curtesies salutations gifts visitations and the like points of a certaine kinde of honest complement that as little chips being kindled set the greater wood on fire so doe cause the more needfull seruices to be more welcome and better accepted 2. More necessarie offices which are chiefly three 1. Helpfulnesse in the day of aduersitie by a free willing speedy and plentifull vndertaking of paines and expences for their ease refreshing and deliuerance for a friend is borne for aduersitie 2. Plainnesse and freedome of speech in a louing and with all open admonishing each other of the sinnes and faults they commit if they be any thing palpable and offensiue and well entertaining such admonitions 3. Trustinesse in all things by each other committed vnto each others care and that is twofold 1. In secrets reuealed vnto them by keeping them fast and close as it were vnder locke and key without futilitie and blabbing 2. In affaires and businesses to their loue and care commended by a diligent endeuour of effecting them according to the friends desire and for his most aduantage honour and comfort 2. The duties of friends proper to the latter and more perfect kinde viz. to be to each other euen as each others soule as the Scripture saith thy friend which is as thine owne soule Deu. 13.6 and that in 2. things 1. In an vniuersall opennesse and communicating of all secrets counsels intentions purposes so that a friend should not feare to reueale any thing to his friend of himselfe that himselfe knowes be it good or euill For this friendship is as it were a communion of soules or a kinde of intermingling their very spirits 2. In in vniuersall participating of goods labours counsels and all that each hath to other euen to suffering of death each for other so far as may be done without sinne against God and without breaking any of his commandements Hitherto of the arbitrarie bond which is at mens choice to tie themselues withall if they will but being tied they must doe these duties and in tying themselues they must follow the first rule Now followes the second branch of naturall bonds and that is necessarie And first of 1. Kinred 2. Degree 1. Kinred is a bond arising from the participation of the same bloud or nature in some knowne and apparent neerenesse This is twofold 1. Proper 2. Improper 1. Proper in that that is called consanguinitie betwixt brother and brother cousin and cousin vncle and nephew and so in the rest and the duties of kinsmen or kinswomen are two 1. To loue each other with so much larger and move feruent loue by how much they are more neerer in bloud so that as nature doth tie them by more bonds so they must be affected to each other with more and more vehement amitie brothers and sisters most vncles aunts nephewes and neeces next cousins and cousins next and so in order but yet so still that speciall graces vertues and benefits may adde to the quantitie and feruencie of their loue 2. To be more abundantly carefull of expressing this their loue in all good offices and seruices of curtesie and chiefly of helpfulnesse in aduersitie by comforting releeuing succouring giuing lending and taking paines and vndergoing danger each for other 2. Improper bond in regard of mariage which is as it were a resemblance of kinred and a legall or secondarie kinred And the duties of those that are vnited in affinitie is to be to those that are thus tied vnto them euen as if they were their naturall kinsmen both in loue and in the effects of loue For seeing in that one matter of mariage I must stand disposed to these legall kinsmen as to my naturall for example a man may no more marry his wiues sister or mother then his owne it followes by proportion that the like account must be made of them in all other matters So much of kinred Now for degree and first that of equalitie Equalitie is a kinde of paritie or euennesse betwixt party and party arising from the absence of any notable euident and apparent difference in them either by any function or endowment or the like The dutie of equals is threefold 1. To thinke better of their equals then themselues and to esteeme of them aboue themselues 2. In giuing honour to goe one before another 3. To be glad and well satisfied at the raising and aduancement of their equals to places aboue themselues Next followes inequalitie Inequalitie is an euident difference betwixt man and man in regard that the one hath more of something deseruing esteeme and account then another hath This inequalitie is twofold as the causes of it are double for the difference is barely in regard of certaine endowments or qualities or else in regard of some function office or estate From the first men are called betters or lessers from the second Gouernours and gouerned The first inequalitie is 1. From age 2. From gifts 1. From age when there is such difference betwixt one another that they might in course of nature be parent and childe each to other Not all