thy Master's Exposition And chiefly that which suit 's with thy Condition As first abandon negligence and sloth Abhor a lie and tremble at an oath Shun Faith and Troth by ' r Lady and the Mass 'T is sin and shame to let such speeches pass Shun quarrelling lest passion should bee stir'd And scorn to give the least opprobrious word To hear some foul-mouth'd Brats would make one gather The unclean spirit were their ghostly father Never imploy thy wits to scoff and jeer Nor let thy pen in wanton works appear The Ribauld Poët is a sordid Swine Because his Art should make him all Divine With honest Recreations whet thy wit But let no baseness prompt or poyson it The lord of Misrule with his sports uncivil Is fit to make a Bearward for the Divel Esteem of Sundayes not for sport and play As Thursdayes but as Repetition day Then do the Sabbath duties with delight A constant Zealot still this way stand's right Hee that is careless and profane herein Run's headlong into all excess of sin In secret place by practice learn to pray Meer want will teach a beggar what to say Sin yield's confession for thou know'st thy pranks And blessings teach the gratefull to give thanks But hee that would bee prompt in supplication Must oft use practice and premeditation Inquire for Christ learn who and what hee is His double Natures and his Offices Hee that like David or young Samuel Know's Christ in childhood shall in age excel A young Saint and a sound I dare presage Shall shine like to an Angel in his age And now I leav thee with my last advice Hoping to see thee once in Paradise If thou must leav both school and scholarship And taste of learning but a little sip Read godly Books first Bishop Usher's best For Science and for Conscience Baxter's Rest Dent for the plain man Hildersham and Dod And above all books els the Book of God W. B. ERRATA Page 3. line 18. for since read sin p. 5. l. 17. of r. or p. 7. l. 15. was r. wee p. 14. l. 26. Jâ—bbled r. Babbled p. 18. l. 7. Who r. For. l. last Officers r. Officers p. 19. l. 1. Abitrator r. Arbitrator p. 30 l. 24. love r. love's p. 31. l. 29. pretensed r. prepensed p. 33. l. 9. fit r. filâ—'s l. 12. end r. and p. 41. l. 11. beser r. baser MAN'S MONITOR DUTIES and TRESPASSES implied in the First COMMANDMENT THe first Command require's the inward Man With all the power that possibly he can To give attendance alwaies on the Lord In Trinitie and Unitie ador'd To do each dutie in our Saviour's merit And by assistance of his sacred Spirit It binde's to blessed Virtues touching God As filial fear and reverence of his rod Spiritual knowledg as the only scope Of all our skill and heaven-assuring hope Holie rejoicing and strong confidence Unwearied patience and true penitence Zeal for his glorie kindled with good will And earnest longing for his presence still Attending for the comming and the call Of Christ our Lord and soveraign judg of all And among virtues as the very chief It bind's unto particular belief Of sins remission and our souls salvation By Christ our Saviour's death and mediation To gratefull thoughts and great humilitie To fervent love without hypocrisie In which affections nothing may partake But allwaies under him and for his sake It also binde's to outward adoration Profession of God's Name and invocation Our rising and reposing thoughts must bee Bestow'd on God then must wee bow the knee And humbly offer him with daily care The sacrifices of our solemn prayer Not naming heathenish Gods without disdain Nor any Customes that to them pertain Their temples altars images must bee Abominated in a high degree Only the true God's beeing ours in Christ Should draw up our affections to the high'st It bind's us to beleev what scripture saith Touching the pinciples of Christian faith One true eternal God unchang'able Most holy wise just mighty mercifull Invisible immense and infinite And having all things alwaies in his sight Incomprerensible in persons three For father son and holy Ghost they bee The fountain of this personalitie Beget's the Word who work 's from his supplie Both these produce the Spirit which proceed's And work 's from both they by him their deed So non's afore but in this order rare All Coëternal and Coëqual are Predestination and foreseen decree How for God's glorie every thing shall bee Creätion of the world in six daies space All Angels first Man in the latest place Perpetual Providence the helpless fall Of sinning Angels some ne're sin'd at all These were elect and prais their Maker still And with great quickness execute his will These wait on Saints and bear them in their arm Those by permission tempt accuse and harm Reserv'd in chains of darkness which dismay Untill the judgment of the general day Man's innocence and happiness at first That Covenant broke and all therein accurst Original corruption Actual sin Transgression censur'd and thus death came in The law so plainly written in man's heart Obliterated for the greater part The earthly paradise quite lost and gone And all mankind slain by the sin of one A better Covenant wrought man's restoration By Christ the second person's incarnation