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A68954	A three-fold treatise containing the saints sure and perpetuall guide. Selfe-enriching examination. Soule-fatting fasting. Or, meditations, concerning the word, the sacrament of the Lords Supper, and fasting. By the labours of that late Reverend, and learned divine, Master Robert Bolton ...	Bolton, Robert, 1572-1631.	1634 (1634)	STC 3255; ESTC S106789	149,468	268

upon any part of Gods Word on God himselfe his Wisedome Power his Mercie or on the infinite varietie of good things which wee receive of his free bountie upon his workes and judgements upon our sinnes and the vilenesse of our corruption that wee yet carry about us upon our mortalitie and changes in this World upon our manifold afflictions of this life and how wee may in best manner beare and goe through them and the benefit thereof upon the manifold and great priviledges which wee enjoy dayly through the inestimable kindnesse of God towards us upon the foure last things but especially of those things that wee have most speciall need of Of the thing meditated upon consider First The definition or description Secondly The distribution sorts kinds or parts Thirdly Causes especially efficient and finall Fourthly The fruits and effects which it bringeth forth Fifthly The subject wherein it is or about which it is occupied Sixtly The qualities or properties adjoyned And know that oftentimes in common practice these three the finall cause the fruit or the effect the use or propertie of a thing are often confounded Seventhly The contrarie Eightly The comparison Exemplifie in the joyes of Heaven of which see Hall In sinne of which see Practice of Christianitie pag. 293. Vpon this occasion let us peruse in this manner Fasting and the Plague 5 A fifth meanes to profit by the Word is Teaching Praying with and Catechizing your children and servants To which Dutie be stirred up and strengthened by First Scriptures Deut. 4. 9. 6. 7. 11. 19. Psal 78. 5 6. Exod. 12. 26 27. 13 14. Iosh 4. 6 7 21 22. Deut. 6. 20 21. Eph. 6. 4. Secondly By the patterne and practice of holy Parents from time to time Consider for this purpose the carriage of Abraham Gen. 18. 19. David Prov. 4. 4. Bathsheba Prov. 31. 1. Lois and Eunice 2 Tim. 1. 5. Thirdly By the authoritie of the ancient Fathers 1 Heare Austin Notwithstanding my deare friends in so great a difference of manners and such abominable corruption governe your Houses governe your Children governe your Families As it behoves us to speake to you in the Church so it pertaines to you to doe in your Houses that yee may be able to give a good account of those who are under you Againe I pray thee my Brother I pray thee shew to all under thee of meere good will from the least to the greatest in thy House the love and sweetnesse of Heaven the bitternesse and feare of Hell and be thou solicitous and watchfull because thou shalt render an account to the Lord for all those under thee that are in thy House Declare charge command perswade them that they would take heed of Pride of Slandering of Drunkennesse of Fornication of Luxurie Anger Perjurie Covetousnesse which is the root of all evill 2 Nazianzen Hast thou a Child Let not wickednesse take advantage and occasion Let it be endued with sanctitie and consecrated to thy spirit from the very Cradle I know he meanes it immediately of Baptisme but by Analogie that binds also to have a care of religious education Fourthly by Reasons First Thy Children sprung from thy Loines and came into the World to encrease the number of Gods people to learne the way to Heaven and walke in it not onely to uphold thy House inherite thy Possessions and convey thy Name to future Generations The glorifying of our God serving our Brethren in love salvation of our owne Soules are the chiefe ends why we live a little while in this World Now Parents should be most solicitous to further their Children for the attainement of the maine end and most soveraigne good Secondly Neglect of this Dutie makes Parents worse to their Children than to their Beasts For 1 They provide for their Beasts all things necessarie for them but in their owne deare Children they neglect that One necessarie thing 2 They procure for and put their Beasts to all things of which they are capable Their Children are capable of Grace and Immortalitie and they never meddle nor move them to looke that way or lay hold upon eternall Life Thirdly Let the remarkable and rufull example of Eli be for ever a keene spurre in the sides of slouthfull Parents to quicken them to this Dutie Fourthly Thou art farre more cruell than the Ostrich and the Dragon and mayest be said to have suckt the brests of Tygres and to be hewed out of the hardest Rocke if having brought thy Children forth into this World limbes for the Devill and fewell for Hell-fire thou labour not might and maine to get them new-borne the members of Christ and freed from everlasting flames Fifthly Grace onely is able to make thy Children truly obedient serviceable and everlastingly thankfull having now a double tye first birth secondly new-birth Then onely and never before doe they begin to pray for their Parents to deale faithfully in their businesses not to long for their death Sixtly A conscionable and constant performance of this Dutie in their life time will fill Parents hearts full of sweetest joy and heavenly comfort upon their Beds of Death when they see by their care and zeale for their spirituall good that holy knowledge and wisedome planted in their Childrens hearts which will bring them after them to eternall blisse or how soever consciousnesse of a conscionable discharge of their Dutie in this respect will infinitely refresh them Seventhly It is the way to make thy posteritie truly honourable and to meet thee in Heaven Those Children which are taught by thee may teach the same things unto theirs and those to others c. Eightly Thy Children neglected in this point and so dying impenitently will curse thee everlastingly in Hell for thy bloudie inexpiable crueltie towards them in this kind Ninthly Besides innumerable sinnes of thine owne the least of which merits eternitie of Hellish torments thou hast justly set upon thy Score by this unconscionable murthering negligence the sinnes and sinnefull courses of thine owne Children which will lye full heavie upon thy Conscience when it shall be ragingly enlightened by the long provoked wrath of God 6 The next meanes is Prayer Prov. 2. 3 4 5. 7 The seventh meanes is Practise See Iohn 7. 17. 8 The eight is Experience See Dike of the heart pag. 69. 3 Be none of the reprobate grounds Math. 13. of which see Dike Taylor 4 Be none of those who invited to the Marriage of the Kings Sonne Math. 22. either first wilfully contemne Vers 3. secondly or carelesly dis-esteeme Vers 5. thirdly or cruelly persecute Vers 6. 5 Reject all those Hellish temptations which doe mightily keepe off the dint and power of the most piercing Word and being entertained will cause the Word preached to be but as the breath of the Minister scattered in the Ayre and

