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A47513	A new family-book, or, The true interest of families being directions to parents and children, and to those who are instead of parents : shewing them their several duties, and how they may be happy in one another : together with several prayers for families and children, and graces before and after meat : to which is annexed a discourse about the right way of improving our time / by James Kirkwood ... ; with a preface, by Dr. Horneck.	Kirkwood, James, 1650?-1709.; Horneck, Anthony, 1641-1697.	1693 (1693)	Wing K647; ESTC R15399	107,616	291

to his Will and Pleasure to do what he thinks best The happiness of Parents does not consist in having Children of this or that Sex Sometimes Sons who are most desired ordinarily may prove useless in the World yea very hurtful in many regards they may occasion great grief of Heart and lasting Anguish and Vexation to their Parents by their mad and foolish Courses and wicked doings And on the other hand Daughters may prove great Blessings in the World great Comforts to their Parents and great Examples of Piety and of Zeal for the honour of God On which accounts Parents ought to resign their will to God and be ready with all gratitude to accept whatever he bestows Secondly When a Child is born Parents ought with all thankfulness to return Praise to God who hath bestowed such a blessing upon them giving them a living Child sound and perfect in all its parts and proportions without either defect of necessary parts or excess and deformity thereof They ought to admire and adore the Powerful and Wise Providence of God which appears in framing and fashioning their Infant so curiously and wonderfully in the Womb in preserving it and making it grow up from a very small and imperfect beginning to such a bigness with all those comely shapes and proportions which they behold and at last in bringing it safely from the Womb which is one of the great and wonderful Works of the Power and Goodness of God tho it be little regarded because it is so common They ought to look upon their Children as given them of God to be taken care of both as to their Souls and Bodies to be bred up in his fear for his Honour and Glory to be made fit to serve him here and to live with him for ever hereafter The Soul being the chiefest part o● the Charge committed to Parents ● shall first shew what they ought to d● for their Childrens Souls The first Duty of Parents for the Souls of their Children is to Consecrat● them to God in Baptism First They ought to Consecrate their Children to God in Baptism so soon as conveniently they can They cannot better express their gratitude to God for blessing them with Children than by presenting them to him again in this holy Ordinance that he may set his Seal upon them and admit them into his House and Family that he may bestow upon them the Priviledges of his Children and give them a Right and Title to the Blessedness the Grace and Glory purchased by Jesus Christ. It is for this End that Baptism is instituted not only to be a Ceremony of Admission into the Church but to Seal unto us the Pardon of our Sins to assure us of the Divine Favour to make us Members of Christ Heirs of God and Inheritours of the Kingdom of Heaven if we by wilful impenitency and unbelief do not afterwards hinder and frustrate the Virtue thereof It is not necessary for Parents to enquire how such things are done by Baptism it is enough for them to know That God hath appointed Baptism for those Ends and we are sure that He appoints nothing in vain Our Saviour is said Eph. 5. 26. To sanctify and cleanse his Church with the washing of Water by the Word And Tit. 3. 5. he is said to save us by the washing of Regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost And in the 22 d. of the Acts and the 16. it is said by Ananias unto Paul Arise and ●e Baptized and wash away thy Sins And St. Peter having spoken of Noahs being saved with his Family in the Ark he adds 1 Epist. 3 21. The like Figure whereunto even Baptism doth now also save us And St. Paul tells us 1 Cor. 12. 12 13. For as the Body is one and hath many members and all the members of that one Body being many are one Body So also is Christ. For by one Spirit are we all Baptized into one Body And Gal. 3. 26 27. He saith For ye are all the Children of God by Faith in Christ Jesus For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ Which words import not only our owning and acknowledging him as the Saviour of the World who alone is able to wash and cleanse us with his Blood but also our Professing our resolution to live holy lives to walk in newness of life according to his Example in token of which in the Ancient Church they who were baptized were presently cloathed with White Rayment to testify their resolution to live in holiness and to put off the Old man that is all their former Wicked deeds and Customs and filthy Practices Likewise Rom. 6. 