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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30267	Advice to parents and children the sum of a few sermons contracted and published at the request of many pious hearers / by Daniel Burgess ...	Burgess, Daniel, 1645-1713.	1690 (1690)	Wing B5692A; ESTC R4891	23,990	80

It is required of Superiors according to that power they receive from God and that relation wherein they stand to love pray for and bless their Inferiors to instruct counsel and admonish them countenancing commending and rewarding such as do well discountenancing reproving and chastising such as do ill protecting and providing for them all things necessary for soul and body and by grave wise holy and exemplary carriage to procure Glory to God honour to themselves and so to preserve that Authority which God hath put upon them I will transcribe no more of our many Summaries But propose these particulars which I take to be comprehensive And such that God will judge all the neglecters of and not hold them guiltless however full they be of excuses Knowing the Terror of the Lord I thus instruct and perswade every Christian Parent 1. Be Exemplary in Vniversal Duty Ill Example is the rankest Poyson in the World Parents ill Example is the worst that Children can have I know not what God hath forbid or required if he forbids not ill and requires not good Example Good Example for Duty foresaid Wouldst be a good Parent Thou canst not till thou dost understandly affectionately and practically keep the Gospel-Covenant Owning the Engagement of thy Holy Baptism renewing it at the Lords Supper observing it in all thy ways towards God other Men and thy self You that do not this ye bid your Children not to do it In practice ye bid ' em And ye who bid them not to do this ye bid them virtually be Atheists and Devils and Rebels to God and to your selves As little as ye think of it this ye do God and Godly Men count you so to do Parents Parents con ye well Job 22 21 22 23. Job is advised to Acquaint himself with God to receive and lay up God's Word in his Heart to return unto the Almighty that is to do all I have here foresaid And for his encouragement he is then told his relative Duties will come on with their Blessings He shall be built up that is he shall have more Children And he shall put away Iniquity far from his Tabernacles that is he shall be a good Father and Master and remove the Iniquity of his Children and Servants and promote Family-Godliness Which without that course prescribed he could not expect to do Preceptive Teaching alone is a little more than a Cypher 't is practical Teaching is the Figure The Language that God binds Parents and all Teachers to use is this Come with me unto this and that Duty Fly with me from this and that Sin Mourn with me for this and that Omission and Commission sinful Delight with me in this and that Holy Service And be it written on all our Walls They that are not Patterns to their Children be plagues to their Children They who give them not good Example give them nothing good at least nothing like to do them good For a grain of bad Example doth an hundred times more hurt than a pound of good Counsel ordinarily doth good 2. Be as full of prayer as St. Austin's Mother That Holy Creature got her Son and her Husband Converted by her Prayer But not by slight and sleepy Prayer Think of this Parents As their greatest Wickedness makes not Prayer hopeless so your greatest Sanctity makes not Prayer useless Our Redeemer whose Obedience is Meritorious he himself asks before God gives Nor will God give till in his Name ye ask Ordinarily he will not But if ye ask not amiss ye can never miss of what ye ask And I will be allowed to say Prayer for our Children is that Duty to them without which we can discharge none We must be joyned to God in the Covenant of Grace before we can rightly Pray And we must Pray before we can expect to benefit our selves or our Children by any means possible Gen. 17.18 20. Abraham prayed for Ishmael and that warmly And what says the Text God said and as for Ishmael I have heard thee behold I have blessed him and will make him Fruitful and will multiply him exceedingly twelve Princes shall he beget and I will make him a great Nation David prayed hard for Solomon his Son O Lord God of Abraham Isaac and of Israel our Fathers give to Solomon my Son a perfect heart to keep thy Commandments and thy Statutes 1 Chron. 22 12 1 Chron. 29 18 19. The seventy second Psalm is David's Prayer for his Solomon Parents Of all things be not niggardly of your prayers for your Children Rather deny them Victuals and Drink For many can give them both that cannot put up prayers for them And the same may be said of the will as of the power of most I know few do think it but 't is true a stock of prayers is a richer Child portion than a stock of broad Gold 3. Be Catechizers through the whole compass of the words of Eternal Life Suffer not thy Child to say there is one Truth or one Grace or one Duty necessary to Salvation that thou knewest but never taughtest him Who ever doubted but if a Man had a blind Child he was bound to use all the likely means he could come by to recover it's sight I am very confident that Adam Seth Noah and Sem were all Catechisers From the Cradle the Church was still kept up by Catechising Of Abraham God speaks plainly Gen. 18. 19. For I know him that he will command his Children and his household after him and they shall keep the way of the Lord to do Justice and Judgment that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him David and Bathsheba too Catechised Solomon soundly 1 Kings 2.2 3. I go the way of all the Earth be thou strong therefore and shew thy self a Man And keep the charge of the Lord thy God to walk in his ways to keep his Statutes and his Commandments and his Judgments and his Testimonies as it is written in the Law of Moses that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest and whithersoever thou turnest thy self 1 Chron. 28.9 And thou Solomon my Son know thou the God of thy Father and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind for the Lord searcheth all hearts and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts if thou seek him he will be found of thee but if thou forsake him he will cast thee off for ever Prov. 31.1 The words of King Lemuel the prophesie that his mother taught him Lois and Eunice are praised on this account 2 Tim. 1.5 3 15. When I call to remembrance the unfeigned Faith that is in thee which dwelt first in thy Grand-mother Lois and thy Mother Eunice and I am perswaded that in thee also And that from a Child thou hast known the holy Scriptures which are able to make thee wise unto Salvation through Faith which is in Christ Jesus After the death of the Apostles the Churches had

