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A08275 A good companion for a Christian directing him in the way to God, being meditiations and prayers for euery day in the weeke; and graces before and after meate. Norden, John, 1548-1625? 1632 (1632) STC 18609; ESTC S119834 97,176 420

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impious and vngodly vses while they liue setting neither house nor heart nor soule nor body in order before they dye Many neuer thinke of Death till they be sicke AND when the summons of death beginne to seize vpon them then they beginne to bestirre them saying as some haue done and must I dye making an vnwilling will giuing and bequeathing what they could no longer keepe Yet when a mans will is made and all things disposed if he can get but a little breathing time a yeare or two ten or more they to whom he hath assigned his lands and bequeathed his goods shal be neuer the better for his gifts vntill he die and that were it possible not till doomes day And they that would haue seemed to haue mourned at his funerall for the losse of so good a benefactor will turne their mourning which should haue been for his death into sorrow and sadnesse for the recouery of his health and will be euen sick to thinke they shal be longer preuented by his recouery of that they were in hope presently to haue enioyed Jf men could see the fruits of their gifts in their posterities in their graues they would repent that euer they were rich HE that flatters not himselfe in the greatnesse of his means to 〈◊〉 what fame will flie of him when he is dead for his bounty distributed not to the needy members of Christ when he was aliue if he could but looke out of his graue and see the gallants that he hath made to ruffle in their riot and lasciuiously commonly to consume what he so long and laboriously scraped together he would wish himselfe rather to haue been a man of farre inferior meanes than to haue been the meanes to increase the sinne of them whom he seemed to loue and would no doubt haue been more carefull in setting his house his soule his body conscience and affections in better order than he had done by giuing it rather to the poore Delay not to set thy life lands and goods in order BE wise therfore thou that hast houses lands possessions and much goods to dispose Set them in order in time and obserue well how and to whom and to what vses thou meanest to dispose them and delay not till thou be sick For thou knowest not when nor where nor how thou shalt end thy life and thinke not that the abrupt making of thy will can bring a disordered house suddainly into such order as God requireth while thou art therfore in thy perfect health set thy house in order against the time of thine vncertaine death and see thou haue well gotten that which thou hast heaped together and if thy conscience strictly examined tell thee that thou hast gotten any part of it by wrong shew thy selfe a good Zacheus restore it fourefold before thou dye that thou maist dye in the fauour of God in Christ otherwise it had been better for thee to haue dyed a begger Fit euery man to make their wills IT is a very religious and Christian duty in euery man possessing any lands or goods in the world to make his will and to settle his estate in good order be it neuer so meane before he dye which is in part meant by Gods command to set thy house in order namely thy houshold lands and goods but that is not all the orderly setling of thy house before thou dye Whereof a family consisteth A Houshold or family consisteth of husband and wife parents and children master and seruants among whom if a godly order be not set continued and kept before thou be constrained through sicknesse to make thy will thou wilt hardly set it in order before thou dye How a family ought to be ordered IF loue and amity haue not been and maintained in the feare of God between man and wife If parents haue not instructed their children in the knowledge of exercised them in the true seruice of God if children haue not obeyed their parents if masters haue not wisely gouerned their seruants giuing them their salaries and necessaries if seruants haue not done their duties faithfully to their masters and all mutually together and sometimes man and wife in priuate serued the Lord in faithfull prayer during their perfect healths that house is out of order head and members and cannot in a moment by a will written in an houre or two be brought into order Therefore deceiue not thy selfe by delaying to set thy house in order and euery part and person thereof and thinke it not sufficient to settle thy worldly goods and lands by thy last will as thou dost imagine thou hast made thy will for whether thou dispose thy lands or giue thy goods while thou art aliue neither shall thy lands nor goods want owners when thou art dead Parents ought to prouide for their children the chiefe hope of children IT is a duty also ioyned with a care in parents to lay vp and prouide for their children and a fatherly dutie it is and a duty that children for the most part take greater hold of than of care to performe their duties to their parents And therefore it is hard to iudge whether he that layes vp little and giues only education vnto his children to liue futurely by some lawfull calling or he that is solicitous and ouer-carefull to prouide for the present maintenance of his children in idlenesse before and in wantonesse through the hope of great portions after his death be most to be condemned if the 〈◊〉 be not more blameable he is more superstitious than the former too much care argues least faith He that cares not for his family i● an infidel and he that is too solicitous for them is no lesse HE shewes not himselfe a Christian in deed that cares not for his family but spends his time in idlenesse and his meanes in vnthriftinesse but rather an infidel But he that exceeds in coueting which in it selfe is sinne and striues against the streame of Gods direction getting by right or wrong spending superfluously vpon his family or hoording and laying vp for his posterity as is said before hauing little or no regard to help releeue and comfort the poore that haue an interest in the superfluity of his abundance as if the Lord could not prouide for his children if they feare and serue God aswell as he hath done for himselfe this man shewes himselfe as neere an infidel as the former Parents should leaue behind them good examples for their children to imitate THE best portion thou canst leaue behind thee is a manifest example and paterne of a godly life for thy children and friends to imitate and to giue them if conueniently nothing else some necessary manuall trade or lawfull profession to liue by when thou art dead Great patrimonies oftentimes soone spent IF thou haue lands and possessions and great stocks of money to leaue to thy children thou thinkest them richly prouided for and thy house in good order and yet we see
