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164 & obey their Masters. Exhort servants (Titus 2.9.) to please their Masters will in all things, shurg all good fidelity that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.

  The duties of the rich towards the poor are compass sign & charity, distribut.g to their necessities & comfort.g them in adversity -  The duty of the poor towards their benefactors are gratitude & their prayers for them.  The duties of the aged towards the young are condesention instruction & direction, - of the young to the aged are reverence & readiness to receive their council & assistance in every kind office, when the wants of the aged require their aid.  The duties of superiors in knowledge & honors towards inferiors are condescention, condesen.g to men of low degrees, the duties of equals are mutual love & kindness as among brethren of the same family.  We come
  Lastly, To enforce the important duties of filial piety, from the animating motives held forth in the text.  That thy days may be long upon the land that the Lord thy God giveth thee.
 Here is a particular promise to filial duty. health & long life is promised to those who honor their parents.  The promises of the law, of blessings annexed to obedience, we find were principally promises of temporal blessings, as health, peace, affluence & longevity. But the promises annexed to gospel  Obedience, or contained in the covenant of grace, are chiefly spiritual blessings, yet under the gospel temporal blessings are also included, for godliness as the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come.
 The promise of long life in the land of Canaan was then peculiar to the Jews who inhabited