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A66998	A light to grammar, and all other arts and sciences. Or, the rule of practise proceeding by the clue of nature, and conduct of right reason so opening the doore thereunto. The first part concerning grammar, the preparatories thereto; rules of practice through the same; clearing the method all along.	Woodward, Ezekias, 1590-1675.	1641 (1641)	Wing W3497; ESTC R215934	117,637	295

house In they went to the Parlour the servant into the Cellar when they were to returne there was no man he was gone they found a Beast in his roome for he was not his owne man he could not be theirs being swallowed up of Wine and strong drinke Doe wee wonder now no sure It were a wonder if it be not so a wonder if they are not as plague soares in a house firebrands there For the servant went in with his Lord and Lady to the great mans house and there hee sate by it till he could not well stand But so he doth not doe when he goes to Gods house if he goes in he goes out presently or suppose he stayes there the polluted himself even then or a lirde before in the Cellar we spake of and now if wee finde him at Church you find him asleepe there Now he that hath an eare let him heare or an hand let him come unto helpe or bowels let him make lamentations And for us Governors high and low rich and poore all fall foule here are our complaints right can wee expect a reasonable service from unreasonable men Tit. 1. 12. Can wee looke that these Cretians should serve their Masters who rebell against their great Master in Heaven Can wee hope that they should bee within command and walke according to rule who come not within the verge of the Spirits walke That they should bee wetted with the drops of Heavens raine who came not to the place where the heavenly dew fell or if they come then place and service to be performed there then the horse hath which hee drives Remember this and shew we our selves men bring it to mind ô we transgressors And pity soules our owne and theirs committed to our charge Shall our servants be at a losse for serving us or can we recompence to them that losse with the greatest wages Wee must we must wee are bound to it being sworne servants to our great Master we must looke to our selves first wee must governe our owne house walking exactly there and then a vile person will be contemned and hee that hath spued so often there shall bee spued out A well governed man a good Governour who answers his name can no more endure such a carcasse in his house then the Sea can a dead corps it is not quient till it worke the dead out This is of infinite concernment let us consider better of it Can wee thinke hee can give us a reasonable service who swallowes Wine and strong drinke till hee bee swallowed up of the same That hee can bee faithfull to man who robbes God of His Day and of His service every day That he should walke in a way of obedience towards his Master on earth who carrieth himselfe presumptuously in a way of rebellion against his Master in Heaven To thinke thus is not to consult with Reason Wee must then according to our patterne * Psal 101. and rule keepe Sessions in our owne hearts and families every day so ordering our selves and them as those that walke under that engagement and bond of duty if wee looke that Children and servants shall walke decently and in order Wee must sanctifie our selves and ours as wee heard and then present our selves and them before Him who is all to us doth all for us wee must sanctifie our selves to day if wee looke for great things to morrow And so I have prepared the way to Church which was as much as I intended and if it bee done it is enough and it may prepare the way to our Conclusion CHAP. X. A childe must not escape for his fault A discreet Master that can judge thereof alwayes and correct it thereafter Sloth how corrupting Diligence must be both in the Teacher and the Learner What way must bee taken to make them both sit the one to give the other to receave Instruction IN very good time now we have 1 Part pag. 90. sect 13. read our Lecture and done with our lessons a we will keep Sessions but in our own Court We will take the child to task for his negligence I said well negligence Let the Master look to him and the Parent by all meanes he must not scape for his negligence nor for his wilfulnesse neither But the Master must be carefull and the Parent also very circumspect must they both be that they may discerne well that we spake of from weaknesse from frailty of nature and invincible ignorance A very hard matter it is to goe even there turning no where neither to the right hand nor to the left The Master had need to carry his understanding alwaies in his hand so the wisest Master cannot alwayes doe he must doe what he can that would punish a child alwayes for his fault A fault it is not to misse again and again and yet a third time nay a fourth as the child may be taught for he may be in a Maze and no clue in his hand to lead him out I am perswaded in my conscience That if justice were done at this petty point so it is adjudged to be but it is no small point the Master might suffer thrice for the childs once for either he informes not the childe at all or if he doe it is the wrong way and by the wrong end or if any way then be knocks him first his hand going before his tongue or if together which should never be the hand is the quicker a great wrong to the weake child Certainly we should doe at this point as the Judge of all the world doth and He doth right For speaking after the manner of men and to instruct our ignorance He came down to see first whether the sins were according to the cry A gracious God! and then if after long patience He will thunder in His judgements as certainly He will yet behold Grace still Hee will lighten first He will give warning that certainly the clap is comming He did so if we marke the Context even to those Cities I made reference to But wee looke too high at so low a point this is too high for us No I remember Chrysostome a In Gen. 18. 21. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. saith This concerns all even every Mothers child we must all hearken to this and doe thereafter Indeed it concerns men in Judicature more specially that they proceed leisurely not like that speedy Judge b Primunt ligant deinde cousas in eam quaerunt Lid-ford Law B. Lue Art 13. P. 48● Ireade of in Bishop Iuell who hanged ● man in the fore-noone and sate upon him examining his fact in the after-noon That other but an hasty Judge too for so learned Fortescue c Commend of the Lawes o● Engl. Chap. 53. cals him did better then so for he proceeded Secuudum allegata probata and so condemned the wife for killing her husband and she was burnt for it but some months after the man servant

