Why are superiors styled Father and Mother?
Text: Orthodox Presbyterian Church text, with WLC 109 restored to the 1647 wording · Read it at the source
Superiors are styled Father and Mother, both to teach them in all duties toward their inferiors, like natural parents, to express love and tenderness to them, according to their several relations; and to work inferiors to a greater willingness and cheerfulness in performing their duties to their superiors, as to their parents.