[ 1302] Children to be ready in relief of the Parents Necessities.
LUther hath a Story of a good Father in Germany,* 1.1 that had made over all his estate to his Sons, reserving onely to himself a power, by turns to come and take his diet at their Tables: One of the Sons being at dinner, and having a goose before him, espied his Father coming, and set the goose underneath the Table, till his Father was gone again: Then takes he up the goose, which God had miraculously turned into a great Toad, which leaped into his face, and not∣withstanding all his striving,* 1.2 it could not be removed, till it had stifled him: Let all Children seriously look upon this Example, and look to it, that they relieve their Parents; For Parents helped them, when they were not able to help themselves;* 1.3 Let Parents not be sleighted,* 1.4 not mocked,* 1.5 not cursed,* 1.6 not smitten;* 1.7 but submitted unto,* 1.8 and relieved by the Examples of Christ,* 1.9 of Da∣vid, and of Ioseph, and of divers others, that for their filiall love, are recorded as famous in their several generations.