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The Relation of Parents, Wife, Children, to be sleighted if they once appear in competition with the Commandements of God. [ 1765]

IT was a pious (though erronious) spirit,* 1.1 that lodged in the breast of Sir Tho∣mas Moor, once Lord Chancellor of England, being at that time a Prisoner in the Tower of London, meerly upon the account of denying the King's supremacy who regarded not the Prayers, and passed by the tears of his loving and tender Wife, when she perswaded him with the forfeiture of his Conscience to endeavour the restauration of his liberty: And thus it is that the re∣lation of Parents, Wife, Children, &c. are to be sleighted when they once appear in competition with the Commandments of God,* 1.2 Pietas est, impium esse pro Domino, It is piety towards God to be unnatural to our Friends, nay, which is a more harsh expression, to hate them. Strange▪ that love it self should require ha••red, but yet just, not in an absolute,* 1.3 but a comparative sense; we must not love Father or Mother more then God, yea when their desires come in competition with his Will, we must hate them for his sake, we must say as Levi, nescio vos I know you not; or with Christ to his Mother, Quid mihi tecum, What have I

to do with thee? trampling underfoot all naturall Relations, which would hinder us from obedience 〈◊〉〈◊〉 divine injunctions.

Notes

• * 1.1

  In vita ejus, per A••ony••.
• * 1.2

  Hieron. Matth. 10. 37. Luke 24.
• * 1.3

  Nath. Hardy Serm. at Fun. of Mr. John Rushout, 1648.