and feeling THy hands are of greatest vse vnder thy fiue senses of all the other members of thy bodye yet much often hindred by the defect of the senses of saying and touching By the first they are guided aright and by the other they feele vse those instruments required in whatsoeuer manuall and mechanicke action and without either of these the hands seeme lame and defectiue and above the other two the vnderstāding guides them for be a mans sight neuer so perfect and his hands neuer so nimble and artificiall yet if the vnderstanding faile they can performe no action aright How the body is guided THe hands indeed are the workemen artificers and principall laborers for all the rest of the members of the little commonwealth of thy body and the eyes are as the ouerseers and the vnderstanding the guide director and iudge of the worke and the feete the messengers and porters to carry the body whither the will directs them As God created the hands to labour so hath he appointed many meanes to imploy them AS God created the hands in thy body to labour so hath he ordained many meanes yea infinite to set them on worke dressing and tilling the earth was the first labour appointed to man which hath begotten numberlesse other trades and callings among the sonnes of men as a badge of the cursse traduced to all mankind by the disobedience of the first man whose rebellion procured labour trauaile toyle and vexation to all his posterity and he tasted first of the seruile labour of his hands And now are all things full of labour Man cannot vtter the varieties of them labour and sorrow are now euery mans portion during his life For when a man thinks hee hath done all and that hee may liue at rest Then one occasion or another offereth it selfe to set him to worke anew his hands must returne againe to labour And this is the portion of euery man borne into the world With the labour of his hands to eate his bread Though some assume priuiledge through their greatnes and wealth and free themselues from seruile handy labours yet euen in their greatest pleasures and pastimes there is labour and wearinesse Husbandry no base calling IN whatsoeuer profession trade or faculty thou bee placed to labour thy hands are the chiefest instruments of thy body to performe it And therefore let thy hands bee diligent in thy calling and hate no laborious worke No not basely esteemed Husbandrie which the most high hath created But labour therein if it bee thy lot and thou shalt be satisfied with bread It is no disgrace to labour in the fields to plow sow reape c. for euen the king and all his subiects live by the field that is tilled and therefore a Calling so farre from being worthy of scorne as it deserveth especially to bee cherished Labour with prayer prospereth IN every honest labour wherein the hands are not idle there is gaine and sufficient to sustaine the laborer especially where as the hands worke the heart prayes for the work of the body is no hindrāce to a well prepared heart to entertaine heavenly and godly motions and meditations As godly Iacob did who ioyned prayers with his paines vnder Laban his vnkinde Vncle confessing that except the God of his father Abraham And the feare of that God that was the God whom Jsaac his father feared and served had beene with him His vncle had sent him away emptie But God beheld his tribulation and the labour of his hands And blessed both it and him Labour is sweet with profit and there is no lawfull labour unprofitable ioyned with prayer to God for a blessing for the labour of the faithfull is never in vaine Jdlenesse and ungodly exercises neuer blessed THere be many that haue hands to labour and yet will loyter and bee idle neither counsell or constraint can prouoke them to laudable labour yet in pleasure idle and vngodly pastimes in bowling hunting And many other vnlawfull exercises they will stretch their legs and straine their hands and toyle their bodies vntill they sweat though they lose not only precious time that might be spent in good exercises consuming their portions and patrimonies neuer cōplaine of their ungodly ●earines But if they should worke with lesse paine in some lawfull imployment they would cry out as the Jsraelites did vnder Pharaohs taske-masters The idle ought not to eate BVt Saint Paul exhorteth the Thessalonians that they should not suffer an idle person to live among them If there were any that refused to labour with their hands in some lawfull and laudible work● they should not permit them to eat Idlenesse draweth with it many dangers IDlenesse is not to be tolerated in any house much lesse in a towne least of all in a populous citie for it draweth so many inconueniences with it as it may further the ruine of the place wherin it is permitted for it was one of the maine firebrands that inkindled the fire and brimstone that consumed the cities of Sodom and Gomorah c. Where Idlenesse is not the land flourisheth THe idle in good will not bee idle in euill they will bee in action procuring publike or priuate mischiefes Take away the idle from among the laudable industrious and the land will flourish For where idle persons are though alone their heads or hands will bee working and as one cocke crowes after another and as one deepe calleth another So one idle person cals another And then consult they of some wickednesse and waite opportunity to perpetrate it They deuise iniq●itie and practise it because it is in the power of the hand Mischiefes proceeding of idlenesse A Pest they are to a common-wealth good people and industrious are often corrupted by them and infected with their vices poysoning whole multitudes that associate them and partake with them It increaseth the number of vagabonds the greatest blemish of a religious common-wealth Jnconueniences growing by idlenesse and the causes THis sin hath made many a rich man poore many wisemen fooles it bringeth many to beggery many also to filthinesse of life some to robbing and stealing sometimes to murther the innocent consequently brings themselves to untimely and fearefull ends wherein many parents of children masters of seruants but especially magistrates within their liberties are guiltie Parents in not bringing vp their children in some lawfull trade or calling leauing thē to their own wils Masters being often idle themselves leaving their wares shops and trades to their seruants who in absence of their masters take not onely liberty to be idle to gad abroad but acquaint themselues with the more idle and become so seasoned in sinne that at length they runne from one sinne vnto another That when many of them come as they call it to bee their owne men they become professed servants of vnrighteousnesse and slaues to Satan Magistrates also and inferiour gouernours by their lenity and conniuency increase the boldnes of