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,^[1] pray for,^[2] and bless their inferiors;^[3] to instruct,^[4] counsel, and admonish them;^[5] countenancing,^[6] commending,^[7] and rewarding such as do well;^[8] and discountenancing,^[9] reproving, and chastising such as do ill;^[10] protecting,^[11] and providing for them all things necessary for soul ^[12] and body:^[13] and by grave, wise, holy, and exemplary carriage, to procure glory to God,^[14] honor to themselves,^[15] and so to preserve that authority which God hath put upon them.^[16]