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A10083	The doctrine of superioritie, and of subiection, contained in the fift commandement of the holy law of almightie God Which is the foundamentall ground, both of all Christian subiection: and also of like Christian gouernment, as well in church, and common-wealth, as in euery schoole and priuate familie. A pretious memorial of the substance of manie godly sermons, preached by the learned and faithfull seruant of God, Ma. Robert Pricke, minister of the vvord, at Denham in Suffolke.	Pricke, Robert, d. ca. 1608.; Allen, Robert, fl. 1596-1612.	1609 (1609)	STC 20337; ESTC S101170	80,674	204

things which concerne the preseruation of the Church of God in Egipt whereof he was ignorant before Gen. 37. ch 45. Our Sauiour Christ Our Sauiour Iesus Christ although he were subiect in all things to Ioseph and Marie as to his parents as appeareth Luk. 2.51 yet did hee reforme them both in things wherein they erred v. 49. Q. What are children furthermore to yeeld 3. Fruite of childrens thankfulnes to their parents A. They are to visite their Parents in their sickenesse and procure all good meanes for their health and recouerie Q. What say you lastly in this respect A. Children are to succour relieue 4. Fruit. and helpe their Parents in their pouertie want and necessitie Q. You say well for this is a duety which both nature and equitie do require A. Yea and therefore the seruants of the Lord haue beene most readie to performe this dutie as for example Exāples of it howe tenderlie and carefullie did Ioseph nourish and prouide for his Father Ioseph and all his Familie in the time of dearth and scarcitie Dauid was more carefull to procure the maintenance and safetie of his Parents then of himselfe although hee were then in great distresse as wee may reade 1. Sam. 22.1.3.4 Our Sauiour Christ But how full of heauenly pietie was our Sauiour Christ towarde his mother who hanging vppon the Crosse had euen in the middest of the torments and sorowes of death a care of the good estate of his mother Mary after his death Ioh. 19. Q. What generall reasons should moue children to yeeld all these duties to their Parents There are 4. Reasons to moue children to be thankfull to their parents whereof you haue spoken A. First for that Parēts haue yeelded them all or the most part therof before to their children and therefore children are to requite the like to their Parents 1. Reason Againe the verie Heathen by the light of nature 2. Reason performed the most of them What shall wee say 3. Reason that euen diuerse bruit and vnreasonable creatures The duties mutually pertaining to husbands their wiues haue answered in their kind the benefites which they haue receiued of such as ingendred them as it is recorded of the Storke such like But the greatest reason of all is the gratious blessing of God 4. Reason the chiefe of all the rest promised to all dutifull children and contrariwise his curse and vengeance thundred out against the contrarie WE ARE NOW TO speake of the duties of Husbands toward their Wiues and of Wiues toward their Husbands Q. WHat heard you the last time thereof A. That the duties are either generall and common The duties of husbands wiues are of 2. sorts 1. General of the which there are 7. 2 Particular or particular and proper Q. What call you generall duties A. Those which both parties are indifferently to performe both one to another and in diuers respects Q What is the first dutie A. Loue. 1. General dutie which the husband oweth to the wife and the wife againe to the husbād it is loue Q. Is this a common dutie betweene man and wife A. Yea for as the husband is to loue his wife so is the wife to loue her husband Q. Where is the first commanded A. Ephe. 5.25 Q. Where the Second A. Titus 2.4 Q. Is loue necessarie betweene man and wife It is a dutie necessarie to be mutuallie performed A. Yea for it is not onely the fountaine and cause but also the director and life of all duties For where it is wanting either no duties wil be performed or vntowardly and from the teeth outward or not continually There are 4. Reasons to moue husband wife to this mutual loue 1 Reason Q. What reasons be there to moue Husband and Wife to loue one another A. First of all their coniunction in marriage Q. But there be many coniunctions in the world amongst men A. True but yet none so excellent for why the Lord God did not onely knit and ioyne man and woman together in paradise but with so nigh and streight a bond that of two they are made one flesh Mat. 