Answer: It is required of superiors, according to that power they receive from God, and that relation wherein they stand, to love₁, pray for₂, and bless their inferiors₃; to instruct₄, counsel, and admonish them₅; countenancing₆, commending₇, and rewarding such as do well₈; and discountenancing₉, reproving, and chastising such as do ill₁₀; protecting₁₁, and providing for them all things necessary for soul₁₂ and body₁₃: and by grave, wise, holy, and exemplary carriage, to procure glory to God₁₄, honor to themselves₁₅, and so to preserve that authority which God has put upon them.₁₆

1. Col 3:19; Tit 2:4;
2. 1 Sam 12:23; Job 1:5;
3. 1 Kgs 8:55–56; Heb 7:7; Gen 49:28;
4. Dt 6:6–7;
5. Eph 6:4;
6. 1 Pet 3:7;
7. 1 Pet 2:14; Rom 13:3;
8. Esth 6:3;
9. Rom 13:3–4;
10. Prov 29:15; 1 Pet 2:14;
11. Job 29:12–17; Isa 1:10, 17;
12. Eph 6:4;
13. 1 Tim 5:8;
14. 1 Tim 4:12; Tit 2:3–5;
15. 1 Kgs 3:28;
16. Tit 2:15