to his Hurt How to his Hurt Silver is not Sin Pearls are not Poyson No but for mans Sin the Ground out of which they come is Cursed * Gen. 3.17 Ground is comprehensive All cursed to the wicked Simile As Paint proves not one to be of a good Complexion Prosperity proves not one to be in a good Condtion That Gingle God hath blessed such a man with a Great estate The sound of a London Cymbal hath made my Ears to Tingle For in Truth he being Carnal God hath Cursed such a man with a Great estate To say The man is grown Rich is too Plain for our Fashionable Professors therefore the Speech must be Adorned with God hath Blessed And then this Fine Phrase for mans Ornament and Gods Honour is a taking the Lords name in Vain and a Very Lie Whether or no the Person be blessed is not by such considered But if I will know whether the Estate be blessed I must know whether the Person be blessed If a Person be cursed his Estate is cursed both Personal and Real and All to his Hurt The fault is not in a mans good Goods Land or House but in his bad Heart The mischief lyes not in the Lump of riches but in the Love of riches If the Lump of riches gets into the House the Love of riches gets into the Heart If a man love the World he loves not God †1 Jo. 2.15 What a man loves not is not his god his Goods are his gods then no wonder if God do Curse him and his gods together ¶ 2 Nor was a wiser than Solomon of your opinion viz Jesus Verily I say unto you that a Rich man shall hardly enter into the Kingdom of Heaven And again I say unto you It is Easier for a Camel to go through the Eye of a Needle than for a Rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God * Mat. 19.23 24. At this the Disciples were so Amazed that I suppose if great estates had then been Offered to them they durst not have Owned them They seem to Faint under the Fear of being Rich. A rare fear Strange men Many fear Poverty Few fear Plenty Many fear they shall be Poor but who is afraid he shall be Rich this is the most Dangerous condition the Mean is most Desireable Give me neither Poverty nor Riches †Pro. 30.8 ¶ 3 Nor was that Person of your opinion who gave away his Goods that he might be the Lighter to climb up Jacob's Ladder i e Crates's conclusion with his Coin into Heaven ¶ 4 Nor was Crates of your mind who took his Money and threw it into the Sea saying I will destroy Thee lest thou destroy Me. But he was much of your mind who being at Sea in a Sinking Ship suddenly fills his Pockets and Bosom with Silver and Gold as fast as he could And thus in a few minutes he made himself Very Rich. The Rich poor wretch But steeping out of the Sinking Ship into the Swimming Boat he was so Weighty with his Wealth that he stept Short and Sank into the Sea and was Never seen more If not money yet the Love of money is the Root of All evil * 1 Tim. 6.10 an Expression as if spoken of the Devil If no hurt in the Love of money there is no hurt in the DEVIL nor any hurt in Hell Fath. HA OH Master Min. Madam Maiden is it Meet To set thy Heart where Beasts do set their Feet It 's not untruly Said if you be Told You dig for Drosse with Mattocks made of Gold Affections are too Precious to bestow Upon the New-things No-things here below The Eagle Scorns to fall down from on High The Proverb saith to catch the silly Fly And can a Christian leave the love of GOD To love the Ground and cleave unto a Clod. Like him at Sea who did his Cabbin Sweep When All was going Down into the Deep Or like the silly Bird that to her nest Is carrying Mosse and never is at rest Till feather'd well it be but doth not See The Ax below that 's hewing down the Tree Twelfth If it shall please God to blesse Education for Conversion docu 12. Concerning Marriage or to convert your children by other means Give not a child in Marriage to one that is Wicked or without a work of Grace Marriage is a very Solemn thing in which Parents should be very Serious Abraham was old and he said to his servant that ruled his house Put I pray thee thy hand under my thigh and I will make thee swear by the LORD the God of Heaven and the God of the Earth that thou shalt not take a Wife unto my Son of the daughters of the Canaanites †Gen. 24.1 It 's probable Abraham remembred the Ruin unlawfull marriages brought upon the Old World The sons of God * Gen. 6.2 i e which were of the Church of God the posterity of Seth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Put in Abel's stead whom Cain slew †Ch. 4.25 Saw the daughters of men i e Cain's posterity They took them and forthwith are called Flesh * Ch. 6.3 threatned with a Flood to destroy all flesh And it 's probable the sons of men took the daughters of God too and so made the greater