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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

disquieteth himselfe in vaine touching his Childe Let him take these Directions which are brought to my hand touching this point 1. We who are Parents must take speciall care about our Generall Calling how we answer that great and honourable name which is called upon us so likewise for our Children Thoughts heereof must busie us And herein we should remember this rule Christianity is a matter rather of Grace then of Gifts of Obedience then of Parts Gifts may come from a more common work of the spirit and more for others then our selves Grace comes from a peculiar favour of God and specially for our owne good And so if the Parent direct the Childe also he shall teach it a Trade which is surer then house or Land 2. For a particular Calling we must be very wary as in behalfe of our selves so of our Children That we walke not above the parts and Graces we see in them for then we shall put them into another condition then ever God ordained them for The issue whereof will be discouragement in themselves and disgrace from others As a warranted Calling warranted I meane by the Word of God whereof in a fitter place is no small warrant for comfort so the fitnesse of our parts for this Calling what ever it be is the best warrant that any man hath that he is Called thereunto And he must remember That no Calling is so meane but a man may finde enough to give account for And meane though it be yet faithfulnesse will commend a person in the lowest condition of life And unfaithfulnesse will poure contempt upon the height of Dignity as a spewing upon that Glory Our Master in Heaven regards not how high a man is but how faithfull he is e God hath given thy Brother a great gift to thee a little one He hath proportioned the work accordingly and so spares thee Blesse His Name therefore and be faithfull in thy little so maist thou receive ● great Reward His great and thy little came out of the same Treasu●y and was dispensed by the same Hand Doe not call God to an account why He gave thee little and thy Brother much but labour thou to be accountable for thy Measure Chrysost 1 Cor. 12. Hom. 29. The maine work then of a Parent with his Childe at this point is to take a right Scale and measure of his Childes parts and so answerably to fit it with a fit Calling The Parent must labour by all means to hide Pride from the Child I meane The Parent must beat it off from vaine-glory and selfe-conceit young folke have the best opinion of themselves because they discerne themselves worst and to shake it off from sloth that Moth and Canker of our Parts The one Pride will make the man and Childe both to lay open their weaknesses The other Sloth will make them not to know Qui se nescit uti se nescit their strength or not to put it forth And let the Parent having done his endeavour comfort himselfe with this That how weake or unserviceable soever his Childe seemes to be if not doubly deformed in respect of his parts yet there is no member but it is fitted with some abilities to do some service in the body and by good nurture and manurance may grow up to a greater measure And let him consider this with it That as in the body naturall the most exalted part the Head hath need of the lowest the foote so there is not the greatest person but may have use both of the parts and graces of the meanest in the Church I say more though I may not say The head more needs the foote then the foote the head nor will I say though so it is concluded f 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrysost 1 Cor. 13. Hom. 34. Aristop 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Act. 2. Sc. 5. That the poore man who is as the foot doth not so much need the Rich who is as the head as the rich man needs the poore man for who needs more or who lesse that is not the point but one needs the other that is certaine Nay one cannot be without the other And this that the poore man may not be too much cast downe nor the rich overmuch exalted but that the one and the other may glorifie Him that hath so disposed them so as in the body there should be no lack But now in the last place for maintenance for the Childe how he shall live hereafter The thoughts whereof so take up and tyre out the Parents thoughts so stuffs his heart and disquiets his Rest and peace For this is the great enquiry who will shew us any good Where is this preferment to be had How shall I make my Childe rich and high in the World Where shall I finde a place where he may have great wages and little work This is the great enquiry All the Parents Travels hither and thither is but to make discovery of this point where this fortunate Iland is where is gold and there he would land his Childe and no other reason can he give of all his dangerous adventures but this and this carryeth him and dasheth him upon rocks also because the gold of that Land is good This is the sore Travell and one of the great evils under the Sunne And a folly it is exceeding that of the simplest Idiot in the World for it is as if the Parent should lay out all his whole stock of wealth and wit to purchase and furnish a Chamber for his Childe in a Through fare and provide it no house in the City where it is for ever to dwell I cannot take off this vaile of false opinion But assuredly if we would follow the counsell of the wise we might shorten our sore Travell at this point and make our way to Comfort more compendious The Counsell is this Our g What madnesse is it to spend all our labour to possesse our selves of the Cis●erne when the fountaine is offered unto us S. C. p. 642 ● S. C. p. 249. care must be to know our work touching our selves touching ours and then to doe it and so to doe it as unto God with conscience of moderate diligence for over-doing and overworking any thing comes either from ostentation or distrust in God And negligence is so S. Con. 249. farre from getting any blessing that it brings us under a curse That which belongs to us in our calling is care of discharging our duty That which God takes upon him is Assistance and good successe in it Let us look to our worke and leave God to doe His owne Diligence and Trust in Him is onely ours the rest of the burthen is His h Let us make good our ends and the meanes we use and God wil make good the issue and turne all to the best Dr. Feat p. 103. We must part our care so as to take upon us onely this care of Duty and leave the rest

