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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

his kn●es to receive his burden Particulars are infinite The Prophet concludes the truth in generall tearmes All the beasts of the field pay most obsequious vassallage to man so the foules of the ayre yea and the fish of the Sea The great monsters there that make the deep to boyle like a pot are not exempted from mans government from them hath he toll of bones and oyles and tribute from all the rest How full and convincing then is the Lords question Have I been a wildernesse unto Israel No to Thy praise be it spoken a delightfull Paradise Thou hast been Thou hast furnished man with a lightsome and delightfull dwelling place a disloyall tenant though he be and Thou broughtest him in unto it as into a paradise like a rich heire ready furnished with all furniture for use for delight for ornament To the intent that man should serve Thee and serve Thee cheerefully Thou hast made all Thy creatures to serve him That he might subject himself wholly unto Thy will Thou hast put all things under his feet That he might be Thine Thine only Thou hast created all these outward things for his body his body for his soul both for thy self I conclude now with the words of Chrysost upon the contemplation of the Land and Sea and that Host of creatures in both And all these saith the Father serve for the good of them that feare the Lord theirs are all things for they are Christs Thus then let me reason the case If these things are done and bestowed before our eyes let us think what 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Ch●ys Hom. 22. in ep Ad Eph. good things are layed up for them in the heavens in those mansions there If where they are strangers and but sojourners they have so much homage so much honour where their Citie is what glory shall they have there If where their Lord said ye shall have affliction they have such a Ministry so many servants such an attendance such a guard such a retinue for the Angels are their Ministers The stones and creeping things fish and fowle are at a league with them and are their servants if so while here below then what rest what quiet what securitie above there where the Lord hath assured them shall be the place of their eternall rest What and how good and great things shall they have there So the Father reasons and concludeth the glory of the Saints and so much to the contemplation of the earth and waters The b Plin. nat Hist 2. 8. cap. 38. Aire is the next that which filleth up this vast and III. emptie place which we see above us and also filleth those crannies in the earth which we see not And whether in the waters or no I cannot tell but this we know that the fishes which we perceive not to breath do dye without it Of all the works of Gods hand it is the most admirable both for the wayes thereof and operations there-from I know not which we could want of all the creatures of God but I am sure we cannot want aire My veines arteries nerves all are quickned by it it is the soul of our breathing If I had all that heart could wish all were nothing if I wanted aire and aire must be good and wholesome too or else all would be as good as nothing Therefore it is Gods great doale to the world all share in it And it hath a kinde of ubiquitie It is every where and yet we cannot see where it is so like it is the likest of any to a spirit for it is the most bodylesse body by which name it is sometimes called As we call that for which we have no name to expresse its strange vertue and efficacy If I could go to the furthest parts of the earth or sea there it is If I could climbe up to the uppermost region there it is also If I could descend into the lowest vaults and caves of the earth there it would be found It is as inseparable from a man as his conscience is shut the windows barre the doores draw the curtaines all close yet you can as easily shut out your conscience as it The aire will come in it will visit us in what condition soever And if this may be said of the creature what then of the Creator He that hath given the creature so large a circuit three regions of the world hath yet appointed it its bounds But take we heed we limit not the Holy One of Israel By this creature we ascend neerer to the Creatour then by any other but yet we come infinitely short we must not compare God to any creature for to Him nothing is like The aire is pure and cleare of it self and in its own nature but if it were so to us it would not be agreeable to ours it would be then too rare and thin and not agreeing to our earthy and compounded bodies therefore for our benefit and comfort sometimes for our punishment too it receives alteration from beneath or from above or from about it thence it is that most times the aire refresheth and sometimes poysoneth sometimes temperately cooling sometimes again with heate scorching Sometimes it candies the herbs and trees and hideth the waters as with a stone d Job 38. 