Verse 18.
Seruants, bee subiect to your Masters with all feare, not onely to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
Seruants, bee subiect to your Masters with all feare, not onely to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
HItherto of the duties of subiects, and so of the exhortation as it is politicall, and concernes the Common-wealth.
Now the Apostle proceeds to giue directions oeconomicall, that concerne the family, or hous∣hould gouernment: Before I consider of the particular exhortations, something would be said in generall concerning a family.
A family is the society of diuers men dwelling together in one house for preseruation and hap∣pines: Where three things are to bee explicated: First, what are the persons, that take vpon them to constitute this society: Secondly, what is the difference between this society, and their humane societies: Thirdly, what is the end of this society.
First, the persons, that constitute a family or fa∣milies society, are to bee considered, either as the family is perfect, or vnperfect.
- 1. A perfect family consists of a triple socie∣ty, first, the one between man and wife▪ secondly▪ the other betweene parents and children: thirdly,