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A01530 Maskil le-David = Dauids instructer A sermon preached at the visitation of the Free-Schole at Tunbridge in Kent, by the wardens of the Worshipfull Companie of Skinners; by Thomas Gataker B. of D. and pastor of Rotherhith. Gataker, Thomas, 1574-1654. 1620 (1620) STC 11655; ESTC S102889 29,949 48

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is that that Gods blessing is entailed vnto euen all the good blessings both of this life and the next and Blessednesse it selfe not temporall onely but eternall For Blessed is the man that feareth God and Blessed is euery one that feareth the Lord and He is a blessed man that standeth alwayes in awe For Godlinesse that is the Feare of God hath the promises both of this life and of that that is to come Of this life For There shall be no want to those that feare him they shall lacke nothing that is good for them And of the life to come too For The louing kindnes of the Lord is for euer and euer vpon them that feare him and his bounty or mercy vpon their Childrens Children And therefore no maruaile if Salomon as in the Entrance into his Prouerbs he maketh the Feare of God the Beginning of all so in the Conclusion and shutting vp of his Ecclesiastes he maketh the same Feare of God the very Summe and the End of all Summa or Finis rei Will you heare saith he what is the Summe or the End of all Feare God and keepe his Commandements For that is the whole dutie of man and that is the only meanes to make man truly happy the maine matter that Salomon there intended to teach Now this First may teach you that be Parents Masters and Teachers what to labour in if you desire the true welfare and happinesse of those that be vnder your charge or Gods blessing vpon them and your labours and endeuours with them euen to teach them the feare of God You are not to thinke it enough that you haue taught them some trade that you haue giuen them learning humane learning I meane that they may liue by an other day but you must withall or else you come far short of that you should do teach them also to feare God and so to serue him here as they may liue with him eternally when they go hence To which purpose it is well obserued that the promise of a blessing to be continued to posteritie though made to the obseruance of all Gods precepts yet is more specially annexed to the second Commandement in the Decalogue which is concerning the seruice and worship of God God thereby intimating what Parents others should principally apply themselues to haue planted in their Families if they would haue Gods blessing entailed vpon their issue For as for other things euen Heathen and Infidels or meere Ciuill and naturall men will be ordinarily teaching and instructing their Children to forbeare and abhorre lying and stealing and loosenes of life and surfeting and excesse and the like because such things may make them vnfit for common and ciuill society or may be a meanes to waste them and that that they shall leaue them But God would haue vs and those that be truly godly will regard it to go a st●p further and to teach them a lesson beyond all this not ciuilitie alone but true piety too that we may be blessed in them and they inherit Gods blessing with vs. And surely what difference will there be betweene a Christian Parent and an Heathen a Christian Schole-master and a Pagane if the Parent or Schole-master teach his Children and Schollers matter of ciuilitie or humane learning alone Do not Heathen euen the same As the Apostle speaketh in an other case He that prouideth not for his Familie is worse then an Infidell So here that Parent that bringeth vp his Childe idly is worse then many an Infidell he that traineth him vp in some worldly trade onely is no better then they That Schole-master that teacheth them not at all that be committed vnto him is worse then many an Infidell he that giueth them humane learning onely is litle better then they That Parent or Teacher that doth not teach them Ciuilitie comes far short of many Heathen ones he that doth teach Ciuilitie and not Piety withall goeth no further then they haue gone Lastly Children also must learne to feare and to serue God If your Gouernors must teach you it then questionlesse you must learne it Remember thy Creator saith Salomon in the dayes of thy youth And Whereby shall a boy or a Child saith Dauid make his path pure but by taking heede to it according to Gods word It is an idle conceipt of many that Religion and Godlinesse is not for Children that such things concerne them not There is no age freed from it And therefore Iohn writeth vnto and directeth what he writeth vnto all not to olde men and young men strong growne men onely but to Children and litle ones also And surely most equall it is that as the first-fruits of other things so the first-fruits of our yeeres should go also to God It is but a Diuelish Prouerbe A young Saint and an old Diuell The Holy Ghost by Solomon assureth vs the contrary Teach a Childe saith he in the trade of his way and he will not depart from it when he is old It is true indeed that those that haue made most shew of piety when they fall away againe proue vsually most prophane But where it hath once truly taken roote in the heart there it will continue constantly euen to all eternity and neuer dye or decay againe Let this therefore good Children be your principall care and studie For what shall it availe you to be cunning in Tully Virgil Homer and other profane Writers if you be vnskilfull in Gods booke to haue learned Greeke and Latine if you learne not withall the language of Canaan to haue your speech agreeable to the rules of Priscian or Lilie if your liues and courses be not consonant to the rules and lawes of Christianitie to haue knowledge of the Creatures when you are ignorant of the Creator to haue learned that whereby you may liue a while here and neglect that whereby you may liue eternally hereafter Learne to feare God to serue God and then God will blesse you For He will blesse those that feare him be they great or small Yea he will take charge of you and prouide for you if your Parents be taken from you Though my Father and Mother saith Dauid should leaue me yet would God take me vp He will be a Father vnto you he will see you shall not want If your Parents haue wrought the Feare of God into you they shall be sure to leaue Gods blessing to you they may boldly bequeath it you and you shall be sure to partake with them in it To end where we began it is the commendation of Timothie and of his Parents withall that he had knowne the holy Scriptures from a Childe and had bin euen nursed vp in the words of faith and good doctrine sucking piety and godlines in with his Mothers milke and beginning to be acquainted with it euen at the