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A92885	The whole duty of a Christian containing all things necessary, both as to what he is to know, and do, for the obtaining a happy eternity ; to which is added, More particular directions, how to prepare for a comfortable death ...	Seller, Abednego, 1646?-1705.; Hove, Frederick Hendrick van, 1628?-1698.	1699 (1699)	Wing S2461A; ESTC R42613	99,994	253

possible Praise that though I have deserved nothing but Trouble and Affliction thou hast been so careful of me so good unto me all my dayes In particular as to the Choice thou hast made for me O Pardon the Vanity the Follies the Errors the Miscarriages of my younger and riper years and punish them not upon me with those extream Troubles Disquiets Dissatisfactions those find in this state who have provoked thee Give me Prudence and Discretion to know and do my Duty with a chearful Heart and willing Mind Let it be my study and delight to please Thee and Him thou hast set over me To bear with his Infirmities To Help and do Him good all his days Free us from all peevishness sinful passions mistakes causless Jealousies and endue us with such meek quiet chast Dispositions as may encrease each others Joy and lighten each others Sorrows That in all the Changes and Alterations of our Condition we may preserve a sincere love unto Thee and one another Make us always mindful of the sacred Vow and Covenant wherein we stand engaged to Thee and each other and to stir up one another to the love of Thee and our Neighbour That in the sence of a good Conversation we may leave the world under well grounded hopes of dwelling together with Thee in Heaven Through Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour the Head and Husband of his Church to whom with thy Blessed Majesty and Holy Spirit be all Honour Glory and Praise now and for ever Amen For Safe Child-bearing MOst great and only wise God who sanctifiedst Marriage in Innocency for the Propagation of Mankind If it be thy good Pleasure make me Partaker of that Blessing Prevent a Barren a miscarrying Womb and dry Breasts Make me a Joyful Mother of Children That I may serve Thee in increasing and bringing up thy Faithful ones Deny not due Parts Senses Reason and Comfortable use of the same in thy own due Time Mitigate and Asswage the sharpness of that Curse and inevitable pain upon my Sex for the Offence of our first Parents Be not far from me when Trouble is nigh O Lord make hast to help me Give me Patience Submission Resignation to thy Will a seasonable easie safe Delivery Keep me from all sad Accidents and Passions from all Undecency of Deportment and unquietness of Spirit Impatience or Distrust from doing any thing sinful or feeling any thing intolerable Give me the expected fruit of my Womb and a thankful Heart to Consecrate it and my self to thy Service Punish us not in or by it nor it for our Sins assure us of the Pardon of them Increase my Faith support and strengthen me by thy Holy Spirit vanquish my Fears and Sorrows But I wholly submit all unto thy Holy Will and Pleasure whose Wisdom is Infinite whose Counsel is secret and knows what 's best for me and hast promised all Things shall work together for my good However thou dealest with me Give me not up to a Barren unfruitful heart Beget Preserve Encrease Confirm in me good Purposes and Resolutions Let them not prove Abortive but bring forth continually the fruit of good Living Give me Contentment in every Condition and Grace to Discharge the Duties I am or shall be called unto to my own and others Comfort the Credit of Religion the Praise of thy great Name thorough Jesus Christ Amen Thanksgiving after Deliverance ALL possible Thanks and Praise be given unto thee most gracious God and Heavenly Father for all the Instances of thy Goodness unto me all my Days Particularly for not turning away my Prayer nor thy Mercy from me for supporting me in the time of my Distress and Extremity when I might have perished in it O Sanctifie this great Deliverance that it may be in Love and Mercy unto me Keep me from all evil and further Danger of Childbed Give me a quiet Spirit increase of Strength a healthful Body ability for my Duty stedfast Confidence in thee a lively and lasting sence of thy Mercy a thankful Heart inlarged Affections to Praise thee to be joyful in thee to speak good of thee chearfully to serve thee all my Days Let this Experience of thy Power Mercy and Goodness learn me for ever to Trust in thee to rely cast all my Burden upon thee in a sincere observance of thy Holy Commandments Let me be as solicitous to glorifie thee for delivering of me as I was in calling upon thee for it That this great Mercy may not be in vain unto me but a fore-runner of my Deliverance from the pit of Eternal Destruction through my Lord and Saviour who was Born and Suffered the pains of Death for me to whom be Glory Honour and Praise now and ever Amen Parents Duties BE deeply sensible of the miserable state your Children have derived from you and of the gracious Terms offered by God for your and their Salvation Resign and Dedicate them to Him and Solemnize the same by Baptizing