for them all things neceffary for foul and body w: and by grave, wife, holy, and exemplary carriage, to procure glory to God x, honour to themfeves y, and fo to preferve that authority which God hath put upon them ż. Q. 130. What are the fins of fuperiors? A The fins of fuperiors are, befide the neglect of the duties required of them a, an inordinate fecking of themselves b, their own glorly c, eafe, profit, or plea widow's heart to fing for joy. v. 14. I put on righteoufnefs, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem. v. 15. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the 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 pluckt the fpoil out of his teeth. If. i. 10. Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. v. 17. Learn to do well, feek judgment, relieve the oppreffed, judge the fatherlefs, plead for the widow. Eph. vi. 4. And ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. w 1 Tim. v. 8. But if any provide not for his own, and efpecially for those of his own houfe, he hath denied the faith, and is worfe than an infidel. x 1 Tim. iv. 12. Let no man defpife thy youth, but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in converfation, in charity, in fpirit, in faith, in purity. Tit. ii. 3. The aged women likewife, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not falfe accufers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; v. 4. That they may teach the young women to be fober, to love their fure hufbands, to love their children. v. 5. To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blafphemed. y 1 Kings iii. 28. And all Ifrael heard of the judgment which the King had judged, and they feared the King: for they faw that the wifdom of God was in him, to do judgment. z Tit. ii. 15. These things fpeak and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee. 130. a Ezek. xxxiv. 2. Son of man, prophefy against the fhepherds of Ifrael,prophefy and fay unto them, Thus faith the Lord God unto the fhepherds, Wo be to the shepherds of Ifrael that do feed themselves: fhould not the fhepherds feed the flocks? v. 3. Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock. The difeafed have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was fick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye fought that which was loft; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them. V. 4. b Phil. ii. 21. For all feek their own, not the things which are Jefus Chrift's. c John v. 44. How can ye believe fure d; commanding things unlawful e, or not in the power of inferiors to perform f; counselling g, encouraging h, or favouring them in that which is evil i; diffuading, difcouraging, or discountenancing them in that which is good k; correcting them un which receive honour one of another, and feek not the honour that cometh from God only? John vii. 18. He that fpeaketh of himself, feeketh his own glory but he that feeketh his glory that fent him, the fame is true, and no unrighteousness is in him. d If. lvi. 10. His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; fleeping, lying down, loving to flumber. v. 11. 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. xvii. 17. Neither fhall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away neither shall he greatly multiply to himself filver and gold. : e Dan. iii. 4. Then an herald cried aloud, To you it is command. ed, O people, nations and languages, v. 5. That at what time ye hear the found of the cornet; flute, harp, fackbut, pfaltery, dulcinier, and all kinds of mufic, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Ne buchadnezzar the king hath fet up. v. 6. And whofo falleth not down and worshippeth, fhall the fame hour. be caft into the midst of a bourning firy furnace. Acts iv. 17. But that it fpread no futher among the peopole, let us ftraitly threaten them, that they fpeak henceforth to no man in this name. v. 18. And they called them, and commanded them not to fpeak at all, nor teach in the name of Jefus. duly fExod. v. from verf. 10. to the 18. And the task-mafters of the people went out, and their officers, and they fpake to the people, faying, Thus faith Pharaoh, I will not give you ftraw, &c. Matth. xxiii. 2. Saying, The fcribes and Pharifees fit in Mofes feat. v. 4. For they bind heavy burdens, and grievous to be borne. 8 Matth. xiv. 8. And fhe, being before inftructed of her mother, faid, Give me here John Baptift's head in a charger. Compared with Mark vi. 24. And fhe went forth, and faid unto her mother, What fhall I ask? and fhe faid, The head of John the Baptist. h 2 Sam. xiii. 28. Now Abfalom had commanded his fervants, faying, Mark ye now when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I fay unto you, Smite Amnon, then kill him, fear not: have not I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant. 1 Sam. iii. 13. For I have told him, that I will judge bis houfe for ever, for the iniquity which he knoweth; becaufe his fons made themfelves vile, and he restrained them not. k John vü. 46. The officers anfwered, Never man. fpake like this man. v. 47. Then answered them the Pharifees, Are ye alfo deceived? v. 48. Have any of the rulers, or of the Pharifees believed on him? v. 49. But this people who knoweth not the law are curfed. Col. iii. 21. Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, left they be difcouraged. Exod. duly 1; careless expofing, or leaving them to wrong, temptation and danger m; provoking them to wrath n; or any way difhonouring themfelves, or leffening their authority, by an unjust, indifcreet, rigorous, or remifs be haviour o. Exod. v. 17. But he faid, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye fay, Let us go, and do facrifice to the Lord. / 1 Pet. ii. 18. Servants, be fubject to your mafters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward. v. 19. For this is thank-worthy, if a man for confcience toward God endure grief, fuffering wrongfully. v. 20. For what glory is it, if when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye fhall take it patiently; but if when ye do well, and fuffer for it, ye take it patiently; this is acceptable with God, Heb. xii. 10. For they verily for a few days chaftened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holinefs. Deut. xxv. 3. Forty ftripes he may give him, and not exceed : left if he fhould exceed, and beat him above these with many ftripes, then thy brother shall feem vile unto thee. m Gen. xxxviii. 