difference of age makes them betwixt whom it is vnequals but such a difference whereby one might be the childe the other the parent in regard of age and here 1. The duties of the aged are two viz. 1. To be of a comely graue sober cariage abounding in knowledge and vertue as in dayes and yeeres 2. To be able and ready in regard of their experience to giue wise discreet and sound aduice in matters difficult 2. The duties of the younger in age are twofold 1. To shew honourable respect in cariage three wayes 1. In rising to them 2. Giuing them the first roome 3. The first words c. 2. They must consult and aduise with them in doubts preferring their aduice to their owne greene conceits 2. The second inequalitie is from gifts and that is twofold 1. Where those are that are better gifted 2. In regard of the lesse gifted 1. Those that are better gifted are bound 1. Generally whatsoeuer their gifts be 1. To be of a lowly minde and cariage to those that are lesse gifted for all their gifts 2. To imploy their gifts willingly and humbly to the seruice of others 2. They are bound specially if their gifts be 1. Of minde in wit learning vnderstanding bearing with the dulnesse and ignorance of others to informe teach aduise them the best they can as they haue occasiō 2. Of bodie with the paines of their bodie to helpe those that are weake and feeble 3. Of estate either in parentage or wealth to countenance and releeue the meaner and poorer being rich and great in
good workes and ready to distribute according to the eminencie of their estate and meanes Great and rich men must practise 1. Bounty 2. Munificence 2. The lesse gifted are bound to two things 1. To acknowledge their gifts with all due and respectiue cariage towards them agreeable thereto in all ciuilitie and curtesie 2. To be willing to be beholding vnto them and to enioy helpe and assistance from their gifts as occasion shall be offered Hitherto of vnequals without gouernment Now of those with gouernment because the difference betwixt them ariseth from some office or estate which the one hath more then the other Their duties are of two sorts 1. Mutuall 2. Seuerall 1. Mutuall such as they are reciprocally and these are three 1. A speciall degree of loue each to other according as they are more neerely combined in their estates The parent owes a parentall loue the yoke-fellow a matrimoniall loue and so in the rest each must haue a more earnest plentifull and stedfast affection to other in regard of their places 2. A particular mentioning of each other in their prayers vnto God 3. A speciall care of each others comfort and credit and endeuour to procure it more then to other men 2. Their duties seuerall such as are peculiar to either 1. To Gouernours towards them that are gouerned 2. To gouerned towards them that gouerne them 1. The duties of Gouernours are twofold 1. Common to all Gouernours 2. Peculiar to each kinde of Gouernours 1. The duties common to all Gouernours are two 1. To keepe reuerence and respect to themselues in the hearts of those that are vnder their gouernment by a vertuous conuersation and by giuing themselues examples to them in all goodnesse 2. To exercise their authoritie ouer them to which end it must be declared and that in three respects 1. What be the parts of power and gouernment to be exercised 2. What is the next end that all must aime at in their gouernment 3. The manner of vsing that authoritie 1. What be the parts of power and gouernment to be exercised and those are towards 1. All vnder their gouernment 2. To the different kinds of them 1. Towards all vnder their gouernment two wayes 1. To direct them in their wayes 1. By minding lawfull and fit things 2. By forbidding the contrary 2. To defend them from the iniuries that might be offered them by any other of the common inferiours chiefly 2. The second part of power and gouernment to be exercised is towards the different kindes of them 1. To the good 2. To the euill 1. To the good and obedient 1. By praises and commendations 2. By rewards and recompences 2. Towards the euill and disobedient 1. By reproofe and reprehension 2. By chastisements and corrections according to the difference of faults and places differently 2. The second dutie to be declared is what is the next end that all men must aime at in their gouernment viz. the welfare good and happinesse of those vnder their gouernment as well as and together with their owne welfare and content 3. The third dutie to be declared is the manner of vsing their authoritie to this end by the practise of foure things 1. Iustice 2. Prudence 3. Mildnesse 4. Courage 1. By the practise of iustice in a twofold regard 1. Of persons towards whom gouernment is exercised by being indifferent and vnpartiall the same to all in the same cases 2. In regard of the speciall acts of power and that in two regards 1. By commanding nothing but what is lawfull to be done in regard of conscience to God and