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A18048	Christ his last vvill, and Iohn his legacy In a sermon preached at Clare in Suffolke, by Bezaleel Carter preacher of the word of God at Canham neere to Saint Edmunds Bury.; Christ his last will, and John his legacy.	Carter, Bezaleel, d. 1629.	1621 (1621)	STC 4692; ESTC S117382	37,432	99

not also Magistrates to that end armed with the sword of authority and power as in the wildernesse one beast preys vpon another as in the Sea one fish deuoureth another so one man would oppresse and as the Apostle Gal. 5. 15. sayth byte and deuoure another It is the duty of all and euery one in the congregatihn to call vpon such as they haue seene baptised to heare sermons c. It is the duty of all to teach and instruct such as soone as they shal find them capable but because as I sayd no man regards that which is committed to euery mans charge it is a laudable and commendable order in our Church that certaine men and women which we call godfathers godmothers are appointed that personally and particularly promise to see them taught the Creed the Lords prayer and the ten commandements Particular commāds do more moue then general Sed haec hactenus The onely point that I intend to insist vpon is this That children ought Doctrine not onely to be obedient to their parents as Christ was of whom it is sayd Luke the second That hee went downe with them Children must relieue their parents and came to Nazareth and was subiect to them but also if need require they ought to supply their parents wants and necessities so long as God shall giue them life Miraedum quidem exemplum and as Christ did for his mother prouide for them also after their departure if it please God that their parents out liue them So did our blessed Sauior that prouided for his mother in this life and was not regardlesse of her at the houre of his death And to say truth the relieuing of our parents wants it is a part of that honour due to our parents and required in the fifth commandement Honouring of parents implyes maintenance as well as reuerence for our Sauiour expounds it contrary to the Doctrine of the Scribes and Pharises Math. 16. 6. Marke 7. 10. The doctrine that they broached amongst the people was this viz. that it was a matter of greater necessity to fill their bagges and cram their wallets to enrich their treasury and temple then for men to relieue their blinde lame and aged parents yea and withall taught them how to answer their parents crauing ayd succour at their hands to say to them it is corban that is as much as to say that they had distributed to pious and charitable vses and therefore had fulfilled the commandement of God though they saw and suffered their parents to perish through neede and pouerty And thus saith Christ to satisfie your owne auarice in stead of Gods commandements you teach your owne traditions and constitutions Gods commandements cryes it in your eares honor that is loue reuerence obey relieue your parents but you thinke if you can say it is corban that it is a gift that there is no more required at your hands so make the commandement of God of none effect By which exposition it appeares that all such as relieue not their parēts wants are breakers of the fifth commandement And thus also the word honour is often vsed in other places as Honour the king 1. Pet. 2. 14. Which precept not onely enioynes to loue and to obey our Princes but pay them such customes and tributes as are necessary for the maintenance of their honor The same Apostle fayth Honour your wiues as the weaker vessels 1. Pet. 36. That is not onely beare with their fraylties and weakenesse but furnish them also with all things needfull and necessary for their place and callings It was Pauls iniunction honour that is respect relieue reuerence widdowes that are widdowes indeed By all which Scriptures it appeareth that when God fayth Honour thy father and mother he intends amongst other dutyes that children should to their vtmost power sustaine relieue the wants of father and mother Ioseph deserues high commendation for the care hee had to discharge his duty in this kinde for hee did not onely send for his father and kept him in a time of famine Genesis the forty seuenth Nay it is sayd in the 12. ver of that chapter that hee put meate into his fathers mouth Senex bis puer all men are children twise proue as troublesome in extreme age as in their tender infancy they must be clothed vnclothed by others fed by others led by others supported it may be carryed vpon others shoulders in a word Multa sen em circumueniunt incommeda Horace they are in old age as troublesome as chargable But neither of both these dismaied Ioseph but notwithstanding he sent for his father put meat into his mouth a metaphor as I thinke drawne from mothers and nurses which put meate into the infants mouthes vnable to feede themselues Proofes might be multiplyed suffise vs to confirme this doctrine with two or three reasons Reasons First the law of nature requires it Valerius Val. Max. c. 4. Maximus sayth that it is prima lex naturae the very first law of nature for children to relieue their parents Paul sayth It is a iust thing and a right Nature teacheth Eph. 6. 1. to dogood to them that haue done good to vs. Pharaohs Butler confessed it a Gen. 41. 9. fault that he had receiued kindnesse from Ioseph and had not requited it Christ saith If you loue them that loue you and doe good to them that doe good to you doe not the Publicans and harlots doe the same Proclus the Academicke Gall. Acad. was wont to say that a father was the true image of the great and soueraigne God and that all children next vnder God hold life goods and all they haue of their parents It is an heathenish and sauage course nay worse then Paganish for children to haue riches and wealth and want nothing of all that our soules can desire and yet suffer I say not their brethren sisters but their owne parents that begat bare comforted them to be pinched and pined away through necessity and want and surely the Publicans and Pagans Turkes and Tartars shall rise vp in iudgement against such We reade of Antigonus the sonne of Demetrius that when his father was prisoner to Seleucus that hee notwithstanding his fathers charge to the contrary sold away his townes lands iewels to pay his fathers ransome nay offered to become pledge and prisoner in his roome to procure his fathers liberty And Valerius Maximus of whom I Val. Max. li. 5. spake before alledges another example so memorable that I haue read it at the least in tenne seuerall Authors of a daughter that gaue sucke to her father in prison beeing condemned to dye by famine which when the Iaylor had espyed and published abroade and the Magistrates heard of they so well approoued the fact that they pardonned her father and restored him to liberty Euen these Pagans shall come and rise vp in iudgement against vs that are