The Lord Christ said of her She is not dead a Mat. 9. 24. The standers by laughed him to scorne the words of Christ are to the wisest of the World still foolishnesse and they knew what they did well enough for saith Saint Luke b Luk. 8. 53. They knew she was dead What dead and not dead Yes and yet a truth in both She was dead to Nature and Nature was Judge now they knew it to be so being naturall men altogether they said true enough though they should not have laughed him to scorne Our Lords words are true also nay Truth it selfe and Spirit too She is not dead not dead to Christ who is the resurrection and the life the body is not dead to Him When He shall say to the Prisoners Goe forth to them that are in darknesse Shew your selves then presently shall the prey bee taken from the mighty and the lawfull Captive delivered from the King of Terrours It is no labour to Christ if He speaks only the Land and the Sea shall give up their dead Death shall be swallowed up in victory It shall bee then when the Lord Christ shall speake as wee know and it is worth our knowledge once it was And the Lord spake unto the fish and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land We will take these sacted Scriptures along with us and the sent of them which is wonderfull reviving Now we may suppose we are going by these dark Chambers where our beds are also and wee may bee laid thereon wee know not how soone Wee must not forget any of this And so we are come to our home where we should be most versed I meane that great singular before spoke of over that I shall by Gods grace reade the next Lecture CHAP. IV. Mans body a curious Fabrick but fallen much into decay and by ill usage more decayes every day yet as now it is venerable In what considerations to bee cherished and had in honour In what cases to be neglected and despised THere is an itching humour in many to gad rome abroad like the Pilgrim in other Countries In the meane time they care not though known to be stark blinde in their own Thus it is also nearer home we are most strangers there though the best lesson in the world is for a man well to reade himselfe That is an excellent book and much variety therein I shall but dip my pen in it here and there so as I may not doe what is already done a Childs Portion Chap. 1. I remember some have likened the great men of the world to the first letter of a Patent or limmed book which though it hath large flourishings yet it is but a letter That is true and hath its use But we think we may say That man even at the lowest is more then a letter though we may suppose it to be of the most spreading and largest size hee is indeed a whole volume and so many letters so many lessons I had almost said wonders for so have some said before me who have glossed upon them and running over the whole Table have left us many good instructions which at leasure wee may gleane up by the way g Zanch. de hom creat 1. 2. p. 680. D. Bartas p. 158. Caussin p. 504. Cic. denat Deil. 2. P. 101. Lact. de Opif. ca. 7. c. Fab. Thet. P. 216. Naz. Orat 34. Amb. Heic 1. 6. cap. 8. For thy present use look childe upon thy selfe from the top to the bottome look inward too if thou canst the Anatomist will teach thee spell every letter and then put all together and thou must needs say All is wonderfull how curiously framed am I And then so low a thought as this cannot finde place in thee That so Lord-like a creature such a curious piece of workmanship should be framed for low and base work the service of ones selfe of men b 1 Ccr. 7. 23. of the world the lusts of these or any of these no ever the more noble the thing is the more excellent its imployment whereto it is designed if the sunffers be of gold it doth imply some honourable service It is good in some cases that man should know his dignity his house his pedegree being the off-spring of God that his deportment may be answerable with honour and majesty The Father hath a full Bonum habes pi●●orem no●i dep●e picturam Ambr. speech we will give the full purpose of it Thou hast O man a perfect Artist He hath curiously framed or limmed thee excellently ingraven thee Hee hath made thee the very Image picture of Himself He hath drawne thee according to that pattern as near as could be Now learn thy duty deale reverently with thy picture doe not defile it nor debase it but looking upon the Ingravery workmanship the superscription thereon give unto God that which is Gods answerably honouring thy body as the work of His hands who is wonderfull in working How reasonable a request is this How many creatures they say so many tongues in in the world all setting forth the praise of the Creator so it should be in the great world and in the little world too so many members so many tongues all to joyne in that great service of praise which is the uncessant work of the spirits of just men glorified In every creature the Lord doth sparkle out unto us love said a great Divine b Ochinus So hath He done in every member of the body love bounty mercy and upon all the superscription is Holinesse to the Lord. We have a world of matter here for it is a little world wee are upon but thus I have abridged it He that would heare a full Lecture upon this subject let him reade our second Reinolds c Chap. 35. Had I been Scholasticall at this point and shewed a little of a little Learning I mean I had shewed my selfe altogether and neglected the childe But my scope is his information and to make my words so many hints thereby to gain upon his understanding which is indeed perfected by the worthiest contemplations but enabled thereto by the lowest enquiry In this method we passe on a little further Thou hast child heard the best touching thy body what it was once what it should be now in its proper use and after its primitive Dedication The worst is in sight wee cannot be mistaken for we can see and feele both how weak and fraile the body is so sensible are we Nay thou canst see that little infant before thee what a body is there how underlayed and underpropt what cares about it how necessary all if not inordinate for how infirme and helplesse is that little thing a Quint. Caducum circa initia animal homus c. Declam 306. But he will outgrow his infirmity No never no more then Mephibosheth did his lamenesse which he caught by a fall in the cradle of his

