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154 Our Saviour justly & surely reproves the jews for their vile & cruel conduct to their parents when aged & helpless, when by law of their invention they consecrated to the Service of the temple, that part of their estate, that belonged to their parents. The law of Moses provided that children should support their aged parents, but by their wicked custom, they had found means to evade that law.

 They transfered the commandment of God by their tradition.  For God commanded say.g honor they father & thy mother; & he that wr?eth father or Mother let him die the death. But ye Say, whosoever shall Say to his father or mother, It is a gift by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me, & honor not (does not provide) his father or mother, he shall be free from doing any thing for them.
 Thus by the injurious law of their Corban?, they excused themselves from assist.g & support.g their helpless parents in old age.  I shall now enquire,
    2.  What are the duties that parents owe their children
         1. They are bound to take care of them in their helpless state of infancy; children are part of the parents & they are to love & cherish them as they do their own flesh. They  are by providence commited to parents, the nourish.g aliment is sent into the breast of the mother to feed them, to her their first & most tender days are especially commited & the father is equally obliged to provide for the child & its mother.  The author of Nature has implanted this instinct in the parents breast: to love & cherish their infant offspring.  Isa. 49.15. Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb.  Instances of this unnatural neglect are rare.