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A43572	The best entail, or, Dying parents living hopes for their surviving children grounded upon the covenant of Gods grace, with believers and their seed, being a short discourse upon 2 Sam. 23, 5 : wherein is a collection of several covenant-promises to support the faith, and some pleas to direct and quicken the prayers of Gods covenanted people for their surviving posterity / by O.H. ...	Heywood, Oliver, 1629-1702.	1693 (1693)	Wing H1761; ESTC R40552	56,018	114

manifested you must rest satisfied in that by which God thinks fit to Glorify himself 11. Yet further say Lord if thou refuse to hear me for this or that particular Child yet I will thank thee for Free Grace expressed to another Child or more of my Children that are-hopefull God forbid that my sorrow for our Child should drown all my Comfort in another or my complaints should silence my gratitude I will praise thee for what I enjoy and hope for more Nature teacheth persons to beg a future by acknowledging a former kindness I Bless the Lord I have a Praying Obeying Child that was born as destitute of Grace as this and I humbly take this as a pledg of more Thou hast Grace enough for all my Children I will not despond but be thankfull such a Child I hope hath embraced the Covenant of God Who am I O Lord God! 2 Sam. 7.18 19 20. and what is my house That thou hast brought me hitherto And this was yet a small thing in thy sight O Lord God but thou hast spoken also of thy Servants house for a great while to come and is this the manner of man O Lord God Thou didst not owe me any thing and yet thou hast given me the best things 'T is true I have a Cain yet I have a Righteous Abel I have a Shem as well as a Cham an Isaac as well as an Ishmael a Jacob as well as an Esau a Solomon as well as an Ammon or Absalon All my Children were born in Sin and God might have suffered all to have dyed in Sin But blessed be Free-Grace that hath pluckt this or that as a brand out of the Fire God hath heard prayers and taken of my Seed to be the Lords he hath not dealt so with all Families I own this as an higher preferment for my Children then if they were the greatest princes on Earth I will be thankful for them yet jealous of them and mix my praises with prayers the heart is very deceitfull I will give God Glory yet not glory in my Children But my jealousie shall not obscure thy Glory of this mercy Ebenezer hitherto God hath helpt I will rejoyce with trembling something God hath done that I may love and praise him and be encouraged to hope for more Much is yet to do that I may still have an Errand to the Throne of Grace thus my Lord keeps me in a waiting depending posture I must have something to evidence that God is my God and an hearer of Prayer I must not have all that I may know I am on Earth and not in Heaven It may be Religion may live in my Family when I am dead and gone And if all my Seed be not happy I hope some may However God hath done my own Soul good and laid a foundation of Grace in my heart and will lay the top Stone in Glory It was a notable speech of that gracious Minister of Christ One Mr. Avery See the life of Mr. Mather p. 131. passing to New-England in a Storm at Sea expecting every wave to bring death he lift up his Eyes to Heaven and Said Lord I cannot challeng of preservation of my life but according to thy Covenant I challeng Heaven Immediatly a wave wasted him to Heaven he his Wife and five Children being then drowned and is this nothing that thou may'st with gratitude and confidence claim a Promise for thy own Salvation If it reach no farther 12. Lastly Lord notwithstanding all the discouragement I have I will Believe Hope and Pray till thou take me off by my own death or the death of my Child As I will follow on to know and love and serve the Lord whatever thou do with me so I am resolved to Pray and Hope and wait whatever thou say to me Lam. 3.26 for I am sure 't is good for a man both to hope and quietly wait for the Salvation of the Lord God is worthy waiting on even upon my Knees I cannot be in a better excercise Say then Oh my dear Lord I am a Sinfull worm have a wicked heart am of polluted lips a sinfull life I deserve not the least crum of Bread or drop of Water I have forfeited my right to all Covenants as well as common Mercys for my self and Seed I have begot a Child in my own Image not thine it is a Child of wrath by nature as well as others but thou in thy love hast made a Covenant with believers and their Seed thou hast brought me into the bond of the Covenant the like mercy I beg for mine my Child must have thine Image as well as mine or it is undone for ever and it is not in my power to convey it but thou canst My dayly errand to the throne of Grace is to beg the blessings of the Covenant of Grace to me and mine I will not go from thy door without an alms thou shalt have a troublesom guest of me till thou grant my request O remember thy word unto thy servant