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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43569	Advice to an only child, or, Excellent council to all young persons containing, the summ and substance of experimental and practical divinity / written by an eminent and judicious divine, for the private use of an only child, now made publick for the benefit of all.	Heywood, Oliver, 1629-1702.	1693 (1693)	Wing H1758; ESTC R18548	63,918	191

ADVICE To an Only CHILD OR Excellent Council TO ALL Young Persons Containing The Summ and Substance of Experimental and Practical Divinity WRITTEN By an Eminent and Judicious Divine for the Private Use of an only Child now made Publick for the Benefit of all LONDON Printed for Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns at the lower end of Cheapside near Mercers Chapel 1693. THE Epistle to the Reader Christian Reader THIS precious Pearl of seasonable Advice providentially put first into my Hand and now into thine is of great worth and the rate thereof is inhanced both from the worthiness of the Authour and the necessity of the subject matter the manner of handling it and the great End and Design of it The Authour was a Master in Israel a Star of the first Magnitude first placed in an high elevation to influence Candidates for the Ministry in the Academical Orb thence translated by the Ministerial Function into an Ecclesiastical Station where he was a burning and shining light till Eclipsed with the rest of his ejected Brethren but moved very regularly and profitably in a narrower and obscurer Sphear till at last he disappeared to us but shines bright in the Firmament of Glory his exquisite pains of the Stone with his invincible Patience and Magnanimity would make a volume his personal excellencies as a Schollar as a Minister as a Christian were beyond the vulgar rate and 't is pity the World is blessed with no more of his learned labours polished with his own hand and squared by this Master Builder for adorning the House of God but his Modesty concealed something of what our zeal for publick good hath here presented to the Reader in its naked dress as writ by his own Hand As for the Matter it is those Magnalia Dei the Doctrine according to Godliness the weighty things of Law and Gospel Covenanting with God the Life of Faith of Holiness as in Gods presence acting of love to God Christ Vniversal Obedience circumspect walking dying daily Repentance delighting in God and his Ways thankfulness Prayer c. you may find in this Treatise an excellent Encyclopoedia or Vniversal Scheme of Practical Divinity coucht in a few words in a plain method laid before the Eyes of the intelligent Reader The manner of managing this useful tractate is pleasant and taking and adds a peculiar Accent and Emphasis to it such a smooth stile such pat and proper similitudes and delightful allusions that it will chain the Readers Eye to proceed in reading and may perhaps charm his affections to embrace the contents thereof Prov. 25 11. It is as Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver i. e. Golden Apples appearing through Net-work of Silver or Pourtrayed on Silver Tables very delightful and grateful to the Eye so may these words * Heb. on the Wheel v. 12. fitly spoken be to Youth and as in the next verse as an Earing of Gold and Ornament of fine Gold so may this wise Reprover be upon an obedient Ear happy is the Teacher that mixeth pleasant and profitable The Design I am sure is high and noble to plant Grace in young Persons and to breed and feed a nursery of Plants of Renown to stock the Church and World with a springing up generation in the room of old trees transplanted into a better soil that may fill up vacancies and do God service in after-times Amongst the rest of Solomons sumptuous preparations of costly Ornaments for his pleasures that was not the least which he mentions Eccles 2.6 I made me pools of Water to water therewith the Wood that bringeth forth Trees this was an Artificial mean of nourishing Fruit-trees in want of natural distillings of Rain from the Clouds which sometimes was rare and scant and 't is worth observing that the word rendered Pools is the same with Blessing in Hebrew either because in those hot Countreys they were esteemed great blessings 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Piscina à 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 benedicit or because they were filled with Rain which is the great Blessing of God Such Pools as this small Treatise are signal Blessings in themselves may they be also seconded with the Heavenly Dew of Divine Benediction what a Wood or Forrest of Fruit-bearing Trees may we see flourishing in the Orchard of Gods Church It 's true Men may do something yet not all The best humane cultivating bows the Trees but to an outward compliance Divine Grace only plants them in Christ and plants Grace in their Hearts 2 Kin. 12.2 2 Chron. 24 1● 22. The Pupil Joash was hopeful whilest his Reverend Tutour Jehojada instructed or besprinkled him but after his Death discovered the rottenness of his hypocritical Heart God will demonstrate a vast difference betwixt the Efficient cause and subordinate means therefore some miscarry under Religious Education but some prove well to incourage Parents and Masters in their duty Divine Benediction with paternal instruction hath done great things Let Abraham command his Children God undertakes they shall keep the way of the Lord Gen. 18 19. The Rain also filleth the Pools saith the Psalmist Psal 84 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Benedictionibus amicietur Doctor or Benedictionem dabit Legislator the Eternal Majesty will make their Pools of Water great Blessings to Men. Did Parents Conscientiously in stru●… Children they would in Gods time discern the Blessed effects thereof Reverend Mr. Baxter thinks Religious Education would be so Blessed by God for Conversion that publick Ministry would be chiefly useful for Edification T is true Grace comes not by Succession yet oft in Succession the Covenant is with the Godly and their Seed and surely it 's not an insignificant Cypher As God delights to run along the line of Gospel Covenant so he usually blesseth his own Institutions with Gospel Grace Let Parents do Duty and leave their issue to God Our Children have Souls as well as Bodies both must be cared for nature obligeth unto nurture Grace regulates it God alone makes it efficacious Job 11 12. Corrupt Nature leaves Children not a whit better than a wild Asses Colt an habit of Sinning makes them a wild Ass used to the Wilderness that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure Jer. 2.24 in her occasion who can turn her away Education must be as guide and bridle to teach and tame these frolick Youths But alas most Parents cast the Reins in Childrens Necks and leave them to their wanton ways till at last they get the Bits between the Teeth and kick off the Rider and ramble in forbidden paths till they are impounded in a Prison or an Halter here and in the Dungeon of Hell hereafter Solomon saith The Rod and Reproof give Wisdom Prov 29.15 but a Child left to himself bringeth his Mother to shame Is not Crying here better than Roaring in Eternal Torments Even Heathen Seneca could say Disciplina severa firmat ingenia apta reddit magnis conatibus