19.5 wherevpon the man and the woman are called by one selfe same name to wit Adam to note the nigh and streight coniunction betweene them Hereupon the Holy Ghost doeth conclude two things First that although the child be neerly knit by flesh and nature vnto his Parents yet must he forsake them both and cleaue vnto his wife Secondly vnlesse he will hate his owne flesh he must loue his wife Q. What is your second reason A. The wife and the husband are yoke fellowes in one estate 2. Reason whether it be aduersitie or prosperitie whereby the griefe and tediousnes of the one is allaied and the ioy and comfort of the other is increased Q. What say you thirdly A. They are ioynt companions in many workes and duties which serue to the glorie of God and to the benefite of the Church in diuers respects 3. Reason as in the exercises of religion bringing vp of children and in d●ing good to others that haue of need reliefe and compassion This heauenly companion-ship cannot but moue them to loue one another Q. What say you in the last place A. The vertues which one doe see to be in another 4. Reason being well and duly considered will cause the husband to loue the wife and the wife the husband for vertue and the graces of God haue in them a certaine nature and vertue of alluring and drawing to themselues Q. Doe these reasons onely serue to perswade maried folkes to begin to loue one another Loue ought 〈◊〉 be constāt A. No for they are also being vnchangable and constant a sure and vnshaken foundation of loue whereas if it be built vpon Beautie Riches Wealth and such like vanishing and changeable things it cannot indure but faileth when the foundation is taken away Q. What is the second generall dutie 2. Generall and mutuall dutie is the ioynt care eache of others saluation A. Man and wife must haue a mutuall care and regard to the saluation one of another Q. How is that proued A. It is certaine that God did not ioyne man and woman together in marriage to please the eye The proofe of it or serue the lust one of another or to procure the worldly commoditie and welfare one of another for this end were partly brutish and partly heathenish but the speciall end that the Lord respected in this estate was that one might further another in the true knowledge feare of God that so they might ioyntly attaine vnto eternall happines For it were a miserable and wofull case that of two lying in one bed the one should be chosen and the other refused the one should inherite the kingdome of God the other should lie in the eternall torment of hell fire To auoide which

for the prouision and maintenance of the Ministers as may appeare 2. Chron. 31. from verse 3. to the end And in many other places Q. What is the last generall dutie A. The people are to pray earnestly for their Minister 4. General dutie to bee performed of people to their ministers it is prayer to God for thē Q. Where is that required A. By the Apostle Paul in diuers of his Epistles And practised by the Prophet Dauid Psal 132.9 And good reason thereof for without this dutie the studies and labours of the Ministers shall haue small successe The duties of Parents toward their children We haue a threefolde proofe that the naturall Parents are to performe duties toward their children 1. Proofe is from the light of nature 2. Is frō the equitie of it 3. Is by the word of God The duties of Parents toward their children are generally 8. these also haue their seuerall particulars contained in thē 1. Generall dutie is loue We are now come to the duties of Parents toward their children and after that to the duties of children towardes their Parents Q. Do Parents owe dutie to their children A. Yea in nature equitie and by the word of God Q. What are the duties which Parents are to performe toward their children A. They are diuers The first whereof is Loue. Q. Are Parents to loue their children A. Yea no doubt Q. Where is that proued A. Titus chap. 2. ver 4. Q. Yea but that is spoken onely of the Mother A. I grant but in all equitie and by iust proportion it extendeth also vnto the father Q. What should cause you to thinke so A. Because God hath planted in the hearts of both Parents as well the man as the woman certaine seedes and sparkes of loue and tender affection towards their children which were in vaine and to no purpose if Parents should not actually loue their children Q. What thinke you therefore if parents loue not their children A. They are worse then bruit beasts who by a certaine blind instinct and affinitie of Nature doe so tender