spare when sin affront's the throne This tolerate's God's wrongs and their own 'T is sin to suffer and much more condemn'd To make their own autoritie contemn'd The Pastors next and elders of the Church Must watch the flock and diligently search Lest heresie discord or presumptuous sin Apostacy or ignorance creep in The publick preaching catechising prayer With constant study is the elders care These also privately Instruct exhort Rebuke admonish comfort and support They must bee prime examples in their place And guide their housholds with especial Grace â—n secret pray'r they must not come behinde For this the flock is to requite in kinde â—ut negligence in watching or in teaching â—rroneous or unprofitable preaching â—earing with such as ought to bee restrain'd â—nd letting Ordinances be profan'd Rash laying on of hands in ordination Without due triall and examination Hard censures Not receiving the weak saint And letting souls for lack of comfort faint To Lord it o're the flock and domineer When the chief shepherd com's will cost men dâ— Next Masters must choos servants with good hâ— And teach them chiefly what their souls do neeâ— Instruct th'Apprentice in his occupation Allowing him all fit accommodation Which must extend unto the sick and lame For then to leav them helpless is a shame Reward their faithfull service that stay long And justly pay them wages without wrong Forbear both wrath and threatning in displeasuâ— Although for crimes they should correct in meaâ— But not to care for servants that are good Letting their souls or bodies lack their food Detaining wages or deserv'd reward Oâ— suffring crimes to pass without regard Whereby iniquitie and vice grow's faster Make 's us obnoxious to our heavenly master And chiefly them that teach their striplings frâ—â— To gain by Vice and do these pranks applaudâ— Conjugal love now for the next place strivâ— And pious choice of husbands and of wives Wherein the age and all should correspond To binde them fitly in the marriage bond Other endowments alwaies giving place To hearty love fine parts and gifts of grace Yet should they stay and never rashly strive For that estate before a means to thrive But more they sin that basely entertain A match unmeet for greediness or gain Marriage contrived for unworthy ends Neither keep 's conscience nor the Consort 's fâ— Both owe dear love and due benevolence And in each other mutual confidence Continual aid and prayer and last of all A solemn mourning at their funeral Bur want of love and therefore to discover The secrecies or failings of each other Dishabitation jealousie and strife Hasty remarriage These shame man and wife Chiefly a taunting tongue and over topping Is like a tempest or continual dropping Duties peculiar to the Husband are Fit maintenance protection honest care Of dowry good exanple honouring her The Wife should bee a living Register Or glass to represent her Husband's worth Hee should instruct her and shee set him forth But if hee should bee of a froward spirit Then must shee win him by peculiar merit Being obedient faithfull meek and chaste Thrifty not spending of his goods in waste Making provision to his best content And let her carriage still bee reverent â—f hee bee virtuous hee deserv's this more However justly shee must use his store But disrespect in him improvidence And bad example breed no small offence And hee that hate's and torture 's his own flesh â—s wors then Canniballs of the wilderness â—ne bitter word is steep'd in too much gall â—nd for a Lover too unnatural Irreverence disobedience peevishness 〈◊〉 sullen carriage prodigal excess â—adding abroad imbezeling his estate â—nd lightness shew's her an unworthy mate Next parents must prevent and bless their seed â—ith godly pray'rs a blessed way to speed Tame them betimes and bow their stubborn will But with great mildness and Compassion still Holy example they must ever give And teach them truly in God's fear to live In fit and honest callings train them up For to som good imployment all must stoop Give them in marriage in convenient time And portions as abilitie can climb The Mother if inabled thereunto Must nurs the new-born babe then Baptism's duâ—â— For blessing whereupon their pray'r must strive To name the child is his prerogative The name should some good document import Not being fantastical in any sort Now bad example and indulgence fond Or in correcting them to go beyond Due moderation Rigorous Tyrannie Is wors then fond familiaritie To train them up in ignorance or sloth Or pamper'd pride more hurtfull than them boâ— And negligence of duties mentioned Make parents guilty and the sons ill bred And wors is the