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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31042	A companion for midwives, child-bearing women, and nurses directing them how to perform their respective offices : together with an essay, endeavouring to shew the influence of moral abuses upon the health of children / by Robert Barret ...	Barret, Robert, Brother of Surgeons Hall.	1699 (1699)	Wing B913; ESTC R14416	49,115	144

his Teeth rot out of his Head and to grin at his former Folly bearing in his Nauseous Phiz the solid marks of his Crime But we have the word of a great Man for it that the Church is built upon Zion which cannot be moved by a stiff-neck'd People God is engaged on her behalf and besides the secular Power stands by her side God has been graciously pleas'd to put it into the Hearts of the great Assemblies of the Representatives of the Nation to advance their Country's good by Espousing her Interest preserving her Peace and defending her Privileges and Immunities against the assaults of selfish and malicious Men who by their Scully pretences to Religion and Probity of Life would endeavour to shake her everlasting Foundation A parcel of narrow Soul'd peevish Creatures that are strangers to the Liberty and Freedom of a Christian State Charity Forbearance and Condescension are by us reckon'd the Life of Christianity but they think nothing of that matter To be Hospitable to the Indigent Neighbours and to receive the way fairing Man with Chearfulness and Civility to open their Bosom unto all is the Character of the Charitable Church of England but they on the contrary wrap up their Talent for their own selfish ends and can think of no good but what centers in their own narrow sphere I mention this sectary way of Rolling from Opinion to Opinion and Hotly Damning all who are not of the Fraternity they 've embarqu'd into because I take their way of Demeanor to be influencive on the complexions of their bodies The continued Rage and Bitterness of unchristian Zeal that attends 'em does insensibly sharpen the humors and exhaust the Balmy softer Particles of their Blood and Spirits And if Parents were careful in Nursing their children to fortifie and arm them against their temptations and snares we should not be so much pester'd with ' em In the next place to secure children from Vanity and Vice its natural consequent is the best way to preserve their healths tho generally neglected Vanity is now a-days like Rome's Eagles at the Meridian of their Power that carry'd conquest in their Wings to all places whither they pleas'd to resort I believe I may safely say that the bulk of our English Vices are owing to a Foreign Vanity crept in amongst us of late What Diviner if any such there be could have foreseen that Foreign Vices would have reach'd our once sacred Groves the quiet and innocent Recesses of the Country not to speak of the City The Gentleman now hath chang'd the Plough and Cart for a gilded Coach and a numerous train of Pimps and Whore-setters for Attendants A Gentleman that knows perhaps very early that he is to Heir an Estate thinks 't is but washing the Ethiopian for him to accomplish and improve himself by Books or the other solitary companions of a Country-Life No he must come to Town and there cram his Brain with the sturdy Notions and Maxims that prevail for the time He goes to visit a Lady of Quality that is ready to receive him well dress'd and furnish'd out with borrow'd Weeds She has her Lodgings in some Modish Place fit to entertain a Gentleman in there he spends his time and pays soundly for his Familiarity and is clapp'd into the Bargain After having cloy'd his puny stomach he sneaks away privily in a Stage-Coach to his house in the Country there he murders the Vertuous Womb of his Dear Lady and darts into the Royal Arch his contagious lo●thsome Sperm which is innocently receiv'd and hugg'd in the crown'd Act of Conception Thus he 's guilty of the Blood of his Family Ruins his Lady makes his Posterity a puny sickly miserable Crew and to crown all expires his last from a Bed of Rottenness a●d Disgra●e Thus it is that one vain desire one minute of mistaken pleasure fills a whole Family with Misery and Ru●●e In fine all the Transactions of this foolish and wicked world create the most unpleasing cutting Reflections that can enter into the mind of any thinking man They are so variously wicked that Proteus like they change shapes every Day and modishness is look'd upon in vice as well as other things Tho' they resemble the great Machines of Heaven and Earth in their motion and volubility yet not in their regularity for the Sun riseth in the East at Morn visits the South by Noon and maketh the West his Bed without chopping or changing The Moon swerveth not from her appointed limits she observes her times of change and regularly influences the Sea And in a word the whole off-spring of Nature moveth as at first but only that Monster Man the partaker of a Heavenly Soul and design'd Master of all lives in opposition to all Laws and Sanctions either of God or Nature Did not heaven deal mercifully with us in stretching out a Staff oftner than a Rod in courting us with Balmy persuasives and delaying to execute Justice To be sure our World had many Centuries of Years ago been past the Frontiers where now it stands tottering and immers'd in the very Centre of the Valley of Tears and Death Though the sad Effects of Adam's Fate are deriv'd to all the deprav'd Species yet they add to that guilt by parallel habits of their own minting which change the whole Mass of our Nature and set 'em in a Diametrical opposition to all that is called Good All which is too too evident in the Manners and Actions of our Children and Youth They 'll obey no Parent but the Flesh and hug no Brother but a Son of Belial they know no Friend but the unrighteous Mammon and keep aloof from no Enemies but those that wish 'em best Now since Cases stand so where can banish'd Vertue plant its Feet but on the bottom of a good discreet Education or who shall be able to withstand the doughty Champions of Vice but such as have maintain'd the warfare from their Mothers Womb Would ye have your Sons healthy and strong not weakned by Vice nor rotten through prevailing Corruption pray inure 'em in their tender years to a governable Disposition by regulating their Food Diet and other Concerns not by their own Appetites but by the measures of Discretion and Wisdom thus being early acquainted with Controulment they shall not think it strange when of riper years to deny themselves their vicious Inclinations But above all endeavour to choak in 'em the least Seeds of Vanity Affectation or Self-Conceit which are all twins of the same Mother that conspire together to be the Bane of all Goodness or Improvement and the Fertil Source of an infinite number of Vices Girls are most liable to be tainted with them they are generally possess'd with such an over-grown Opinion of their own Endowments that they long to display their Cabinet they know no inward Enjoyment of Thought Wit or Wisdom but what lies in communicating the same upon all Occasions As soon as they 've attain'd to the