and loue their young ones as that they will hazard their bodies and loose their liues to deliuer them from danger There are 2. sortes of reasōs to moue Parents to loue their children 1. Sort common to the heathen with vs. 2. Sort peculiar to vs Christians Of the 1. sort of Reasons there are 3. Q. What reasons should moue Parents to loue their children A. Diuerse reasons and that of two sorts The First whereof are cōmon with the heathen and meer naturall men The second are particular to Christians and such as are borne in the Church of God A. Speake of these in order A. The heathen and meere naturall men doe loue their children for three causes First because they are made and ingendred of their owne nature and substance and so consequently flesh of their flesh bone of their bone now none are so outragious monstrous to hate their owne flesh but rather to loue and to cherish it Secondly children doe carrie the image and person of their Parents insomuch that they may beholde themselues in their children whilest they liue and after a sort liue in them when they are dead Thirdly that if childrē be brought vp in any good manner they afterwarde yeelde vnto their Parents great benefite comfort and reliefe especially in their old age and necessitie Q. But what speciall reasons haue Christians to loue their children Of the 2. sort of Reasons there are also 3. 1. Reason A. Not onely the former but also other of greater weight And first of all their children are borne within the couenant of God and therefore his sonnes and daughters Eze. 16. Secondly 2. Reason their children are parts and members of the misticall bodie of Christ as appeareth for that the Sacrament of Baptisme belongeth to them so consequently they are free denisons and heires of the kingdome of God Thirdly 3. they are appointed and sanctified euen in their birth to glorifie and worship the Lord as also to profit and do good to the Church Q. If Parents would looke vpon their children in this glasse they could not but be moued to loue them but what if they be not moued A. It is a fearefull signe which doth declare that they are become vnnatural giuē vp vnto a reprobat mind Q. But may not the loue of Parents degenerate and grow so farre out of square by reason of the corruption and disorder of their affections as of a good and lawfull thing to become wicked and pernicious A. Yes no doubt Q. What meanes or cautions are to bee obserued to keepe it in the right forme or temper A. Three cautions are required thervnto First Parents are not to loue the bodies of their children better then their soules 3. Cautions are required to the moderating wel ordering of the loue of parēts toward their children 1. Caution nor to make more carefull prouision for their estate in this life then for their happinesse in the life to come which is the common course of the world as wee may see daily by wofull experience Secondly they are to loue and preferre their children 2. Caution neither aboue God his glory neither yet before their own bodies soules This was the great fault of Ely as appeareth 1. Sam. 2. Thirdly 3. Caution they are to discouer their loue to their children neither too much nor too litle For the first therof doth giue children incouragement to contemne and loathe their Parents as also to take the raines to run forth into all dissolutenesse to their vtter destruction The other doth discourage childrē is the cause of many mischiefs therfore iustly cōdemned by the holy Ghost Ephe. 6.4 Col. 3.21 Q. What is the second generall dutie of parents toward their children The 2. general dutie of parents toward their children is that they teach instruct them 1. In the knowledge of God and his word 2. In good manners 3. In good Artes and trades of liuing A. They are to teach instruct thē Q. In how many things A. In three things Namely in the knowledge of God and of his word Secondly in ciuilitie and good maners Thirdly in good Arts trades and professions wherby they may maintain thēselues do good to others Q. Where is the first commanded A. In many places both of the old new Testament as namely Exod. 12. 13. Deut. 4.11 Iosh 4. Ephe. 6. Q. What Parents haue practised these commaundements A. The best and most notable amongst the seruants of God Q. Who are they Examples of parents carefull to instruct their children A. Abraham Gen. 18. Dauid Bathsheba Pro. 4. ch v. 3. 4. ca. 31. the parents of Timothie 2. Tim. 1. 3. Q. Are all Christians bound to followe these examples A. Yea for to that end are they recorded in in the holy Scriptures Q.