defrauding them of marriage And portion then the children's worst miscarriâ—â—â— To force for gain a match against their minde Is full as irreligious as unkinde Stead-parents next and Guardians must engaâ— To deal as tenderly with tender age Which must not be provok'd in any fashion By cruel dealing sway'd with furious passion But needs must bee allow'd with moderation The sweet encouragement of Recreation And all their education and estate The best they can must Guardians regulate The Tutors too the Schoolmasters likewise And Rulers of the Universities Are all obliged as in parents room To tend this tender offspring of the womb Indeavouring the most delightfull way To train them up in learning day by day Curbing corruption native to the soul For they have best advantage to controul And with compassion in corruption's place Instilling all the principles of grace Preferring them that seem to be design'd As instruments excelling in their kinde But they that dare be careless of their charge Are such as are resolv'd to sin at large As for those Stepdames that oppress with spite And Guardians that betray the children's right Their seed likewise must look for such success And they the vengeance of the fatherless Lastly Superiours not in power and place But gifts of providence nature art and grace These must bee wise grave humble godlie kinde Which get's a great repute in others minde â—or lewdness lightnes and austerity â—iscredit such Superiors shamefully And chiefly pride shame's them in every place And make's them guiltie of their own disgrace Wit wealth and learning birth and parentage Married estate and reverend hoary age â—hould make men in example so to shine â—s having others under discipline Now equalls next must equally affect â—llowing each to other due respect Walking in love and sweet societie â—nd each preferring other Courteously But now disdain ambition envy pride â—nd treachery a kinde of parricide â—eglect of mutual pray'r behaviour rude â—re here condemn'd and all ingratitude For love respect and pray'r and friendly aid Are duties upon all relations laid Though friends and families and the near a kin Are most engaged and concern'd herein The last though not the least of requisites Is due performance of the funeral rites A good report moreover of the dead Whose lives and labors have so merited
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 to
tongues or ignorance And slubbering over any Ordinance For all irreverence in the things of heaven Argue's a heart that is profanely given This mightily condemn's the careless minde That move's the lip and leave 's the heart behinde That heedless is of what wee execute In prayer mindeless and psalm-singing mute Entring on duty with a heart unbent And unprepar'd receiving Sacrament Beeing at Baptism as a bare spectator No whit regarding the baptismal water Unreverent posture when they go to pray As if wee serv'd an image made of clay Sleepy and lazy prayers in our bed Unless by weakenss so occasioned Creeds Avemaries and I know not what Jabbled for prayers like the parrot's chat Yea and our Lord 's own words to idolize As if the bare rehearsal did suffice Jeering the Saints for their religion's sake All these for hainous profanations take Hearing without affection to apply Feeding our ears but not our hearts thereby Ore-curious questions wilfull cavillation Unreverent gesture or misapplication Entring the Church and starting out again When there are holy things to entertain Going to sit and sleep to muse and gaze To state on Beauty or where pomp doth blaze To keep our heart or eye without a curb And to do any thing that will disturb And lastly with a wicked life to stain A good profession take's God's name in vain Duties and Trespasses implied in the Fourth Commandment THe Fourth require's a seventh of all our dayes Spent in religion for our Maker's prais Preparing still against each Sabbath day Then rising early and avoid delay The chief are publick duties singing Psalms Pray'rs sermons sacraments and giving alms In private also wee must read and pray Discours sing Psalms and meditate that day Repeat the holy lessons wee have heard Nor may the works of mercy be defer'd Wee may do needfull works of earthly kinde Yet should wee do them with more heavenly minde Seasoning our corporal food with spiritual salt And all that edifie's wee should exalt At baptism wee must minde the bath of blood And spirit of grace pour'd on us as a flood Praying for him or her that is baptis'd That they with us may bee Spiritualliz'd Receiving Sacraments with hearts prepar'd With faith and charity and great regard Noting the breaking of the Corps-like bread The