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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08202	An order of houshold instruction by which euery master of a familie, may easily and in short space, make his whole houshold to vnderstand the principall and chiefe points of Christian religion, without the knowledge whereof, no man can be saued.	Nichols, Josias, 1555?-1639.	1595 (1595)	STC 18539.5; ESTC S2248	53,178	122

5. temple was not built but by men of all sorts in the time of Salomon and the d Nehem. 3. walles of Ierusalem vnder the guiding of Nehemiah So may priuate men very much further the building of the spirituall temple which is the congregation of Christ The Churches spring out of instructed families And as out of Abraham Isaac and Iacobs house sprang forth the Churches of the Iewes so the glorious congregations of the Gentiles began in the families For if seruants well nurtured e Tit. 2.10 may adorne the doctrine of God our Sauiour in all thinges and f 1. Pet. 3.1 husbands obeying not the worde may without the word be wonne by the conuersation of the wiues how much more may the master of the familie doe vnto God and his Church honorable seruice not only by sanctifying his house by the word of faith but also by hauing alwaies in a readines very notable matter to further the building of Gods dwelling place Which thing is auouched to thee by g 2. Tim. 1.5 and 3.15 with Act. 16.1 young Timotheus who being brought vp in the holy Scriptures from a childe vnder his faithfull grandmother Lois and his mother Eunice when he was yet a very young man became a companion of the Apostle Saint Paul in that great and waightie worke of planting Churches And h Act. 18.24 Apollos cōfirmeth the same who being an eloquent man and mightie in the Scriptures was yet more perfectly instructed in the way of God by the house of a craftsman by whom not onely they which beleeued thorow grace were very much holpen but also the aduersaries of Christ were mightily confuted by the Scriptures Moreouer I pray you to marke diligently how that the disorder of one priuate familie One familie well or ill ordered may saue or destroy both Church Common-wealth namely of one a Iudg. 17. 18. Micah of Ephraim was an occasion that Idolatrie did spread thorowe the whole tribe of Dan and so continued many yeares And so contrarily b cap. 6. 7. 8. Gideon being stirred vp by the goodnes of God to the reformation of one meane familie in Manasseh was the cause of a very great deliuerance to the whole nation from most mightie and cruell enemies and most abominable Idolatrie for the space of 40. yeares Where were those c 1 King 14.14.18 7000. in the daies of Eliah that had not bowed the knee to Baal when he thought there were none left in Israel that feared God were they not in the well instructed families Whence came it that d Gen. 37. 38. 39. c. Ioseph in his youth being sold vnto strangers passed thorow so great temptations the comfortles prison the stocks iron to be so worthie a father of the Common-wealth of Egypt so good a nurse to the people of God Ica name no other outward meanes but his good education in the familie of the faithfull Hence is it written e Eccles 4.13 Better is a poore and wise child then an old and foolish king which will no more bee admonished for out of the prison hee commeth for to raigne when hee that is borne in his kingdome is made poore Therefore God commādeth his people f Deut. 11.18 to lay vp his words in their harts and in their soules c. and to teach them their children speaking of them when they sit in their house and when they walke by the way and when they lye downe and when they rise vp c. that their dayes may be multiplied and the dayes of their children c. Behold then what good may come out of a well instructed familie namely that it may bee the preseruing of the countrie and Church in the time of extreame daunger and darknes the seedplot against the time of reformation and a meanes by which God doth multiplie his people and peace in a countrie and that by the contrarie an whole countrie may fall into Idolatrie and destruction Whereby euery man may see what honorable seruice I wish him vnto when I exhort him to the instructing of his familie Therefore I heartily pray and earnestly entreate all gouernours of families A request to the masters of families that they would set such wise order in the disposing of all their worldly affayres that they may haue conuenient leisure and quiet time for the vse of this duetie taking heede of all vaine excuses Vaine excuses which the diuell and our corrupt nature will set before vs as blockes and hinderances that we should not once meddle with such a Luk. 10.42 necessary matters First The Lords day the Lords day being an ordinary rest time of libertie doth call vnto you from the king of heauen to doe this seruice After morning and euening prayer when you haue tried your people what they haue learned at the Church by their pastour and called to mind the chiefe heads of his teaching then is it good to make it a drinke offering vpon the pastours lessons to teach them a point or two of the principles of Religion Two howers once in the weeke And if it be possible I would begge for these poore soules in the name of Iesus Christ who shed his precious bloud for you and them that you would bestowe some two howers euery weeke in some one of the working daies as euery man shal be able to find best and fittest leasure to instruct your children and seruants according to the order of this booke or some such like and that you would continue therein with al care and constancie And I doe not doubt but you shall see great gaine by this little labour euen a blessing from the Lord our God b Hebr. 6.10 who will not forget any mans faithfull labour and loue which is in Christ Iesus There are foure sortes of people Foure sortes of people haue most fit oppotunity to teach the yonger 1. Noble men Gentlemen whome I would especially moue vnto this most vertuous and laudable worke for that they haue most fitte opportunitie to doe greatest seruice herein to God and their countrie First al noble men and Gentlemen and all Masters of great housholds Whose families as they are the most in number so most commonly they stand vnder the most reuerend and humble submission of their superiours Therefore in regard of the one they may profit most and in regard of the other with most easines and conueniencie Vaine pretēce For although the greatest part pretend it a very hard thing in these daies to bring their familie to Christian knowledge and sobernesse yet the not hauing them so consisteth not in the hardnes of the worke or vnrulines of the people but in the common neglect of many gouernours Who passing ouer this dutie Libertie the spoyle of the familie as a matter either not much to be regarded or not pertaining vnto thē haue so hardeened the