Conceiv'd in Virgins womb by heavenly powers His man-hood since excepted just like ours To th' second person joyn'd immediately And mediately to the rest thereby Making both natures but one person still Though having both divine and humane will Divine and humane properties distinct Man-God God-man both these rogether link't Equall with God in his spirituall Nature Inferiour to him as the Mediator Yet in both natures not in man's alone Far above Angels in the highest throne His perfect life and blessed doctrine taught Back'd with a world of wonders which he wrought His judgment passion buriall Resurrection Ascension session in his bright perfection And intercession there at God's right hand And having all things under his Command The universal Churches sure election Calling adoption triall and correction Redounding to their good Justification Sanctification and sure preservation The seal of Baptism and the sacred Cup With many an Ordinance to build them up All to be guided by the Scripture's light Which saints did pen and God's own spirit indiâ— The common call and gifts of many a one Never built up unto perfection Immortal souls of saints celestial bliss Imprisonment of theirs that liv'd amiss The Resurrection and great judgment day Where Christ in chief and all the saints bear sway The world that was accurst for man misled Purged by fire and re-established Then reprobates must pack to endless pain And saints in endless glory shall remain He that discern's not these nor cares to see Condemn'd of wilfull ignorance shall bee He that believe's not this his sin goe's higher For unbelievers have made God a liar These then are sins of which wee must repent
To wrong the Name the tomb the bones the 〈◊〉 Of a just man are actions most unjust Titles and Salutations every where After the fashion and within our sphere To honor those wee send to see or meet Is very civil Christian and discreet Knowing that if wee meet unworthy men Our salutation turn's to us agen But who more vile than that vile generation That have not grace to own their own relation That call their parents by their common Name And bid their sons and servants do the same No science nor superior they discern But prate blaspheme and lie and scorn to leaâ— These and such Hereticks are the men indeed To whom when known wee should not say speâ— Now follow several orders of Inferiors And Duties which they owe to their superiors First Subjects must obey the Lawes in force Suffering at least though Lords Laws were 〈◊〉 Reverence they owe and humble courtesie Suiting with their Superior's dignitie Tribute and Custome may they not refuse In legal wayes for these are Ruler's dues When need require's they humbly must deâ— And seek for justice at their ruler's hand Not letting wicked acts proceed and spread Becaus the autors go unpunished But disobedience and contempt of Lawes Not to seek justice in a needfull caus Whereby the wickedness that well succeed's May nourish Malefactors in misdeeds Treason rebellion fraudfull injuries Cursing and speaking ill of Dignities Or if to pray for lawfull powers wee grudg It is our guilt before the highest judg The Flock must next attend with carefull ear Their Pastor's charge and their just censures bear Strong Christians must not seek themselvs to pleas But bear with lower Christian 's weaknesses They must with care watch over one another Admonish privately the offending brother Then before others then the Church must know Whom if hee hear not count him half a foe For there is none may think himself exempt From the Church-order nor may shew contempt Nor from a soul's assistance may withdraw But hee shall violate this sacred Law Yea every familie should in a sort Becom a Church The Master should exhort Instruct admonish censure pray and sing With all his hous as prophet priest and king Next servants must obediently fulfill In every lawfull thing their master's will They must bee reverent dutifull and meek In case of wrong and remedie to seek They may not murmur neither may they hate But seek for justice by the magistrate They must bee faithfull patient of reproof Hearkning to counsel for their souls behoof Industrious neat and quick they ought to bee And may advise but with humilitie Indeavouring to bee skilful in device Abstemious sober temperate yet not nice Faithfull in counsel secrets to conceal And in discoverie dangers to reveal For treacherie talebeaâ—ing daintiness Sloth dulness gluttonie and all excess Disdain and pride and prodigalitie And loathsome drunkenness and slovenrie Negligence disobedience idleness Purloining from their masters more or less Scorning to bear the least rebukes or blows Not scorning to deserv such things as those Doubling their faults as 't is the common use By making lies their refuge and excuse Sullen or stubborn carriage saucie tongues All these are servant's sins and ruler's wrongs Next Children's duties much like servant's are In all subjection but in love more rare To bee the joyfull props of parents age And theirs to whom they owe their parentage Their special duty is not to attempt A married state til first their friends