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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51047	Christian advice both to old and young, rich and poor which may serve as a directory at hand, ready to direct all persons almost in every state and condition. Under XXVII general useful heads.	Mocket, Thomas, 1602-1670?; Cross, Thomas, fl. 1632-1682, engraver.	1671 (1671)	Wing M2303A; ESTC R217853	68,834	211

to get sound knowledge of the thigns that concern your everlasting welfare Be diligent to get sound knowledg saving Grace true justifying faith sincerely to repent love God and make conscience of serving him daily and faithfully according to his revealed will in his word If you first that is chiefly and above all worldly things seek the Kingdom of God and his righteousness the righteousness of Jesus Christ for your justification and the righteousness of an holy and upright conversation all outward things shall be given to you of God you have Christs own word for it Mat. 6.33 you being careful and diligent to use lawful means in some honest imployment Object Alas may some say we are poor have no time all our time is little enough to get a sorry livelybood and poor rayment otherwise had we time we should be willing Answ Yea Why hath not God set apart a whole day the Christian Sabbath or Lords day one day in seven in a special manner to provide for your precious and immortal Souls Spend that well and conscientiously in using the means to get knowledge and Grace and you will have no cause to complain of the want of time So that this is but an idle excuse of an unwilling mind in too many Besides you may ply your worldly calling on the six days and yet have many an opportunity in the six days to think of better things of what you have read or heard on the Lords day and to put up many a request to God for knowledge grace and holiness 2. That namely to neglect the Sabbath and other opportunities on the week days is the way to be always ignorant poor miserable and cursed also If you do neglect God no wonder if he neglect you but if you seek him and to your power craving assistance from him to serve him to the best of your power he will be found of you and provide for you Mat. 7.7 8 9. 3. Know that to learn to know God and his will and to serve him daily and faithfully out of conscience love and obedience is the only necessary thing absolutely necessary to serve God and so to save your own souls the great end of your creation living and being in the world neglect this and you do nothing at all that is absolutely good and necessary that will stand you in any stead or do you any good when you must die and to eternity Without this no obtaining Heaven or escaping Hell Whatsoever you get in the world yet without true piety and holiness you must perish eternally Oh! that word eternally is the most astonishing to be always for ever and ever in the torments of hell with the Devils after ten hundred thousand years are past to be as far from an end of misery as the first day it began because it never shall have an end Oh! that will be ten thousand times worse than to be always very poor and miserable in this world Therefore 1. whatsoever you do I beseech you for the Lord Christs sake do not neglect this one necessary thing to learn and practice daily to serve and glorifie God and to enjoy him for ever 2. And be also diligent in some honest and lawful imployment careful and provident to get keep and save what you honestly get for your comfortable being while you are here Cast off all distrustful carking cares shun idleness laziness vain and unnecessary spending of what you honestly get be diligent and provident Pro. 10.4 He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand but the hand of the diligent maketh rich Prov. 12.24 The slothful shall be under tribute but the hand of the diligent shall be made fat Prov. 13.4 Read also Pro. 21.5 and 22.29 And be always truly thankful for and contented with what you have whatsoever it be 1 Tim. 6.6 Godliness with contentment is great gain Pray daily for a blessing on your labour serve him faithfully and he will provide for you This is the way to have always so much as the most wise God and gratious Father seeth best for his people Mat. 6.33 Psal 84.11 And be sure in what want or strait you shall at any time be to use no unlawful or unwarrantable means to help your selves as lying stealing defrauding over-reaching for that is the way to be always poor and cursed also of God in your souls body and name I have observed some sorts of poor people which I cannot but much pity blame and condemn as they justly deserve 1. One sort is those that are ignorant pitiful ignorant many of them loose also and prophane and are content and willing to be so will take no pains to know and serve God as they ought and might and be better These are like to perish eternally These also bring up their children in ignorance and irreligion and many times idly also so help to fill the world with persons ignorant loose prophane ungodly and beggars also to the great shame of Christianity and great impoverishing the Common-wealth they live in increasing the number of Atheists prophane persons and the Devils Kingdom and hell in the end The Lord open their eyes and awaken their consciences to see whither they are going before it be too late 2. A second sort is of those that are idle lazie trifle away a considerable part of their time sometimes half a day a whole day and more in a week God says Six days shalt thou labour Exod. 20.9 Solomon says What thy hand findeth to do do it with all thy might Eccles 9.10 The Apostle says He that will not labour neither let him eat that is do not pity him do not relieve him unless in case of extreme want 2 Thes 3.10 3. A third sort are those that will work hard and as soon as they get a little mony will go to the Ale-house and spend it there to the dishonor of God abuse of his creatures and themselves mispence of necessary and pretious time bringing guilt on their Souls distempers and sometimes death by drinking or quarrelling on their bodies and wrong their poor wives and children who at home pinch hard for it which otherwise might be comfortably provided for It is great pity a severe Law is not made and put in due execution against such guzling fellows and on the Ale-houses and persons that harbor the very sinks of sin irreligion and Atheism many of them 4. A fourth sort are those that are given to fingering and filching any thing of other mens which they can lay hand on and fairly carry away and think all is gained that is so gotten whereas alas they little consider that for this very thing God may and often doth blast and curse that little they have gotten honestly 'T is Godliness only that with contentment is great gain 1 Tim. 6.6 for it hath the promise of this life the good things of this life and that which is to come 5. I may add a fifth sort some few which