called Christians and condemne vs. Nay the dumbe and vnreasonable creatures shall rise vp in iudgment against the men of this generation It is written of the Storkes that they will feede their Sires and carry them about vpon their backes when through age they are vnable to feede themselues or flye How are they worse then Paganish then bestiall that neglect this seruice Secondly consider we the law of nations The ●●eason Zenophon reports of a Law that was amongst Zenophon de dict the men of Athens that if a man were knowne to haue denyed succour to his parents in the time of their want that such an one if hee fell into want should not be succoured no though he dyed through want To which law also I might adde the lawes of other nations it shall suffise to rehearse the words of a learned Expositor vpon the fifteenth of Mathew Musc De legislatore quodā scribitur It is written sayth he of a famous Lawgiuer which enacted many good statutes for repressing many vices and yet enacted no law at all to punish such as should murther father and mother and being demanded his reason he answered because he supposed there was no such execrable and detestable villany to bee found vpon earth that any should be so diuellishly impious as to depriue them of life from whom they had receiued life But those times were golden times and those that liued then are dead now in whose rooms are started vp an vnnaturall brood of patricide some such as haue layed violent hands vpon and shed their parents blood but multitudes of such are as carelesse to relieue their parents wants and if the axiome be true Si non pauisti occidisti these are murtherers yea patricides The vses of this point are diuers First it makes against the Romanists Vse 1 that haue many and diuers wayes sinned against this doctrine and made Gods cōmandement of none effect to maintayne their owne traditions they say that a monasticall kinde of life is an heauenly and angelicall kinde of life so much to be honoured that children proculcatis parentibus euen trampling their parents vnder their feete ought to runne into monasteryes they say that children being once admitted into that order ought to despise father and mother they say that they ought to despise them so farre as not to be present with them vpon their sicke no not vpon their death beds they say that children by their prayers dyrges Masses may profite their dead parents and by these and the like doctrines make childten to east off all care of parents sinke they swim they either they suppose they are not bound to care for them or else they are of opinion that it shall suffise to care for the good of their soules after they are departed this life Secondly this doctrine reproues those that eythet relieue not their parents at all or else doe it after such a niggardly and repining manner that a man shall neuer come where their parents are but he shall heare them cry out like Rebecca that they are weary of their liues or like Ionah it is better for them to dye then to liue the Ezek. 22. 7. world swarmes with such men as Ezekiel speakes of and reprooues such as set light by father and mother such as will as soon condiscend to relieue a vagrant rogue by the high ways side as their owe father mother Now euen now are the dayes come which Paul foretold of in which 2 Tim. 3. 2. men should be vnnaturall vnthankefull The teares that I haue seene trickling downe the cheekes of aged parents and the neglect which I haue seene amongst vngratefull children doe euen force mee and compell me to speake yea and if I feare to speake in so right and iust a cause as this let my right hand rot and my tong cleaue to my iawes Thou vnthankeful vnnatural Impe that wilt not feed thē that haue fed thee nor cloth thē that haue clothed thee how canst thou loue God that thou hast not seen when thou louest not thine owne brother that thou hast seene nay not thine owne father and mother how vnlike art thou to Iesus Christ that cared for and prouided for his mother Yet saith Bellar. was not he so much Christus autē minus de●●●t parentibus suis quam celeri homines suis parentibus debent Bell. de 7. verb. bound to his as thou to thy mother doe thou what thou canst for thy blood thou canst neuer requite the feares cares costs of thy parents ●mo vero sayth the forenanamed author debes tu vitam parentibus thou owest them thy life thy blood Honour thy father quoth Salomon doe it Eccl 7. 27. with thine whole heart see thou forget not thy mothers sorrowes for thou canst neuer recompence what they haue done for thee Christ onely did for hee onely Bellarm. could requite his mother Accepit vnam vitam he tooke but one life viz. his humane life of the virgin his mother but for that one he gaue her three liues Vitam humanam an humane life Vitam gratiae the life of grace Vitam gloriae the life of glory First hee gaue her a humane life when together with the Father and the holy Ghost he created her for hee made all things and without him was made nothing that was made Secondly he gaue her that life of grace in that he quickned and regenerated her by his spirit Thirdly he gaue vnto her also the life of glory in that he dyed for and shed his precious blood for her to the intent that she might not perish but haue life eternal Thus our Sauiour had requited his mother 3. for one but as Salomon sayth thou canst not requite thy parents Christ had done it and more then done it already yet behold hee still cared for his mother thou hast nor canst not requite them and yet leauest them to the wide world to hunger to thirst to cold to nakednesse to sinke to swimme to goe forward to goe backeward Oh how vnlike art thou to Iesus Christ in this in the feare of God let vs learne hereafter by this patterne of patternes to make conscience of this duty Thirdly and lastly this that hath been sayd taxes such children as are so far from Vse 3 relieuing their parents that they rise vp in open hostility against thē oppresse them contend with them and are ready to take occasion by the slenderest hayre to pull them out of house and home Such a beast was Absolom would God there were not thousands such Absoloms amongst vs that had a long time complotted and at the last attempted to depose and dispossesse his owne father but God hung him vp for a spectacle betweene heauen and earth in his owne lockes to the terror of all such gracelesse miscreants God of his mercy grant that this one man hung vp as it were in chaynes may be a terror to others that blend in the same sinne And