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A42588 A plain discourse of the mercy of having good parents With the duties of children that have such parents. Written by M.G. Phillips, Samuel, 1690-1771. 1668 (1668) Wing G47A; ESTC R223616 17,246 99

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marrying till you are married to Christ and of having children till you are sanctified Therefore strive to be holy that your children may have this mercy USE III. Let such as are Parents walk holily before the Lord lay up your prayers for your children in heaven Leave them holy examples You have given them a sinful nature and have brought them to a sinful world do what you can to make them gracious and and answer the desire of the Spirit of God Deut. 5.29 O that there were such an heart in them that they would fear me and keep my Commandments that it might be well with them and their children for ever USE IV. Do not be discouraged to breed your children in godliness though it may seem contrary to their outward profit for the greatest good you can do them is to 〈◊〉 care them the fear of the Lord ●●ov 14.26 In the fear of th● Lord is strong confidence an● his Children shall have R●fuge CHAP. IX Another Use The evil of a fained Faith shewed in several Particulars USE V. LEt me exhort all Parents to take great care that their faith be sincere for as the unfained faith of Parents is a great mercy so a fained faith of Parents is a great Judgement both to themselves and children And that for these Reasons The first Reason Because this brings them under a curse Hypocrites are accursed and they bring their Children under a curse therefore if thou lovest the Souls of thy children be real and sincere The second Reason Because the faired faith of Parents do prejudice them against Religion they see a contradiction in their profession and practices and this prejudiceth them against Religion and though it will not excuse them at last yet it is a great Judgement therefore let parents be sure to live up to that they profess or else they may prejudice their children against Godliness for ever The third Reason The fained faith of Parents is a great evil for it breeds a searedness of Conscience in them always seeing nothing but the outward shew of Religion and being brought up onely in the outward form of it never seeing any thing of the Life and Power of Godliness they grow secure and seared and this is a very great Judgement The fourth Reason It breeds a fained faith in them therefore it is a great Judgement to have Parents that have a fained Faith only Hypocrisie is a Leven Luk. 12.10 Reware of the Leven of the Pharisees which is Hypocrisie and levens a whole Family and runs from one Generation to another and when the Parents are hypocritical the children are apt to be hypocritical too The fifth Reason It is a great Judgement to have P●rents that have fained faith onely because the children shall see an end of their faith and usually a sad end running to open sin and profaneness and this doth the children more hurt than their profession did good Upon all these accounts you see what reason Parents have to look that their faith be not fained but real and sincere Try then the reallity of your faith look to the object of it that the things you believe be right and true or else you will run your self and lead your children to an error look to the nature of your faith that it be sincere and real or else you deceive your selves and ●●umble your children CHAP. X. Other Uses Such should bless God and labour to Improve this great Mercy The sixth Vse LET all the Children of such admire the Provi-of God and bless him for it you might have been borne under a curse and have had such Parents as would have neglected your Souls and Bodies and have breed you in the way of sin and have laid wicked Examples before you but you have Parents that pray for you instruct you and lay Holy Examples before you Therefore bless and praise God for his good Providence USE VII Let the Children of good Parents labour to Improve this mercy Directions to improve this mercy The first Direction Improve this mercy by being willing to be Instructed pray to God for a teachable heart take fast hold of Instruction keep her and let her not go for she is thy life Prov. 4.13 be not weary of Instruction Read these following Scriptures Prov. 5.11 12. and .8.33 and 12.1 and 13.18 and 15.32 Therefore be Instructed The second Direction Improve this great mercy by a Cordial receiving of their lawful Commands and Corrections do not let thy heart rise against the corrections of thy Parents but be ready to obey and submit Read these Scriptures Ephes 6.1 Prov. 15.10 and readily embrace the commands and corrections of your Parents The third Direction Improve the mercy by following their examples in what is good as they lay Holy Examples before you so be you Holy in Words Conversation and Heart you see them praying much and doing good and hating sin so do you also The fourth Direction Improve this mercy by avoiding all their weakness covering them knowing that they are such as they will be ashamed of and humbled for The fifth Direction Improve this mercy by being thankful to your Parents always ready to serve them and help them in what you can and by being thankful to God for them The sixth Direction Improve this mercy by taking care and by using all diligence to get the same Faith that your Parents have And so I am come to the second Observation CHAP. XI The second Observation Reasons why the Children of Believers should take care to look after the same Faith I Am come now to the second Observation from the Text Obser 2. It should be the care of the Children of godly Parents to get the same unfained Faith with their Parents This was Timothies happiness that he had the same unfained Faith with his Parents you would not come behind your Parents in Estates Honour and the like Be sure then to be Good and Holy as well as them and as you would have their Estates so get their Holiness and that for those Reasons The first Reason Children should take care to get unfained faith because the Faith of their Parents cannot save them although the Faith of their Parents may bring down many outward mercies upon them and with-hold outward Judgments from them yet it cannot hinder Eternal Judgments from seizing upon them if they walk in sin and iniquity Esau a wicked Son of a Godly Parent must go to Hell notwithstanding the Godliness of his Parents and so must all the wicked Children of godly Parents if they dye in their sins every one is saved by his own Faith and as a wicked mans Child shall be saved if he Believe for see Acts 13.39 for by him all that Believe are justified whither they be the Children of wicked or good Parents so no good mans Child shall be saved without Faith see Joh. 3.18 He that believeth on him is not condemned but he that believeth not is condemned already because he