All. If bread be deare that makes a deare yeare how cheape so ever other things are Though what is cheape when bread is deare unlesse it be the needy-mans houshold stuffe his dish or his stoole c. his cloath or his bed or his mill-stone any thing he hath all he hath shall go for bread p Vbi panis d●sicit ibi omnia sunt venalia Where you finde no bread in a house there looke to finde nothing but thin cheekes hollow eyes and a black visage All goes out there that bread may come in A man will sell himselfe for bread q Gen. 47. 19. Man hath eat the off all Ingluvies cum interaneis 2 King 6. 25. Trem. or garbage of Doves that which we cast to Dogs but they will scarce eate it Nay man hath eat his own flesh for want of bread All these the sacred Scripture tells us and it is good to tell it the childe It is proper also to tell the childe what our Chronicles do report That in King William the Conquerours Reade Dr. Gouge D. D. p. 170. dayes 1069. there was a dearth which eat up the inhabitants so that some part of the land was wasted without people none left to till the ground for the space of nine yeares In that time of distresse we reade they did eat mans flesh In King Henry the thirds dayes in the eighteenth yeare of his raigne 1234 many perished for want of victualls In the ninth yeare of Edward the second 1315. the extremitie was such that hors-flesh was accounted great cheare and some eat their own children and the theeves in prison did pluck in pieces those who were newly brought in In the yeare 1440. bread-corne was so scarce that the people made bread of Fern-roots This dearth was in the eighteenth yeare of Henry the sixt In the eighteenth yeare of Henry the eighth Corn-fields and pasture were destroyed by the much raine which fell in November and December then it was dry till the twelfth of April and from that day it rained both day and night till the third of Iune whereby the famine was sore the yeare following Many such sad stories there are touching the extreamitie of famine ſ Lipsius de Constant lib. 2. cap. 23. Lipsius hath some so hath Eusebius cited by Mr. Brightman on Revel 6. 8. Dr. Apolog. lib. 2. sect 4. Hackwell hath some of these before mentioned with an addition of some other But we have all summed up together in that sad Relation out of the Palatinate If this be laid to heart many things will be reformed which are now quite out of order and amongst many this one Parents or Governours will take care so far as is possible That there be an humble thankfull sober If we take what sufficeth nature it is nourishment pleasure health if more then sufficeth the contrary Chrysost ad Heb. cap. 12. Hom. 29. temperate use of the creatures so as they may refresh not oppresse this will be their care And they will looke to it also that the broken meat be taken up that the least crum which can be saved be not lost no not a crum § 15. We that are by nature children of wrath have in our nature so much fiercenesse as that we cannot credit nor beleeve it though another should shed teares over 2 King 8. 11. Virtutes vitia non sunt priusquam lacessantur it untill the foundations of our natures are discovered The occasion offered and the restraint taken off A swine will keep clean in a meadow Lime will not smoake till you put water to it A Lion sleeps waking with his eyes open and wakes sleeping with his eyes shut To look to he is as gentle as a Lambe but if you pluck him by the eare he will pluck you by the arme though he seemes to wink stirre him or let him loose then you shall know what he is y Solve Leonem senties I meane by all this That we know not our natures how fierce they are till we are tempted by the occasion and so tried Therefore we should looke to it betimes and be jealous over our own hearts and restraine in children whatsoever leads that way I meane to crueltie and fiercenesse And then we shall not suffer children to delight themselves as commonly they do in the vexation and paine of the creature which the more it is in their power the more children will vexe the creature to shew their power in the torture and paine thereof witnesse that rude custome on Shrove-tuesday witnesse also our flyes birds Cats and Dogs tossed up in blankets or set on furiously to encounter mangle and enter-teare each other Children consider not by how weake supports mans life is upheld nor how serviceable the flesh of some of them is the blood of othersome and the excrements of a third the most approved remedy for a sore throat This children consider not nor can they think what ill blood such bloody exercises do breed They consider not that such sports leade to crueltie whereby we come neerest to the Divell who delights in the paine of the creature It is a knowne story and to be observed That a very proud King delighted much in his childe hood to put out the eyes of Quailes This King carryed himselfe afterwards with such pride and insolency that he had his denomination from it and delighted himselfe so much in crueltie and bloud that the people expelled him out of their Citie and Countrey with protestation never to receive any King againe so they changed the name of their Government An Emperour after him delighted as much to see the entralls of flies he killed as many as he could catch and tooke his times for it So the proverb was The z Ne musca quidem Su●t Dom. Emperour had not so much as a flye neere him This man or rather beast in shape of a man delighted as much in the shedding of Christians blood and as cruelly abused Gods Image which he had shamefully cast off Indeed there are some men who are cruell to Christians and kinde to Beasts But they have but the shape of men they are a Lege Dialog de bello sacro p. 339. Beasts indeed and therefore do they esteeme more of Beasts then of Christians It is b Lo. Ver. Essay 13. p. 67. reported that a Christian Boy in Constantinople Had like to have been stoned for gagging in a waggishnesse a long billed fowle b Lo. Ver. Essay 13. p. 67. I would perswade but this from hence That children be not suffered to bathe their recreations in bloud as Mr. Bolton phraseth it Not to refresh their tyred mindes with spectacles of crueltie nor inured to behold rufull objects without horrour No beast they say takes content in the hurting of any other except in the case of hunger or anger They satisfie their appetite and rage sometimes with crueltie and bloud but their eyes and