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Q. 78. What art thou commanded in the fift Commandement?
A. To honour my Father and Mother, Exod. 20. 12. to feare my mother and father, Levit. 19. 3. to use reverent gestures before them, vers. 32 and reverent speeches to them. 1 King. 2. 20 to obey them. Prov. 16. 20. in godly choice of Ma∣riage as Isaac did, Gen 24. 4, 67. and of Vocati∣on, as Samuel did, 1 Sam. 1. 28. and 2. 11. and of sutable Apparell, vers. 19. yea in all things, Cel. 3. 2. So it b•• in the Lord, Ephes. 6. 1. To re∣ceive all godly instruction from them, Prov. 1. 8. to submit to their correction Prov. 23. 13. to re∣quire my Parents love, 1 Tim. 5. 4. to relieve them i•• they bee in want, Gen. 47. 11. to cover their Infirmities in a humble wise, Gen. 9. 23. To intreat Christ for them. Mark. 1. 29, 30. 31. •••• nothing to be unnaturall toward them, 2 ••im •• 2, 3. I must honour my Parents, not onely by generation, Prov. 23. 22. but also by ashnity. Ruth 3. 1, 5. by adoption, Ester 2. 7. 20. by in•••• and government, as Kings and Magistrates, Isa 22. ••1. by bounty as benefactours, Ioh 29. 16. also through Age as old men, 1 Tim. 5. 1. ••••. or through Spirituall profession, as Ministers and Preachers, 1 Cor. 4. 15. for they are my spi∣rituall Fathers, Tit. 1. 4. and these I must have in a double honour, 1 Tim. 5. 17.