30. and then who can stand before His cold e Psal 147. 17. who casteth forth His yee like morsels for so we must resolve the Lords f Job 38. 29. question out of whose wombe came the ●ce And if it be said who can stand before His cold how much more then who can stand before Him when He is angry for our God is a consuming fire 1. Here the winds have their circuit but where there treasure is we cannot tell I know what the Poets ●aigne and what the Philosopher of the greatest experience that our part of the world had doth write hereof But the sacred Scripture saith That the Lord causeth it to blow g Psal 127. 18. 104 ● He raiseth the stormy winde for He hath appointed them their work their circuit as He hath the treasures h Job 38. 22. for the snow and haile And we heare their sound and feele them too but the place whence they come we know not nor whither they will so secret is the way of the winde And as secret is the way of the spirit but more admirable in working it casteth down strong holds too it levells high and exalted things But I am too high This we may conceive The same wind which now shaketh the l●afe and maketh the feather to move being charged ag●inst am unt●ine would have turned it up from the foundation And the same strength that bloweth up the dust if it came against the earth would shake the bottoms of it And this should make us feare before Him that whatsoever He hath done whether it seeme great or little we should conf●sse His handy worke an● according

to His greatnesse so w● should honour Him that whatsoever He hath commanded whether it seeme weightie or little all our obedience should be streight unto it These are Mr Dearings words i Heb. 1. vers 3. Lect. 2. Tranquillus dom●●us tranquill●● omnia quietum ass●●ere qu●esc●re est Cal. ● adde this All the winds without though never so ra●ing and boisterous shake not the earth which is of ordinary use If a man have peace within no matter what troublesome blasts without they shall not remove him 2. Here likewise is the kingdome of the winged Creatures where they have more scope then the greatest Monarch on the earth and more aire-roome then the ship hath sea-roome when it rideth on the widest Ocean And more secure these creatures are then we for their provision though they sow not neither do they reape nor carry into their barn for your heavenly Father feedeth them And doth He so even the young r●ven a fo●saken creature thrice mentioned in the sacred Scripture the more firmly to establish us in a providence for the Naturalists say the old raven forsaketh her young till they be feathered but our heavenly Father feedeth them how much more then those who trust in Him and roule themselves upon Him for provision They are of more worth then the ravens How great should be the securitie of the Righteous that the Lord will provide He will take care for their provision as He doth for their protection Oh be thou saith Chrysostome as secure as the birds k Aves sine pa●●i●onio viv●●● M. Fae●ix in sol p. 25. lin 1● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrys ad ●op Ant. Hom. 12. are that thy heavenly Father will feed thee too Here also I mean in the a●rie regiment we see the great vessels of water rouling over our heads and it should be wonderfull in our eyes for we cannot understand the ballancing thereof He that upholdeth all things by His mighty power upholdeth the clouds and divideth a course for their rain making small the drops thereof so as they distill upon man abundantly and in a way of mercy He it is who maketh strong the bond of the cloud who gives it a retentive facultie whereby the water is bound up within it as with a swadling cloth for so we must resolve the Lords question Who l Job 36. 16. and 36 27. hath bound the waters in a garment Even thou ● Lord hast done it we know Thy Name and Thy Sonnes Name for thou art wonderfull m Prov. 30. 4. Isa 9. If the Lord should unloose this bond of the cloud this retentive facultie then would the water fall as through a floud-gate or from a spoute not breaking into drops but in one body with a resistlesse violence as sometimes our countrey-men have observed it when the violence of the waters fall hath laid the ridges of their land equall with the furrows But more ordinary the rain falls so amongst the Indians who call the falling thereof in that resistlesse manner The spoutes n Hist lib. 1. c. 7. § 6. So writeth Sr Walter Raleigh but the Scripture calleth it I think the great rain of His strength o Job 38. 