believeth not on the Name of Christ Whosoever is saved is saved by Faith and that his own Faith not the Faith of his Parents Therefore let the Children of Believers use all diligence to get the same unfained Faith with their Parents The second Reason The Children of godly Parents should take care to get Faith because Faith is not entailed on the Children of Believers they do not convey Grace as they do corruption on his Children for Faith is the gift of God and although godly Parents are often Instruments of working Faith in their Children yet it is given by the special hand of God neither is God bound to give Grace to Children for the godliness of their Parents although he often Sanctifies such and hears the Prayers of Parents for their Children yet he is a free Agent and bestows Grace on whom he pleaseth and therefore we see that godly Parents sometimes have wicked Children and wicked Parents have godly Children Ephes 1.5 Having predestinated us to the Adoption of Children by Jesus Christ according to the good pleasure of his will the will and pleasure of God is the rule of his bestowing Grace Therefore let the Children of Believers be careful to get Faith The third Reason The Children of good Parents should be careful to get Faith because this great mercy we enjoy of having Parents that are godly that p●ay for us instruct us correct us bring us to the Ordinances and give us holy Examples if we do not receive Instruction increase our Condemnation at last Therefore be careful The fourth Reason Such Children should be careful to get Faith for if they miss of it they will be without excuse they cannot say but they have been offered Heaven and called upon to walk with God for ever they cannot say but they have been Instructed reproved exhorted to Good Incouraged in it and told of the evil of sin and d●horted from sin Therefore see you get grace or else you will be without excuse and miserable CHAP. XII Other Reasons an use of reproof the several ways that godly mens Children forfeit their mercy The fifth Reason GODLY mens Children should be very careful to get Faith because Satan is most busie with such he sees your Parents use diligence to save you and sees you are nearer Heaven therefore he will bestir himself and use all means to make you miscarry and he is a cunning Adversary Therefore it concerns you to be careful The sixth Reason Such Children should take care to get unfained Faith because they are apt to rest in the form and outward Profession of Religion being bred up civilly and not suffered to run to any outward evil and used to Ordinances Satan perswades them they are well and makes them rest in a Form of Godliness without the power of it therefore let all such take care and not trust in the goodness of their Parents nor outward Profession but get an unfained Faith your selves Vse If the Children of Godly Parents should be so careful to get unfained Faith this sadly reproves such as neglect it and continue in sin though they have Parents that hate sin how many such are there If there be any weakness in their Parents they will Imitate them in that but never look after their good they slight the Mercy of having good Parents as if it was of no value hath God given you these Mercies and will you abuse them Are you so fair for Heaven and will not you strive to enter God offers Heaven and will you refuse it There are three ways that I find in Scripture and Experience that the Children of godly Parents depart from God and abuse this mercy which I shall lay down that you may avoid them 1. Way Where the Children of godly Parents do not prove godly they often prove to be Mockers and Persecutors of Godliness see Gen. 21.9 10. Ishmael the Son of Godly Abraham mocked Isaac that is persecuted him We have many sad Experiences of this and is it not a sad thing to see persons Educated righteously persecute Religion Certainly their condition is sad Take heed then of this 2. Way When godly mens Children do not prove godly they g●ve themselves to Worldly Pleasures Esan the Son of godly Isaac sold his Birthright for a mess of Pottage Gen. 25.31 How many Examples have we of godly mens Children selling Heaven and all their Priviledges for the pleasures of this world for that is to loose everlasting pleasures and to purchase everlasting so row 3. Way Many godly mens Children not proving godly do grow confident in their own righteousness and trust in their own gifts and priviledges resting in a Form of Godliness without the power of it we may say of many as of them Rom. 10.3 For they being Ignorant of Gods Righteousness and going about to establish their own Righteousness have not submitted themselves to the Righteousness of God It is Ignorance that makes any trust in their own Righteousness this we are all apt to aspecially such as have the form of Godliness therefore beware of this and if thou art in any of these ways Consider these following partculars CHAP. XIII Fourteen Considerations to the Children of Godly Parents that are ungodly Consid 1. Let all the ungodly Children of godly Parents consider that God never rejected them but they despised the Covenant neither was there any necessity laid upon them of departing from God Consid 2. Let such consider that your own Consciences will condemn you those Consciences of yours that are now seared will one day condemn you and make you say Prov. 5.12 How have I hated Instruction and my heart despised reproof Consid 3. That all these mercies the Instructions Examples and Ordinances which thou enjoyest will rise up in Judgment against thee and increase thy condemnation Consid 4. Let the wicked Children of Good Parents consider that they shall hardly escape a curse here for usually such as are bred in a godly manner if they be wicked and persecute Gods Children or prophane God overtakes them with some sad Judgments here Consid 5. However such may escape here they will be sure of the lowermost part of Hell hereafter for such usually know much And he that knoweth his Masters will and doth it not shall be beaten with many Stripes Luke 12 49 Consid 6. All men in their hearts will hate you though wicked men endeavour to draw you to sin yet their Consciences tell them that your Fathers ways were right and and that you should be as they were Therefore when you grow Prophane you will be hated and slighted of all Consid 7. That you once stood fair for Heaven you had the means of Grace and by sin you have forfeited all your mercies and chose Hell rather then Heaven Consid 8. Let such consider the difference that will be between them and the godly Children of good Parents The Lord receives them into inward Fellowship so that they are Justified by Christ Sanctified