Psal 119.49 upon which thou hast caused me to hope Come Lord let Covenant-Grace enter into the soul of my Child which is part of my self and I will take it as done to my self if I had not the mercy I beg under a promise I durst not ask it but thou hast made thy self a debtor and I will put thy bond in suit by Faith in Prayer Thou canst not deny thine own hand writing Thou art Faithfull and wilst perform it to some and why not to me God loves such importunate beggers and our dear Lord Jesus hath propounded two parables to provoke importunity Luke 11.5 8 9.18.1.8 therefore it is not unmannerly sauciness but holy earnestness and approved impudence wherein God much delights the End thereof is not to move God to alter his purpose but that our own Souls may have the condition of thy Promise thus the Canaanitish or the Syrophenician Woman crys out for her Daughter Have mercy on me O Lord thou Son of David my Daughter is grievously vexed with a Devil Mark 7.24 25. Mat. 15.22 28. She received a first a second a third repulse but She hangs on still and will have no nay and at last obtained her suit with an high Encomium and larg grant O Woman great is thy Faith be it unto thee even as thou wilt go thou and do likewise Obj. Alas Sir but I am faithless had I Faith as that Woman had I might prevail and you say Faith in Gods Covenant is necessary for the parent but I cannot Pray in Faith for my Child and how then should I prevail Ans There is a two-fold faith General and Objective by which you believe God is able and willing to make good his Covenant doth make it good to some and would to thee if thou hadst the condition this is absolutly necessary in all that come to God and this thou hast thou art sure that Christ is able to

upon you and make your Accounts streight against that great reckoning day and be sure you put on Christ and improve him as your Advocate that he may Answer for you at that day These things I do but touch for my great design is the quickening and incouraging of Parents on the behalf of their Posterity some whereof are left to themselves by the Lord to go astray which occasioned Mr. Lawrence's excellent Treatise of Parents Groans nor is it his case only but many others also some particular instances are fresh in memory which have brought some Godly Parents gray hairs with Sorrow to their Graves some well known Servants of God having never seen any hopeful symptoms of Grace upon some or all ther Children in their Life time and had some sad temptations to question the truth of of God in his Covenant yet even in the very pangs of Death reacht to and claspt hard this Blessed Word dying in the hopes of its Efficacy for themselves and theirs and the subject being recommended to me was accordingly treated on in a Funeral Discourse which upon request I was willing to transcribe for the incouragement of Poor afflicted Parents that are bowed down with heart-grief for their offending Children I confess the subject is novel and singular and such as I have not seen any Treatise upon and having walked in an untrodden path I hope I may obtain a pardon from God and Man of some Erratick motion whilst the tendency is Gods Glory and the good of Souls I hope none will reject this Treatise because it seems a limited Subject as if they were not concerned in it for as 't is handled it is extensive to all Parents Children yea such as have no Children are dealt with in this small Treatise for their Instruction and Consolation such as it is I commend to Believing Praying Parents following it with my poor Prayers that all the Children of the Covenant may be Covenanted Souls and that Parents may be comforted in the Grace of God in their Posterity and both may meet in Glory and if any reap and receive any advantage I have my reward and do humbly beg the Incessant Prayers of all that can Pray For The poor Servant of Christ and the Church O. H. A General Scheme or view of the Chief Contents of this Treatise Chap. 1. The Context cleared the Text explained 10 Doctrines briefly hinted Page 1. Ch. 2. The main Doctrin Propounded Cleared Explained by some things premised 9. Ch. 3. What this Covenant is and who are concerned in it 16. Ch. 4. Six grounds of hope which Parents have from the Covenant for their Children 24. Ch. 5. Six other grounds of Incouragement to Parents for their surviving Children 32. Ch. 6. An Answer to a great objection in seven particular Considerations 39. Ch. 7. An use of Conviction to Irreligious Parents and graceless Children 48. Ch. 8. An use of Exhortation to Children both of Vncovenanted and Covenanted Parents and to such as have no Children 59. Ch. 9. Another branch of Exhortation to all Parents that have Children ten motives to do their utmost to leave them within the Covenant what means to be used 69. Ch. 10. The last mean to be used for Childrens good is Earnest Prayer for them Twelve several Pleas and Arguments helping Parents in Prayers Some Cases of Conscience answered 79. These Books