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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85259	Friendly advice in the spirit of love unto believing parents, and their tender off-spring in relation to their Christian education. By J.F. and R.S.	Field, John, 1652-1723.; Scoryer, Richard, 1648?-1715.	1688 (1688)	Wing F864; ESTC R177042	8,569	23

Cloathing nor rich Apparel but in all things did the Will of His Heavenly Father that sent him Therefore take Him for your Example and obey your Parents and be subject to them in all things that they Advise and Counsel you for your good here and hereafter for what will all the finery avail when you come to dye and why should any be so concerned to finifie a little Dust and Ashes or House of Clay which may fall in a moment or twinkling of an Eye and neglect chat which tends to their Souls everlasting good Oh! therefore let me in treat you to mind the holy fear of Almighty God which will preserve you out of these things and have regard to the Holy Witness Light Grace and Spirit of God in your own hearts which will let you see that you should not be Heady High Minded Willful Surly or Stubborn but Meek Lowly Humble and Submissive and then you 'l be ' liker Christ But the Heady High Minded Wild Wanton and Proud they are like him that is the King over all the Children of Pride Job 41.34 And it was he that lead the Daughters of Zion into Haughtiness and taught them to walk with stretched forth Necks and Wanton Eyes walking and mincing as they went whereby the Lord was so displeased as to threaten to smite with a Scab the Crown of the Daughter of Zion and to discover their secret parts But as you mind and have regard to the Light and good Spirit of God and learn of it you will be taught to deny these things and be preserved as you abide in it from saying any bad Words telling any idle and false Stories or speaking any Untruths altho it were to excuse your selves Oh! therefore I beseech you have regard to it do not dispise it nor quench the motions of it and then you will be a Comfort to your Parents a rejoycing to your Friends and good Examples to other Children with whom you converse or are among and will cause the holy Truth to be well spoken of and make the Profession of it more to shine But if you flight the Counsel of your tender Parents Tutors and Friends Remember a day of Calamity will come and that you must one day appear before Him that will bring every work to Judgment with every secret thing whether it be good or whether it be evil and for every idle Word you must give an Account in the day of Judgment as Christ said Mat. 12.36 And if then thou art found of that Number that have set at nought God Counsel immediately by his Spirit in thy own heart and instrumentally through thy Parents Tutors or Friends and would not regard any of their Reproof Then the Lord will mock at thy Calamity and laugh when thy fear comes when Distress and Anguish cometh upon thee the Lord God Almighty therefore incline more and more the hearts of them that are young and tender unto him and to stand in his awe and holy fear that so you may lack no good thing but may dayly know the Lord to lead you in His way that you may find Rest and Peace to your Souls Eternally when ever it shall please the Lord to take you hence CHAP. III. An Exhortation to Children tenderly Advising them to improve their pretious time and to avoid the reading unprofitable Books and telling idle Tales as also to read and learn the Holy Scripture according to the Examples of Ancient Protestants ANd this is in my Mind in much Love and Tenderness by way of Counsel further to add to you who are the tender Off-spring of believing Parents that you may be careful to improve your pretious time which comes upon you with a silent foot and swiftly passes away And therefore may out daies here be aptly compared to a Weavers Shuttle and our Life to a Bubble in the Water which suddainly rises and in a Moment is down and no more to be seen so it may be said of all Mankind the young as well as they of riper years they are here to day in a Mortal State and to morrow may launch out either into Eternal Happiness or everlasting Wo. And therefore let me intreat and perswade you for your present good and future happiness not to spend nor squander away your pretious time in Wildness Vanity or Foolish Delights neither in the Hearing Telling or Reading any idle Tales false Stories lying Histories or foolish Verses that tend not to any Godly Edifying or informing your understandings in that which is good but rather to the filling your Minds with unprofitable matter which often occasions such like Discourse for out of the Abundance of the Heart the Mouth speaks and that commonly which Peoples minds are most filled with and taken up with all that they mostly talk of and discourse about let me therefore prevail with you frequently to Read the Holy Scriptures and learn to say some Chapters thereof without looking on the Book For the Waldenses who were a Religious People in their days and great Sufferers for their Religion took more care to have their Children Read and learn the Holy Scriptures then to gratifie their vain Minds and Childish Humors for in the History of the Waldenses Book 1. c. 5. P. 29. it s said as touching Erudition Rainerius hath said that they teach their Children yea even their Daughters the Epistles and the Gospels Jacobus de Riberia saith that they were so well instructed in the Scriptures that he hath heard a plain Country-man repeat the Book of Job Word by word and divers others that could perfectly repeat the whole New Testament And indeed it is much better to spend your time thus and will be more comfort to your honest Patents and rejoycing to your Friends that heartily wish and pray for your Welfare then to see you play it away in Wildness and Vanity and letting out your minds and lustings after the foolish fashions and vain Customs of the World which will never procure any comfort to your tender Parents Therefore once more I earnestly intreat you in unfeigned love to relinquish forsake and deny your selves of those things that tends to your hurt and let not the subtil Enemy that lies in wait to Ensnare Captivate and draw away your minds from the Principal of Truth the Light and Spirit of Christ in your hearts and Consciences or prevail upon you with any of his suggestions that such an one doth so or thus and why may not I and such an one hath come to Meetings long and is esteemed an honest Friend and he or she wares this speaks that or doth the other thing and they should be our Examples and therefore why may not I. These often are the suggestions of Satan to draw and allure the minds of the young and tender from Truth in themselves and to strengthen them in that which many times they know they ought not to do and believe would be better if they did not and by these and such