3 and 4. it is thus written Know ye not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his Death Therefore we are buried with him by Baptism into Death that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the Glory of the Father even so we also should walk in newness of Life These words import not only our belief of a Crucified Saviour who dyed and was buried for sin to save us from it but also our Repentance whereby we renounce Sin as dead and buried to it for the time to come The general Design of this Sacrament being sufficiently plain and clear from these and other Scriptures it is to little purpose and oftentimes it proves to very ill purpose to enquire any further as to particulars for by so doing a great many persons judging of Divine things by their own weak and foolish apprehensions have reasoned themselves if I may so speak both out of their Reason and Religion As to the Right of Children to Baptism It will appear if you Consider that the Covenant Blessing of God's being the God of Abraham and of his Seed Gen. 17. 7. is not only continued to those of the Jewish Nation who are converted to Christianity for if the first Fruit be holy the Lump is Holy and if the Root be Holy so are the Branches Rom. 11. 16. but is likewise extended to the Gentiles who by Faith in Christ are made one Body with the Jews and so have a Right to the Blessings promised to Abraham and to His Children Rom. 4. 9 10 11 12. Cometh this blessedness upon the Circumcision onely or upon the uncircumcision also For we say that Faith was reckoned to Abraham for Righteousness How was it then reckoned When he was in Circumcision or in uncircumcision Not in Circumcision but in uncircumcision And he received the sign of Circumcision a Seal of the Righteousness of the Faith which he had yet being uncircumcised That He might be the Father of them that believe tho they be not Circumcised that Righteousness might be imputed unto them also And the Father of Circumcision to them who are not of the Circumcision only but also walk in the Steps of that Faith of our Father Abraham which he had being yet uncircumcised From

be got by heart for this will do more hurt than good A few things well understood do better than a great many by rote Be careful lest they read any Books which tend to poyson their minds to fill them with false Opinions or to lead them to bad practices Their tender minds are apt very quickly to be corrupted by such Treatises Even they who are of a more fixed and solid Virtue are in danger of receiving hurt by reading such Books especially when they are writ with great Art and when their Notions are represented in fair and Beautiful Colours They are apt to impress on the Fancy some Images of no good consequence to the Soul How great need therefore have Parents to restrain their Children from reading such Books as tend to pollute their innocent and chaste minds which are capable of receiving any sort of impressions either good or bad As for Books of Devotion great care is to be taken that only such be put into their hands as are writ in a plain and easie style which treat of things fit and needful to be known by them and which are most likely to make them Wise and Good They are to be accustomed to the Writings of those who are Men of greatest Moderation who do not impose their own conceits as necessary Rules of Devotion who do not require such things as absolutely needful to be done which God hath not declared to be so nor yet who shorten the Rule by cutting off such things as God hath injoyned us All Books which lead Men to extreams are carefully to be avoided and such Treatises are to be made use of as contain the plain and necessary Doctrines of Christianity which tend to inspire Men with the Spirit of Purity of Truth of Peace and Love which promote Sincerity Justice Temperance Charity Meekness Humility Patience Resignation to the Will of God in all things Zeal for his Honour and Glory a firm Belief and Trust in him c. When it is requisite to acquaint them with the different Opinions amongst Protestants that their minds may not be unfixed and unsettled when they go abroad into the World be sure not to put into their hands such Tracts as are writ with a fiery uncharitable Spirit and in a Dogmatick and Magisterial manner but such as are writ with great Temper and Moderation which tend to heal the Church of all Contentions and Divisions and not to kindle and increase them which do not load Mens Opinions with unjust extravagant and impious consequences which never entred into the minds of those who vouched them but such as make fair and favourable Constructions and just allowances Such Treatises are chiefly to be chosen for them which dispose Men to be humble and modest not to be stiff and pertinacious in their own private Sentiments not rashly and severely to condemn others who have different thoughts and never on the account of any such particular Opinions to break the Peace of Christian Society nor to grow more cold in their respect and affection towards those who have not the same thoughts with themselves in lesser matters They are as it were to feed upon Books of this sort and carefully to digest them 6. Duty to bring them to the place of publick Worship so soon as they are fit for it Sixthly You are to bring them to the place of publick Worship so soon as they are fit for it that they may have the benefit of the Prayers of God's People and may learn as they are capable somewhat that may make them wiser and better Thus we find when Joshua read the Law before the Congregation the little Ones are mentioned as present amongst the Men and Women Josh. 8. 