and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

Ezek. xx. 20. Hallow my Sabbaths: and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the Lord your God.

CHAPTER II.

PROMISES TO DUTIES OF THE SECOND
TABLE.

i. To Obedience to Parents.

Ephes. vi. 1. Children, obey your pa rents in the Lord; for this is right.. 2. Honour thy father and thy mother (which is the first commandment with promise.) 3. That it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest live long on the earth.

Col. iii. 20. Children, obey your parents in all things; for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

1 Tim. v. 4. But if any widow have children or nephews (grand-children), let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents; for that is good and acceptable before God.

Prov. i. 8. My son, hear the instruction of thy father; and forsake not the law of thy mother. Ver. 9. For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

Prov. vi. 20. My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother. 21. Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck. 22. When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou wakest, it shall talk with thee.

Jer. xxxv. 18. Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according to all that he hath commanded you: Ver. 19. Therefore thus saith the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, Jonadab, the son of Rechab, shall not want a man to stand before me for ever.

ii. To Good Education.

Deut. xi. 19. And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way; when thou liest down and when thou risest up. 20. And thou shalt write them upon the door-posts of thine house, and upon thy gates; 21. That

your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.

Gen. xviii. 19. For I know him (Abraham) that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment, that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.

Prov. xxii. 6. Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

To Correcting of Children.

Prov. xxii. 15. Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child, but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

Prov. xxiii. 13. Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. Ver. 14. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.

Prov. xxix. 15. The rod and reproof give wisdom; but a child left to himself, bringeth his mother to shame. 17. Cor. rect thy son, and he shall give thee rest : yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.

iii. To a Good Wife.

Prov. xi. 16. A gracious woman retaineth honour, and strong men riches.

Prov. xii. 4. A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband; but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

Prov. xiv. 1. Every wise woman buildeth her house.

Prov. xxxi. 10. Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. 25. Strength and honour are her clothing, and she shall rejoice in time to come. 28. Her children arise up, and call her blessed her husband also, and he praiseth her. 30. Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. 31. Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her own works praise her in the gates.

iv. To Faithful Servants.

Prov. xvii. 2. A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame; and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.

Prov. xiv. 35. The king's favour is toward a wise servant.

Prov. xxvii. 18. Whoso keepeth the figtree shall eat the fruit thereof; so he that waitet on his master shall be honoured.

Eph.vi.5. Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ: 6. Not with eye-service, as men pleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart. 7. With good-will doing service, as to the Lord and not to men, 8. Knowing, that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.

Col. iii. 22. Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh, &c Ver. 24. Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.

v. To Good Kings and Magistrates.

Deut. xvii. 18. And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book, out of that which is before the priests the Levites. 19. And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life; that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, to keep all the words of this law, and these statutes, to do them: 20. That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment to the