forbidding nothing but what may be omitted without sinne against God 2. By correcting and reprouing for nothing but a fault praising and rewarding for nothing but a vertue and that according to the proportion and quantitie both of vertues and vice 2. By the practise of prudence or discretion two wayes 1. By obseruing the different dispositions of those that are vnder ones gouernment 2. By making choise of two things 1. Fit things to command and forbid and fit kindes of reproofes corrections praises rewards agreeable to the difference of the persons dispositions with whom one hath to deale 2. By making choise of fit times and places wherein to exercise any part of authoritie both 1. In regard of ones selfe that commandeth reproueth 2. In regard of them that are commanded reproued c. The fittest time is when neither are transported with passion or distemperance 3. By the practise of mildnesse to shew it selfe two wayes 1. In commandements 2. In reproofes and corrections 1. In commandements two wayes 1. By abstaining from hard difficult and painfull commandements vnlesse in case of necessitie 2. By mollifying commandements with louing familiar sweet and perswading speeches different according to the diuers kindes of inferiours 2. In reproofes and corrections by giving them 1. Moderately for kinde and measure so that the reproofe and correction neither exceed the fault nor the power and strength of the corrected 2. Compassionately and with demonstration of loue and pitty for the manner chiefly when necessitie calls to some roughnesse 4. By the practise of courage and resolution in going on forward to performe what is fit notwithstanding 1. Any importunitie intreatie and suit 2. Ill speeches or shew of danger Hitherto of duties common to all superiours in gouernment Peculiar duties of seuerall kindes of gouernours both in the 1. Familie of the Master Dame or Mistresse do follow 2 Common-weale do follow The Masters dutie is twofold 1. To all his familie ioyntly 2. To the seuerall members of his familie 1. To all his familie ioyntly as lie is a common ruler of that societie wholly considered and so he must regard 4. things 1. That Gods name be called vpon and worshipped in his familie for the families are cursed that call not vpon the name of God 2. He must haue regard to catechize them in true religion and bring them all vp in information of godlinesse 3. He must haue regard to prouide things necessarie for them 1. In health Food and the like 2. In sicknesse Attendance Physicke 4. He must haue regard to ouersee their wayes and cariage and 1. Set them to fit imployments 2. To redresse and reforme their disorders 2. The masters dutie is to looke to the seuerall members of his familie 1. To those whom it is in his power to chuse as wife and seruants to chuse vertuous and godly ones a woman fearing God and seruants fearing God 2. To vse them all well viz. the Wife Children Seruants 1. The wife and that two wayes 1. By familiar and kinde behauiour towards her person 2. By liberall and bountifull allowance of all comforts vnto her 2. The children two wayes 1. By good education 1. In younger yeeres causing them to be taught to write and reade c. 2. In riper yeeres setting them to some calling according to their capacitie and their parents abilitie 2. By good prouision for them
and doth not deriue it selfe to any other person As I only am neere in affinitie to my wiues sister so is not my brother or father or sonne or vncle 2. Dutie of necessitie that they be of sufficient strength and age for generation else it is a weake mariage 3. Dutie of necessitie that they be both free and vncontracted to any other else it is a nullitie 2. Things to be respected in regard of conueniencie for matter 1. Of religion that they serue the same God and be of the same religion 2. Of ciuill life that they be 1. Of proportionable qualitie for age not one too old or young for the other 2. That there be a paritie of parentage and wealth somewhat neere Thus farre of the dutie at the entrance into the state of matrimonie a due choice Now followes the second dutie 2. A due proceeding to it where also some things 1. Of necessitie must be done 2. Of conueniencie must be done 1. Of necessitie 1. They must haue consent of parents if they haue parents 2. They must take each other with an expresse couenant and purpose of liuing together during their life 2. Some things are to be respected in regard of conueniencie that the couenant be 1. Made by degrees 2. Be published 1. Be made by degrees 1. In espousals which is a mutuall giuing of the right of each others bodies by a serious and solemne promise of mariage 2. In wedding by giuing possession of each others bodies in a promise of liuing together during life 2. That the couenant be published and solemnized according to the different custome of each countrie 2. The duties that concerne the vse and enioyment of this estate 1. In regard of the yoake-fellowes 