6. And if it fall with such violence who then can abide the viol● of Gods wrath Who can stand under the spoutes of His displeasure The wicked shall be driven before the tempest as the chaffe before the winde But to the matter in hand certain it is This clotheing the heavens with blacknesse and making sackcloth their covering p Esay 50. 3. This ballancing the clouds and binding the waters within them as within a garment thence making the water distill by drops all this must be taken notice of as the wonderous work of Him Who is perfect in knowledge q Job 37. 16. And upon the power of this Mighty Hand doth the faithfull soul stay it self Faith can never be at a stand for whether the Lord gives rain or restraineth it because of our back-slideing r Jer. 14. yet behold a glorious dependance faith limits not the holy One of Israel nor bindes Him to naturall meanes ſ Leg● 〈◊〉 Hex Hom. 5. p. 47. Who did make the earth to bring forth before He set the Sunne in the firmament or made it to rain and filled the valleys with water when there was neither winde nor clou● t 2. Kings 3. 3. Hence it is that the thunder is heard whereat the heart trembleth and is moved out of its place Job 37. 1. but the heart soon setleth again when the noise ceaseth for it hath learnt the reason thereof And yet it posed the heathen and almost made him cease from his own wisdome when he heard it thunder but saw no cloud x H● ●ar● 1. ●● 3● then it was the voice of the Lord sure and is it not the same voice though the cloud appeare and appeares never so thick and dark His voice it is and acknowledged so to be when it hath astonied the mighty Potentates of the earth as His lightenings have made their hearts to tremble like a needle removed from the loadstone or leafe in the forrest tos●ed with the winde For God thundereth wonderfully with the voice of His excellency great things doth He which we cannot comprehend Out of the midst of water the Lord fetcheth fire and scatters it into all the parts of the earth astonishing the world with the fearfull noise of that eruption And hard stones out of the midst of thin vapours y D Hall contemp creat I can say no more to it but some have trembled at the roaring of this voice and some have mocked but the mockers have been strook down dead in the place to teach us That with God is terrible Majestie and touching the Allmighty we cannot finde Him out But let us heare attentively the noise of His voice and the sound that goeth out of His mouth He directeth it under the whole heaven and His lightning unto the ends of the earth after it a voice roareth z Job 37. 23. 4. And here we may take notice of snow the a Vo●a commun●● sunt nives diuti●as sedere tellus illo modo sement●scu Plin. nat Hist lib. 7. cap. 2. muck of the earth and of the hail which pruneth without a knife b Job 38. 22. but we cannot enter into their treasures even that is a knowledge too high for us c D● Ba●● 2 day but this we know for the Lord hath spoken it He hath reserved these against the day of battell and warre d Verse 23. For more have been consumed by the fall of hailstones then by the dint of the sword e J●sh 10. 11. that we may acknowledge touching the Almighty He is excellent in power and in judgement and in plenty of justice f Job 37 23. All these the lightning and the thunder the snow and the hail do whatsoever He commandeth them upon the

shame my selfe or hurt them Did not he that made them make me Have we not both the same masters over us on earth and would we not be used kindely and gently by them And have we not all one Master in heaven See the first Part. chap. 4. sect 12. and would we not all finde mercy there Yea but he is thus and thus and doth so and so and so often he hath provoked me I must check my selfe now with this and it will surely calme and coole my spirit how m Chrysost in ep ad Rom. cap. 8. Hom. 14. pag. 206. 2 Pet. 3. 15. Rom. 2. ● much and how long God hath borne and forborn me And can I be impatient now The long suffering of the Lord is salvation It was salvation to Saul waiting till he became a Paul so was it to Peter waiting till he went out To us else we had been before this consumed Marke this and enlarge thy meditation upon it I it will be a meanes to frame upon thee that ornament of a meeke and quiet spirit which in the sight of God is of great price for if I can say to my selfe but thus much how long suffering hath the Lord been to me ward I cannot be short and eager spirited toward my brother I cannot say more which is more pressing and availeable to subdue my passionate spirit and to gaine that constant and comfortable temper which resembles the highest region of the ayre where there is still a perpetuall serenitie and peace Lastly are they the wrongs and unworthy usage from others hands and tongues that have put me out of the possession of my selfe or are they crosses in my estate that trouble and disquiet me Then thus I must check my selfe By looking narrowly