35. Teach them to pray to God before they go to Church and to beg of him that he would fit them and assist them to joyn in the publick Worship with unfeigned Devotion and to hear the Word in a right manner Teach them also to pray for all those whom God employs to Preach his Word and particularly for his Servant whom they are to hear that he would Sanctifie him and direct and enable him to teach others the true way to Life and Blessedness And as you ought to direct them what to do before they go to Church so you must take heed how they carry themselves in the House of God that it be with all possible silence and reverence and that they perform their publick Devotions in a decent manner See that they do not spend their time in gazing upon others in observing their Dresses and Modes their looks and Gestures nor yet in bowing and making Courtesies to every body of their Acquaintance they happen to see in the midst of their Prayers Though this be too common a Practice yet it ought carefully to be avoided as unsuitable to that seriousness that fear and Reverence that Fervency and Devotion which true Worshippers of God ought to be possessed with when in the most Solemn manner they are or ought to be employed either in paying their Homage to the King of Heaven and Earth their Lord their Maker and Saviour or in hearing the Message that is delivered in his Name by his Ambassadors When they come from Church see what they remember if they have got any thing by heart encourage them If they remember nothing you may tell them somewhat or other of the Sermon which is fit for them to learn Stir them up so soon as their Years are fit for it to meditate more or less on what they have heard that so the Word of God may profit them Shew them that as their Food cannot nourish them if their Stomach do not concoct and digest what they Eat and Drink so neither will the Word of God nourish quicken and strengthen their Souls if they do not by serious Meditation digest what they read and hear Endeavour by their constant attendance on the publick Worship to beget in them a mighty regard thereto as being one great means appointed of God to increase in them true Knowledge and Piety Let them not spend the rest of the Lords Day in rambling about but so far as their Age can bear it let them be imployed usefully Shew them why they should observe this Day to wit because on it Our Blessed Lord Jesus Christ rose from the Grave Triumphed over Death and finished the work of Our Redemption As He was delivered and died for our Offences so He was raised again for our justification Rom. 4. 25. To us the Lord's Day saith One of the Ancients is therefore venerable and to be observed in a Solemn manner because thereon Our Saviour as the rising Sun having dispelled the darkness of Death shone forth by the Light of His Resurrection 'T will not be unfit to acquaint them with some instances of God's righteous and dreadful judgments against prophaners of this Day and particularly how a great many who have come to an untimely

to their Fighting and Wrestling against their Enemies and bestowed on them a Crown of Glory and an Everlasting Inheritance when he hath broken their Bonds asunder wherein they were held and kept in Captivity and Slavery and hath put them into a state of perfect and glorious Freedom The consideration of these things should mitigate and asswage your Sorrow and Grief and fill you with unspeakable Comfort and Gladness But some are apt to say I should rejoyce if I thought that my Children who are dead were in Heaven But this I do not know As to this you are not to trouble your thoughts about it for God does not see fit to acquaint you with such things Secret things belong to God and things revealed to us and to our Children Deut. 29. 29. If your Children while they were alive minded good things and if you did your part to instruct them and to make them what God requires them to be you are not to be any further solicitous about their Everlasting state You are to hope that they are very happy and you are to comfort your selves with these thoughts Others are apt to say I am afraid that my Children are not in a happy state they did very bad things and used bad Company and therefore I have cause to fear and to be troubled about them now that they are dead As to such Parents who have had wretched Children they ought not to suffer their minds to be disordered and oppressed with Grief and Sorrow because their Children who died were wicked If they did their Duty to make them better if they advised and