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151 manded, as reading the scriptures, prayer attendance on public & private worship & the like. They are not obey in these things, because the authority of God is above the authority of parents & we are to obey God rather than men. Aware of this, that some parents would be found so unnatural & profane as to command children to do things sinful, the Apostle qualifies the general rule of filial duty with things that are good & rights & that are well pleasing to God & in such things the parents authority is absolute. Ephes 6.1. Children obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. It is right & agreeable to the light of nature & obedience must be in the Lord, or agreeable to his revealed will, to render it right & acceptable to God. Hence then children are to obey their parents in all things that are agreeable to right, reason & revelation.

  In obeying parental authority, all meekness & submission are to be shown, without murmuring contradict.g or gainsay.g. They are to cultivate a cheerful & willing obedience, striv.g to please them. Discharg.g all filial duty, heartily as unto the Lord, consider.g their parents as in God; stand to them.  The apostle speaks of the duty of children; reverencing their parents even when they correct. They corrected us & we did them reverence. If then they are meekly & submissively to yield to their  parents when they correct them for their faults, must they not punctually & cheerfully obey