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A65690	Comfort for parents, mourning over their hopeful children, that dye young In a funeral discourse upon Jer. 31. xvii. And there is hope in thine end, saith the Lord. By Thomas Whitaker, minister of the Gospel at Leeds, in York-shire.	Whitaker, Thomas, 1650 or 51-1710.	1693 (1693)	Wing W1713; ESTC R221995	29,944	125

Cloud that God has drawn over you be Dark yet it s not all Darkness it has its Bright as well as its Dark Side And while the One ministers matter of Sorrow to you the reviving Beams of the Other may give you Light and Comfort in the midst of your Sorrows 2. Bless God that hath given you such Hope instead of Grieving and Repining for what you have lost Adore Divine Goodness for what you have left you You have lost a Child but you have a Legacy of Hope left you to help you to bear your Loss Be more in Blessing God for the one than in mourning for the other It might have been otherwise with you that you neither might have had Child nor Hope But since God has been more gracious to you take heed of carrying it as if either you had no sense of Divine Goodness or your Relation Dyed without Hope As there is a Debt of Tears owing to your Hopeful departed Children so there is a Debt of Thankfulness owing to the God that made them such Be not over-liberal in paying the One while in the mean time you forget the Other Tho' God have taken away the tender Olive-Plants that should have adorned your Tables yet as good old Jacob said in another case it 's enough that you have a Comfortable Hope that they are transplanted to a richer Table in their Father's Kingdom They have taken their flight never to make their Return to Earth any more But it 's enough that you have Hope in their Latter End Bless God for and comfort one another with that Hope 2. Give me leave now to improve this Point more generally to all to whom it may be useful and that 1. To Parents 2. To Children 1. Here 's Matter of Exhortation to you Parents That you would use the utmost care in the Holy Education of your Children that whether they live or die you may have Comfort if they live you may have Comfort in their Lives if they die you may have Hope in their Death Or however you may have this Support in your own Spirits that you have discharged your Duty As soon therefore as they arrive to a Competent measure of Capacity take all Opportunities prudently to instil Divine Truths into their Minds such as their tender Years are most capable of receiving that their Minds being so early tinctured with things of Eternal Moment may derive a suitable Impression to their Hearts Take all convenient Seasons to acquaint them that there is a Great and Glorious though invisible God who made all things and curiously formed them in Secret and formed an Immortal Spirit within them to know and love to live unto and live with Him in an Everlasting State Be telling them as they are able to bear how their Natures are depraved and fallen off from their God and Happiness and that thereby they are become Children of Wrath by Nature and obnoxious to the Judgment and Curse of an offended Majesty Acquaint them with what Condescension to their Capacities you can what guilty perishing Creatures they came into the World by reason of Sin and if it were not for Infinite Goodness that they might have been tumbled into Hell as soon as ever they drew their First Breath Tell them that in this miserable State they might have lived and died without Remedy had not Infinite Compassion provided a Saviour to deliver poor Guilty Souls from going down to the horrible Pit Inform them with what plainness and distinctness you can possibly use who this Saviour is and what he has done and suffered and what he is still a doing in order to the Recovery of lost undone Souls Tell them that they even they must have an Interest in this Saviour or they are undone for ever and that the way of coming to an Interest in Him is by an Humble casting themselves upon his Blood and Grace for the Pardon of their Sins and the Healing of their Corrupted Natures Such Truths as these labour to possess and season their early Thoughts withal Only in the doing thereof use all the Prudence and Gentleness and Condescension you can that you neither overcharge them with too much at once nor confound them with Things that their Capacities cannot reach unto And who knows how this Divine Leaven may under the Influence of the Heavenly Blessing diffuse its powerful Vertue thro' their Tender Souls As soon as they begin to talk learn them to talk in the Language of Canaan and not of Ashdod in the Dialect of Heaven and not of a Prophane World that their early Breath be not corrupted with the rotten Communication of the Children of Belial 2 Kin. 2.23 Let it be your Pious and Early Care to teach them their Catechism as being the most familiar and methodical way of Instruction and content not your selves that they learn it by rote but labour to conveigh the Truths therein to their Understandings and Affections As soon as possible also learn them to Pray and in order thereunto Pray with them your Selves and acquaint them both what need they have to Pray and how they must address themselves to God in this Solemn Duty Carry them as soon as you can judge it convenient to the Publick Worship and Ordinances of the Gospel and esteem it a Mercy that you may carry your Young and your Old with you Observe them with what Reverence and Attention they carry themselves while they are there and call them to an Account what they have brought with them when they come home and take Advantage of what they remember though it be the less to improve it to further Instruction Above all inure them to their Bibles betimes and direct them to such Places as may be most fitted to their weak Capacities and if in their Reading any thing offer it self which may afford special Instruction to them improve it to that end And thro' Divine Goodness some Grains of the Immortal Seed may take Root e're you are aware In a word Train them up to all Religious and Divine Exercises that their tender Years are capable of And cease not to water all with your Prayers and Tears for an happy Success Would you have your Children Comfortable in Life and Hopeful in Death let these be the Particulars of your Serious and Early Care And the more effectually to excite you thereunto let me offer to you the following Cosiderations 1. Without this Religious Care of Education you cannot expect the Comfort you desire neither in their Life nor Death I know there is nothing more Natural than for Parents to place a great deal of Hope and to prosmise to Themselves large share of Comfort from their Rising Off-spring When you are pressed down with the Pains and almost wearied with the Care that 's laid out upon them this sweetens and alleviates all But seriously consider with your selves what just Ground have you for such Expectations without a Conscientious Endeavour to render them such as you