constantly to God for his all-sufficient blessings vpon them as Abraham Dauid and the rest of the holy seruants of God haue done And that not without great cause for hereby they doe obtaine not onely a blessing vpon all the duties which they performance toward their children but also all other graces they stand in neede of both in regard of this life and of the life to come OF THE DVTIES of children toward their Parents Q. ARe children to performe duties toward their Parents Childrē are by the commandement of the Lord to performe 4. special duties to their parents A. Yea no doubt for why the Lord hath cōmaunded in the fift Commandement that children should Honour their Father and Mother vnder which word Honour are contained all duties which children are to yeeld to their Parents Q. What are those duties The first of them is loue A. They are diuers the first whereof is Loue. Q. Are children then to loue their Parents And it is a most necessary dutie A. Yea loue is so necessarie a vertue in the hearts of children that without it they will neuer yeeld other duties vnto Parents or if they do yet can they not please God for why the Lord doeth abhorre all duties be they neuer so excellent that proceede not of loue There is no doubt but that all children generally are backward to this dutie Q. What reasons therefore may perswade them thereunto A. Diuers and those effectuall 6. Reasons are alledged to moue children to loue their parents For first of all the Lord hath commaunded children to loue all men how farre remoued so euer they be in regard of any band or coniunction therefore much more their Parents 1. Reason to whom they are so neere linked in nature 2. Reason Againe God hath put his owne person vpon Parents and giuen them his owne amiable titles which originally and directly are proper to himselfe whereupon it followeth that if children haue any sparke of goodnes and pietie to God they cannot but beare a tender affection toward their Parents 3. Reason Thirdly God hath planted in them a certaine naturall affection inclination toward their Parents which if they do labour to extinguish suppresse they are worse thē bruit beasts who being moued with nothing els but a certaine instinct of nature do depend wholy vpō those that ingendred them seeme to preferre them before all other 4. Reason Besides Parents are the authors and causes of the life and beeing of their children and therefore are they vnworthy of life being that carry not a louing heart toward their Parents Furthermore Parents are the causes and as it were fountaines 5. Reason whereby al good graces and giftes are conueied vnto children bodily and spirituall concerning this life the life to come and therefore what horrible vnthankfulnes were it if childrē shuld not loue such excellent instruments 6. Reason mouing children to loue their parents It may be perceiued by 4. Reasons that the loue of Parents is great toward their childrē Lastly Parents do loue their children and therefore are children to yeeld the like vnto their Parents for loue doth deserue and ought to procure loue Q. But how is it manifested that Parents loue their children A. Diuers waies And first in that they doe so tenderly nurse and bring them vp Againe for that they do so carefully and diligently watch ouer them against all dangers Besides how patiently doe they take and put vp many troubles annoyances and vexations at the hands of their children Furthermore they do often euen with cheerfulnes defraud themselues of many necessaries which they thēselues stand in need of for their childrens sake as meate drinke apparell sleepe and such like Q. By all that you haue said I see it is great reason that children should loue their Parents and that euen of conscience But haue you any examples that any haue so done The examples of louing childrē may be a 7. Reason to moue vs to loue our parents A. Yea many of the deare children of God in times past and many also at this day as may appeare by diuers signes and effects whose worthy examples all other ought to imitate and follow Q. What if Parents be churlish and vnnaturall A. They are tenderly to loue their Parents for all that Q. What is your reason Children are to loue their Parēts thogh they be churlish to them The Reason of it A. Because that a vice or fault in the person of the Parents cannot dissolue that naturall bond wherewith children are knit vnto them much lesse abolish the dutie that God hath laid vpon children Q. What other autie do children owe to their Parents A. Reuerence or an honourable estimation of them 2. Dutie which children stand bounde to performe to their Parēts is a reuerēd and honorable estimation of them Q. Must this needes be ioyned with Loue A. Yea that it may well gouerne and temper it least it degenerate into contempt Q. What reasons haue you to proue that children are to reuerence their Parents There are 2. reasons why it should be so A. First of all Parents do after a sort carrie the image of God therefore it cannot be auoided but that if children contemne their Parents 1. Reason they contemne God himselfe 2. Reason Againe Parents are Superiors vnto their children both in yeares and tract of time as also in authoritie and gouernment for why God hath subiected children vnder the hand and direction of their Parents The inward Reuerence of children to their parents is outwardly to be expressed 2. wayes 1. In speech 2. In gesture Inward reuerence is outwardly to be expressed 2. waies 1. In presēce 2. In absence Q Are children onely to retaine reuerence to their Parents inwardly in their hearts A. No they are outwardly to vtter and practise it and that two waies in Speech and Gesture Q. How in Speech A. Two waies First in the presence of their Parents Secondly in their absence Q. What rules are to be obserued for the first A. First they are to giue to their Parents such termes 3. Rules are to be obserued of children in speaking to or in the presence of their parents 1. Rule 2. Rule titles and phrases of speech as may declare the reuerence of their affections Secondly they are not to preuent their Parents in speech without some great and weightie cause but to speake when they haue leaue and fit occasion Thirdly they are not to be excessiue in speech before their Parēts but sparing and continent as those that desire rather to heare then to speake themselues Q. What are they to doe in the absence of their Parents Children are to speake reuerently of their parents in their absence or out of their hearing Children are to behaue themselues reuērentlie also in their outward gesture toward their parents This is expressed 3. waies 1. 2. 3.