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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39737	A sermon of the education of children preach'd before the right honourable the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen at Guild-Hall Chapel on Sunday, Novemb. 1, 1696 / by William Fleetwood ...	Fleetwood, William, 1656-1723.	1696 (1696)	Wing F1249; ESTC R15389	18,831	43

Religious Matters and I assure you I am otherwise Your Affectionate Humble Servant W. Fleetwood PROVERBS xiii 24. He that spareth the rod hateth his son but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes THE Education of Children is and hath always been accounted a thing of such Importance that all who have at any time discoursed or written of Government have found themselves obliged to dwell particularly on that Subject Aristotle thinks it a matter of such moment that he positively determines it ought not to be left to the Parents choice but that the Publick whose especially the Children are should be entrusted only with that Charge and Plato lays down such severe Rules that 't is a question whether they were ever practicable or only fitted to his fansied Commonwealth And indeed considering that they are the Seed of Empires Kingdoms Corporations and Families and that the Good and Wellfare of them all depends entirely on them there can't be too much care employed about their bringing up there are so many hazards from the sensible and tender dispositions of these nice Plants from noxious Airs inclement Seasons and their own natural Luxuriancy that it requires a great deal of skill to cultivate them as they should and as they well deserve And it is with this prospect and a larger one besides the World to come that the Spirit of God hath inserted so many positive Commands and so many wise Rules of training Children up into the Holy Scriptures For though One were enough when found there to make it our Duty yet there are Many to enforce it farther and though the Spirit of God inspir'd a-like the Herdsman's Son with Solomon the King's and made them a like infallible in what they should deliver to the World yet in compliance may be with our Weakness and the fond Conceits we have of human Reason and Understanding it is so contriv'd that there are more Precepts concerning Childrens Education found in Solomon alone than all the Scriptures else that they who take no notice of the Inspiration might yet be moved by the Authority of the greatest Wisdom and the best Experience and the thing however done I am to confine my self to that of my Text which is as comprehensive as any and will First Explain the Terms of it And Secondly Shew the Truth of the Propositions contain'd therein And Lastly Make what Application may be seasonable and useful And First of the Terms To spare the Rod in the first Clause being oppos'd to chastening in the second by the Rod must needs be meant not only that particular Instrument of Punishment but every thing besides that may prove the Means of our Correction and Amendment And so in Job 33. 19. He is chastened with pain upon his bed And so in Psal 69. 10. I wept and chastened my soul with fasting And so in Isa 53. 5. The chastisement of our peace was on him by which is meant the Miseries Afflictions Pains and Torments that our Lord endured both in Life and Death for our sakes and so in a great many other places So that by Chastisement is here intended every Instrument of Correction every Means of effecting what we intend by chastising And to spare the Rod is not to use those Means not to employ those Instruments for the correcting and amending what we see amiss in Children which are proper to their Age suited to their Dispositions and proportion'd to their Faults whether it be Reproof and sharp Admonition Restraint of Liberty Disappointment of their Wills or corporal Punishment to do in a word whatever is necessary convenient or becoming the Children and the Parents in their respective circumstances is to chasten and to neglect the doing it is to spare the Rod. Let us see in the next place what it is to love and hate one's Son which are the rest of the Terms By loving and by hating is not here meant the exerting actually those Passions in the Heart for then the Text would be untrue it is by no means likely that an indulgent Parent sparing of his Child should actually hate it in his Heart or that the punishing it should be the Effect or Sign of natural Love for the contrary to this is mostly true the Sparing it is the Fruits of natural Fondness and Affection and the Correcting it is not the choice of the Heart but the effects of a Necessity impos'd by Prudence and Consideration and Hopes and Fears of what may come to pass By loving and by hating therefore is to be understood the acting agreeably to the Reason and not the Blindness of those Passions the producing such effects as are in God's Accounts and wise Mens too and in our own when freed from partial Prejudices the Consequence and Fruits of Love and Hatred acting regularly such as are commonly esteemed the Effects of those two Causes whether they indeed proceed from them or no So that to love and hate ones Children is to behave ones self so towards them that they and others may be convinc'd we love or hate them by such Fruits as reasonably and ordinarily are the Products of those two Passions whether those Passions actually possess the Heart or no of which we can convince none but our selves From the Terms thus explain'd it will not be difficult to shew in the second Place the the Truth of the two Propositions how and in what Sense he may be said to hate his Son that spares the Chastisement of him and how he loves him who chastiseth him betimes For if we are to reckon of Love and Hatred by the Effects then it is easie to discern when Parents hate their Children namely when either through Neglect or Fondness they permit them to enter on at first or afterwards continue in such Courses as will bring them to inevitable Ruine when by their want of Care Instruction or Correction those Children fall into such Miseries as the utmost Hatred of their most profest inveterate Enemies could neither wish nor make them greater whatever Love there may be at the bottom What signifies the crowning of a Victim with a Garland when it is still drest up to Death That Mother is as much a Murtheress who stifles her Child in a Bed of Roses as she that does it with a Pillow-bear The End and Mischief is as great tho' the Means and Instrument be not the same And where two Causes will produce the same Effect with equal Certainty 't is no great Matter which of them it is nor whether you give it a hard or gentle Name It is all one as if a Parent truly hated his Child if through his Default he fall into those Evils which will naturally work his Mischief or Undoing that Fault has the same effect that downright Hatred would have had And then for the Will tho' he can't be said to will downright the Evil of his Children yet if he will the Means which have a natural tendency to produce that End he is understood in