one the other that is yet uncalled and in the state of nature to grace and holiness faith in Jesus Christ and obedience to his commandments to prevent sin in one another and to preserve and help forward the work of Grace begun by your mutual hearty prayers loving advice counsel encouragement commendation good example and all other ways and so much the more because that is the chief end of marriage and their most neer relation binds them the Soul being the most pretious thing more worth than the whole world and the salvation of the soul of far greater concernment than any other thing in the world than any outward estate than bodies lives And he that truly loves his yoke-fellow cannot but much desire and rejoyce each in others Souls welfare A duty generally neglected by most husbands wives sometimes much hindred by the other yoke-fellow but very sad will be the account such hinderers and neglecters must make ere long to God for neglecting much more for hindring their yoke-fellows salvation neglecting their own duty and doing the Devil work for so it is See Act. 13.9 10 11. in discouraging or hindring any that do mind and seek the good of their own or others Souls The faithful discharge of these common duties is the way to have marriage a merry age a blessing indeed and a great comfort and help one to another The neglect brings many a cross trouble and often a curse and proves the most grievous yoke each to other which they cannot be freed from as long as they live The Husbands particular duties are these and such like 1. To dwell with his wife according to knowledge as is commanded 1 Pet. 3.7 that is to be able and ready to govern her wisely go before her instruct inform and counsel her as he is her head and Governour It is to be lamented that many marry before they know or can govern themselves and many husbands are much more fit to be taught and governed themselves than to govern others Such must bewail their ignorance and give all diligence to be inabled to discharge their duty and then to do it in love not rigorously and imperiously Sic volo ste jubeo I will and command you Such Language rather becomes absolute Lords over slaves not husbands to their wives Col. 3 19. Husbands love your wives and be not bitter unto them Love and meekness sweetens every condition and relation every command counsel is pleasant to the heart as sugar to the taste it makes even hard things to be easily taken and undergone as bitter pills in sweet syrrop or pap of Apples 2. To love and delight in his wife in a special manner as his own body his other self Ephes 5.28 He that loveth his wife loveth himself no man ever hated his own flesh And this he must manifest by his loving speeches to her and of her courteous carriage towards her bearing with her and kindly accepting of her courtesie and readiness to yeeld to her in things reasonable 3. Not to exact or require of her any thing that is unhonest unjust evil or cannot stand with the peace of a good Conscience or that is above her ability or unfit and unseemly for her to do unless in case of necessity Nor forbid her any thing but what is evil and unlawful unseemly or that will be of ill consequence or have some evil effect If her conscience be erronious he must meekly inform her of her error out of the word of God 1 Pet. 3.7 4. To bear with her infirmities as the weaker vessel 1. Pet. 3.7 5. To provide for her all things needful and convenient to be liberal to her to maintain her according to his degree and ability readily and cheerfully not niggardly penuriously and grutchingly but liberally that she may if need require shew particular favours to win and incourage others under and about her She is his second self and her credit and comfort is his 6. To honour her by giving all due respects to her especially before others children and servants 1 Pet. 3.7 7. To allow her liberty being discreet and careful to dispose of goods and order matters of the house as she thinks meet as Elkanah did to Hannah 1 Sam. 1.23 for wives are commanded to guide the house 1 Tim. 5.14 whereby it appeareth that the businesses of the house doth belong and are most proper to the wife as to order the keeping trimming of the house disposing the provision of the family governing the young children and maid-servants in which respect she is called The house-wife Mater-familias 8. In case there be just cause of blame and reproof in a wife which may not without neglect of love care and good conscience be wholly winked at and past by in silence then to reprove her privately alone in love and meekness convincing her by Scripture and good reason that so she may see her error and his love and tender respect to her Gal. 6.1 9. To countenance and encourage her in all well-doing commending and praising her as the husband of the good wife in the Proverbs trusting in her Prov. 31.11 28. But above all to encourage her and be a helper to her for her Souls good praying daily with her and for her minding her of the concerns of her Soul instructing counselling comforting and allowing her sufficient and fit time for private and publike duties of Religion It is a wicked thing to discourage and hinder honest hearts that desire to serve God truly and faithfully when Reason and Religion call on them The wives particular duties are these 1. To be subject to her husband in all things lawful and honest so far as may stand with her obedience to God and the peace of a good Conscience Ephes 5.22 23 24. Wives submit your selves to your own husbands as to the Lord for the husband is head of the wife as Christ is head of the Church and saviour of the body There is a double reason to move the wife so to do the Authority her husband hath over her as her head the con for t she hath by him as a saviour of the body to protect and defend her and provide all things needful for her And the manner of her subjection and obedience to him is laid down in the words as to the Lord that is willingly readily cheerfully to obey him by doing what he requires and forbearing what he forbids coming at his call c. so far as he requires nothing contrary to the will of God See 1 Sam. 20.31 c. 2. To reverence her husband as her head and saviour in some respects as Christ is to the Church Eph. 5.32 33. And the wife see that she reverence her husband by her inward esteem of him as worthy of honour on her part as her head under Christ yea though before and otherwise in himself her inferior much and unworthy having before God and men given him by her Matrimonial Covenant