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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51033	The way to true honour and happiness A friendly address to all parents, masters of families, and landlords, the persons most capable to honour ... , and to gain honour to themselves, by beginning and carrying on a rational reformation. To which is added, [A] memorandum for mothers. By John Mitchell, M.A.	Mitchell, John, fl. 1697.	1697 (1697)	Wing M2287B; ESTC R221889	23,817	48

loving Friends YOU being reasonable Creatures and called by the Noble Name of CHRISTIANS 〈…〉 supposed and taken for granted that you 〈◊〉 well informed in your Judgment and firm 〈…〉 persuaded in your Conscience that the Glo 〈…〉 os and Wise CREATOR of all things hath 〈…〉 ed and appointed you to bring forth and 〈…〉 g up Children for his Honour and Service prepare Members of his Church on Earth 〈…〉 Partakers of his Glory in Heaven And it 〈◊〉 be thought that all of you are ambitious ● this Honour to be instrumental Causes of a 〈…〉 oly Seed and Blessed Off-spring which may ●ake up the Church of Christ in the world and replenish Heaven with Saints to shine in Glory and celebrate the Praises of the Eternal King I believe all of you are desirous of Dignity and ambitious of Honour and here is Honour indeed to be the Mothers and Nurses of little Angels Children of the most high that may reign in Glory and shin● in Heaven for ever I believe none of you will say that you are willing to gratify Satan to bring forth and educate Children to be his Slaves and Subjects of hi● Kingdom who being Enemies to God and his Ways may carry on the Devil's work in the world and then 〈◊〉 tormented with him and howl in Hell for ever Surely you will not affirm that you are willing to go to that place of torment your selves nor to have any of your Children so unhappy and miserable as to remain in the burning bottomless Pit to all Eternity And yet woful Experience doth plainly shew that many imprudent and fond Parents especially Mothers are the greatest Enemies to their own Children and do further their Ruine and Misery more than the Devil or any other Enemy can do by gratifying their sens●al Appetites pleasing their foolish Fancies satisfying their unreasonable Desires pampering their corrupt Nature encouraging them in Vanity and Folly and perhaps by shewing them bad Examples in a word by giving them their own Will and with-holding from them that ●ecessary instruction and seasonable correction ●hich is requisite to the renewing of their co●rup●ed Nature and bringing them out of a 〈…〉 ate of Sin and Vice into a State of Holiness ●d Vertue And by this means they are fit●ed for Satan's Service and prepared to com●ly with most of his Temptations It is most certain that neither the Devil nor ●e World can tempt Children until they be ●apable of yielding and giving their consent Now if the fi●st buddings of Vice and Wicked●ess springing from the Root of corrupt Na●●re were timely suppressed and removed the Root would languish and decay and Satan ●ould find nothing in them whereupon to fa●en his Temptations Io. 14. 30. And if the Seeds of true Knowledge Piety and Vertue ●ere timely and carefully sown and duly and diligently watered the● would be sufficiently ●●rnished against his Assaults and quali●ied to resist his greatest Temptations Eph. 6. 11 13. Now since Children are born ignorant tho' ●ot innocent they must be taught and in●●ructed they must know their Duty before they can do it And who can so properly do this as Parents especially you MOTHERS who have the immediate management of them i● their Tender Age who are oftenest with them have greatest influence upon them and are most capable to oblige and prevail with them You who are the causes of their Being are most obliged to contribute to their well-being Quest. What Means shall we use What Method shall we take Answ. 1. Being entred into a Married State and having diligently and faithfully acquainted your selves with the Duties incumbent upon you in that State which God's Word and other good Books do teach let your chief Design be to honour and glorify God in that holy State which he hath ordained And by humble Supplication beg his Blessing on the means of his own Appointment that your Seed and Off-spring may be instruments of his Glory and Subjects of his Kingdom And imitate holy Hannah 1 Sam. 1. 11. Dedicate unto the Lord what he lends unto you and pray that his Grace may sanctifie and prepare it for his Service 2. When your Child is born renew your Oblation dedicate and offer it up to God as a living Holy-Sacrifice to be employed in his Service to live to his Honour and to be under his Protection all the days of its life Exod. 34. 19. 3. At the time of the Child 's solemn and publick Dedication or Christning instead of foolish Feasting Flattering and Pratling call together some Christian Friends who may join with you in praising God for adding a new Member to his Church and for making you the happy instrument of it and in praying to God for the Preservation Sanctification and Salvation of the Child 4. If it be possible carefully nurse the Child ●our self and let it take its Nourishment ●hence it derived its Substance that it may be ●holly yours You may read your Duty in ●his particular in Ier. Taylor 's Doctrine con●●rning the Virgin Mary's nursing the Holy Child Jesus in his Book called The great Examplar And in the Section concerning Wives in the Book called The Ladies Calling 5. When the dawnings of Reason appears ●●d Nature begins to shew it self in the Child ●●en bestir your self and apply great care and ●iligence in Prayer and Pains to have the cor●apt Nature rectified the Image of Satan re●oved and the divine Nature and Image of God renewed in it Quest. Are Children destitute of God's 〈…〉 age and a new Nature Answ. Yes All the Posterity of Rebelliou● Adam are guilty a●d polluted void of good 〈…〉 d full of evil Psal. 51. 5. They are shapen in ●quity and conceived in sin Job 14. 4. They are 〈…〉 clean branches of a corrupt root Jo. 3. 6. That ●●ich is born of the flesh is flesh that is unholy ●●d corrupt Rom. 8. 8. They that are in the ●lesh cannot please God because they are not 〈…〉 ke him they are not pure and holy You find Col. 3. 10. Eph. 4. 24. that th●●●age of God consists in Knowledge Righte●sness and true Holiness Now you see that Children are altogether ●estitute of these Qualifications and are very averse and backward to learn or acquire them which Teachers of Youth find by experience Quest. Have Children the Image of Satan and a corrupt Nature Answ. Yes All Adam's Posterity are not only destitute of Righteousness but inclined to all iniquity Gen. 6. 5. A Subject capable of two contrary Qualities must have one of them the Air must be either dark or light Wax must be either hard or soft The Heart of Mankind must be either good and holy or else bad and wicked it must be ei●her for God or against him Now God's Word tells us Rom. 8. 7. The carnal mind is enmity against God and is no● subject to his Law And indeed no worse can● be in the Devil than Enmity against God and Rebellion against his Laws We are not only Strangers