wine pour'd out as Christ his blood was shed Remembring he was God that could foretell By apt resemblance what himself befell The giving taking and to taste and feed Are all to be appli'd with carefull heed The Parent master and the magistrate Must look to all that are within their gate But these offences every one of them The fourth Commandement doth much condemâ— Not to confess or not to understand The moral nature of the fourth Command Not to prefer redemption to creätion As caus sufficient of the day's translation Forgetfulness of Sabbaths when they com Or out of slothfulness to stay at home Preferring duties don in private sort Before the place where all the Church resort Neglect of preparation meer delay Wearie attendance haste to get away Leaving of holie things som part behinde And suffering loos distractions in our mind A heart that run's a tongue that talk's in vain Of worldly toyes and following lures of gain To lay instruction or good things aside Neglecting to becom our families guide To be employ'd in errands trim attires Or labors which a common day require's Say that on Sabbaths need should chance enforâ— The hasty buâ—ial of a noysome cors Yet can it not compel in any wise To keep the funeral solemnities To ring and riot il become's a hers Much less when men should Christianly convers To crowd the Corpses in the Church that day Argue's the buriers are as dead as they Preambulations chattings or pastimes Feasts journyes visits or som lewder crimes As diceing carding Som are lewder yet Hurrying men headlong to the dreadfull pit As Stews and Stage-playes every day abhor'd But much more on the Sabbath of the LORD And lastly suffering sinners to profane The holy Sabbath when wee might restrain Although som sin by scrupulositie Pining poor creatures under miserie When sudden sickness or extreme distress Call's for a speedy succour and redress As when indeed wee cannot com or stay Our will 's accepted any hour o th' day For this rule hold's in Sabbath-exercise God will have Mercy and not Sacrifice Duties and Trespasses implied in the Fift Commandment HEre are the Duties and Digressions touch'd Which in the fift Commandement are couch'd First then the powers Supreme must first of all Bee sure they have a right and lawfull call Good wholsom Lawes they must by counsel frame â—nferior Powers must execute the same Unrighteous Lawes Superiors must repeal And set in order Chuch and Common-weal Even Kings and Princes daily should convers With sacred Scriptures and those rules rehers â—nd in their proper persons most excell 〈◊〉 godliness and guide their Housholds well Brave men they must promote of able parts Incourage virtue and reward deserts Judges they must appoint and officers And stir up able teaching Ministers Giving them charge that with alacrity They do their several duties faithfully Who they that prove corrupt and vile must bee Remov'd and censur'd by severe decree The Judges must give light to every cause Respect no persons but regard the laws They must maintain true freedom faithfully Propertie peace and civil honestie But most of all Religion that must have A sure defens against each storm and wave And thus far doubtless should compulsion go To cause to practise what men clearly know Wherefore the Christian magistracie ought Take care that people may bee truly taught And for that teaching caus them to maintain A learned Ministry to take the pain They are obliged allwaies to suppress Strife whoredom drunkenness and Idleness Profaneness conjuring witchcraft blasphemie Idolatry Heresie vain astrologie And all iniquitie since both tables are Committed to their custody and care All publick persons that are put in trust Must bee religious wise couragious just Patient to hear and hating covetousness Give good example and good Counsel press With Justice Equitie must go along Els utmost right may prove extreamest wrong Especially when as the innocent Among the guilty suffer punishment This care concern's likewise the Jurie-men And Officers and every one of them Umpires and Abitrators are no less Oblig'd to Equitie and righteousness But usurpation of the throne one hour Or putting vicious men in place of power Rigor remisness partiality Taking of bribes exaction tyrannie And toleration of those evil things The Lord's sure wrath upon the Rulers bring 's If Magistrates encourage not the Word And godly people by the civil sword If they reliev not the oppress'd with speed And let not flie against an evill deed If they will act no more then for their friends Or for their interests and worldly ends If they be cold or take an evil cours They hearten sinners and themselvs sin wors 'T is sin to