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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54501	A dying fathers last legacy to an onely child, or, Mr. Hugh Peter's advice to his daughter written by his own hand, during his late imprisonment in the Tower of London, and given her a little before his death.	Peters, Hugh, 1598-1660.	1660 (1660)	Wing P1697; ESTC R32303	33,960	130

in all this will be To be willing to want what God is not willing to give and to know he is wise to give what he will how he will and when he will for the godly heart for temporals cries Lord what thou wilt and in spirituals When thou wilt and in both How thou wilt Beggars must be no chusers and any thing is good from the hand of such a Father Your Interest in Christ supplies all and sweetens all but with the Doves Innocency use the Serpents Wisdom live in daily waiting and expectation of Changes even in your best and holiest condition here Deaths-heads and Hour-glasses will be but ordinary significant Ceremonies it is within you that cruciats or comforts He that made the World can change it when he will Your Comfort will be that in the greatest storm your heavenly Father is at the Helm though Sin and Satan bussle that Hand keep you My dear Child 21. And if you ask me after all what you shall do with your fears to which your sex and condition prompt you you shall have what I know though the Lord Jesus answers all to his little Flock when he sayes Fear not yea more particularly Fear not them that can only kill the body and destroy that You must know that your question wil mainly lie about base unwarrantable fears which have these roots Either when out of this fear you are loth to part with that the Lord would have you let go or would part with that the Lord would have you keep as when you wrangle about some Corruption especially which is dear unto you and hath some great disadvantage attending your throwing it away These kinds of fear are accompanied with these mischiefs As you will be unwilling to know your duty so you will be unwilling to practise it when you know it yea not only so but through fear be as unable as unwilling like that trembling King at the hand-writing he saw The inconveniences are very many and the sins not few that follow it The cure in general even for Peter who by it denied his Master is this That whoever fears to sin never sins by fear and more particularly The absence of some good you desire or the coming on of some evil draws out this fear Therefore make much of this Rule Be ever possest of some good that may answer the taking away of what you may lose which is the presence and favour of God in Christ In the night the waking Child in the Cradle is quiet at the Nurses coming to it because there is more of comfort in the Nurse than fear in the Dark And then be perswaded to set a right value upon all earthly perishing dying things do not call a Pebble a Pearl But above all keep your fear in his proper channel Oh fear God fear God It is not only the beginning of Wisdom but the perfection of your joys which kept Joseph and others of the Saints from sin My earnest desire for you is That the Lord would give you an even and equal spirit and the root of it Integrity That as the Righteous you may be bold as a Lion and yet rejoyce with trembling In this good fear I leave you My dear Child 22. And if the Evil you fear and a day of Affliction come upon you then my counsel is bear vvith the feebleness of it in all take that Rule Eccles. 7.14 In that evil day or day of your distresses you must Consider which is as the word bears by solemn and diligent thoughtfulnesse to take things assunder especially sorrows and sins For the little Needle vvill draw a long tail of Thread after it little sins may be follovved vvith great sorrovvs to set you at your vvork First You must see the evil of Adversity in the nature of it such a plague and such a visitation and in the causes of it As in the principal none of that evil in the City but from the Lord In the Meritorious Cause there look at sin and search closely and then the Final Cause God will either be glorified by your Humiliation or Ruine He will either bend you or break you and thus he doth with Nations Churches and every Individual But for the Instrumental Cause travel not much there Though Pharaoh were the occasion of the Plagues yet the Aegyptians sins the Cause Secondly In such an evil time you must live by faith so Habbakkuk and walk with God for this must be your Rule That no condition supercedes Duty that may be must be performed And in these you may not dally it is your life Thirdly To get out of such a day and case you may not act unlawfully nor did Paul in going out in a Basket Take these Rules First See what the word saies if you can find a Paralel case and help Secondly If that be dark see what Providence suggests but that you must neither Slight nor Cross nor out-run Lastly If here you want Light then live and die upon the counsel of Impartial friends that you may trust Gods way in doubtful and hard cases And be assured that in distress I know not if Enemies bring your Release it will be too late and if some friends bring it it may be too soon but if God do bring it it will be seasonable I will hear what the Lord will say cries the Prophet So do you My dear Heart 23. Though in part I have hinted something about Errors yet in this age and juncture I need let you know what I know since the importunity of Errour hath brougt forth so many Obliquities and occasioned so much scandal to Religion the World thorow And because many have touch'd hereupon as you see in their Writings and many more Polimicks and Disputes are Printed than profitable every Partie striving their own advancement this I have said this I must say That whoso departs from those Fundamentals profest and died upon by the Saints and Martyrs since the reformation and departure from Popery need to have his Opinion written in Stars for If an Angel bring another Gospel he or it may not be received that shall contradict what we have received already from the Lord Jesus It is a continuing word Oh that it might abide in us and with us Two things in such a danger I commend unto you First Observe or ask your self or others what frame of spirit or heart you are in when you receive this noveltie and if I mistake not When the heart is Proud Lazie or Frothie neglects communion with God dutie and exactness then a cover-Cup for such corruption is sought after then Preachers understand nothing then men can live without God Ordinances c. You must know that this work is gradual The Ship sails through the Channel where she may have Land on both sides before she come to the Main and loseth sight of all Land But this you will certainly find That if these People would speak out they have changed their Opinions