mixture and more Apostates as the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Giants signifies coming of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To fall †Ver. 4. See what an End the son of the Israelitish woman whose father was an Egyptian came to She learn'd him to Speak he learn'd him to Blasheme for which he is Stoned to Death * Lev. 24.10 The Jews married wives of Ashdod †Neh. 13.23 and their children spake Half in the speech of Ashdod * Ver. 24. Their father 's learn'd them to speak like Jews and Hebrews and their mothers learn'd them to speak like Heathens i e to Swear and Curse for which their parents were Cursed †Ver. 25. What an unparallel'd wicked person is a Husband sometime by reason of a wicked Wife There was None like Ahab who did sell himself to work wickednesse in the sight of the Lord whom Jezebel his wife stirred up * 1 Kin. 21.25 Jehoram slew all his brethren with the Sword and slew the Princes of Israel †2 Chro. 21.4 and wrought evil in the eyes of the Lord for he had the daughter of Ahab to Wife * Ver. 6. These kinds of Contracts are called Treachery their seed called Strange children †Ho. 5.7 and the Parents appointed to Perish Judah hath dealt treacherously hath married the daughter of a strange god the Lord will Cut Off the man that doth this * Mal. 2.11 12. And if you say What is this to us in England they were Heathens Paul provides you an answer Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers †2 Cor. 6.14 If unbelievers it
no New Heart Soul and Body will shortly be in Hell and Both Black in Everlasting Burnings Mans Sins are Debts of which God keeps account Sinner canst Tell to what thy Debts amount Thy Debts thou art encreasing Every hour Into his Vials God doth also pour Pain for thy Pleasure though thou wilt not Stop As certain as thy Death there 's Drop for Drop God's Cup is almost Full as well as Thine When both are Full OH then the Dreadfull Time Sixt. Doc. 6. Teach them to KInow and cause them to be Well acquainted with the Ten Commandments Of the Ten Commands for they are the Pure Precious Precepts of the Holy Lord God And with the rest Remember Well the Sabbath Day I hope I need not forbid You to convert the Commands into Prayers for your Children according to the Course of Carnal Ignorant People Learn them to know they are Gods Laws to Rule mans Life And that they are to be Obey'd in Deed Word and Thought And whatever is contrary to any one of these Commands that is Sin against GOD. Learn them to know the Necessity of these Laws being written in their Hearts according to the Promise And let your Tongue be the Pen in gods Hand to write them There if the Lord Please Seventh Doc 7. Of Mans Obedience Teach them to know the Utter IOnsufficiency of Mans Obedience to the Law to Save And that the most Excellent Moralist hath as Absolute a Necessity of Jesus Christs Righteousness to Justifie him and that without it he will as Certainly be Damned as the most Prophane Person that ever pissed against a wall in the Whole World Eight Doc 8. Of the Gospel Teach them to know the Gospel The knowledge of the Law is in Order to the Acceptation of the Gospel By the Law is the knowledge of Sin †Ro. 3.20 without which Who will regard the Gospel What cares a Person for a Pardon who knows not that he is Condemned In this Lesson eye three things ¶ 1 The Declaration of the Gospel viz That GOD hath chosen an innumerable company of Mankind And hath given them to CHRIST And sent him into the World to Redeem them from the Curse of the Law by fulfilling the Law N B. He was GOD and Man in One Person Man to Suffer and Die God cannot Die GOD to Satisfie in bearing Wrath Infinitely which Man could not do This GOD-man did Personate Man and in Mans Stead for Man did Actively and Passively obey the Law Perfectly And so hath procured Eternal Life And this is Freely offered to all Dead Sinners by the Declaration of the Gospel And Christs desire that Sinnersshould obtain this Eternal Life is expressed with Longing Sighing Sweating Weeping and Dying ¶ 2 The Condition of the Gospel on our part by which Eternal life is made Ours by which we have Right to the Tree of Life That is FAITH Men are Dead God hath made a Law viz He that Believes shall Live He that believes Not shall Never Live but Die for Ever A Condemned Sinner is to be Justified by Faith Without the deeds of the Law †Ro. 3.27 28. by the Law of a Just GOD who thus Justifies the Vngodly * Ch. 5.4 By which Law of Faith without Works boasting in Works is excluded Isa 55. Come buy Wine Christ is bought by Believing Buy without Money i e Part with Something worth Nothing i e Sin Self Righteousness Self and all Sin as to the Practice and