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Man's monitor, or, The free-school of virtue; holding forth the duties required and sins forbidden in the two tables of the law. In easie English vers [sic]. Fit to bee implanted in the memories of all Christian children. / By W. Barton preacher of God's word at North-winfield in Darby-shire.
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Barton, William
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MAN'S MONITOR OR The Free-school of VIRTUE Holding forth the Duties required and Sins forbidden in the two Tables of the LAW In easie ENGLISH VERS Fit to bee implanted in the memories of all Christian Children By W. BARTON Preacher of God's Word at North-winfield in Darby-shire PROV 22.6 Train up a child in the way that hee should go and when hee is old hee will not depart from it Ovid. Adde quod ingenuas didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores nec sinit esse feros LONDON Printed by W. D. for T. Underhill and are to bee sold at the Blue Anchor in Pau'ls Church-yard 1655. THe Author of this little Book was formerly 〈◊〉 Preacher in this City well known and much esteemed by his godly brethren in the Ministry Hee hath put forth a New Translation of the Psalms which first and last hath obtained the publick Approbationâ— and attest of four or five-score eminent Ministers in the City and Country For my part I do heartily wish that the dâ—fects of the Old Psalm-book were now laied to heart aâ— that so good a Translation as this Author's might bee unâ—versally received in the room of it The design of the eâ—suing Book is to set down in Vers not only the duties that 〈◊〉 required but also the Vices which are forbidden in the Teâ— Commandements Which thing hee hath so well peâ—formed that hee hath manifested himself both a gâ—â— Poët and a good Divine I commend this together with Psalm-book to your perusall and rest Your servant in the work of the Ministry Edm. Calamy Sep. 27. 1655. THE DEDICATION LOrd I present thee on my bended knee With that choice vow which I have vow'd to thee The prais is thine who gav'st the power to mee At first methoughts I saw what craggy rocks Were in my way what Labyrinths and locks What shadie woods what mighty bars and blocks But Jacob 's Ladder standing still upright The clue of Scriptures and thy sunbeams bright Made easie all and open in thy sight But Lord is this the champion am I com To view a vast a vast and dreadfull sum Of sin contracted from my Mother's womb So huge an Army marshal'd in array Against a sinner sure must needs dismay For plainly sin portend's a judgment day What wilt thou bate mee Lord of this large scroll I ask in vain unless I ask the whole Since one unpardon'd sin will slay the soul If one condemned a whole world of men One sin I say at first how much more then Shall a whole world of sin one man condemn I thank my God through Jesus Christ my Lord That us to Pardon freely can afford To take my sins clean off clean of record This Lamb of God took worlds of sins away And surely hee was God that would defray So vast a debt so rich a ransom pay Doubtless God would without a Mediator Forgive our debt and heal our sinfull nature Rather than give that glory to a creature God was in Christ to reconcile mankinde He might leav trials but no curs behinde Only men out of Christ no comfort finde Yet still to griev my God I also griev Faith work 's by fruits O let mee thus believ And labor all good actions to atchiev This gild's again thy grace to thine Elect Who can fulfil the Law in no respect Yet God accept's and pardon 's our defect O let mee still upon my pardon look And bee the first to practise this my book Sharpning the spur but shunning bait and hook O let my labors in exactest vers The ample praises of my God rehers And fit all customers with rich commerce Then should I vow another vow as free Of all my Incom a full tenth to thee And this my Will and Testament should bee The APOLOGIE To the Reverend and Religious Schoolmasters of the English Nation WHat Scholar in the world most learned Sirs Ow's not great honors to his Schoolmasters And which of all the children that wee breed To your Instructions give 's not greatest heed And what instructions can you give so great As the Religious letters you repeat And what more likely to bee helpfull for The rivetting of them than this Monitor Which that it may both profit much and pleas Is interlac'd with various sentences That once read over leav's som print behinde And got by heart will never out of minde But bee a sure remembrancer within To help on virtue and to hinder sin And here or there doth comprehend or hint More points then usually are put in Print The Creed alone for knowledge yield's a Sea Fit to rais questions on extempore An instrument that may not well bee miss'd Or by the Scholar or the Catechist Let none object 't is hard to understand You are the sure Interpreters at hand Besides it harp's on scriptures that will show And if not now they shall hereafter know Let none object and say it is too light God's graver servants have brought in more slight By cock a pie and Mous-foot Dent bring 's in Examples to express forbidden Sin The Reverend Bishop Vsher instanceth How some are guilty of untimely death Hee talk's of narrow stairs built to som Room And children smother'd in their mother's womb By cloathing dancing or som such disquiet Or by misgovern'd and unwholsom diet Besides the fault 's not ours these sins to name Let the Committers of them bear the blame What if the watchman name the boggs and dirt The passengers should shun can this do hurt Conscience of sin may make a sin withstood And by God's blessing do a world of good Som never know what sins and duties are Unless wee name them in particular Let none object wee oft tautologize And yet no perfect catalogue comprize Or that wee are far too prolix and large For answer to the first part of the charge Our work admit's of augmentation still Let him that find's a hole thrust in his quill As for exuberance it is no sore And som sins do not break one law but more And som the oftner inculcation need That by more warning men may take more heed Happy the Christian that hath that or this Alwayes to check him when hee doth amiss Nor let them say it is too flat and plain Why should it bee a monitor in vain Nor blame's it any man unless hee err If guilty 't is a good remembrancer If haughty youth or froward age shall spit At these Monitions childhood will submit To these direct your speech as I my pen And by God's blessing wee shall build up men The PREPARATORY To the Young SCHOLAR at School MY little Child chief of thy Parent 's Goods That grow'st among the tender plants and buds Hearken to mee that act a Parent 's part To discipline thee with Diviner Art Mark how I lead thee quite beyond the Schools To prove a man and practice all my Rules FIrst Read this Monitor then get by heart And oft rehers it as thou dost thy part Then hearken 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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