Written and Published by Mr. Oliver Heywood are to be sold by Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapside THE Sure Mercies of David being the fruits of some Meditations from Isa 55.3 Christ displayed as the choicest gift and best Master from Joh. 4. ●0 And Joh. 13.13 Written by Mr. Nath. Heywood and published by Mr. Oliver Heywood Israels Lamentation after the Lord Being some Meditations upon 1 Sam. 7.2 The Holy Life and Happy Death of Mr. John Angier Closet Prayer Or a Christians Duty from Mat. 6.6 Baptismal Bonds renewed On Psal 50.5 Meetness for Heaven upon Colos 1.12 designed for a Funeral Legacy Advice to an only Child or excellent Counsel to all Young Persons containing the Sum and Substance of Experimental and Practical Divinity Written by an Eminent and Judicious Divine for the Private use of an only Child now made publick for the Benefit of all Published by Mr. Oliver Heywood Dying Parent 's Living Hopes for their surviving Children c. 2 Sam. 23.5 Although my house be not so with God yet he hath made with me an Everlasting Covenant ordered in all things and sure for this is all my Salvation and all my Desire although he make it not to grow CHAP. I. The Context cleared the Text explained Doctrines raised THese words contain dying Davids living comfort the Covenant was the only Cordial to his fainting Spirits when the World lookt black about him here 's light ariseth out of obscurity just as it was with Oecolampadius dying and clapping his hand on his Breast cried hic sat lucis here 's light enough so David and a Believing Soul looking above sees all good in the Covenant looking within sees the countervain of it saith here here alone is light Job 29.3 by his light I walk through darkness This shall be my vade mecum or companion through this Pilgrimage of the World and this only shall be my viand and viaticum support and supply when I pass through the Valley of the Shadow of Death Farewel empty filthy World welcome the immediate presence of my Covenanted God I am going from a Prison to a Pallace from sorrow to solace from Sin to sweet Injoyment of God and the only foundation of my hopes is this Gospel Covenant A sad and sorry dying Miser ready to breath out his sensual senseless Soul got a Jacobus piece of Gold clapt it to his Breast saying Some wiser than others but I will dye with this Cordial at my Heart but at last pluckt it away saying it will not do alas it will not do Gold it self is no Cordial it cannot disarm death nor arm against it it hath lost its vertue nothing but Gods Covenant will stand in stead the dying Child of God is like a Standard bearer who when the battel is lost wraps himself in his Colours and therein is safe marching triumphantly through Armies of Enemies untoucht into his Fathers Pallace Oh happy Soul that injoys and improves this Covenant The Context tells us that these be the last words of David not absolutely as though he breathed his last after he had uttered them for there are several expressions and transactions after but comparatively they were uttered towards the latter end of David's Life Now the dying words of Pious men are gracious serious ponderous they use not to spend their breath about trifles In the Context we have 1. The Porch or Introduction 2. The Temple and excellency of the Gospel Covenant In the Porch or Introduction we have these two things 1. The Penman instrument or Amanuensis who spoke these words David 2. The Authour

Mr. Baxter's Directory An Eminent Divine observes that 1. The Gospel relating matters of fact is an history 2. Declaring terms on which God will be served is a law of Grace 3. Discovering promises of Life conditionally it is Gods Covenant 4. As accepted by Man it is a mutual Covenant betwixt God and Man this Law and Covenant of Grace which was purchased by Christs Death is that legacy he left to the World dispensed by his Ambassadours and effectually conveyed to the Legatees or Heirs of Promise by his grand Executor the Holy Ghost This then is the great security of mans Salvation That God worketh in us Phil. 2.13 1 Pet. 1.5 both to will and to do that we are kept by the mighty power of God through Faith unto Salvation This is the excellency of the Gospel dispensation of the New-Covenant the Old-Covenant laid all the stress on the shoulders of mutable man and therefore it is judged that the Covenant of God made with Adam in innocency was peculiar to him in that estate and went no farther is not at all continued in any force since the Fall for if there had been a law given which could have given life then righteousness had been by the Law Gal. 3.21 but it is by the Gospel-Covenant that we are justified and saved Quest What 's all this to the purpose All this seems to be personal not relating to posterity but you told us of grounds of hope for Children from the Covenant how come Children concerned in this Covenant This leads me to the 4th Thing premised viz. What is there in the Gospel-covenant that is