lay not up what we innocently can for them they are not like to have good ones If through our Sloth Prodigality or Covetousness they do miss of good ones what an action have they against us It would cut the heart of a gracious Parent to have his Children say as Labans Daughters said Gen. 31.14 15. Is there yet any portion for us in our Fathers house Are we not counted of him strangers And hath he not quite devoured also our money Neither are your Children Angels It is your duty to provide seasonably for their disposal in Marriage Some delay it looking after a Match more rich then yet offers Others delay as loth to part with so much of their Riches as is requisite But commonly you pay dear for your delays Lot delayed to dispose of his Daughters and he deeply suffered for it Gen. 19.30 31 32. Judah delayed suffered for it and confessed it Gen. 38.26 Tamar that played the Harlot hath been more righteous then I because that I gave her not to Shelah my Son Unto this delay of Parents must be ascribed the invincible Melancholly the Distraction the Debauchery the temporal Ruin and Infamy of thousands of English Children History tells us of many that have conspired and got their Parents murdered for crossing them in their Matches I would that Religious Parents could but look into the hearts of all the Children that they cross herein and see the resentments of them But I add this word only more Forbidding to marry is a doctrine of Divels among Papists and seems to be a practice of Divels among many Protestants I proceed unto some more particular Counsels Calculated for the greatest number of Parents who do need them Those more rare ones that do not may overlook them I exhort those who are weak enough to want and humble enough to accept these Lines as followeth 1. Vnderstand and lament your Childrens sin and misery Know and consider what their natural unrenewed state is Till you do so you will neither incline nor understand how to do your Duties For you are without your Motive and your Rule I often think and say Original sin must be more learned before Parents duties be better practiced Did you know your Children to be sick and know their disease too I do perswade my self you would not so generally neglect their cure 2. Begin their Education very early The Twig greenest bends easiest They that tame Lions or convert very many Sinners break them when they are very young Stubbornness of will ruines the World But young Stomachs are most easie to be pulled down Besides God is honoured by your hast to make your Child honour him And most commonly he honoureth and blesseth that hast The sooner you are doing the more and better you are like to do 3. Employ them constantly Keep them out of Idleness as you would out of the Fire or out of the Thames Hold them alwayes Musing Hearing or Doing Rather make them sweep the House then stand idle in it Find some good work or innocent for all their time if ye would have them do good in a good manner at any time Neither Children nor Men can refrain from evil any longer then employed in good 4. Keep them from bad Company That is Pitch and if we let them touch it they must be defiled Their Playfellows worst words and wayes get into the best of them very soon And your own and their Masters best words and blows will not so soon get them out Who knows it not Company is one of the most powerful means of Grace or the contrary It opens the doors of the Soul more then any unto Good or unto Evil. 5. Make them neither too Bold with you nor too Fearful of you Not too Bold they be not Equals Nor too Fearful they be not your meer Servants neither Familiarity will bring them to contemn you and your Government Fear will make them to hate both Children be reasonable Creatures they love themselves and love those that love them You must give them such freedom with you as may speak your love of them For the sense of that will make it a pain to them to displease you and a pleasure to gratifie you But you must not give them such a Liberty as doth directly carry them to Licentiousness For alas poor things if you will make them as bold as Equals they before ever they are aware of it will make themselves as bold as Superiours In a word You must neither make them too timorous to look upon you not too audacious to be awed by a look of yours Let them love to see you and fear to let you see ought but what you like in them 6. Let the doctrine of God and of his Covenant word be first and most taught them The sixteen things concerning God which I have Printed for your use may be leisurely dropped into very young Minds So may my short account of the Covenant of Grace Till they are learnt I know not what can be profitably learnt And when they are all Religion is more easily learnt Early and frequently and mostly inculk upon them How great and good God is what a Covenant his Gospel presents what an Engagement and Encouragement Holy Baptism is Happy be the Scholars who are set to learn first things in the first place Order gives Perspicuity and Perspicuity makes Affection and Memory 7. Speak of holy things in their Presence with the greatest reverence possible Poor Creatures their honour of you is the highest they have They take you for wiser then all the World They believe best and loveliest what they see you take to be so And they will shrewdly guess by your Speech and Carriage what it is you take for best and what for worst Now a sight of your prefering God and Covenant duty to him above all things and a sight of your hating and dreading sin and Gods displeasure more then Pain or Death what doth it on them Truly more good for ought I know then is done by all things else to be named Yea and their hearing you speak of Holy things but as of Common and their smelling out your low esteem of them is the greatest bane of them that can be invented If any thing more strengthens their Original Corruption 't is somewhat that I have not yet understood 8. Shew them by Words and Deeds your Love of best Ministers and People and your loathing of trifling Ministers and vain People By this will they be brought to love the one and loath the other before they understand them And be forengaged to Hearken to the best and to be Deaf to the worst A benefit very great And one whose influence is often seen to last throughout the Lives of Men and Women As is also the power of the contrary I mean when the cursed example of Parents bringeth Children to mock at Gods Prophets and People and to esteem as the pleasantest Company such as make a God of this