Pleasure of it Self Righteousness as to any Confidence in it Self by giving up Body and Soul to Christ †1 Cor. 6.20 ¶ 3 The Duties of the Gospel viz Good Works as fruits of Faith Faith which alone Justifies before GOD accompanied with such a Holy Conversation as will Justifie before Men That is the Conversation which becomes the Gospel BUT let Justification by Faith without Works be kept Clear e g. Suppose a Man Famous for Wickednesse who never did any thing else but serve Satan by Whole Sale should come under a Sermon And be convinced of his Sin Sick of Sin Sick for a Saviour and Believe on Jesus Christ H E is Justified Christs Perfect Righteousness is Imputed And if he should drop down Dead where he Stands before he have any time to Pray or do any good Work He is Certainly Saved Now Sir A Caution for the Mother though your Wife does not Object but learn in Silence * 1 Tim. 2.11 as best becomes her with an intent to ask her Husband at home †1 cor 14.35 Yet least she say in her Heart What is it the part of a Mother to play the Preacher I will give her an Instance of one who taught her Son both Law and Gospel The words of King Lemuel * Pro. 31.1 Lemuels Lesson Bathsheba's Catechism Lemuel she calls him because God owned him I will be his Father and he shall be my Son †2 Sa. 7.14 Lemuel God with him The Prophesie that his Mother taught him The word Prophesie in the Hebrew is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A burden of the Root 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To bear the same word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is Englished A burden * Na 1.1 This shews what a heavy charge lyes upon Mothers which she Thus discharges What my SON and what the Son of my WOMB and what the Son of my VOWS †Ver. 2. Give not thy strength to Women * Ver. 3. Here she teaches him Law viz Thou shalt not commit Adultery It is not for KINGS O Lemuel it is not for KINGS to drink Wine †Ver. 4. Lest they drink and forget the LAW * Ver. 5. See how she Schools him N B. The King of Israel was to keep the Law †Deu. 17.19 King Solomon who was in twenty things a Type of Christ was in his Obedience to the Law a Type of Christs Fulfilling the Law to free us from the Curse from whence comes the Comfort of the Gospel Give strong drink to him that is ready to Perish * ver 6. Parallel The great Trumpet shall be blown and they which are ready to Perish shall come †Isa 27.13 And Wine to those that be of heavy Heart Parallel Come buy wine without Mony * Isa 55. Open thy mouth for the Dumb †Ver. 8. This Phrase respects Solomon as a Type of Christ in his Intercession who is to Pray for Them that cannot Pray for Themselves Who are swallowed up in Silence and Shame under a Sight and Sence of Sin At or After convertion Or can say Nothing For but All Against themselves Christ Will speak a Good Word for such which Shall be answer'd with Good and Comfortable Words †Zech. 1.13 Thus as Bathsheba teaches her Son Solomon to officiate as a Type of Christ she teaches him both Law and Gospel And see how Solomon approves of the Mothers Ministry as well as
a father may be a Motive to duty The Hebrew word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A father comes of the Root 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he willed desired of the fathers affection to his children which doth Naturally descend to them with desire after their welfare If not Thus a man deserves not the Name of a father They who have been instruments to bring children into a State of Condemnation and care not to bring them into a State of Salvation are these Parents shall Paul travail in birth till Christ be formed in Christians * Gal. 4.19 and be so concerned as to wish himself accursed from Christ for his Kindred †Rom. 9.3 shall Ministers do their utmost to Save children shall the Devil do his utmost to Damn them and shall their own father that Begat them and their mother that Bare them carry it as if they care not whether they are brought forth for a Saviour or a Murderer and are these Parents Monstrum Horrendum NB. Neglect of duty to a Child to humour an angry Wife had like to cost Moses his Life for the Lord sought to Kill him * Exo. 4.24 Let carelesse parents have a Care God do not kill them Quite And let Parents hear themselves spoken to in these Texts Keep this man if by any means he be missing then thy Life shall be for his Life †I K. 20.39 If he Die in his iniquity his Blood will I require at thy hand * Ezek. 3.18 They that are under Such words abroad without Shelter and do not hear it Thunder are very Dull of hearing Second The childs tears at it's Birth Coroll 2. Childs Tears may he a Motive for parents to Pity and Duty