Sermons on the Relative Duties (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1788. Excerpt: ... SERMON II. DUTY To PARENTS. Ephes. VI. 2, 3. Honour thy father and thy mother', that it may be well with thee, and thou mayejl live hng on the earth.-H.AVING endeavoured, in a previous discourse, to recommend to you the necessity and advantages of mutual love and harmony, as the only means of insuring domestic peace and happiness, I shall proceed, in pursuance of what I there proposed, briefly to explain the nature of those strong ties and connections by which men in this life life arc bound to each other; and to illustrate the several important duties arising from them; in the due discharge of which, both our temporal and eternal welfare are so nearly and intimately concerned. I shall therefore beg your serious attention to some reflections on what we usually term the Relative Duties, which are for the most part ranked under the six following heads, namely, The Duty of Children to Parents: And of Parents to Children. The Duty of Servants to Masters: And of 'Masters to Servants. The Duty of Wives to Husbands: And of Husbands to Wives. On each of which I shall give you a separate discourse. I shall I shall begin therefore with the duty expressed in the words of my text, Gf CHILDREN to PARENTS. Honour thy father and thy mother, that it may be well with thee, and thou mayejl live long on the earth. As this duty is the first we are capable of practising, and which as soon as we have the least dawn of reason we are called upon to perform, it is very fitly placed at the head of the second table in the decalogue, and deserves of all social duties first and principally to be considered; because on this, as I shall in the subsequent discourse endeavour sully to prove, the others do immediately and necessarily depend. All those philosophers who have most curiously ...