ground of support to Parents on the behalf of their Children I answer in general Parents and Children are legally one party and in civil contracts are usually involved in the same bottom so in the first Covenant Adam being a publick person represented all his Posterity for judgment was by one to condemnation Rom. 5.16 18. yea upon all men we smart for Adam's sin And in the Old Testament-dispensation of the Covenant Gen. 17.7 I will establish my Covenant between Me and Thee and thy Seed after thee in their Generations And afterwards in Moses days when God renewed the Covenant he saith Deut. 29.14 15. Neither with you only do I make this Covenant and this Oath with him that standeth here with us this before the Lord our God and also with him that is not here with us this day i. e. With their Posterity and so the People did understand it Deut. 5.3 The Lord made not i. e. only this Covenant with our Fathers but with us even us who are all of us here alive this day And in the New Testament the Apostle saith Act. 2.39 For the promise is unto you and to your Children this is a faedus ad successores transiens a Covenant that passeth to successors Bargains Leases Legacies may pass to Children yea Children may suffer for their Parents faults Traitors Sons lose their Fathers inheritance Now we must look upon Children under a double capacity 1. Children of Heathens or Jews Turks or Infidels 2. Children of Christian Parents concerning the former we have little to say 'T is the latter we treat of and of these also 1. Some are only by an external profession in Covenant 2. Others are sincerely savingly in Covenant with God we can say little concerning the former we insist chiefly on the latter and of both or all these 1. Some Children dye in Infancy 2. Others live to years of maturity I shall hint a word or two of the former though it be the latter that I principally design 1. For Children dying in Infancy if we had any Scripture discovery concerning the Election of all Infants or that Christ had expiated the guilt of such Infants or that effectual saving Grace doth always attend the Ordinance of Baptism though they be brought under it which yet many are not the question were quickly determined but what God doth with the Souls of such Infants we have not sufficient means to understand and therefore leave them to Gods good pleasure But concerning the Seed of those that truly fear God of one or both the Parents we have ground of hope for their Salvation for 1. They are Holy 1 Cor. 7.14 and though it be faederally or relatively holy yet may be really and so be saved 2. Our Saviour saith Mark 10.14 of such is the Kingdom of God or of Heaven Mat. 19.14 not only such as have the disposition of Children but Infants themselves may be Church-members here and glorify'd hereafter 3. Children of Godly Parents are in Covenant with God Now to Abraham and to his Seed were the promises made Gal. 3.16 natural as well as spiritual it 's true there was a Covenant of peculiarity to give his Seed the land of Canaan and it 's as true the text speaks not of Seeds but one Seed that is Christ but the Scripture affirms that in his Seed Christ yea in thee saith God shall all the Families of the Earth be blessed Gen. 12.3 for so doth the Apostle interpret and apply it Act. 3.25 Ye are the Children of the Prophets and of the Covenant which God hath made with our Fathers 4. David had good hopes that his Child was gone to Heaven 2 Sam. 12.25 I shall go to him but he shall not return to me Obs 1. He doth not only mean into the state of the dead where the child is but into Heaven where I shall find him for his Carcass was but part of him and the least part 2. This hope he had of him though the Child was begot in Adultery 3. Though the Child was struck with death as a punishment of David's sin 4. Though the Child had not yet circumcision the Seal of the Covenant for he died on the seventh day ver 18. and we know that Circumcision was not to be till the eighth day Gen. 17.12 So that it seems the stress is not laid on the Seal but on the Covenant so that we see grounds of hope for the Eternal Salvation of the Infants of believing Parents But how and whence this comes to pass that such Infants become capable of Eternal Salvation that 's a great Question Luther thinks that Infants have actual Faith from Mat. 18.6 Whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me So reason is in Infants tanquam in principio Radice in its principle root habit virtually though not yet actually produced 2. Others say they are saved by some peculiar unknown unspeakable way without Faith but the text saith Mark 16.16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved but he that believeth not shall be damned how far this extends with reference to Infants I know not 3. Others say that Parents Faith is also Childrens according to the Tenour of the Covenant I will be thy God and the God of thy Seed thus Children have faith after a sort So the text saith Rom.

