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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28822	A mirrour of mercy and judgement, or, An exact true narrative of the life and death of Freeman Sonds Esquier [sic], sonne to Sir George Sonds of Lees Court in Shelwich in Kent who being about the age of 19, for murthering his elder brother on Tuesday the 7th of August, was arraigned and condemned at Maidstone, executed there on Tuesday the 21. of the same moneth [sic] 1655.	R. B. (Robert Boreman), d. 1675.	1655 (1655)	Wing B3759; ESTC R32573	28,004	41

it will not connive at that sinne in you which it hath severely punished in another If you turn not speedily to the God that made you throwing off your plume of pride walk humbly with him Mic. 6.8 in a constant profession of pietie and temperance unlesse you speedily do this he will strip you of your glory and by some fearfull judgment bring you down and throw you into the pit of shame and miserie Ex aliorum vulneribus medicamentum faciamus malis nostris Aug. 2. To all stubborn Children he speaks thus Consider what a train of heavie Judgments followed upon my disobedience to my Father who commanded m● to give that which I desired to keep unto my Brother which command I disobeyed and thereby incens'd my indulgent Father Consider this with your selves and by my example learn obedience to your Parents in small and great things Consider what Saint Paul writes to the Ephesians Chap. 6.1 and to the Colossians Chap. 3.20 Children obey your Parents in the Lord for this is right this obedience is most just and meet Again to the Colossians Children obey your Parents in all things that are lawfull good and indifferent for this is well-pleasing unto the Lord. Parents should not provoke their children Ephes 6.4 in so doing they sin and may be the cause of sin in them for which they must answer severely before God and yet if Parents should exceed in severity and chasten them according to their will and pleasure which may be immoderate and irregular Children should give them reverence Heb. 12.9 10. ever remembring that ingenious saying of Cicero Non modo reticere homines parentum injurias sed etiam aequo animo ferre oportet Our dutie is not only to conceal the injuries of our parents but also to bear and sustain them with a meek submissive patience Stubborn and disobedient children were to be stoned under the old Law then w re they given up into the hands of men But now under the Gospell God takes the matter chiefly into his own hands and it is a fearfull thing to fall into them he ever did and will punish disobedience to Parents by fearfull and shameful Judgements and to shew the horriblenesse of this sin the same death viz. of Stoning was appointed for Idolaters and Blasphemers 3ly To all Indulgent Parents he speaks thus powre not oyle the soile of flattery and soft speeches into your Childrens wounds when they need Corrasives or Vinegar of sharp reproofs Chasten your Children betimes Prov. 13.24 and thereby shew your true love to their soules in the dawning of their tender years in the morning of their age sow the seed of Religion and the fear of God in their hearts then will their Masters at school and Tutors have lesse to do in the Universities and have more comfort ease and credit in their Education when they shall not meet as usually they doe with a double task and labour which is first to pull up the bitter roots of Vices and to weed their souls of corrupt habits as lying swearing c before they plant them with the Arts and Sciences and other Academicall accomplishments which plants will not grow well amongst Thorns and Briars Oh then let your Children bear the yoke in their youth Lamentations 3 27. Break the sinews of their proud necks before they get strength in wickednesse and force them to obedience of your holy and just commands He that smiles on his Child when he should frown and flatters him in his sin may justly be served by him as King David was by Adonijah his son whom he would not displease from his child-hood to say why dost thou so 1 King 1.6 Oh the fondnesse of cockering love He was punished for his doaring with rebellion against his Person Adonijah saies the Text exalted himselfe and said I will be King 1 King 1.5 So commonly indulgent Parents are domineer'd over by their Children who at last for their just reward meet with a Rope or some other Judgment 4ly To those who by reason of their bosome sins and open impieties are fallen into misery and lie mourning in a Prison to such he reads by his example a lecture of consolation saying as it were in these words We may not alwaies measure the displeasure of God by his stripes many times after the remission of sin the chastisements of the Almightie are deadly no repentance can assure us we shall not smart by outward afflictions Thou forgav●st their sin O Lord and punishedst their inventions So David his Psalms speaking of the rebellious Israelites Our hearty sorrow for sin may prevent the eternall displeasure of God but still it may be necessary and good both in respect of our selves and others that we should be corrected our care and suit must be that the evills which shall not be averted may be sanctified which is when we look upon our sinnes in the glass of God's goodnesse and Christs sufferings and accordingly lament and mourn for them by an humble confession of them and resolving by God's grace to turn the stream of our lives backward to become new men in sobriety and strictnesse of an holy conversation Thus did Mr. Fr. Sonds bewail his sins before his death and to this he was exhorted earnestly and frequently with great aggravations of them by my self and other Divines forenamed who for all our Christian paines and holy endeavours meet with reproaches and obloquies as our Saviour did in his time from the envious malicious Pharisees of our age who are it seems angry that we did that by Gods blessing which they perhaps would have done themselves and by themselves without our assistance and so get which was their aim a little glory by popular applause to their proud persons Then whom to speak the truth which I do with much meeknesse I know no greater nor worse Dawbers as they call us They endeavoured once to set up their Idol their Dagon and to fence it with a wall of Discipline in the Church which they cemented with the blood the lives and fortunes of many thousand deserving persons eminent for their learning and godlinesse but God be prais'd the stones fetch'd out of the Quarries of Scotland and Geneva are fallen upon their own heads the wall is beaten down The snare is broken and we are delivered from their intended cruelty and persecution for conscience They are offended poor mistaken souls with me for giving Mr. Sonds the Holy Communion the night before he was to die Hereby they seem to accuse me of sottish stupidity and rashnesse as if I had thereby abus'd the Holy Ordinance Let them them read what hath been premis'd Sect. 5. of the Miscellanies concerning this particular and let them consider with what circumspection and caution I gave it as first being assured by Mr. Yate a grave and knowing Divine whom Sir George Sonds sent to his Son that the young Gentleman was prepared being instructed by him and read for many daies the