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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01383	A godlie exhortation, and fruitfull admonition to vertuous parents and modest matrons Describing the holie vse, and blessed institution of that most honorable state of matrimonie, and the encrease of godlie and happy children, in training them vp in godly education, and houshold discipline. R.G.	Greenham, Richard.	1584 (1584)	STC 11503; ESTC S120863	7,764	24

A godlie Exhortation and fruitfull admonition to vertuous parents and modest Matrons Describing the holie vse and blessed institution of that most honorable state of Matrimonie and the encrease of godlie and happy children in training them vp in godly education and houshold discipline R.G. Imprinted at London for Nicholas Ling. 1584. 1 NEw or young married folkes ought not licentiouslie to go together before they haue first vpon their knees secretelie in their chamber commended themselues vnto God by praier after the good example of Tobias and Sara Tobit 7.17 8 4. 2 It is the duetie of parents to blesse their children and wish them all good a patterne whereof we haue in Genesis Chap. 4.8 vers 15.20 Iacob Numbers cap. 6. vers 24. 3 It is the mothers duetie so well as the fathers to instruct her children with precepts of good doctrine so did Bethsheba teach hir sonne Salomon as you may reade Prouerbs chap. 13.1 4 Pouertie and shame is to that child that refuseth Instruction and will not abide correction but that childe that regardeth discipline and giueth eare to the instruction of their parents shall come to honour Prouerbs 13.1.18 5 Who so laugheth their father to scorne and set their mothers commandement at naught the rauens of the vallie eate out their eyes and deuoured bee that child of the young eagles Prouerbs 30.17 6 A wise child maketh a glad father but a foolish and vndiscreete daughter is a heauinesse to hir mother Prouerbs 1.10 7 A well nurtured and mannerly maiden is as a polished stone of a Pallace and the honour of hir fathers house as appeareth by the prophet Dauid in his Psal. 114.12 THe holie Ghost speaking in the Scriptures of foolish sons as that he that begetteth such a one getteth himselfe sorrow and that the father of a foole hath no ioy Prouerb 17 21. Meaneth it not so much of naturall idiots and such as are destitute of common reason although it is true that is a lamentable iudgement of God and a heauinesse to the parents of such a child as of wicked children such as either are ignorant in the word nor knowing how to order one right step to the kingdome of God or else hauing some knowledge abuse it to maintaine their carnall lustes and appetite For this cause as it woulde grieue parents to haue naturall fooles to their children or such as either in some imperfection of nature are dismembred or deformed and misfigured in the partes of their bodie so much more shoulde it grieue them to haue such children as either for want of knowledge and heauenlie wisedome can not walke in the feare of God or abusing the knowledge giuen them prostitute themselues to al sinne and wickednesse it is maruellous howe greatly parents can bewaile the want of one natural gift procéeding of some imperfection and how easilie they can passe ouer without anie griefe the want of all spiritual graces springing from corrupt education In like manner is it strange that men can take the matter so heauilie when their children breake into such offences as either haue open shame or ciuill punishment folowing them and yet can make no bones but passe ouer such sinnes as are against the maiestie of God accompanied with euerlasting confusion and vnspeakeable torments wherein what doeth the most part of men bewray but their great hipocrisie in that neither their ioy nor their griefe is sound to their children and that they loue themselues more in their children then eyther their saluation or the glorie of GOD the tender loue and care whereof no doubt did increase the sorrow of Dauid for the death of his sonne Absolon who was not so much grieued for the losse of a sonne as for that vntimelie ende of his sonne to whom the time of repentance for his saluation and the glorie of God was denied which haply if he had liued his father Dauid might haue reioyced in Let vs learne therefore to correct our affections to our children and be grieued for their ignorance impietie sinnes whereof either our carnall copulation the not lamenting of our naturall corruption the want of prayer and holie séede or prophane education armed with the wrath of God maie bée a most iust occasion Can a man hope for a holie posteritie or doe we maruaile if the Lorde crosse vs in the children of our bodies when we make as bolde and brutish an entrance into that holie ordinance of the Lorde as is the méeting of the neighing horse with his mare when béeing ioyned in that honourable estate of matrimonie either as mere naturall men without all knowledge of GOD we beget our children or as too carnall men without the feare and reuerence of the Lord neither bewailing our corruptions which we receyued of our ancestrie nor praing against the infirmities which may descende to our posteritie wée abuse the marriage bedde Lastlie when hauing receiued the fruite of the wombe we haue no care by vertuous education to offer it to the Lorde that our childe by carnall generation may be the childe of God by spirituall regeneration Surelie no and yet men looking vp to God his prouidence and secrete councell without all bethinking themselues of their corrupt generation from which their children are descended without all looking backe into their wicked and godlesse bringing of them vp will freat agaynst their sinnes fume agaynst their children yea often they will correct them and that to serue their owne corruptions not so much grieued for that they haue sinned against God as that they haue offended them Christians therefore must knowe that when men and women raging with boyling luste méete togither as brute beastes hauing no other respects then to satisfie their owne carnall concupiscense when they make no conscience to sanctifie the mariage bedde with praier when they haue no care to increase the Church of Christ and the number of the elect it is the iust iudgement of God to send them either monsters or naturall fooles or else such as hauing good gifts of the mind and well proportioned bodies are most wicked gracelesse and prophane persons Againe on the contrarie we shal find in the word of God that noble and notable men commended vnto vs for rare examples of vertue and godlines were children asked and obteined of God by praier Our first parents Adam and Eue being humbled after the birth of their wicked sonne Caine obteyned a righteous Abell of whom when by his bloudie brother they were bereft they receiued that holie man Seth. Abraham begetting in the flesh had a cursed sonne Ismael but waiting by faith for the accomplishmēt of God his couenant he obtained a blessed Isaac Iacob not content with one wife according to the ordinance of God was punished in his children yet afterward being humbled he receiued faithfull Ioseph Elkanah Hannah praying and being cast downe had a Samuel that did minister before the Lord. Dauid and Bethsheba lamenting their sins obteined Salomon a man of excellent