of them Nothing but the want of Milk or Ability excuses the Mother from Nursing them upon her own Breast (w) Ce. 21.7 1 Sa. 1.24 Ps 22.9 Lu. 11.27 The neglect of which is a great wrong to the Child who too often inherits the Diseases Humours and Dispositions of the Nurse and occasions less love to her who ought to have done it Lay not too much stress on the forward beginnings of wit and memory which often fail in their Age of all their Childhood promis'd But we can never hope too much of the timely Blossoms of Grace whose spring is perpetual and whose Harvest begins with our End Check the first appearings and buddings forth of Sin in them and encourage all good beginnings of Virtue when they are able to learn any thing it 's high time to reach them that which is good Stop their little Undecencies keep them from the Confines of Evil. Train them up to those things which are Immediate Dispositions of Virtue and Religion As Meekness Gentleness Patience Modesty Diligence Pity Compassion Mercifulness Government of their Tongue and Passions Silence Sobriety Comly speech to speak the Truth at all times which are great Preservatives against Impudence Unchastity Idleness Malice Hatred Revenge Oppression Injustice and all kind of Vices when we see a Child strike a Servant rudely jear the poor or silly Person Cheat his Play-fellow talk light Things little Boldnesses wrangling and lying for Trifles c. we encourage laugh at and are delighted with his wanton Wit and Confidence please our selves to see him displease God not considering these beginnings are growing up to Impudence and Revenge Injurious Actions false Witness Perjuries Tyranny Treason Education even alters Nature and moulds a Man a-new Instill Goodness betimes into them as they are capable Learn them and see they understand the Creed the Lord's Prayer the Ten Commandments and all the Principles of the Christian Religion in a familiar way according to their Capacities Teach them to Pray constantly and

uncustomarily Put such Books into their hands as are meetest for them Imprint upon their Minds the greatest things not uncertain Opinions for Damning and Saving Points or uncharitableness hatred prejudices as to Parties but such solid substantial Principles as may have the largest greatest influences on the future Conduct and Government of their Lives according to their particular Tempers Dispositions Inclinations Possess their Minds with the fear of God and their Obligations to him as their Creator Redeemer Preserver Governor Speak always before them with great Seriousness Honour Reverence and Praise of the Holy Scriptures Holy Men and Holy things and with displeasure and loathing of every Vice and of vicious Men. So soon as capable bring them to publick Ordinances appointed for begetting and encreasing Grace and to which God hath promised his special Blessing (x) Ps 133.3 Teach them to do rather than to talk of Virtue and Religion put them upon the Practice and Exercise of it that gives the best the truest the perfectest Knowledge of any thing Intice them with Kindness and Rewards the way to Indear your Persons and Instructions Labour to make all sweet easie and pleasant to them Commend allure them into Goodness with all Attractive Encouragements that they may know and love not know and hate Goodness at once by thinking of the Severities wherewith it was accompany'd in their Minority Make Holiness appear to them the most necessary honourable gainful delightful amiable course of life and principal thing Win them to a liking and love of it and keep them from looking upon it as needless dishonourable hurtful or uncomfortable and from such Company as may encline them to think so Inure them to speak always with Honour Respect and Reverence to your selves and others Break them of their own wills Suffer them not to carry themselves Irreverently or Contemptuously towards any Tell them lovingly of the Excellency of Obedience Humility Submission Condescention and how it pleases God and man Let Necessary Correction be according to their Tempers and with Discretion Not in Passion that they may see not your Anger but Reason is the Cause Not so seldom as to make them fearless nor so frequent as to discourage or harden them For offending God rather than your selves Always shew them the Tenderness of your Love and that you do it for their good Take heed of an over-fondness or visible partiality If Nature make a difference it 's natural to help the weakest and a Virtuous carriage to increase Respect 'T is good to incourage Ingenuity but not to provoke Pride or Envy The over-Indulgence of Parents is the refuge of Vanity the bane of Children and provokes God to take them away Give them Countenance and convenient maintenance that they may not be tempted to indirect courses nor your Life be their Burden Keep things in your own power to Reward Duty that they may be beholden to you not you to them yet so gotten that a Blessing not a Curse may go along with them Train them up in a life of Diligence and Labour use them not to Ease and Idleness Chuse them such a Calling and Course of life as tends most to the good of Church and State