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A67002	Of the childs portion viz: Good education. By E. W. Or, The book of the education of youth, that hath for some yeers lain in obscurity; but is now brought to light, for the help of parents and tutors, to whom it is recommended. By Will: Goudge, D.D. Edm: Calamy. John Goodwin. Joseph Caryll. Jer: Burroughs. William Greenhill.; Childes patrimony. Parts I & II	Woodward, Ezekias, 1590-1675.; Woodward, Ezekias, 1590-1675. Childes portion. The second part. Respecting a childe grown up.	1649 (1649)	Wing W3500; ESTC R221221	404,709	499

Ma● lib. 1. ●● 37. So strong a naturall affection hath been and so able to endure wrongs and to right them with good which is our rule and contrary to former customes l Isid P●lus lib. 3. epist 126. 1 Cor 4. 12. 13. ●●ge Chrys ad Pop. Ant. 〈◊〉 Hom. 9. ● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plu● de Frat. Am. wins the Crown or garland Grace is stronger then Nature it rivets and joynes men together like twin members eyes hands and feet or like twigs on the same root or stalke which stick alwayes together But especially if we suppose two persons communicating together at the Table of the Lord we must needs grant that in this Communion they see that which will reconcile implacablenesse it self for there they see a free offer of grace and peace not onely to an enemie once but to exmitie it self an infinite debt cancell'd a transgressour from the wombe an infinite transgressour since yet accepted to mercy This will beget again a love to God and to the most implacable enemy for Gods sake thoughts of this will swallow up the greatest injuries If our thoughts be upon the Ten thousand talents we cannot possibly think of requiring the hundred pence this Chrysostome m Vol. 5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Lege Chrysost in cap. 8. ad Rom. Hom. 14. p. 206 presseth very fully and usefully in his first sermon upon that parable or debtor We must remember alwayes that much love will follow as an effect from the cause where many sinnes are forgiven n Luke 7. 47. Matth. ●8 33 We cannot but think on the equitie of this speech and how inexcusable it must leave an implacable man I forgave thee all thy debt shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellow servants The summe is and our rule I must love my friend in Christ and my enemie for Christ Catechismes are large here and helps many and it is hard to meet with new meditations on so old a subject handled so fully and usefully by many but His good spirit leade thee by the hand who leades unto all truth It remains onely that I give some satisfaction to a question or two these they are But how if I finde not these graces Repentance faith charitie to be in me how then May I go to this Table or go I as a worthy Communicant A weighty Question this of high and universall concernment For he or she that eats and drinks unworthily are guilty of the Body and Bloud of the Lord o 1. Cor. 11. 27. The guilt of bloud lieth upon them Now the Lord ever puts a price upon bloud even upon the bloud of beasts upon the bloud of man much more upō that bloud that was shed for man how great a price being the bloud of God and the price of souls So then we must be well advised what we do For if we spill mans bloud as God forbid we should for bloud cries yet if we would we have another bloud to cry unto which cries for mercy but if we spill this Bloud and tread it under foot what then whither then shall we flie for mercy when with our own hands we have plucked down our Sanctuary We spill we cast away our right pretious medicine We must then be well advised what we do and be humbled very low for what we have done even to girding with sackcloth and wallowing in dust p Jer. 6. 26. For who is he that may not say even in this case Deliver me from bloud guiltinesse O Lord the God of my salvation q And blessed be God even the God of our salvation that we can in His Name go to bloud for pardon of this crimson sinne even the spilling of His Bloud for so three thousand did before us r Acts 2. And written it is for our example For when the stain of This Bloud was fresh on their hands and hearts too yet being pricked at their hearts for it even for the shedding of that Bloud they cryed to that Bloud and were pardoned And so having premised this I come to the question which hath two branches and so shall have a double answer briefly first to the first branch Quest 1 If these graces be wanting may I go Answ It is not safe If thy case be so wanting upon the ballance thou mayest more safely go to other ordinances for supply others there are appointed by God to cast down the loose and presumptuous as this serves to raise up the humble to nourish the faithfull Soul For tell me what communion hath a proud haughty person with an humbled Lord What hath an unbroken heart to do with a broken Christ What relish can a dead man take in the sweetest dainties What pardon can an implacable man expect from the Lord who paid our debt to the utmost farthing What comfort can that soul fetch from seeing bloud poured out for him who cannot at least poure out his soul in confessions before Him Answer thy self at this point for if I answer I must needs say though to the confusion of my own face that certainly there is required of every communicant that there be some Analogie proportion conformitie or agreement betwixt our hearts the frame of them and the great duty or imployment we are upon I mean thus That we bring mortified lusts before a crucified Lord a bruised spirit before a broken Body a soul fitly addressed to such a feast Some drops of mercy in a free and full forgivenesse of trespasses against us before such an Ocean of mercy swallowing up the guilt of so many trespasses against Him And surely though I define nothing at this point yet truth there is in what I say For I remember Chrysostome saith ſ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That Discipl●● onely are to come to this holy Table such who are taught from Christs mouth and live according to what they are taught And the danger of not being such an one and yet coming to this feast is certainly very great too for the Father addes in that same place t 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That he would rather suffer his own heart bloud to be spilt then that he would give the bloud of Christ to a man of unclean hands of an impure life and known so to be to an unworthy Communicant and discovered to come unnworthily u 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 If the danger be such in giving then much more is the danger great in Receiving though indeed an impenitent person cannot be said properly to receive Christ but rather to reject Him But yet in proprietie of our speech we say he receives whereas so none can do truly and properly but a Disciple Therefore the Father resumes it again saying he must be a Disciple that comes to this fea●t If not I give and he receives but it is a sharp sword in stead of bread x 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 M●tt 26. Hom 83. ●● Quest 2. Answ So