admonished them if they reproved them and as was fitting chastened them if they desired others to deal with them to see what they could do towards the reclaiming of them if they prayed to God for them and gave them a good Example They are not any further to be troubled and disquieted concerning them when God takes them into his own hand He is wise and good holy and just he does all things well for excellent and glorious ends and therefore Parents ought to leave them to his Disposal who is the Supreme Governour of the World and Judge of the whole Earth Whatever he does whether in Mercy or Justice is always best The Inhabitants of the other World who are translated into a state of Heavenly Glory are not under the power of such passions and partialities as govern us here below The glorified Parents of damned Children are not under any uneasiness on that or any other account The Will of God and his Glory is their all they know that whatever he does is most perfectly just and good and for his Honour and therefore all things afford them great Pleasure and Delight true and lasting Joy and Satisfaction of mind There 's nothing able to interrupt the happiness and joy of those in Glory They are perfectly and eternally delivered from all sort of evils both of sin and punishment They are placed above the reach of whatever may render them in the least uneasie But there is a third sort of those who are troubled not only because their Children were bad and prophane but because they were so through their example or neglect As for such I have already in general shewed them what they ought to do I shall only add That since they have been so faulty and defective in their Duty towards their Deceased Children they ought to be the more careful of those who are yet alive and to do all that is possible to make them what God requires them to be As to those who have no more Children left them it would be very fit for them to take into their care one or more Children upon whom they may bestow all that pains and care which they should have bestowed in the right Education of their own and endeavour by God's help to make them truly Pious and Religious and Patterns of all sorts of Virtue to others This is an Office which will be very acceptable to God and one of the best demonstrations which Parents can make of the sincerity of their Repentance for their not having done their Duty to their own Children Fourthly Consider that there will be a Resurrection of all those that are dead The mighty Power of God which made all things out of nothing will also gather together the scattered dust of those who are deceased and will reform and rebuild as it were their bodies which are fallen down and consumed He will raise them up again in a more excellent perfect and glorious manner Then shall you meet with your Children and Friends who died in the Lord and behold them after another manner than you saw them here in this World Instead of weak and diseased bodies you shall see them strong vigorous and lively bodies Instead of frail and dying bodies you shall see immortal and incorruptible bodies Instead of filthy and vile bodies you shall see pure and glorious bodies And you shall see them so as to be with them for ever so as never any more to be separated from them by death or any other thing for you and they shall die no more 1 Cor. 15. 42 43 44. So also is the resurrection of the dead It is sown in corruption it is raised in incorruption it is sown in dishonour it is raised in glory It is sown in weakness it is raised in power It is sown a natural body it is raised a spiritual body And vers 53. This corruptible must put on incorruption and this mortal must put on immortality How gladly would poor People part with their dearest Children if they could be assured of seeing them again in an honourable state and condition exalted to great Dignity and Honour And will not you who have the hopes of a glorious Resurrection be comforted in the absence of your Children When their merciful God and Father takes them away from you unto himself not to do them hurt but good to make them happy and blessed with himself for ever to bestow upon them what Eye hath not seen nor Ear heard nor which hath entred into the Heart of Man to conceive Consider the words of the Apostle to the Thessalonians 1 Epist. 4. 13 14. But I would not have you to be ignorant Brethren concerning them which are asleep that ye sorrow not even as others which have no hope For if we believe that Jesus dyed and rose again even so them which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him Fifthly Your giving way to excessive Grief and Mourning can do you no good but will certainly do you a great deal of hurt and mischief in many respects It cannot bring back your Children that are dead Though you should break your Hearts into a thousand pieces by your weeping and mourning and waste and consume your years in constant heaviness and sorrow tho' you should never henceforth allow your selves one moment of relaxation of mind after all you must go to