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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75477	Antipharmacum Saluberrimum; or, A serious & seasonable caveat to all the saints in this hour of temptation. Wherein their present dangers are detected, and their present duties vigorously urged		1664 (1664)	Wing A3503; ESTC R229361	43,186	47

them when you shall sit down with Abraham Isaac and Jacob in the Kingdom of God abundantly satisfied with the Fatness of his House and drinking of the Rivers of his Pleasure they shall be shut out Nature teacheth you to feel the pains of their bodies and cannot Grace teach you to sympathize with the misery of their poor wretched Souls Well the day is coming if they die Christless that they will wish they had been the generation of Tygers or off-spring of Dragons rather than your Children and when you can have them no more you know who must and will From that exceeding Joy Arg. 2. it must needs be to a godly Parent to see his Children and Relations gracious May not every godly Parent say as John did of the Children of the Elect Lady I have no greater joy than to see them walk in the Truth 2 John 1.4 Is it pleasing to you to see your own image in them and will it not much more delight you to see the Image of Christ in them Grace doubles the relation and so must needs exceedingly increase your joy in them This is the true way to build up the Felicity of your issue How many anxious thoughts and sollicitous cares will this discharge thy heart of O if thou leave them in the Covenant of Grace thy heart may be at rest concerning them if thou leave them not a groat they shall not want a father to care for them when thou art in the dust Besides Grace will effectually teach them the duties of their relation to you while you live hereby you will provide not only for their eternal good but your own joy also The work lyes now upon your hand more than ever Arg. 3. as I hinted before and truly you have many singular advantages above all others to do the work 1. You are continually with them and so may take the fittest seasons to drop your admonitions upon them Deut. 6.6 7. 2. You best know their tempers and dispositions and so can apply your selves with more advantage to them 3. You have the deepest interest in their hearts and affections which is a great matter this will make your words especially if dropt upon them with much affection sink deep Oh what Child can chuse but relent while a Parent it speaking with a melting heart to him about his Eternal Concernments I remember Austine writes of his Mother Monica that she planted the Precepts of Life in his mind by her words watred them with her Tears and nourished them with her Example A precious pattern for all Mothers Me thinks these Arguments should excite you to your duty O if you have in you the bowels of Parents let them impel you to it you cannot plead danger here as in other duties against such there is yet no Law 2. As to your Neighbourhood You should study to be useful in your generation are there any poor carnal Neighbours about you O visit them and be ever dropping some serious words of Counsel upon them how do you know but tere may be some sleeping conviction left upon them by the Ministry they once sate under which you may be instrumental to awaken And are there any that feat the Lord near you O be often together strengthen the hands that hand down The Jews have a Proverb that One dry stick will set two green ones on fire A lively Christian may be of singular use in such a day as this In Mal. 3.16 we find what the practice of Christians was in an evil day as it appears that was by the 15th verse They that work wickedness are set up yea they that tempt God are even delivered And yet Then they that feared the Lard spake often one to another and the Lord hearkened and heard it and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord and that thought upon his Name And they shall be mine c. Oh how well doth God take it when his People will not be terrified from their Duty by the fear of men The Lord hearkened and heard it They did not whisper so in one anothers ear saith a modern Divine but God overheard them the Lord listned as it were at the key-hole he was under the window and kept it upon record a book of remembrance was written Oh how pleasant is it to God to see his secret ones making hard shifts to get together to worship him Cant. 2.14 Oh my Dove that art in the Clefts of the Rocks in the secret places of the Stairs let me see thy Countenance let me hear thy Voice for sweet is thy Voice and thy Countenance is comely What are these * Non in domicilio sed in latibulo versatur Brightman in loc Clefts of Rocks and secret places of the Stairs but those secret retiring places where the People of God get together in difficult times to seek their God there they † Hoc est illud os totum oppletum lachrimis cujus aspectutam in mirifice delectatur Dcus ibid. poured out their souls together in broken-hearted confessions of sin The Primitive Christians saith Hillary were not to be sought in Tectis et exteriori Pompa i.e. in Pallaces and outward Pomp but rather in Deserts and Mountains in Dens and Caves of the Earth as Heb. 11.38 In Queen Maries time saith Mr. Fox there were sometimes 40 Acts Menfol 1881. sometimes an 100 sometimes 200 came together as they could in private places in London for mutual edification And though men call this by hard names and load it with reproach as if it were Faction and Sedition yet it undergoes another censure in Heaven I remember * Cum boni cum probi coeunt non est factio dicenda sed Curia e contrario illis nomen factionis accomino dandum est qui in odium bonorum et proborum conspirant Ter. Apol. cap. 39. Tertullian about 1400 years agoe in his Apology vindicates this Practice of theirs against the Calumnies of the Heathen When good Men meet together saith he it is not to be called a faction but a Court. And on the contrary the name of Faction is to be applied to them who conspire in hatred against good honest men And what place is accounted so honourable and abounds with delights as the Courts of Princes Yea let us hear what a † Quaevis collectio fidelium eatiam si ob paucitatem suam intra privatae domus parietis includi possit etiamsi ob furorem hostium nocturnos conventus agant est vera ecclesia Dav. in Loc. p. 410. Bishop of our own speaks of such Meetings Sometimes saith he the rage of Persecution suffers not the Church to meet in the publick sight of all but forces them as it were to creep into private Holes as Rev. 12.6 as Athanasius and other Orthodox Christians were fain to seek hiding places from the Arrians Every Meeting of the Faithful although for their fewness they