consent Who should be guides if crossness bear the sway Or covetousness the civil paâ—ent may But the stoln Marriage and unlicensed Is like bold robberie where the bloud is shed Also to smite or with prodigious breath To curs a parent Mose's Law made death All scorning also to be subâ—ugate To parent's counsels wasting their estate Contemtuous carriage sloth and stubbornness Neglecting to reliev them in distress Mocking at their defects disdainfull laughter Are sins too shamefull for a son or daughter And lastly all Inferiors in deserts Owe their subjection to Superior parts As first to reverence the hoary head And the blest honors of the Nuptiall bed The rare deserts of learning and high birth And least of all the riches of the earth Untill som power or place therwith bee join'd Or the more noble riches of the minde But for the rude and ignominious rabble To slight the ancient learn'd and honorable When simple men presume that scarce speak sens To teach their betters 't is a foul offence To bee unlearn'd and lofty poor and proud Young and yet saucy may not bee allow'd For even the want of manners is a breach Of God's Command and thus the Scâ—iptures teach Duties and Trespasses implied in the Sixt Commandment THese are the Duties which the Word mak's cleer That in the Sixt Commandement appear First that great care which tend's to saving souls And godliness which killing lusts control's A special heed to that Commandement Where life is promis'd to th' obedient A due preparing of our selvs for death Then willingly resigning our last breath The slavish fear of death is foul offence And scarce permit's a martyr to commence Yet should hee first commend what he command's As near as may bee unto trusty hands And e're a sudden danger doth surprise Think of his will and funeral obsequies For hee that care's not till his soul bee gone Loseth two lives and links two deaths in one As for the body these things here set down Are most effectuall and of great renown A cheerfull heart a temperate sober life A meek and peacefull spirit shuning strife Fit food and physick mirth and recreation Expedient for our health and preservation Yet out of mirth pick all abusiveness Scurrility prophaneness and excess Weapons somtime are needfull and to crave The help of justice our own selvs to save And justice too must somtimes put on arms To punish sin and shield from greater harms These also are our duties towards man Peace-making and peace-keeping all wee can Compassion patience and kinde neighbourhood And true rejoycing at our neighbour's good Calmness in arguing lest wee should not light On peacefull truth while passion blinde's our sighâ— To pardon many wrongs and sympathize When good or ill befall's him in our eyes Soft answers courteous carriage suffering still Rather then doing or rewarding ill Yet should wee rescue to our power and might The weak and wronged from oppressor's spite And wee must visit comfort cloath and feed The sick and sad and such as stand in need For if thou dost not feed the Law saith plain For want of yielding succour thou hast slain Wee should do good to all as Scripture saith But chiefly to the family of faith Remembring evermore that charity Begin's at home and succoureth speedily Nor may wee fail of mercy in the least To strangers enemies no nor to the beast Spiritual aid no neighbour may deny To very malefactors that must die On just occasion must a State make war Justly
pursue it by the Souldier And hee of all men is to learn from hence To offer no injurious violence Here also Empyricks owe their care and skill Lest by neglect or ignorance they kill Rich Landlords by this rule must have regard They wrack not the poor tenant over hard Or if their Rents and rates oppress them nor Hard impositions may not bee forgot Or if small faults or others offering more Shall turn a needy Tenant out of door For oftentimes indeed none strike more dead Than they that let or take ore other's head But if the widow and the fatherless The blind and lame our charity confess If wee give portions unto seven and eight And build up men and families to their height Or if wee spend our mite and would proceed Wee are intitled to a blessed deed Whereas oppression and depopulation Are cruel crimes that murther up a Nation And either of them as a deluge drown's Whole generations families and towns And where the poor man doth the poor oppress 'T is like the creature that is merciless Here then are many sins of large extent Forbidden by the fixt Commandement Surfeit for one and one among the chief Corrupting eas corroding care and grief Unwholesom food libidinous delight To satiate a wanton appetite Som so addict themselvs to pineing cares To gnawing pensiveness and cold despairs For loss of sweetest babes and dearest friends Although they know what happiness attend's And urge their eager griefs with hearts so willing They make their life time a continual killing Som eat raw gretes and meal som chalk coaâ— Thus leanness enter's to their very soul Greensickness worms and feavers most unquiet Breed of raw fruits and such unwholsom diet Surfeit of meats hath made its