leaps and well adviseth before he speaks but when he hath spoken he will not think he hath done We hold it a foule disgrace if a man shall give us the lie we must not put that disgrace upon our selves suffering our actions to disagree with our words which is to give our selves the lie Lelius passeth a short censure upon Cato and Socrates but he makes a wide difference in their commendations We have heard much from the mouth of the one we have observed more from the hand of the other * Hujus enim facta illius dicta laudantur The one mans words are commended the other mans deeds Bodin giveth a shorter censure but no commendations upon that holy-father Pope Alexander the sixth and Borgias his sonne The father never spake what he meant The sonne never did what he spake Their Maxime was Give thy word to all Keep touch with none And this was Dare verba indeed in plain English Knaverie by your leave An honest man will not passe his word lightly no not for himself much lesse for another for then he takes the ready and rode-way to need the same courtesie from another But when his word is passed he holds it as firm as his oath Shew me a man that makes light of his words and I will shew you the same man that he puts no weight in his oath if he breakes his word with you no bands a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 P●●d will hold him except one that hath his hand in it and the reason thereof is plain because he knows that is a manuduction to the prison he will hold with you there because he knows if he do not that the prison will hold him for that is a strong hold Remember we that we hold it the greatest indignitie in the world if a man can do to us as some-time he will threaten if he can make us Eat our own words Beware we that we do not put this dishonour upon our selves which we could not brook from another Of all beasts we have them in greatest detestation who devoure their own young such beasts there are our words what are they but the issue of our own mouth And if we resume and recall them what do we other then eat and devoure our own off-spring And hence a childe will learn it is not too subtill for him to detest their Religion who doctrinally b Qui dogmatizan● mendacia teach That words how solemnly so ever pronounced are like Gypsies knots fast or loose at the Churches pleasure no faith no keeping touch with any but as it maketh for advantage c Nulla fides n●si prout expedit No what say they to the three yeares famine That is a resolved case 2. Sam. 21. so is that also Ezek. 17. 16. 17 18 19. very worth the noting And we learn too what Pharaoh teacheth by the light of nature saying thus to Ioseph Sith thy Father hath made thee sweare concerning the place of his buriall by all meanes go up and bury thy Father d Gen 50. 5. 6. But let us mark that which is most remarkable that which is to be wished were forgotten but it cannot be How God hath reproved this breach of covenant from heaven witnesse that sad sore and grievous stroake which by a Divine hand was inflicted upon that King e Lewis King of Hungary Vladis●aus and his whole Royall army who made an oath taken upon the holy Evangelist for the concluding a peace with the Turkish Sultan f Hist profan Medul p. 8 23. but a broker to unworthy ends yet is an oath the greatest securitie that can be given the onely chaine on earth as one saith g S. Dan. Henry third p. 167. besides love to tie the conscience of a man and humane societie together Mark we must also in that stroake that the like vengeance was remarkably executed upon the Cardinall who absolved the said King from the said oath for being wounded unto death he was found lying in the high way by Gregory Sanose ready to give up the ghost and seemed but to stay to take with him the bitter curses of such as passed by flying from the battel as the due reward of his perfidious absolution What will the Pope now for the league was disannulled by power from the Pope or his Cardinalls that now are for it was by perswasion of Iulian a Cardinall what will they say to this vengeance to this sad stroake for Lege B●●cl Euphor 4. p. 360. As●h To● p. 26. Psal 15. as that breach of covenant was to the reproach of the Christian name ever since so was that vengeance to the infeebleing the Christians arm to this very day Besides all this we must remember the words that are so plain A good man speaketh the truth from his heart and though he swear to his hurt yet he changeth not what say they to all this Nay I cannot tell nor themselves neither But this we can tell It is as familiar for them to eat their words as it is to drink bloud they are infamous all over the world for both i See Mr Bolton direct pag. 232. therewith they are filled as a bottle with wine Drunk with the bloud of the Saints Tell the childe this he may understand it and so understand it that he will never look back to this Sodom never return to that Aegypt for a silly fish the Naturalists say will not come to a bloudy hook Now for us men if we shew our selves men we have from hence made Davids conclusion I have sworn and I will perform k Psal 119. 106. it when we have sworn when our words are within that inclosure we dare not break-out we will perform we are fully purposed so to do if in licitis l Juramentum non debet esse vinculum iniquitatis Zanch. de Spons if not we know the rule Remember we must still what the Lord saith to David for as to David so to us He hath sworn to do His people good yet do they provoke Him with many unkindnesses and much hard usage every day and though they do so so often break covenant with Him yet will not He break covenant with them nor alter the thing that is gone out of his lips m Psal 89 3● This we must observe for our imitation for they keep us from perishing And thus much that parents may learn and that they may teach their children how sacred a bond an oath is § † 9. We may observe children very abusive one with another they will seem not to know one the others name Prevent this evil quickly in teaching them better manners they have no excuse for that fault the childe knows his name and who gave him that name and wherefore for distinction sake he knows that he might call others and be called by the same name If a parent heare a Nick-name from a childes mouth let the childe