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Antipharmacum Saluberrimum; or, A serious & seasonable caveat to all the saints in this hour of temptation. Wherein their present dangers are detected, and their present duties vigorously urged
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institution for to them only hath he promised his Presence Mat. 28. ult and none can preach i.e. lawfully except he be sent Rom. 10. And I have proved before these are not his Ministry nor sent by him COUNSEL IV. Give your uttermost diligence to promote Religion and the Power of Godliness in your respective Families and Neighbourhoods and the rather do this with all your might because the ordinary and more publick means of their Conversion and Edification is cut off This Counsel consists of two Branches the first concerns your Families the second your Neighbours a word distinctly to each 1. As to your Families O shine as Lights there lay out your Talents as many wayes as they may possibly be improveable for the good of all about you especially those under your guardianship and charge Exod. 20.10 By this the Power of Godliness must be discovered in you and begotten and kept alive in them The Jews have a Tradition that the Fire of the Altar was miraculously preserved under ground during the Babylonish Captivity I am sure this is the way to preserve Religion alive now the publick ordinary means are ceased Precepts are not wanting to inforce this duty upon you Deut 4.9 10. 6.6 7. Exod. 12.24 26 27. Josh 4.6 7 21 22. Psal 78.5 6. Prov. 22.6 Ephes 6.4 nor yet worthy Examples to encourage to it Gen. 18.19.1 Chron. 28.9 Prov. 31.26.2 Tim. 3.15.2 Joh. 1.4 Aquila and Priscilla had a Church in their house 1 Cor. 16.19 Nymphas and Philemon in theirs Col. 4.15 Philem. 2. Hence it is saith * Adjungit specialem Salutationem ob specialem et eximiam hujus viri pietatem equum enim est extra ordinarium illis deferre honorem quorum egr gia virtus prae caeteris eminet et effulget in Ecclesia Day in Loc. Davenant on the place that the Apostle sends a special Salutation to them by name because of their singular Piety which manifested it self in their family Government And indeed how fresh and glorious a remembrance in the Scriptures have those worthy Saints unto this day and so shall have where ever the Gospel is preached unto the end of the World who have burned with an holy Zeal not only to offer up themselves but their families also unto God! David well understood how near this Duty lay to the heart of Religion when he puts his soul under the bond of such a solemn engagement to the Lord Psal 101.2 It doth not a little affect me to read what a †Buxtorf in Synog Judaic Cap. 3. learned man observes of the Jews Although Religion be miserably deformed among them yet it seems there are some prints of their ancient family Discipline to this day remaining among them for saith he they are so careful to teach their Children in their tender years the Law and Books of Moses and after that their Talmudical Traditions as that their skill in Judaism at 17. exceeds the knowledge of many among us in Christianity at 70. Nay the very Jesuits boast themselves the grand Conservators of the Romish Religion in that they are Catechisers Oh let this Provoke Caristians we see how light breakes out more and more in every age as Luther said I see more than blessed Austin saw and they that come after me will see more than I see And we have great hopes and expectations of the young Generation that they may enter into the good Land though we should die in this Wilderness O then let us labour to prepare make them ready for the Lord and that not only by instructing them in the Principles of Religion in a Catechistical way though that be an Ordinance of God and of singular use in its kind but by endeavouring to the utmost by Counsels Perswasions Prayers for and with them to have the Power of Godliness wrought in their hearts to travel with them again in pain till Christ he formed in them And to this Duty these Arguments among many others may perswade From the relation it self which is betwixt you and them Arg. 1. look but into your own bowels and you shall find arguments enough to provoke your utmost care and industry for their good What is a Child but a piece of your self as one saith wrapt up in another skin what an inestimable value doth nature it self teach you to set upon them See Exhortation to Catech. by the Ministers of the Isle of Weight p. 17. The life of Jacob is said to be bound up in Benjamins Gen. 44.30 This dear ardent affection to them we use to express by our earnest desires of them till we have them Gen. 15.2 What wilt thou give me seeing I go childless said Abraham Gen. 30.1 Give me Children or else I die said Rachel 1 Sam. 1.10 11. How earnestly did Hannah pray in the bitterness of her soul for a Child Also by the singular contentment we take in them when we have them John 16.21 and the wonderful tenderness of our affections to them and earnest desires to keep them no value can be set upon a Child Gen. 42.36 38. Luke 8.41 42. John 7.47 49. Also by our sympathizing with them in all conditions their comfort is ours Gen. 45.27 28. and their misery is ours Mark 9.22 And lastly by our extream grief when we lose them Gen. 37.33 34 35. Mat. 2.18 Now are they such near and dear things to you Oh then how many motives doth this dear and tender relation wrap up in it to endeavour the eternal Salvation of their poor Souls 't is the Soul of the Child that is the Child and if that perish for want of knowledge where is the mercy of having Children surely an untimely birth is better than they Ah when you shall see them enemies to God those that came out of your bowels to be in rebellion against him will it not make you take up Jobs wish and apply it to them let the day perish wherein they were born Job 3.1 5. and the night in which it was said they are conceived let the darkness and the shadow of death stain it let a cloud dwell upon it let the blackness of the day terrifie it why dyed they not from the womb why did they not give up the Ghost when they came out of the the belly why did the knees prevent them or why the breasts that they should suck Ah if you have the hearts of Parents in you think how sad a consideration this will be to you that those who are so dear to you should be the objects of God's Wrath those you have been so tender over and have so often put into your bosomes must underlye eternal torments and their bed be made in Hell if you have any good thing your selves you cannot with-hold it from them if you be feasted abroad and they pining at home the greatest dainties do you no good Why now unless they be taught the knowledge of Christ a saving change pass upon