11. What superiors, besides our parents, must we honor, love, and obey?
Our guardians, tutors, teachers, employers, masters and mistresses, and all our Spiritual and Civil Superiors.
12. What are our duties towards our guardians, tutors, teachers, and employers?
We must consider them as the representatives and assistants of our parents; and, therefore, our duties towards them are in proportion to those which children owe to their parents.
13. What are the particular obligations of servants to their masters and mistresses?
They should, for the Lord's sake, show them respectful obedience, and honestly fulfil their contracts towards them (1 Pet. ii. 9, 10).
'Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh, not serving to the eye, as pleasing men, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God. Whatsoever you do, do it from the heart, as to the Lord, and not to men; knowing that you shall receive of the Lord the reward of inheritance' (Col. iii. 22-24). 'Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the forward' (1 Pet. ii. 18).
14. How do servants sin against their masters and mistresses?
1. By disobedience, obstinacy, moroseness, and ill-will; 2. By laziness, by pilfering dainties, and by wasting and embezzling their goods; 3. By calumny, detraction, and tale-bearing; and, "most of all, 4. By teaching evil to their children, by assisting them to do evil, or by conniving at it.
15. What are our duties towards our Spiritual Superiors?
We are bound, 1. To honor and love them as the representatives of God, and our Spiritual Fathers; 2. To submit to their ordinances; 3. To pray for them; and 4.