thousands fall Of drink ten thousands counting souls and all Tampring with Physick is som people's crime But thousands die for want of it in time Som slight good means bury Neighbours thiâ— By their unskilfull handling of the sick Som tire their bodies with excessive toyl And Som the want of exercise doth spoyl Uncessant studies drive's som from their wits Som swelling pride some love outragious fits Many a one by extreme labor die's Som by a proud presumptuous enterprise Yet few of these do think perhaps how far These deeds give title to a murtherer Sadness and passion often bring diseas And there is murther much in such as these Wrath envie malice hatred crueltie Revengefull thoughts and rageing jealousie In big and bloodie boastings Lamech-like To kill for striking for a word to strike In desperate companions and pass-times In acting or alluring to lewd crimes Which slay the idle through their own default That having nought to do must needs do nought In waggish sports tricks whence mischeis breeâ— In suffering mad-men whom no keeper heed's In keeping harmfull beasts and dangerous waâ— Misleading him whose soul or body straie's In curses cruel mockings bitter words Which somtimes cut more keen than naked sworâ— With what strange poyson do these people swell That curs themselves and others unto hell Hang him 's a dreadfull curs much more evill Those wicked wishes that take in the Devil Whose horrid name when anger move's the sens Is seldom mentioned without offence A thousand maledictions more there bee That would destroy should Providence agree For though the causless curs shall never com Yet causless cursing much impeacheth som Som curs and swear and dam it all day long Hell-fire hath kindled such a wicked tongue The heart that boyl's up wrath in discontent Hardly balk's oaths and curses in consent Opprobrious terms and nicknames do both kill And stir up anger to avenge the ill Yet may Superior's rate men for their crimes And Christians safely scoff at sin somtimes When wee but giving men their due deserts Are griev'd to see the hardness of their hearts The factious fierce and given to debate The busie-body and the obstinate Do greatly violate this law of peace And drunkards cups which make the strife increas Som chide som fight it out and some go further To wounding maiming manslaughter and murther Som murther by consent of Lawes not good That harm the Saints and shed the martyr's blood Som by concealment of a bloody deed Som suffering wrongfull sentence to proceed Som of pretensed malice like to Cain Som that are alwayes in a quarrelling vein Som frayes delight and fill the aer with shouts Making a sport of blows and bloody bouts Some train their children up to fight and curs Satan himself could tutor them no wors Some like the Pagan Philistine of Gath Fight Duells out of malice pride and wrath But would refrain had they the least belief And savoury sens of future joy and grief Som pinch and pine poor servants as they pleas Som wound and maim their poor apprentices Som starv the babe at nurs for lack of food Som keep the pledg the poor man's livelihood Som pine poor prisoners for a trifling debt Sharper on malice than on money set Som out of baseness care not if the poor Neighbour or kinsman even starv at door Som Tyrants keener then fierce tygers are Burn spoil and torture in the time of war And often unprovoked or withstood Murther their harmless brethren in cold blood Som hide their whoredoms with far greater sin Even blood of babes their hands are bathed in Som project the untimely death of friends And som by secret poison work their ends Some keen to others children som are known Unnaturally cruel to their own Som by damn'd witchcraft murther those they hâ— Som to that purpose do assassmate Som act it by themselvs and deeply stain Their hands in blood for greediness of gain But most of these foul monsters are design'd To a hard heart and reprobated minde For they that can digest the cries of blood Under sin's anvil have a long time stood Som set their cocks dogs bears and bulls ro fiâ— Baiting poor creatures for their vain delight And som their vain experiments to trie Use the dumb beast with monstrous cruelty Som load and work them dead som pine their tiâ— Som beat them blinde and lame in frantick fits But God that call'd Balaam to account Will also them that him in sin surmount om sin contrarily no less misled â—hat feed vile creatures with the children's bread Not killing kill 's somtimes when Governors â—rill spare the life of wilfull murtherers â—r those that should pursue or prove or finde â—re negligent or partially inclin'd â—nd Cowardise doth often much more so â—etraying numbers to the slaughtering foe â—elf-murther in more measure fill's the scroll â—nd most of all the murther of the soul â—nce meer chance-medly doth at least require Sanctuary end thou fool Hell-fire â—m out of passion rashly wish to die â—spice of this self-murther certainly â—nd wicked Parents Rulers Ministers â—re out of doubt the chiefest murtherers Duties and Trespasses implied in the Seventh Commandment THe Seventh sacred Law which God command's