Q129
What is required of superiors towards their inferiors?
It is required of superiors, according to that power they receive from God, and that relation wherein they stand, to love,680 pray for,681 and bless their inferiors;682 to instruct,683 counsel, and admonish them;684 countenancing,685 commending,686 and rewarding such as do well;687 and discountenancing,688 reproving, and chastising such as do ill;689 protecting,690 and providing for them all things necessary for soul and body:691 and by grave, wise, holy, and exemplary carriage, to procure glory to God,692 honour to themselves,693 and so to preserve that authority which God hath put upon them.694