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III. It may be you need patience in bearing with unjust tempers, and unkind treatment. 1 Pet. ii. 19, 23. Ps. x.x.xvii. 7.

IV. For answers to prayer.

Syro-Phenician mother. Matt. xv. 22, 28. Jam. v. 7, 8. 'Tarry thou the Lord's leisure.'

V. In tribulation, sickness, and poverty. Rom. xii. 12. Jam. v. 10, 11. Luke, xxi. 19.

XIX. THE FIRM MOTHER.

I. To obey is a child's duty.

Exod. xx. 12. Eph. vi. 1. Col. iii. 20.

II. This obedience should be-

1. Implicit.

2. Unquestioning.

3. Immediate.

4. In manner, and spirit.

5. From love.

6. In absence, as well as presence.

7. To the _mother_ as well as the _father_.

Prov. i. 8; vi. 20; xv. 20. Lev. xix. 3. _e.g._ Luke, ii. 51.

This is most important. In the Bible no difference is drawn between the authority of the father and mother.

III. A promise attached to obedience.

Exod. xx. 12. Eph. vi. 2. Jer. x.x.xv. 18, 19.

IV. To disobey is sin.

Deut. xxi. 18, 21. Ezek. xxii. 7. Rom. i. 30. 2 Tim. iii. 2. 1 Sam.

ii. 25.

V. A punishment attached to disobedience.

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