2. Forbearing. Eph. iv. 2. Col. iii. 13. If you cannot bear with your children, who will?
3. Patient. 1 Thess. v. 14. Eccles. vii. 8. A mother has need of great patience.
4. Loving. Tit. ii. 4.
III. In your daily temper take Christ as your example.
‘Consider Him who endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be weary, and faint in your minds.’ Heb. xii. 3.
III. TRUTH. 1.
Importance of truth. Prov. xii. 19.
The liar’s portion. Rev. xxi. 8; xxii. 15.
How can you enforce the necessity of truth, and the sin of lying upon your children?
I. You must enforce it by example.