draw out my heart to thee in vain when a Father bids his Child ask he designs to give thou wilt not let this blessed spirit breathe in vain in my soul Wilt thou inlarge my heart and not grant my request Psal 38.9.15 Lord all my desire is before thee and my groaning is not hid from thee In thee O Lord do I hope thou wilt hear me O Lord my God Thou hast raised my heart in Expectation wilt thou not give me the mercy I expect 8. Lord is not thy Glory concerned in this affair as well as my comfort And yet my comfort is something in thine eye For thou sayst Ps 118.15 The voyce of rejoycing and salvation is in the Tabernacles of the righteous And alas What joy can there be in a family when a foolish Son is heaviness both to Father and Mother Prov. 10.1 and a disturbance to the whole house But oh thy Name is dishonoured by my own flesh wicked men hardened some scandalized by the miscarrying of the Children of the Covenant But on the other hand if Covenant-grace be spread upon my childs heart by Converting-grace many will glorifie God Gal. 1.24 His own Soul will be the actual lively Trumpet of Divine Glory by confessing sin and turning to God thy Omniscience Grace and Omnipotency will be made glorious And who can tell how many may be won to God by his Example 1 Pet. 2 1● 2 Thes 1 1● and every Convert Glorifies God in the day of their visitation and at the great Day God will be glorified in his Saints Lord consult thy Glory 9. Lord thou hast given me some incouragement concerning this Child I am praying for When my Child was young he was very hopeful now he is grown up my hopes are dasht He hath now embraced the world or is fallen into bad company and courses the less are my hopes now because he is a woful Apostate and sins against more light than others and this daunts and damps my spirit however I will pray and wait still for what is a daunting to me Gen. 22.14 is rather an advantage to thee In the mount of the Lord it is seen When the knife is at Isaac's throat Hos 2.14 the valley of Achor is a door of hope When men say our bones are dryed our hope is lost Ezeck 37.11 12. we are cut off for our parts then the graves are opened and there 's life from the dead The case is mine I am saying as Jonah I am cast out of his sight yet will I look again toward thy holy Temple The other look may fetch the mercy There 's a may be in the case Can a Child of so many Prayers and Fears miscarry This brings to mind a passage in Melchior Adamus De vitis Theol. Germ. pag. 724. It is this The mother of Hunnius being with child of him had a Vision She thought she was in the Church and took up a Reed or a Straw or such a small thing While she held it in her Fingers it so increased that she was almost oppressed with its weight even to death She presently saw it turned into a Pillar of the Temple Then she was eased of her burden This was verified in her Son Hunnius who though religiously educated and hopeful in Childhood yet fell into bad Company and then into horrible Temptations and sad Apprehensions That he had committed the sin against the Holy Ghost but by Grace was recovered and proves an excellent instrument in the Church of God This may be of use to poor afflicted desponding Parents 10. Lord If thou deny my suit and glorifie thy Justice in the rejection and damnation of My child I must and will acquiesce in thy Soveraign righteous Will It 's hard to bring my heart to it but I will say Thy Will be done Rom. 11.33 Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledg of God! How unsearchable are thy judgments and thy ways past finding out I my self deserve to be forsaken and cast into Hell I have many a time told thee I must for ever justifie God with flames about mine ears if thy justice be glorified in my destruction for all my abominations And if thou deal thus with my beloved Off spring I will say The Lord is righteous in all his wayes and holy in all his works Dan. 9.7 Righteousness belongeth unto thee but unto me and mine confusion of faces I submit my all to thee and thank thee for grace in my own soul and hopes of Glory and if my wilful child may not bring a revenue of Glory to free Grace I will be content with thy raising up a revenue of Glory to thy Justice in his just condemnation Obj. But what tender-hearted Parent can be contented to see his Child damned Answ You must distinguish betwixt Nature and Grace Nature loves its own and cannot bear to see part of it self in misery Yea grace cannot but desire cannot but earnestly breathe after the spiritual and eternal good of our Children And 't is not only lawfull but duty to desire it Yet if God deny it Grace brings man's Will to a due submission to the Divine disposal for the more a Christian is like to God the more is his Will melted into God's Will and therefore will a Child of God rejoyce in the execution of Gods justice upon dearest carnal Relations at the great Day As sanctified Levi in the cause of God Deut. 33.9 said to his Father and his Mother I have not seen neither did he acknowledg his Brethren nor knew his own Children Nature will be in a sort swallowed by grace in Gods good pleasure That was a remarkable passage of a gracious Gentlewoman that had a vicious Son who fell into many debaucheries and into one hainous Act which sunk her tender spirit But recovering her self she said to him with some warmth Ah! my sinful Son thou hast cost me many a Tear Groan and bitter hour but a day is coming when I shall triumph in seeing the just vengeance of God excecuted upon thee this did so appall the young Gentleman that he laid it to heart repented and became a new man to the joy of his Godly Mother But 2. You must distinguish about Damnation and look on it as under a double notion 1. as a state of compleat Sinning Blaspheming and hating God to the utmost God calls you not to be content with this which is so directly contrary to the Grace of God in the Christian nor yet may you be content to have your Child separated from God the cheifest good which is the worst part of hell But 2. Hell may be considered as a place or state of torment and misery to the Rational Creature and upon this account you must not be contented simply to have your Child tormented which is abhorent to nature but your Souls must be so overr-uled with the Divine pleasure as where his will is