to you in this contagious times, you must obey them in these Particulars.
1. In receiving Instructions from them, in hearkning to their wholsome Counsel and Advice, Prov. 3.1. My son forget not my Law, but let thine heart keep my Commandments, Prov. 4.1, 2, 3, 4. and 5.1, 2, 7. and 6.20. &c. and 7.1, 2, 3.
2. In submitting to their Correction, without murmuring and repining.
3. In being content with your Diet and Appa∣rel that your Parents provide for you.
4. In yeilding them sustenance and Mainte∣nance if they come to Poverty, if you be able to supply them; they gave you maintenance when you could not provide for your selves, do you so for them, if they need, though you work hard to help them, 1 Tim. 5.4. But, if any Widow have Children, or Nephews, let them first learn to shew piety at home, and to requite their Parents, for that is good and acceptable before God. Though Children can never (fully) requite their Parents, for they had their being by them; and, what if they have help by you in outward things, you had your being by them, and that is more: Take heed of being ashamed of your Parents, if they be poor, and you are raised to an higher degree in the World than ever they were, but, to disown them would be impious.
5. In submitting to their choise of a Calling for you.
6. In disposing of you in Marriage: Change not your Condition without their Consent, as Isaac, Gen. 24. and Sampson, Judg. 14.1, 2. Nay,