comfort and confirme him in a godly course To prevent his falls and relapses because by it hee is furnished with Christian armour against temptations he is resolved in all doubts and cases of Conscience he is admonished of all crooked wayes occasions and down-falls to iniquity To reclaime him from back-slidings to rayse and recover him out of falls and to restore him to his first love by discovering unto him the foulenesse and danger of sinne the power of his owne infirmities the bitter root of Originall sinne the pestilent and impoysoned fruits thereof and by dayly urging the blessings of true repentance and the practice of a good Conscience Most absolutely to guide and conduct him in the way of righteousnesse and whole course of Christianitie to furnish him with zeale and uprightnesse in all holy duties and services of God with faithfulnesse and conscience in the discharge and executions of his calling with holy meditations when he is alone with harmlesse behavior and Light of good example in company and amongst others with wisdome and care ever intirely to sanctifie the Sabbath and to teach and pray with his family Marke now I beseech you sith the Ministery of the Word is ever graced with so glorious presence and such incomparable blessings as I have now reckoned up unto you he that turnes his back upon a Sermon for the injoying of profit pleasures pastime companie feasting or any other worldly and by-respect he wilfully forsakes the salvation of his owne soule he casts behind him all these happy blessings and comforts tendered unto him by the Ministery of the Word he throws himselfe desperately out of the presence of God Almighty Christ Iesus the Holy Spirit his blessed Angels the congregation of Saints into the power and clutches of Satan into the company of wicked and prophane men upon the just indignation and revenge of all the creatures upon the wrath and curse of God and the shipwracke of a good conscience Take heed then I beseech you how you bee drawne by any worldly affaires from the hearing of the Word especially on the Sabbath day lest thereby you make it plaine that you preferre your owne particular before the glory of God earthly gaine before a Crowne of immortality a little vanishing pleasure before the endlesse joyes of heaven and that yee yet lie and delight in one sweet sinne or other which keepes all saving grace out of your soules A sixth let and hinderance from hearing the Word of God are certaine prophane and unwarrantable perswasions and conceits which are entertained and harboured in the hearts of ignorant and wilfull people Some of them thinke with themselves that there is no such great need of following Sermons and frequenting holy assemblies especially if at the same time they be not ungodly bufied and exercised at home and therefore they aske What can we not save our soules and come to heaven unlesse we trudge and trot so often to Church Have we not the Bible and other good bookes at home to reade upon Can we not pray and praise God at home They might as well aske Can wee not have a harvest unlesse we have a seed time and raine yea both the former and the latter raine Or can we not live except we have meat Certainly no. No more can any man be truly sanctified and saved nor live either the life of grace here or expect the life of glory hereafter unlesse he follow the ordinary meanes appointed and sanctified by God for his salvation Except he submit himselfe to that policy and order which God with great wisdome hath established in his Church Would a man be taken for a good subject who should peevishly oppose himselfe against a law agreed upon and commanded by the King and State for the great good of the Common-wealth God himselfe hath appointed a publike Ministery in the Church Pastors and teachers for the gathering of the Saints and all that belong to life and is it fit that any private exercise should crosse Gods publike ordinances No It is both inconvenient and wicked and Gods blessing is never to be looked for upon any action and exercise though never so good in it selfe if his will be not obeyed I but some will say It is good indeed sometimes now and then to heare a Sermon but what needs so much preaching and Sermon upon Sermon Would they have us Saints and Angels upon earth Wretched is that man which is weary of the Word of life And hee hath no true taste of holy things which loaths this spirituall Manna though never so often reigned from heaven There is no saving and true knowledge of God in that man who desires not to grow in grace and in the knowledge of the Lord Iesus Christ Would we not thinke him mad and distracted that should thus reason against his owne life I hope I have eaten meat enough heretofore and furnished my selfe with sufficient strength so that I now need no more and therefore I will neither eat nor drink more while I live Even just so doth he reason and plead against the life of his soule who complaines of too much preaching and too many Sermons David that blessed King and holy Prophet who was advanced both in knowledge and holinesse above the ordinary reach and perfection of men and lived as an Angell upon earth yet he acknowledgeth himselfe greatly to stand in need of stirring up by meanes ordained of God for that end As we may gather out of Psal 84. and in many other places In that Psalme he makes a most grievous and mournfull complaint that he is debarred and banished from all accesse unto the publike worship and service of God holding himselfe in this respect more miserable than some of the bruit creatures which had liberty to build their nests and lay their young neare the Altars of the Lord which benefit he could not now enjoy Now if this man of God so longed and laboured after the meanes of grace and comfort what ought those to doe who are of little or no faith who are but Novices and petties in the Schoole of Christ who are but babes in Christianity or utterly without grace I but our fore-fathers will others say were never troubled with so many Sermons and yet we hope they are well and in Heaven Our fore-fathers wanted the meanes and that full glorious Noone-tide of the Gospell of Iesus Christ which we by the grace and mercy of God enjoy And therefore whosoever of them perished without them shall certainly be beaten with fewer stripes than those that shut their eyes against the faire and blessed Sun-shine of Gods holy truth which is shed round about us and if it be hid it is hid onely to those that perish in whom the God of this world hath blinded the eyes of their minde Besides if it so pleased the Lord in his just