into my selfe and up to an higher hand as the children of wisdome have done I must remember the ten thousand talents There is nothing that can be thought of of more force to win upon a passionate spirit and to frame it to lowlinesse lovelinesse calmenesse and unpassionatenesse which is the cement of societie and sweet converse nothing I say of such force as these considerations First of Gods all disposing over-ruling hand who is so good that He would suffer no evill to be were He not so powerfull that out of the greatest evill He can extract the greatest good Secondly The riches of His mercy that forgave ten thousand talents And should I flye at the throat of my fellow servant for a few pence Thoughts hereof will frame us to a setled reposed estate and an unpassionate spirit But the remedy of remedies the most certain and excellent remedy whereby to shoare-up and underprop the soule against the shakings and impetuous blustering of this weake but impotent distemper which bloweth hard and boasteth great things The best remedy I say is To addresse our spirits before the Lord To look to Him who rebuked the winds and Seas and they were still We may say of this fiery exhalation as is said of the tongue n James 3. 8. a fire too and angers first o Prima semper irar● tela maledicta sunt quicquid non possumus imbecilli optamus irati Salv. De Gub. lib. 3. pag. ●1 weapon But this unruly evill can no man tame we must then pray and in our prayer p 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jam. 5. 17. pray that is we must pray earnestly we must wrestle and weep in our prayer before the Lord That He would hold in our spirits calme and meeken the same We are taught of God to love one another saith the Apostle we are so indeed saith the Father For no man can teach it and if God teach not we shall flye off and all to pieces like an unserviceable piece of Ordnance before we are discharged We shall bite and devoure on another Vpon every occasion we shall flye out into sparkles of heat like the sonnes of the coale as one speaketh which if you blow it will sparkle in your face behold then how great a matter a little fire kindleth q Jam. 3. 5. We may allude here to what we reade spoken of the Leviathan r Job 41. 21. An angry-mans breath kindleth coales and a flame goeth out of his mouth But if God meekens the spirit if He humbles the heart all this fire will be quenched or if not so yet so kept in this fire shall be that no burning lamps no sparks shall leap out I meane nothing shall be done or spoken which may kindle wrath but much yeelding there will be much forbearing in the spirit of meeknesse as we learne by the example of Abraham who yeelds unto the younger rather then difference shall arise And the true sonne of a gracious father will yeeld not to Abimelech only but to the Heardsmen of Gerar though the place shall Chrysost Ibid. carry a memoriall of the contention there and injury done to Iacob there the taking from him that which God and nature makes common yet rather then there shall be any contention Isaac yeelds and accepts of an apologie or defence afterwards though never a word thereof true And this is meeknesse and patience indeed mildly to yeeld not to superiours only against whom perhaps we cannot stirre and be safe but to yeeld to inferiours such we would have disdained as Iob saith ſ Chap. 30. 1. to have set with the dogs of our flocke This is a point of a meeke spirit indeed And this is a spirit of Gods own framing even His to whom these two things do of right belong To subdu● iniquitie and pardon sinne Marke it The Lord He it is who subdueth every distemper of the soul which vexeth there and pardons all the iniquity t Micah 7. 18 19. therefrom casting it as into the bottome of the Sea therefore to Him we must seeke I conclude with the wise mans lessons v Prov. 16. 23. 24. Verse 32. The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth and addeth learning to his lips Pleasant words are as an honey-combe sweet to the soule and health to the bones He that is slow to anger is better then the mightie and he that ruleth his spirit then he that taketh a citie I know That before I came off from this point I should have spoken more concerning the tongue and the government thereof But the subject is so large and 〈◊〉 largely handled That we cannot say a little of it It is me thinks observeable That he who wrote a booke thereof was a whole yeare so himselfe saith bethinking Drexelius himselfe what to call his booke which if I remember he was ten yeares in composing At the length he intituled his booke Phaeton and we know what is faigned of him as we do know what was the originall of that fiction But the Title fits very well and the Spirit gives good warrant to it For the tongue is a fire a world of iniquitie x Jam. 3. 6. it defileth