IX. That It is Our Duty to Esteem Our Christian Teachers Above Our Parents--The Former Being the Means of Our Well-Being, the Other Only of Our Being.
Thou shalt honour him that speaks to thee the word of God, and be mindful of him day and night; and thou shalt reverence him,1 not as the author of thy birth, but as one that is made the occasion of thy well-being. For where the doctrine concerning God is, there God is present. Thou shalt every day seek the face of the saints, that thou mayest acquiesce in their words.
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[Chaps. ix.-xvii. contain nearly every clause of Teaching, chap. iv., in the same order, and with every appearance of a designed enlargement of that passage.--R.] ↩