11. Then faid Judah to Tamar his daughter-inlaw, Remain a widow at thy father's house, till Shelah my fon be grown: (for he faid, Left peradventure he die alfo as his brethren did); and Tamar went and dwelt in her father's houfe. v. 26. And Judah acknowledged them, and faid, She hath been more righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah, my fon; and he knew her again no more. Acts xviii. 17. Then all the Greeks took Softhenes, the chief ruler of the fynagogue, and beat him before the judgment feat: and Q. 131. Gallio cared for none of those things. n Eph. vi. 4. And ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath : but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. • Gen. ix. 21. And he drank of the wine and was drunken, and he was uncovered within his tent. 1 Kings xii. 13. And the king (Rehoboam) anfwered the people roughly, and forfook the old men's counfel that they gave him; v. 14. And fpake to them after the counsel of the young men, faying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke; my father also chastifed you with whips, but I will chaftife you with fcorpions. v. 15. Wherefore the king hearkened not unto the people; for the caufe was from the Lord, -v. 16. So when all Ifrael faw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people anfwered the king, faying, What portion have we in David? neither have we inheritance in the fon of Jeffe: to your tents, O Ifrael: now fee to thine own house, David. So Ifrael departed unto their tents. 1 Kings i. 6. And his father had not difpleafed him (viz. Adonijah) at any time, in faying, Why halt thou done fo? I Sam. ii. 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 said indeed, that Q. 131. What are the duties of equals? A. The duties of equals are, to regard the dignity and worth of each other p, in giving honour to go one before another q; and to rejoice in each others gifts and advancement, as their own r. Q. 132. What are the fins of equals? A. The fins of equals are, befide the neglect of the duties required, the undervaluing of the worth t, envying the gifts v, grieving at the advancement or profperity one of another w; and ufurping pre-eminence one over another x. Q. 133. What is the reafon annexed to the fifth commandment, the more to enforce it? that thy houfe, and the house of thy father fhould walk before me for ever; but now the Lord faith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me, I will honour, and they that defpife me, fhall be lightly efteemed. v. 31. Behold, the days come that I will cut off thine arm, and the arm of thy father's house, that there fhall not be an old man in thine house. 131. p. 1 Pet. ii. 17. Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king. q Rom. xii. 10. Be kindly affectioned one to another; with brotherly love, in honour preferring one another. r Rom. xii. 15. Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep. v. 16. Be of the fame mind one towards another. Mind not high things, but conde. fcend to men of low eftate. Be not wife in your own conceits. Phil. ii. 3. Let nothing be done through ftrife, or vain-glory, but in lowliness of mind let each efteem other better than themfelves. v. 4. Look not every man on his own things, but every man alfo on the things of others. A. The 132. Rom. xiii. 8. Owe no man and thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another, hath fulfilled the law. t 2 Tim. iii. 3. Without natural affection, truce-breakers, falfe accufers, incontinent, fierce, defpifers of thofe that are good. v Acts vii. 9. And the patriarchs, moved with envy, fold Jofeph into Egypt; but God was with him. Gal. v. 26. Let us not be defirous of vain-glory, provoking one another, envying one another. w Numb. xii. 2. And they faid, Hath the Lord indeed spoken only by Mofes ? hath he not spoken alfe by us and the Lord heard it. Efth. vi. 12. And Mordecai came again to the king's gate: but Haman haft ed to his house, mourning, and having his head covered. V. 13. And Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his friends, every thing that had befallen him. Then faid his wife men, and Zeresh his wife unto him, If Mordecai be of the feed of the Jews, before whom thou haft begun to fall, thou shalt not prevail against him, but fhalt furely fall before him. x3 John 9. I wrote unto the church: A. The reafon annexed to the fifth commandment, in hefe words, That thy days may be long upon the land which he Lord thy God giveth thee y, is an exprefs promife of long ife and profperity, as far as it fhall ferve for God's glory and their own good, to all fuch as keep this command nent z. Q. 134. Which is the fixth commandment? A. The fixth commandment is, Thou shalt not kill a. ment? A. The duties required in the fixth commandment are, all careful ftudies, and lawful endeavours, to preserve the life of ourselves b and others c, by refifting all thoughts and purposes d, fubduing all paf church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the pre-eminence among them, receiveth us not. Luke xxii. 24. And there was alfo a ftrife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest. 133. y Exod. xx. 12. z Deut. v. 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. I Kings viii. 25. Therefore now, Lord God of Ifrael, keep with thy fervant David my father that thou promisedst him, faying, There fhall not fail thee a man in my fight to fit on the throne of If rael; fo that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as thou haft walked before me. Eph. vi. 2. Honour thy father and thy mother (which is the first commandment with promife), v. 3. That it may be well with thee, and thou mayeft live long on the earth. 134. a Exod. xx. 13. 135. b Eph. v. 28. So ought men to love their wives, as their fions own bodies: he that loveth his wife loveth himfelf v. 29. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church. c 1 Kings xviii. 4. For it was fo, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hide them.by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water. d Jer. xxvi. 15. But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to death, ye fhall furely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof: for of a truth the Lord hath fent me unto you, to fpeak all these words in your ears. v. 16. Then faid the princes, and all the people unto the priests, and to the prophets, This man is not worthy to die: for he hath spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God. Acts xxiii. 12. And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curfe, faying, That they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. v. 16. And when Paul's fifter's fon heard of |