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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15695	A childes patrimony laid out upon the good culture or tilling over his whole man. The first part, respecting a childe in his first and second age.	Woodward, Ezekias, 1590-1675.	1640 (1640)	STC 25971; ESTC S120251	379,238	456

consider not how soone God can wither Chap. 4. §. 13. the legge as well as the hand The King shall stretch it forth but cannot get it in againe They know not how soone He can stop the mouth and hold the eye and restraine this little vapour our breath and then where is man that speaks so proudly They know not how soone God can say Be it so as ye have desired Children must be taught That in God they live move and have their being In His hands is their breath and all their wayes e Dan. 5. 23. Him they must glorifie And for the better inforcing hereof the parent may note for the childes instruction foure examples of those who spake rashly and were payed home in that they spake against themselves † 1. We reade Numb 14. There in a discontent the people murmured and wished themselves dead verse 2. At the 28. verse The Lord saith As ye have spoken in mine eares so will I do unto you so their carkeises fell in the wildernesse † 2. We know who answered and said His bloud be upon us and our children f Matth. 27. 25. even so it was An heavy imprecation and most heavy it lyeth upon them even unto this day It pursues them saith g Tanquam ationitos terrefactos Aretius upon that place so as we may know the Iews and distinguish them from all others in the world for they looke as men affrighted and astonished They are an astonishing example of Gods smoaking wrath and written for our example who come the neerest to that Mother-Church in our receits and returnes I meane in mercies and in sinnes And this may teach us also that we speake not rashly against our selves nor reject the Counsell of God against our soules h Joh. 7. 30. nor trample under foot the Sonne of God counting the bloud of the covenant an unholy thing i Heb. 10. 29. Ch●ysost speaks sadly touching this abiding wrath upon the Jewes and the cause of the same 1. Tom. Hom. 37. orat 4. for as that bloud being sprinkled on the upper doore-post that is on our hearts speaks better things then the bloud of Abell so being rejected and despised as bloud cast on the threshold and under foot k Mr. Ainsw Exod. 12. 7. it speaks the sorest wrath witnesse the example we are now upon I meane the judgement of the Iews which is become a signe conspicuous to every eye as a Banner displayed or as Ensignes lifted up l Numb 16. 10. Exemplum omnium oculis expositum ut est erectum signum Trem. † 3. There is a third example of a Knight who suffred above twentie yeares since on Tower-hill I will note what he spake to the people at that time when it was time to be serious for he was taking his last leave of them and of the world Thus he spake I was a great gamester and still haunted with ill luck once and it was in France having lost a great sum I solemnly wished would I might be hanged if ever I played againe I quickly forgot what I had so solemnly promised and fell to my game again But now you all see how God hath payed me home a man not likely to breath my last here in so open a place so sadly spake that sad Gentle-man at a sad time and as sad a spectacle And with many good admonitions and savoury expressions he yeelded his body to the justice of the Law and his spirit to Him who abundantly pardoneth and so dyed as one that had hope in his death † 4. Dietericus in his Postills m First part imprinted 1631. p. 410. Colum. 2. tells us a yet sadder example not of his own knowledge but from anothers Relation of much esteeme and credit with him The Relation is this A young Gentle-woman of good note and breeding portion and proportion answerable had set her affection upon a Gentle-man but too low for her ranke or not rich enough in the friends esteeme yet to assure the young man to her and her selfe to him she solemnly wished The Divell take her if she marryed with any other The parents shortly after found out a fitter match for their daughter of their own chusing for the other liked them not I remember not well how the maide was pleased but the parents were so the match was concluded This we may note by the way If the question were put to parents what sway reason doth carry in the making of matches I beleeve they that go for wise-men might be posed or else ashamed to answer the truth Affections doe sway most with young persons Money and such by-respects with the old so the match is made and the childe is undone more of this in the second part the sequell hereof was this To Church the maide went with another not her own choosing and with the parents consent to him she was married home they return and then to dinner By that time they were set there came two gallants to the gate and seeming well appointed for a wedding solemnitie in they were brought and accordingly entertained After dinner they had their dance and these strangers the favour to dance with the Bride In the midst of the dance and so the Musick was spoyled away they whipt the Bride the friends saw her no more only her cloathes they found for the Divell had no quarrell against them so goes the Story And if so there was a feast turned into mourning and a rash wish paid home Much credit is given to the relation but this waight certainly it hath To bid us beware of that adversary who like a roaring Lion seekes whom he may destroy and waiteth but his commission when that is granted he will be as quick as he was with Iob to the uttermost extent of his chaine And yet as if we never read any of all this not how he hath tormented the body not how he delights in the vexation and paine of the creature in proud wrath as if we had neither heard nor read this both young and old speake as lightly of the Divell taking them as if he were their familiar friend and would use the creature kindly And they speake as lightly of damnation as if perishing for ever were nothing and everlasting burnings but a light matter it Lege Comerarium oper succ cap. 86. pag. 482. had no more heat in it then a glow-worm we have heard that which bids us beware and instructs the father and the childe very much I have done with the tongue that unruly member which causeth our trouble and commands our watch Childrens hands must be observed also as we partly heard and now followeth § 14. We may observe children spoyling much more then they eat like calves that make many orts They cannot understand what a blessing they have in their hands therefore they cannot prise it But looke to them herein so shall you prevent a great evill and a great provocation the