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—CHAPTER VII. 101cond as a cloak for this avarice, and to seem to valuehimself upon the third at the same time he is destroyingit. In vain do men endeavour to colourover theirimpiety with the finest pretences imaginable: God sees it, God judges it, and will one daylay it open before the eyes of the whole world." 12. And ye suffer him no more to do ought forhis father or his mother; 13. Making the word ofGod of none effect through your tradition, which yehave delivered : and many such like things do ye."The honour due to fathers and mothers, both bydivine and natural law, consists not in bare words,but in assistance spiritual and temporal, in respect,obedience, and obliging carriage, indefects either of temper or of age, and inbearing with thehelping andsupporting them in sickness, poverty, and troubles,without growing peevish, ashamed, or tired ;and allthis, neither through hypocrisy, interest, or humanregards;but from a sense of duty, out of gratitude,piety, love, and religion, and to honour our heavenlyFather in his image. To take away from parentswhat is due to them, in order to give it to the church,is sacrilege rather than sacrifice. God will not acceptthat from the hand of the priest, which he expectsto receive from us by the hands of our parents.Sect. II.It is the Heart ivhich dejiles a Man." 14. 51 And when he had called all the peopleunto him, he said unto them. Hearken unto me everyoneof you, and understand : 15. There is nothingfrom witliout a man, that entering into him can defilehim : but the things which come out of him, thoseare they that defile the man."