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Have you such a pattern of obedience and tender love to Pa∣rents,* 1.1 then children imitate your pattern, as it becomes Christi∣ans; and take Christ for your example. Whatsoever your Pa∣rents be, see that you carry it towards them becoming such as pro∣fess Christ.
First, If your Parents be godly, O beware of grieving them by any unbecoming carriage. Art thou a Christian indeed, thou wilt
then reckon thy self obliged in a double bond, both of grace and nature to them. O what a mercy would some children esteem it, if they had Parents that feared the Lord, as you have!
Secondly, If they be carnal, walk circumspectly, in the most precise and punctual discharge of your Duties: for how knowest thou, O Child, but hereby thou maist win thy Parents? Wouldst thou but humbly and seriously intreat, and perswade them to mind the waies of holiness; speaking to them at fit seasons, with all ima∣ginable humility and reverence: Insinuating your advice to duties, or trouble for their evils rather by relating some pertinent History, or proposing some excellent example; leaving their own Consciences to draw the conclusion, and make applica••ion, than to do it your selves: it's possible they may ponder your words in their hearts, as Mary did Christs, Luk. 2.49, 51. And would you but back all this with your earnest cries to Heaven for them, and your own daily example; that they may have nothing from your selves to retort upon you; and thus wait with patience for the desired effect: O what blessed instruments might you be of their everlasting good!
Infer. 2.