and their own Souls Place them with those that may not hinder that nor undo your Care of them while with you Look out such a Match for them when you find it needful as is Pious and Prudent rather than Rich. Observe their Inclinations and counsel them by Arguments drawn for their own good rather than by your Authority Affections are rather to be led than driven Forced Marriages and Callings seldom Prosper Let your own Example teach them that holy heavenly blameless Tongue and Life you desire them to practice 't will be hard to perswade them against that their young fancies from drawing after your own Resemblance Great Reverence is due to Children Infancy that understands not words are led by Imitation of those that gave them being and on whom they depend Practice not what 's not Prudent or Expedient before them Such as they see your behaviour is will theirs be behind your back Woe to them who make their Children witnesses of their Impieties Every President of yours is as a Monument and Motive to Posterity In all this use great Care and Diligence Think not that God will make them wise and good because they are yours Young Plants must be often watered Line upon Line Precept upon Precept Good Principles must be Distill'd into these narrow Vessels that cannot take in much at once by degrees as they are capable It 's easie to palliate Nature but it requires long and constant Attendance thoroughly to cure and conquer it Joyn constant earnest Prayer for accompanying your Endeavours with the Divine Assistance and Blessing without which all 's Ineffectual Children of many Prayers seldom miscarry But whatever the success be you will have the Comfort of discharging your Duty Their Prayer MOst gracious and merciful Father who shewest Mercy to Thousands of those that love Thee and keep thy Commandments We give thee hearty Thanks for thy Tender Care of us all our Days and for so early preventing us by thy Grace and Inclining our Hearts unto thy Service Oh go on to be gracious to us and ours Forgive us all our Sins and lay them not to our to their Charge Take them into the Protection and Guidance of the same good Providence which hath been so bountiful to us so watchful over us all our dayes Implant in them all the graces of thy Holy Spirit and accompany all Instructions and Endeavours to that End with thy Blessing Mercifully provide for dispose of and place them in this world so as may further them in and render the ways of Virtue easie and pleasant to them Preserve them from the Dangers Allurements and Evils of the Age. Let them be sanctified even from the Womb and fear thee from their Youth all their Days We recommend them to thy never-failing Mercy and Compassion Be our and their God O let them live in thy sight and us be able at last to say Behold we and the Children God hath graciously given us thorough Jesus Christ to whom with thy Blessed Majesty and Holy Spirit be all Honour Glory and Praise now and for ever Amen Another ALmighty God who hast promised thy Spirit to us and our Children even to as many as the Lord our God shall call deny it not to us and ours Give us grace by good Counsels and Example to lead and bring them up in thy Faith and Fear Make us Spiritual as well as Natural Parents Let us see the Travel of our Souls in them and be satisfied Let them be Born again of Water and of the Spirit Season their Tender Age with thy Grace let it have early possession of them Take them into thy Care Charge and Covenant into the Bosom of thy true Church into the Arms of thy Mercy into a Right of the Promises into the

Thoughts Inclinations Passions Words and Actions your behaviour in your several Duties Places Relations Take a strict Account of the miscarriages of the Day what Sins of Omission or Commission you have been guilty of and Confess them to God with an hearty sorrow and shame and a great Detestation of your self and firmly Resolve by his Grace and Assistance never to be guilty of the like again but to lead a new life A speedy present and particular Repentance is the way to keep your accounts even and to leave as little as may be upon the score to Trouble you when you are least able to bear it and have most need of Comfort and likelier to wipe out the guilt of your particular Sins than a general Repentance on a Death-Bed when you cannot but forget and omit many things which you can take no distinct notice of 'T is too much Presumption for any man to Conclude that his Sins will be forgiven him in a lump and that a general Confession and Acknowledgment of them will suffice when he comes to Dye Let no less Humiliation Repentance and Faith serve for the least Sin than you have good ground to conclude will carry you boldly from your Knees through Death to Judgment Thus get your Case rightly stated by leting Conscience have the full hearing of it in her private Sessions before you appear at the great Assize Make your Bed the Memorial of your Grave and your Evening Thoughts an Image of the Day of Judgment than which there 's no greater Instrument of Piety and Virtue in the world This will make us ashamed and afraid to neglect our Duty to commit any Sin when we