how he liked it which his friend did then told him It was no bad wine At which words Est illnd haud malum pene cum indigna●ione c. Cama vita Mes p. 62. Melancton was very angry in him passion quickly to shewed it selfe but hee was more quick to shew his command over it S. said he Good wine must have better commendations then so you should have said It is very good And now it is very easie to apply And I hope from henceforward the child will say Dry bread is good and hard cheese and meate very good though there be no other sawce but what he carrieth with him in the tip of his tongue 6. One thing more while I think of it for I am in such a throng that I cannot get out He that hath all good from Gods hands wee will conclude him to be a mercifull man a man that doth much good to others What hath God bestowed richly upon any man hath hee filled his hand and his mouth and his coffers and his barns with good things And is this man a niggard is he close handed like a fountaine sealed up doth he no good with all this good The childe will cry shame upon him For he hath concluded that such a mans practise is against the voyce of the Creatures and the Law of heaven The childe shall heare again his example which is so fresh being mentioned but now Melancton had plenty as he called plenty a house full of good things and see how good he was to every one that needed It is observed of him that he never denied a poore mans request if he spake supplications then did Melanotons lips and fingers ends drop mercy like the first drops from a full hony-combe that is the sweetest a Me quod per se fluit maxine lauda lie Plin. lib. 11. c. 15. Vxor liberi c. Cam. vit Mel. p. 38. Nay this is reported of him too He gave almes his wife gave almes and by allowance from both so did the children and servants also Now it was as it should be He by Gods favour had many good things he did good to many nay to all or such was his desire and Vniversos inquit cupio i old p. 41. this is our duty Now we have given the Creatures their due man his due we will labour to give God His due also for by this time the child seeth better how he stands engaged God hath given all these as servants to man all minister to him nay the Angels also for so I should have said how should this engage his heart to serve his Lord what all for him poore little creature there is not such adiminutive in the world For the Nations are but as a drop of the bucket or small dust of the ballance b Esay 40. 15. What is man then who beares out himselfe So little comparatively that you cannot see him for he is nothing For this nothing hath God created all things even to serve this little little Master whom they call Lord and they say well But this doth wonderfully engage to duty Hath God so honoured him The Sun for him Moone for him Ayre for him c. for so I should goe over all All for him how reasonable a thing is it that he should be all for his God that he should serve Him feare Him so it should be nay so it must be if man looks that the creatures should serve him He must serve his Lord else very likely the Creatures will rebell and rise up against their Lord they will obey and awe him while hee keeps himselfe as an obedient servant to his great Master for so we know the Viper the Lyon the fire did those hurtfull those devouring Creatures But if this Man be a Rebell against his God the weakest and most contemptible creatures may doe as they have done rise up against man and he shall fall before them because hee is fallen from the service of his God For thus it hath been A gnat a flie an haire a crum have choked him frogges mice have annoyed him toads rats have eat him up so have lice also so weake a Childs Patrimony Preface p. 41. thing is man when he forsakes the God of his strength the rock of his salvation Man must serve his Creator no doubt of that so he doth I hope for who doth not serve God I am perswaded nay no matter what I am perswaded of we know That the Heathen did serve God they glorified Him too The sacred Writ gives cleare intimation hereof They knew God and they glorified Him but here they fell short as we doe by thousands in the manner and that is all in Gods service They glorisied Him but not as God That but Rom. 1. 21. and not as corrupted all their service so now we must have a reasonable service such a service as reason tells us is suitable to God our Master in heaven Who created all things to serve His Glory as the chiese end and man in subordination thereto we must serve Him as God That service which will passe as currant money betwixt me and my Governor yet I will addresse my selfe with care and reverence in my service before him will bee too light in the ballance when wee come before God Bringest thou such a service to Mee Goe offer it to thy Governor who hath his breath in his nostrils as thou hast see whether he will accept of thy person or thy service for blinde and lame it is and if he will not a man as thou art then venture not to come before Me with such a service for in My hand is thy breath and all thy wayes I am God as a God I must be served and then thou glorifiest mee Wee have this more then intimated in the first of Malachi Ve●se 8. I have often thought of the Text and this I will say There is not any in all the sacred Writ which hath a better edge or sharper point to pierce the side of him or her so to awaken them when they are addressing themselves in their service before God we must serve Him as God not as we serve our Governour wee leave the waight of this service upon that Chapter and the first to the Ramanes verse 21. All the Creatures serve man he must serve God but as God as the great Monarch our Master in Heaven King of Kings and Lord of Lords In that manner man must serve God as God 2. He must be thankfull to Him also Hath he all things to use Is his Lord so bountifull to him doth he provide for his necessity for his delight also this moved a Heathen c Vsque ad de●●●ias amamur S. n. le Benef. lib. ● L●p 5. Man must be thankfull and chearfull in thanksgiving for so it is expected else hee may reade what followes d Deut. 28. 47 48. I debated upon this large Theame in a fitting place I