2. In regard of all others 1. In regard of the yoake-fellowes selues by communicating themselues 1. Willingly without grudging or shew of dislike of each other 2. Seasonably 3. Sanctifiedly with praier 4. Moderately and sparingly to asswage desire not prouoke it 2. In regard of enioyment of all others by a totall abstinence from them euen in desire or any thing that may expresse desire So much for things directly commanded 2. It commands indirectly 1. Shamefastnesse a vertuous kinde of shaming to doe or see any thing that may but carrie an appearance of mouing such conceits 2. Grauitie and modestie in attire Hitherto the affirmatiue The negatiue followes shewing how this commandement is broken by omission and commission and that 1. Directly 2. Indirectly 1. Directly 1. Inwardly in heart 2. Outwardly 1. Inwardly in heart by inordinate lust and lust is inordinate 1. For the measure when it is a burning an eager and a vehement desire bearing downe the whole soule and consuming all other desires 2. For the subiect when it wanders towards vnallowed persons 2. Outwardly and that 1. In rotten communication 2. In actions that are lewd 1. Rotten communication 1. By prouoking foule speeches chiefly songs 2. By talking of the lewd deeds of others or ones selfe with delight 3. By soliciting and tempting any body as Iosephs mistresse did him 2. In actions that are lewd 1. Such as leade and induce to the act 2. The act it selfe 1. Such as lead and induce to the act which is wantonnesse 1. Of the body 2. Of attire 1. Of the body it selfe 1. For the seuerall parts of it 2. For the whole 1. For the seuerall parts of it as 1. The eie 2. The eare 3. The foot 4. The hand 5. The mouth 1. The eie and countenance 1. By beholding things 2. By alluring glances 1. Beholding things incensiue as 1. Lewd pictures and Images 2. Filthy stage plaies 3. The generating of beasts 4. Nakednesse of others 2. By alluring and promising glances of the eie in hauing eies full of adulterie 2. The eare by a willing listening to filthy tales speeches and songs 3. The foot 1. Running to places of ill resort fit for that ill purpose 2. In making signes of ill meaning treading on the toe 4. The hand 1. In gesturing sorth vncleannes 2. In touching and toying by any ouer-familiar touches chiefly of the secret parts for which a womans hand was to be cut off 5. The mouth in vnchaste kissing 2. The whole body 1. In impure imbraces and counterfetting the act of euill 2. Lasciuious dancing or reuelling which is an artificiall wantonnesse 2. The wantonnesse of attire and that 1. By light and vndecent attire that speaketh out wantonnesse and vanity as laying open the breast 2. By changing attire in a mans putting on womans apparell or contrarily which God calleth abomination vnto him 2. The lewd act it selfe which is 1. In strange and vndue abuses of this facultie 2. In inordinate abuse of the course of nature 1. In strange abuses of this faculty otherwise then agrees to the naturall course 1. With ones selfe by committing the sinne of Er and Onan 2. With others 1. Of the same kinde 2. Of other kindes as man or woman with a beast which is confusion 1. Of the same kinde and that 1. Of a different sex 2. Of the same sex viz. Man with man or woman with woman 2. Inordinate act of abuse of the course of nature is either out of mariage or in respect of mariage 1. Out of marriage fornication which is a mixture of two single persons aggrauated 1. By the manner of committing 2. By the person with whom it was committed 1. By the manner of committing if be done 1. By violence so its rape 2. By charmes and spels so it s worse 2. By the person with whom it was committed if it be too neare of kin or affinity then it s called incest 2. Inordinate abuse of the course of nature in respect of mariage and that 1. For the owne yokefellow 2. For others besides 1. For the own yoke-fellow and that 1. For the entring to it 2. For the vse of it 1. For the entring into it 1. In regard of choice 2. In regard of proceeding 1. In regard of choice if one take 1. One that is precontracted 2. One that is too neere a kin 2. In regard of proceeding if one enter it 1. Without consent of parents 2. By a forced couenant or else fained or extorted by fraud 2. In regard of the vse of it 1. By deniall of ones selfe to the yokefellow chiefly in running away in desertion 2. By abuse of the mariage bed and that 1. Vnsanctifiedly 2. Vnseasonably 3. Immoderatly 2. Others beside the owne yoke-fellow 1. In polygamie which is a couert adulterie 2. In flat adultery with another not so much as in conceit a wife or an husband which is 1. Single when one alone is maried and is the worse if the woman be maried 2. Double when both are maried and both receiue aggrauations as fornication did before So much of direct breaches it is also broken 2. Indirectly and that 1. By occasions of this sinne 2. By the appearances of euill 1. By the occasions of this sinne