Ephef. 6. 4. Se&t. 2: in giving the biggest to the biggeft; but when you were appointed Judge, not whom the Coat did fit, but whose it was, you should have confidered the title and the poffeffion, who did the violence, and who made it, or who bought it. And fo it must be in judgments between the Rich and the Poor: it is not to be confidered what the poor man needs, but what is his own. 2. A Prince may not, much lefs may inferiour Judges, deny Juftice when it is legally and competently demanded: and if the Prince will ufe his prerogative in pardoning an Offender against whom Juftice is required, he must be carefull to give fatisfaction to the injured perfon, or his relatives, by fome other inftrument; and be watchfull to take away the scandal, that is, left fuch indulgence might make perfons more bold to do injury: and if he spares the life, let him change the punishment into that which may make the Offender (it not fuffer Juftice, yet) do Justice, and more real advantage to the injured per fon. These Rules concern Princes and their Delegates in the making or adminiftring Laws, in the appointing Rules of Juftice, and doing acts of Judgment. The duty of Parents to their Children and Nephews is briefly defcribed by S. Paul. The Duty of Parents to their Children. 1. Fathers, provoke not your Children to wrath: that is, be tender bowell'd, pitiful and gentle, complying with all the infirmities of the Children, and in their feveral ages proportioning to them feveral ufages ac cording to their needs and their capacities. 2. Bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the . Lord: that is, fecure their Religion, feafon their youngger years with prudent and pious principles, make them in love with vertue,and make them habitually fo before they come to chufe or difcern good from evil, that their choice may be with lefs difficulty and danger. For while they are under discipline, they fuck in al that ratio viven Sect. 2. that they are firft taught, and believe it infinitely. Potior mihi Provide for them wife, learned and vertuous Tutors, di honeftè, and good company and difcipline*, feasonable bap- quàm & op tilm, catechism and confirmation. For as it is a great timè dicendi, folly to heap up much wealth for our children, and Quintil.l.1. not to take care concerning the children for whom we cap. 2. get it. It is as if a man fhould take more care about Heb. 12.9. his fhooe than about his foot. in videtur. Crates apud liber. edu- cand. .1 3. Parents must* fhew piety at home; that is, they muft give good example and reverent deportment the face of their children; and all thofe inftances of charity which usually endear each other, fweetness of conversation, affability, frequent admonition, all fig nificatios of love and tendernefs, care and watchfulness, must be expreffed towards children, that they may look upon, their Parents as their friends and patrons, their defence and fanctuary, their treasure and their guide. Hither is to be reduced the Nurfing of Children, which is the first and most natural and neceffary inftance of piety which Mothers can fhew to their Babes; a duty from which nothing will excuse, but a difability, fickness, danger,or publick neceffity. 4. Parents must provide for their own according to their condition, education and employment; called by St. Paul, a laying up for their Children, that is, 1 Tim. 5. 13 an enabling them by competent portions, or good trades, arts or learning, to defend themfelves against the chances of the world, that they may not be expofed to temptation, to beggary, or unworthy arts. And although this must be done without covetou nefs, without impatience and greedy defires of making them rich; yet it must be done with much care and great affection, with all reafonable provifion, and according to our power; and if we can without fin improve our eftates for them, that alfo is part of the duty we owe to God for them. And this Rule is to extend to all that defcend from us, although we have been overtaken in a fault, and have unlawfu iffue; they also become part of our care, yet fo as not to injure the production of the lawful bed. 1 5. This duty is to extend to a provifion of conditions and an eftate of life. (a) Parents muft, according to their power and reafon, provide Husbands or Wives for their Children. (b) In which they must fecure Piety, and (c) Religion, and the affection and love of the interested perfons; and after thefe, let them make what provifions they can for other conveniences or advantages; Ever remembring that they can do no injury more afflictive to the Children, than to joyn them with cords of a difagreeing affection : it is like tying a Wolf and a Lamb, or planting the Vine in a Garden of Coleworts. Let them be perfuaded with reafonable inducements to make them willing, and to chufe according to the Pareres with, but at no hand let them be forced. Better to fit up all night, than to go to bed with a Dragon. (α) Νυμφημάτων μὲν τῶν ἐμῶν πατὴρ ἐμὸς Μέριμναν ἕξει, καὶ ἐκ ἐμὸν κρίνειν τάδε. Eurip. Electr. Tradidit: arbitrium neptis habebat avus. Ovid. in Epift. Hermiones. (b) Liberi fine confenfu parentum contrahere non debent. Andromacha apud Euripi dem cùm petita fuit ad nuptias,refpondit,patris fui effe fponfalium fuorum curara habere: & Achilles apud Homerum, Regis filiam fine patris fui confenfu noluit ducere. 