the soul to know that he is not able to satisfie Divine justice and so the Law may be called a School-master to Christ though the Text leads to the Ceremonial the Ceremonies being the Gospel of the Jewes These three steps of Love Christ takes in the Law by his first approach Secondly In his Gospel approach he takes these steps First He holds forth himself to the sinner a Mediator of the New Covenant and a free pardoner of sin this keeps the soul from despair Secondly He lets you know that he is as able and as willing as ever to do it Colos. 1.19 c. This keeps the soul in heart and hope Thirdly By that which they call the Reflex Act he brings home a particular Promise of grace to the soul as Revel. 3.17 and the Spirit of Christ thus argues He that is athirst must freely come But saies the Spirit Thou art thirstie Therefore come freely Thus I use to say A pitiful nasty ragged fatherless friendless Child is lying dying in a ditch A noble bountiful hand means to save him and adopt him first sends a servant to awaken him and bring him to his Court-gate then bids another let him in a third to wash him and put him on clean clothes another to read him the Order of his House another to set him at Table with his Children another to shew him his present and future estate Thus the Spirit of Humiliation first wakens a miserable lost sinner and that by the Law and can onely bring him to the Gate Then Vocation opens the Door Then Justification puts on Christs Righteousness Sanctification teacheth him how to walk taking away the Power of sin Adoption makes him a Brother and gives him his Priviledges And Glory begun here in part by sanctifying shewes him his estate And all this hath its rise from Free Grace Ezekiel 16. for God found us in our Blood The Lord open your eyes and make this a time of Love to you dear Child 27. But whilst I speak to you of Free-grace I must let you know that in the next place I must commend unto you accurate walking as the fruits thereof and for your better understanding I commend unto you divers of the aforesaid Books so my own thoughts are that it consists in all manner of Christian Circumspection Ephes. 5.15 to look within you without you about you beneath you to all and every duty and the rather because God's eye is ever and every where upon you Oh that you could so walk so think and not only so but you have bad men observing who by your negligence may either infest your Liberties or infect you with their Evils or at best be harder drawn-on to the wayes of God by your carelesse example Adde hereunto that you have the eyes of good men upon you and if they be young Christians you may make the Wayes of God like Giants and Brazen Walls unto them carry much difficulty and discouragement with them or if ancient Christians you may send them with grief to their graves by your miscarriages and not only so but the very way of Religion is like a narrow Bridge you need step advisedly that you may keep upon it or if fall you may recover with much trouble there is great cause you should be wise for Free-grace will never teach sin nor folly which that you may have help in consider what is said from the above-said Arguments and weigh them well and not only so but study the Lives of all the Saints in Scripture and do but see what trophees of their failings sin hath hung up and Satan David's sins of Adultery and Murder Peter's Denial of his Master Hezekiah's Pride and Vanity in shewing his Treasury Jonah's Impatience and Folly with the like And see Paul's and Samuel's Integrity Phineas his Zeal Nathaniel's Truth c. On the other hand Oh walk in this Gallery among these Pictures and for your security rest not without Assurance of God's Love which will make you wary Who would endanger it much lesse forfeit it The empty Purse fears not the Thief but the full looks to every Danger every Temptation And really nothing is a greater safeguard than the freeness of this Love communicated to the Soul stay you no-where on this side of it it will keep you steady in a trembling world Thus may you walk and from this blessed Principle dear Child 28. And that all this may be carried-on and is property the life of Faith remember That the hardest thing in the world is To believe in Jesus Christ to these and all other good ends Faith is a short word and easily spoken but Oh how hard is it in the nature of it when if ever the Lord works it in us he findes nothing not a spark of it till he comes nay he finds us opposit to the work of it nay he finds us unwilling to be made willing to close with the offer of Christ though made so freely Hypocrisie and all evil hath its fountain here we believe not all the other graces sink when this fails all must have its cure we bind the lame arm we anoint it we warmit and yet nothing helps because it is out of joynt Oh we believe not Anger rageth Lust provokes Covetousness cozens c. and all is We believe not Nature cannot reach this Art cannot compasse it to look near 1700 years back upon the Son of Mary who was the Son of God lived not forty years preached but three years and half reproached home to his grave and to believe in him for a Savior I say this must be the work of another world and the outstretched Arm of God See Ephes. 1.18 19 20 c. To believe that another will pay all my debts and become poor to make me rich to dye to make me live Oh Miracle of Mercy My Child to believe things incredible to hope things delayed and to love God when he seems angry are Luthers wonders and mine and thine It is unbelief is that death in the pot that lifts up sense that brings an ill report of God that overhastens our mercies and sets God a time for our deliverances Faith is the gift of God and the greatest which overcomes difficulties sets Mercy to work against Justice fetcheth the work done either by without or against Means throws Mountains into the Sea A little little grain like Mustard-seed will do Wonders enliven a dead heart save even a damned soul for such we are This will not be had without the Word and Spirit Rom. 10.17 and the Glory of it See Heb. 11. for this hear beg pray weep fast seek labour strive use violence read ask wish sigh and if you do believe the Lord help your unbelief dear Child 29. In the next which looks like the last indeed I must give you my thoughts about Death which certainly must be your portion though young and I must tell you it is a great word to say I dare dye many Books and