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cause_n	lord_n	people_n	word_n	2,775	5	4.0281	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57425	The scholars winter garment: or, The garment of righteousness Wherein is declared the duty of every Christian both to God and man; being very necessary both for young and old to learn. With many good exhortations to every man, woman, and child to obey Gods holy will and commandement. Written by Tho. Robins, B. of D. a well-wisher to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.	Robins, Thomas, fl. 1672-1685.	1667 (1667)	Wing R1658; ESTC R219699	8,972	27

too many now a days that deserves this curse For certainly there is too many such abroad that hath but little care of their Parents Nay I must needs tell the Parents that hath such children that it is long of them and not of their Children For how should a Child learn obedience when they are brought up where it is not taught how should a scholl●r learn all languages that never hears no word but English teach them that which is good and they will learn it for as the Text saith train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it Oh happy is that man or woman that hath so much grace in their hearts as to bring up their children in the fear of God and to learn them to know their duty towards God and man For how should they know their duty toward God which they nev●r saw when they will not show no duty to their own Parents which they are daily withal Therefore give ear a while unto me and I will let you understand a little more concerning the ioy and comfort that belongs to the obedient child And then lastly I shall by Gods assistance declare to you the torments which belongs to them which are disobedient for look but into the 28. Chap. of Deuteronomy and begin at the first verse and so on I pray give your attention to it and when you have heard it the Lord of his mercy give you all grace to make good use of it And it shall come to pass If thou shalt hearken d●ligently unto the voice of the Lo●d thy God to observe and do all his Commandements which I command thee this day then the Lord thy God will set thee above all Nations of the Earth and all these blessings shall come on thee and overtake thee If thou hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God then blessed shalt thou be in the City and blessed shalt thou be in the field blessed shall be the fruits of thy body and fruits of thy ground Deut. 28. 1 to 5. Nay this is but small to the blessings which is promised to them that strive to be obedient and kéep his Commandements For if thou wilt be pleased but to read this Chapter at thy leisure you will find a great many comfortable blessings for those that truely honour obedience and do their indeavours to kéep Gods Commandements which I pray God give us all grace so to do truly I desire at the hands of our gracious God that he would put it into the hearts of every one of us to consider how the Lord threatned the people for their sins as you may find in Isaiah the third I pray you consider with your selves whither you be not in the very same condition at this present day For behold the Lord the Lord of Hosts doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff the whole stay of bread and the whole stay of water The mighty man and the man of war the Judge and the Prophet and the Prudent and the Ancient the Captain of fifty and the honourable man and the Counsellor and the cunning Artificer and the eloquent Orator And I will give children to be their princes and Babes to rule over them And the people shall be oppressed every one by another and every one by his Neighbour the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient and the base against the honourable Isa 3. 1 to 6. And as before I say still I pray God that we be not almost under the same punishment as those people was for what sin can we read of in Scripture but that we are subject unto Then how should we think to go frée from the punishments which are ordained for those sins For when was there more crying out against false decrées and unrighteous dealings then there is now adays or when could you hear of more wrong done to the Widow and the Fatherless as there is now and hath been this many a da● But I desire every one that hath any hand in such matters to look into Isa 10. 1 and 2. verses there you may see the woe that is pronounced against these that oppress the Widow and the Fatherless for there he saith Wo unto them that decree unrighteous decrees and that write grievousness which they have prescribed To turn aside the needy from judgement and to take away the right from the poor of my people that Widows may be their prey and that they may rob the Fatherless Isaiah the 10. Chapter the first and second verses But now a days we make no conscience at all to wrong the Widow and the Fatherless and to oppress the poor and needy No no I am afraid that there be too many that make a common practice to wrong the widow and fatherless But the Lord of his mercy give every one more grace For he that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches and he that giveth to the rich shall surely come to naught Prov. 22. 16. He that giveth to the poor shall never lack but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse Proverbs 8. 22. And too many there be that will turn away their faces from the poor but you may sée many that is ready to give to the rich But alas my Brethen you may see by this place of Scripture that it is contrary to Gods Comandements which is a vile and terrible thing for if we would but secretly examine our hearts and consciences and consider with our selves and we shall find that this precéeds from a disobedient heart and therefore we should pray God to give us obedient hearts Which I pray God give every one grace to consider in time and pray to the Lord night and day that he spake not to us as he spake to the people in Isa 43. 22. and these be the words But thou hast not called upon me O Jacob but thou hast been weary of me O Israel Truly it is to be feared the Lord hath a just cause to speak the same words to us For how can we say but that we are weary of him when we will not strive to kéep his Commandements O let ●s turn unto the Lord and he will look upon us with the eye of mercy as in Isa 45. 22. Look upon me and be ye saved all the ends of the earth for I am God and there is none else Oh what a blessed and comfortable spéech was here spoken to poor sinners this was from the mouth of God and not from man O what a miserable condition is this that we should be so stony-hearted one towards another when we sée the Lord so loving to us Can a woman forget her sucking Child that she should have compassion on the Son of her womb yea they may forget yet I will not forget thee Isa 49. 15. O what a comfortable spéech is this if we would but consider on them for though