These tears seem to Presage its Sorrow The poor child seems to cry to see into what a Stormy Sea it is Lanched in danger to be Swallowed up Soul and Body at once Or to see upon what a Shore of trouble it's Landed to wander in a wildernesse of Wo among wild beasts of Prey Yea so Cruel are the Devils Creatures that poor children are in danger of their Death before their Birth Cruel cruelty The cruel Claws of these wild Beasts sometimes tare the Young out of the Womb before they are Born * Am. 1.13 and the Old out of the Tomb after they are Buried †Ch. 2.1 Third Coroll 3. Childs Dead state The dead condemned State children are Born in and are in till Born again It is a Dead Life between the first and second Birth One passing by the house of a Sinful Sluggard said Here lies not lives Such a One. A natural life is a kind of a Lifelesse Worthlesse life The old youngman A strange Epitaph An old man converted a little before his Death would have this Epitaph on his Tomb Here lies a very Old Man of 3 years old Barlaam being asked how old he was said 45. Said the other Thou seemest to be 70. Yea said Barlaam if you reckon ever since I was Born but I do not Count the time I spent in Sin Lay this Dead Life to Heart Suppose you had a child condemned to Die yet so as there remains a possibility to procure a Pardon The execution hour is concealed in the Kings own breast It may be the child hath Ten Dayes to live it may be not Two Hours How would you bestir you in Such Case how restlesse Night and Day till your poor childs Pardon is procured except Jehoram-like you were bereav'd of Bowels †2 Chron. 21.19 and had not the least Pity left in you This is your childrens Case if unconverted As after the Sentence a malefactor is a Dead man so before the Second birth a child is a Dead child i e Sentenced and Condemned to be Hanged and Burned and Racked in Hell And peradventure you are driving on designs to procure Portions and not Pardons OH Miserable man to morrow may be thy Son or thy Daughters Damning day And if Once the secret set time be Out the poor child is Haled away into Endlesse Wo. Fourth Your condemned child Coroll 4. Supposed sad sense is also to be supposed under a Sad Sense of it's condemned condition Suppose you should Act as if as Insensible of it as a parent is of a childs Soul condemned state And at your Return in the evening after all the trifling Turns you take in a day your poor child should Quaere with a Sad Countenance Father where have you Been to day Here and There about This and That OH Father what have you not been with the King to day and do not know but I may be Hanged to morrow And as you sit Idleing Sleeping or Smoking in the house GOOD Lord father will you sit Thus and let me be Hanged What a Cutting consideration is This OH how Common is it for children to be in a Soul-condemned condition and will parents who professe to believe it Pipe and Pot and Prate away their time while their children stand on the brink of Everlasting Burnings will they take their Recreation while their children are under Condemnation near that execution and End to perish for Ever the Plague of Pharoh is upon such parents hearts WHAT Faith have such in Gods word what Life is in their faith the faith of DEVILS exceeds a Dead faith * Jam. 2.19 Fath. It is very Sad to consider a child in such Case Min. Very SAD in so saying you say Nothing It 's most Deplorable and Lamentable enough to make a mercifull man wish his head Waters and his eyes a fountain of Tears to weep Day and Night for children so Dismally miserable †Jer. 9.1 And its matter of mourning to think how Few Tears fall into Gods Bottle upon this account Fift Coroll 5. The inhumanity and cruelty of such carelesse parents Cruelty They are said to be more Savage than Sea-Monsters for even They draw out the breast and give such to their Young * Lam. 4.3 but these Men-Monsters are like the Ostriches in the wildernesse with a 7-fold Similitude 1 The Ostrich is between an unclean hatefull Bird and a Beast hath part of Both Ostrich defined but No part of Man as the Meraid hath A sad Character for a father 2 Faith outwardly with feathers †Job 39.13 So is a foul Pharisaical father 3 She is Proud What time she lifteth up her self on High she Scorneth the Horse and his Rider * Ver. 18. 4 She is Foolish because God hath deprived her of wisdom †Ver. 17. In danger she hides her Head and then thinks No body sees Her because She sees no body Man thinks he is Safe because he sees not God Man Cannot see he Will not see and then sayes God Shall not see * Psal 94.7 5 She is forgetfull of the great concern She leaveth her egges in the earth and forgetteth that the foot may Crush them or that the wild