know we must be accountable to our selves for it at Night and to God at the last Day By this means we shall be able to Correct the Errors of our past Lives to walk by a sure and steady Rule to make our Repentance particular to prevent Sin coming on us with an After-clap for if we would Judge our selves we should not be judged (u) 1 Cor. 11.31 Let Conscience speak as a Law a Witness a Judge now else it will be a Worm in Hell No wonder most are afraid of Death they are Strangers at Home and Justly Dread being called to account not knowing how things stand between God and Them Finally Often set before you the Condition of the wise and foolish Virgins when the Bridegroom cometh (w) Matt. 25.1 c. Behold the Judge standing before the Door (x) James 5.9 Fancy you see the Fire already kindled which e'er long will turn the whole Globe of Heaven and Earth into Flames The Heavens passing away with a hideous Noise and Clamour and the Works of Nature and Art which men so idolize and dote upon consuming and burning to a black Coal The Son of Man coming in Power and great Glory with his Holy Angels The Books opening the last Trump sounding the Dead starting out of their Graves the Wise with great Joy and Triumph to their expected Blessedness the Foolish in Horrour and Amazement looking for their fearfull Doom Think what a terrible thing this will be to the drowzy World what a Surprize to the Careless and Ungodly to be thus suddainly overtaken not knowing what to do or which way to turn The trembling multitude running up and down appaled astonished and confounded in so much despair of the abused mercy of God that instead of supplicating it they 'll call to the Rocks and Mountains to fall on them and hide them from the face of him that sits on the Throne and from the wrath of the Lamb and find them as inexorable as God himself O the ghastly looks the shivering motions the distorted eyes and listning ears the distracted faces and trembling hands of the confident and daring sinners at that great and terrible Day when all the charming Companions and Associates shall like enraged Furies fly upon one another and the Fewel men feed their Lusts with shall be turned into Fewel for Hell-fire and stings of Conscience When every Vice shall have its proper Torment The secure Sinner be fill'd with Remorse and Anguish The Sensualist tormented with an insatiable Hunger and Thirst when a vexatious Fire shall burn Body and Soul The tenacious greedy worldling perish with want Confusion and Shame cover the Proud and Vain-glorious When the lascivious Wretch instead of gazing upon a fictitious Beauty and sporting in the Arms of his Dalilah shall have his sight blasted with the contagious Vision of deformed Spectors and be embraced by devouring Flames The amorous Smiles of all his sweetest mirth and jollity corrupted and surrendred up into dolefull Howlings and mortal Gripes How will the sensual Sinner then look when all his Terrene Pleasures shall be snatched away by those merciless Flames What will the Voluptuous Glutton do when he shall see all his curious delicious Dainties with which he so gratified his brutish Palate turn'd to Ashes Then they would fain vomit up their delicious morsels and abhor the remembrance of what they cannot forget They confess and bewaile their former Folly The things they eagerly pursued they sadly lament when all their Enjoyments are spent and nothing left but naked Sin and Conscience Where will the Costive Avaricious Earth-worm delve or scrape for Riches the Ambitious Climb for Honour when they see all Gold and Silver Crown and Scepter burnt up How soon then will Men's fond Presumptions and Self-flatteries vanish into smoak and vapour end in dreadfull despair when all shall appear in their own likeness nakedly as they are and there can be no varnishing or gilding over a rotten Heart When none shall deceive God as they did men with a disguise of Piety No Wolf in Sheep's Cloathing steal on his Right-hand With what Amazement and impotent Rage will they struggle What would they not give to change their place that they might change their doom How will men's borrowed Colours be then melted away What a number of painted Vizards and disguised Masks of false Hearts be thrown into the Fire What would the Man invited to the Marriage-Feast give for a Wedding Garment when he stands at the Door and receives a Repulse And the foolish Virgins for Oyl How will the Market of Grace rise with what Industry will they seek it when they hear the Rumour of the Bridegroom's approach When Rivers of Tears cannot wash away the Guilt of Conscience nor ten thousand Rivers of Oyl allay the Rage and Clamour of it But Christ's Followers shall be no losers He will consider them for their Time for their Expences for their Labour for their Sufferings None of them serve him for nought They shall certainly have their Hire that Work in his Vineyard The despised Ignorant Christian will then appear wiser than the craftiest Polititian The vilest Believer out-shine the Rich man's Scarlet and glittering Robe The Content of this World be of more value than all the Treasures of it The Penitent's Tears yield