Format 
Page no. 
Search this text 
Title:  Of domesticall duties eight treatises. I. An exposition of that part of Scripture out of which domesticall duties are raised. ... VIII. Duties of masters. By William Gouge.
Author: Gouge, William, 1578-1653.
Table of contents | Add to bookbag
§. 114. Of reward promised to obedience, that it implieth no merit.The other heresie which Papists gather from this text, is Against merit. this, Mans obedience is meritorious.Answ. The reward here promised is no matter of wages and due desert, but of meere grace and fauour.Of this error I haue Whole armour of God, Treat. 2. Part. 4. §. 7. on Ephes. 6. 14. elsewhere more largely spoken.§. 115. Of the connexion of Parents dutie with Childrens.EPHES. 6. 4.And ye fathers, prouoke not your children to wrath: but bring them vp in the nurture and admo∣nition of the Lord.THe Apostle hauing vrged children to performe their du∣ties to their parents, he turneth his speech to parents, say∣ing, AND ye fathers, &c. That copulatiue particle AND, ioy∣ning an exhortation to parents, for performing their duties to the forenamed exhortation made to children, giueth vs to vn∣derstand, thatParents are as well bound to dutie as children. Their duties 1. Obseru. Parents bound to du∣ties. indeed be different, yet (notwithstanding their superioritie and authoritie ouer their children) they are bound to dutie. All the directions and exhortations throughout the Scripture gi∣uen vnto parents, concerning their dutie, and all the threat∣nings denounced, and iudgements executed on parents for neglect of their dutie, are pregnant proofes of this point.Though parents be ouer their children, and by them can∣not be commanded, yet they are vnder God: and he it is who hath enioyned them their dutie: so as they are bound there∣unto, as they will answer it to their Father in heauen.The authoritie which parents haue, is not so much for their owne aduancement, as for the better gouerning of their chil∣dren, which being so, their verie gouernment is a dutie.Object. In the morall Law the dutie of children only is ex∣pressed. How parents duties are im∣plied in the 5. Commande∣ment.Answ. Parents dutie (as many others duties) is by iust and necessarie consequence implied, which is equiualent, and as 0