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cause_n	child_n	youth_n	zeal_n	12	3	8.2983	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63885	A sermon preached at the anniversary meeting of the Sons of clergy-men, in the church of St. Mary-le-Bow, December 4, 1684 by Francis Lord Bishop of Ely, and president of the society.	Turner, Francis, 1638?-1700.	1685 (1685)	Wing T3286; ESTC R3975	13,286	36

A SERMON Preached at the Anniversary Meeting Of the SONS of CLERGY-MEN In the Church of St Mary-le-Bow DECEMBER 4 1684. By FRANCIS Lord Bishop of ELY and PRESIDENT of the Society LONDON Printed by John Playford for Henry Bonwick at the Red Lyon in St. Pauls Church-yard 1685. To the Right Worshipful the STEWARDS Of the late ANNIVERSARY MEETING OF Clergy-Men's Sons And the rest of the Governours of the Charity for Relief of the poor Widows and Children of Clergy-Men My most Honoured Friends THough I could heartily wish you had been pleased to reserve for some better occasion the just power you have with me and that you had demanded some other proofs of the due regard I must have to all your motions instead of obliging me to publish this very plain discourse yet I should not make you a suitable return for all the Honour you have done me should I obstinately refuse whatever you earnestly request but whatever credit I may lose if I have any to lose I shall not think I have lost my labour if I can perswade my Brethren of the House of Levi to take special care that this Charity begin at home this great Charity of Religious Education The best portion that any Parents can leave their Children the only considerable Portion that many of the best Clergy-men can leave theirs and one of the best Legacies they can leave this Corporation will be such well bred Children as will deserve that Character St. Paul bestows on Timothy Who will naturally care for your state For to make our Children as perfectly good Christians as they ought to be will be the most effectual means to tye them fast to the Interests of this Body the stiff abetters of the good Old Cause in Scotland have ignorance and impudence enough to Christen their Children into the solemn League and Covenant as if that were the Covenant of Grace and so do some of them call it Let us show as much zeal and more according to knowlege by bringing our Youth to keep their Baptismal Vow and then they will never fail to Honour and Love the Church in which they were Born and Baptiz'd But especially Let all the Sons of Church-men be so well Tutor'd and Taught that they may be secur'd and settled in this resolution to live and dy true Sons of the Church of England As I am one of the meanest of those Sons so I am My most Honoured Friends Your most faithfull and most humble Servant Fran. Ely A SERMON Preached before the SONS OF THE CLERGY GENESIS XVIII v. 19. For I know him that he will Command his Children and his Houshold after him and they shall keep the way of the Lord to do justice and judgment that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him THese words are part of a great and worthy Character which God was pleased to give of Abraham the Father of the Faithful who at his Hospitable Gate had newly entertain'd three Sacred Guests whom though the Patriarch at first apprehended to be but Men yet we may justly suppose they were more than Angels for since one of them is all along styled the Lord and since Abraham makes Addresses of Adoration and Prayer directly to him Unless we could allow the Socinian Doctrine That it were Lawful to Worship a reature and the Roman Doctrine of Praying to Angels It seems at least piously credible that those who put on humane shapes to visit Abraham had Divinity about them and represented no less than the Three Adorable Persons of the Blessed Trinity and therefore our Church reads this for the First Lesson upon Trinity Sunday In memory of this Glorious Apparition to Abraham one of the Church-Historians gives Bozomen l. 2. c 4. this account That once every Year there was kept a Festival Day where under the Doctor 's Oak as they call'd it where they suppos'd Abraham sate in the plains of Mamre all Three Religions Jews Gentiles and Christians had a Customary meeting where they offer'd Sacrifices to their God according to the different Rites and Ceremonies in use among them untill the great Emperour Constantine prohibited any more of the Jewish or Heathenish Conventicles to be kept there Commanded the Place to be purg'd and order'd a Christian Temple to be erected wherein only the followers of Jesus as the true Children of Abraham should be conven'd to Celebrate an Holy Anniversary Such a Solemnity as this which our Gracious King hath Licens'd us to observe in memory of our Fathers who Commanded us their Children as Abraham did his to keep the way of the Lord And in Charity to their Widows and Orphans to do good and distribute unto them for with such Sacrifices God is pleas'd In the words may be easily observ'd these Four Parts 1. First here is establisht the Duty and Authority of Parents to propagate true Religion to their Children and the obligation of their Children to receive it from them For the due exercise of that Paternal Power and of this Filial obedience is requir'd by Almighty God Respectively of both Parties requir'd in the Persons of Abraham and his Descendants that he should Command his Children and his Houshold after him to keep the way of the Lord. 2. Secondly here is a just and strong presumption that especially such Fathers of Children as be also Fathers of the Church will most effectually perform this important charge and that the Children of such Ecclesiastical Men will also most conscientiously do their part to observe the Directions of their Parents and to follow their holy examples This was a thing that God took for granted of Father Abraham that he would take upon him to Teach as one having Authority and that his Godly Dictates would be admitted by all whom he owns for his Sons I know that he will Command his Children c. 3. Thirdly here is the full extent of that duty which lies upon Parents and this upon Children those to give and these to receive good Precepts that they should keep the way of the Lord And then that way is made plain before them it opens it self into these two ways to do Justice and Judgment 4. Fourthly here is the ample recompense of doing these duties with extraordinary application it shall derive a Temporal and Eternal Blessing upon the heads of such well-governing Parents and such well-Disciplin'd Children for these rewards are imply'd sufficiently by that promise that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him 1. Here is establish't the Duty and Authority of Parents to propagate true Religion to their Children and the Obligation of their Children to receive it from them For the due exercise of that Paternal Power and this Filial Obedience is requir'd by Almighty God respectively of both Parties requir'd in the Persons of Abraham and his Descendants that he should Command his Children and his Houshold after him to keep the way of the Lord. That all Parents