all this is but the sad Fruit of your own Remisness and Negligence how will you he able to bear a Charge of so wounding a Nature If they should prove uncomfortable or unhopeful after the Conscientious Discharge of your Duty though your Affliction will be great yet you will have one Support at least under your Burden You may comfort your selves that you have discharged your Duty and it is not thro' your Default that they Perish and though they miss of the Benefit of your Cares and Prayers and Endeavours Psal 35.13 yet the Blessing may return in your own Bosom but if you contribute to their Miscarriage by your neglecting the appointed Means of Heaven for the Prevention thereof your Burden may weigh heavier than you will be able to bear Why might not this be one imbittering Ingredient in Davids Sorrow 2 Sam. 18.33 that might cause him to take on so heavily at the Death of his Son Absalom Possibly he might be under some bitter Reflections of his own Failure in his Duty which might make the Stroke pierce so deep And it will be no less an Aggravation of your Bitterness if it should prove your case But thus much may serve to Partents who would have Hope in their Children 2. I come now to direct my self in a few Words to You Children You have heard how much your Parents Comfort is bound up in the Proof of your Blooming Years labour therefore after that which may afford the most solid Consolation both to Your selves and them whether in Life or Death Next to their own Souls you are the great Object of your Parent 's Cares and Fears of their Prayers and Thoughts of Heart And if God should see meet to pluck you away in the Bud you had need to make your Death as comfortable both to your selves and your concerned Parents as you can It will be Sorrow enough to them to part with you when they should come to enjoy the sweetest and most comfortable part of your Life You had need to make it as easie as you can by leaving them some Gracious Pledge of Hope behind you And that you may do so I cannot give you more proper Advice than now in your Morning-years to look after the best things Heb. 6.9 even the things that accompany Salvation I suppose you to be capable of apprehending and enquiring into things of this Nature Know therefore that you as little and young as you are have a Real and Everlasting Concern in such things as well as others And it 's not too soon for you to take your selves to be concerned about them Now to enquire after God and to mind the things of your Peace is God's Call to you as well as more grown Persons Eccles 12.1 Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy Youth Observe the little Word now it takes date from the Morning-Twilight of your Day as soon as your Rational Powers peep forth into Competent Exercise And from the time it takes date it admits of no delay Now remember Now delay not for you cannot assure your selves of another Moment Say not It will be time enough to Morrow for to Morrow as short a time as it seems to be you know not but you may be under the Arrest of Death and ready to be shut up in your silent Grave where there is no Wisdom nor Knowledge Eccles 9.10 Say not Such work will be more proper for Riper Years For who can give you assurance that you shall live to more Maturity Death comes not by Order of Nature but according to the Divine Commission As Young and Sprightly as you are and as many Daysas you seem to have before you yet for ought you know your Glass may be running out its last Sand And this may be the last Month or Week or Day that you have to live As young as you are gone to the cold Mansions in the Grave and what Security have you from the fatal Stroke more than they Go into the Shops and see if there be no Coffins of your size Go into the Church yard and see if there be no Graves of your Length If there be as your own Eyes will soon convince you consider with yourselves that a few Moments may bring it to your Turn And then how comfortable will it be both to your selves and Friends that you have so Early secured your Everlasting Interest Your Parents will be better able to part with you when your Early Goodness gives them Hopes that you are going to a better an Infinitely better Father And you your selves will more Comfortably shoot the Dismal Gulph when you have Reason to believe that you have committed your Souls into those Blessed Hands that will land them sare on the other side In order hereunto let me recommendun to you a few seasonable Instructions and beg of you to put them into serious and speedy Practise 1. Begin to entertain your Early Thoughts with Soul-Matters God having Mercifully preserved you beyond the Incapacity of your Infant-Age and having brought you to some Competency of Understanding it 's time for you to apply your scrious Thoughts to things of the most concernful Moment And what can be of more Indispensable Moment than the Everlasting Concerns of your precious Souls It 's not too soon for you to know that you have Immortal Souls in your Bosoms which though Invisible to an Eye of Sense yet are not only Real but the most Precious and Valuable Part of your selves It 's not too early for you to understand and consider that these Spiritual Beings are formed on purpose for an Everlasting State and that when the Dreggy Carcasses are thrown to the Dust yet these Immortal Spirits survive to pass into the Invisible World there to be the Subjects of unexpressible happiness or Misery for ever It 's not improper nor impertinent for you to lay to Heart that Eternity must be of greater Importance than Time and that the State which must last for ever is of more absolute necessity than that which is but like to last for a few Days Let it be your endeavour therefore to apply your Early Thoughts to such things as these instead of suffering them to be carried away with those Vanities which too ordinarily get the start of more serious Matters It 's impossible for you to be truly Religious till you begin to be serious Thinkers as you may see in the Instance of the Prodigal Son And what more meet more proper more concerning to entertain Your first Thoughts with than what we are and what will become of us for ever What are we Bruits that have only a Life of Sense or Reasonable Understanding Creatures What will become of us Shall we perish with the Beasts and there be end of us or shall we live beyond the Grave And if we must survive the Grave what will be Our Condition in that Future State Such Thoughts as these will neither be unbecoming nor