1.10. ἦν γὰρ δὴ με σόωσι θεοὶ, καὶ οἴκαδ ̓ ἵκωμαι. Πηλεύς τήν μοι ἔπειτα graîna JaμśaTE TO CUTS. EC Juftinianus Imp. ait, naturali fimul & civili ra tioni congruere, nè filii ducant vxores citra Parentum authoritatem. Simo Terentianus parat abdicationem, quia Pamphilus clam ipfo duxiffet uxorem. Iftiufmodi fponfalia funt irrita, nifi velint Parentes: At fi fubfequuta eft copula, nè temerè refcindantur connubia multæ fuadent cautiones & pericula. Liberi autem quandiu fecundum leges patrias fui juris non funt, clandettinas nuptias fi incant, peccant contra Quintum Pra ceptum, & jus naturale fecundarium. Propriè enim loquendo, Parentes non habert fas, five poteftatem, fed authoritatem habent jus jubendi aut prohibendi, fed non irritum faciendi. Atque etiam ifta authoritas excrcenda eft fecundum æquum & bonum; fcil. ut nè morofus & difficilis fit Pater. Mater enim vix habet aliquod juris præter fuafionis & amoris & gratitudinis. Si autem Pater filiam non collocaffet ante 25. annos, filia nubere poterat cui voluerat, ex Jure Romanorum. Patrum enim authoritas major aut minor eft ex legibus patriis, & folet extendi ad certam ætatem, & tum exfpirat quoad Matrimoniam, & eft major in filias quàm filios. Num. 30. (c) Eofdem quos maritus noffe deos & colore folos uxor debet, fupervacaneis religionibus & alienis fuperftitionibus fores occludere. Nulli enim Deûm grata funt facra quæ mulier elanculùm & furtim facit. Plutarch. Conjug. Præcép. Gen. 24. mus puellam, & quæramus os ejus. The Duty of Husbands, &c. See Chap. 2. Sect. 3. autem Voce Rules Rules for married Perfons. 1. Husbands must give to their Wives love, maintenance, duty, and the fweetnefes of converfati on; [and Wives * muft pay to them all they κλυον αυτί. Odya. 5. Mcnal. Η μενοι φιλέεσ ̓ ἀλίχες μερόπων ανθρώ πων Ατρίδαι, ἐπειὴ ὅστις ἀγαθὸς κὶ ἐχέφρων, Homer, L. 1 have, or can, with the in- Ένες ἀληθες φίλτρον εὐγνώμων τρόπω. ferent of Obedience and Τότῳ καπικρατείν ανδρός είωθεν γυ ή Reverence and they muft be complicated in affections and Intereft, that there be no diftin! ation between them of ation between them of Mine and Thine. And if the Title be the Man's or the Woman's, yet the use must be common; only the Wisdom of the Man is to regulate all Extravagancies and Indifcretions. In other things no queftion is to be made; and their Goods fhould be as their Children, not to be divided, but of one Polletion and Provifion: whatsoever is otherwife, is not Marriage but Merchandise. And upon this ground I fuppofe it was, that St. Bafil commended that Woman who took part of her Husband's Goods to do good Works withal: for fuppofing him to be unwilling, and that the Work was his Duty or hers alone, or both theirs veu avin conjunction, or of great advantage to either of days as their Souls, and no violence to the fupport of their surrotas Families, the hath Right to all that: And Abigail of izons. her own Right made a coftly Present to David, when her Husband Nabal had refuted it. The Husband muft (a) rule over his Wife, as the Soul does over the Body, obnoxious to the fame Sufferings, and bound by the fame Affections, and doing or tuifering by the Permiffions and intereft of each other: that (as the old Philofopher faid) as the humours of the 12 Κλέψασα καλά κλέμματα (4) Lætum effe debet & officiofum mariti imperium. Plut. Namque es ei Pater & Frater, venerandaque Mater: Nec minus facit ad dignitatem Viri fi mulier eum fùum Præceptorem, Philofòphun, Magiftrúmque app:lict. Plutarch, M 2 body body are mingled with each other in the whole fub (4) Convictio eft quafi quædam intentio benevolentiæ. The Duty of Masters of Families. * 1. The fame care is to extend to all of our family in their proportions as to our Children: for as by Saint Paul's economy, the Heir differs nothing from a fervant while he is in minority; fo a fervant fhould differ nothing from a child in the fubftantial part of the care; and the difference is only in degrees. Servants and Mafters are of the fame kindred, of the fame nature, and heirs of the fame promifes: ar therefore, 1. must be provided of neceffaries for their fupport and maintenance. 2. They must be used with mercy. 3. Their work muft betolerable and merciful. 4. Their restraints must be reasonable. 5. Their recreations fitting and healthful. 6. Their Religion and the intereft of Souls taken care of. 7. And Mafters mult correct their Servants with gentleness, prudence and mercy; not for every light fault, not always, not with upbraiding and difgraceful language, but with fuch only as may exprefs and reprove the fault, and amend the perion But |