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A02039	The tree of good and euill: or A profitable and familiar exposition of the Commandements directing vs in the whole course of our life, according to the rule of Gods Word, whereby we must bee iudged at the last day. By Thomss [sic] Granger preacher of Gods Word.	Granger, Thomas, b. 1578.	1616 (1616)	STC 12185; ESTC S117974	29,110	94

Rom. 12. 10. Eph. 5. 21. 1. King 2. 19. Gen 43. 33. Luke 14. 7. 8. 9. 1. Pet. 5. 5. Sixthly to giue the Elder the first place of speaking Iob 32. 6. 7. ver 16. 17. Seuenthly to giue them their right and titles according to their place 1. Pet. 3. 6. 1. Sam. 1. 14. 1. King 1. 24. Eighthly to obey their lawfull Commandements Rom. 13. 1. Actes 5. 29. Ninthly to honour and obey them according to their Calling and Office for conscience sake not for ciuility and manners sake Rom. 13. 5. Vices of Superiours forbidden First to neglect the good they ought to do to their inferiours or to enrich themselues in harming and hindering them 1. King 21. Mica 2. 1. 2. 3. Secondly To glorifie themselues by abasing their inferiours and disgracing their vertues Thirdly to giue euill example Pro. 31. 4. Fourthly light vnsober and foolish behauiour Pro. 31. 4. 5. 1. King 16. 9. 10. Dan. 5. 23. 1. Pet. 3. 3. 2. Sam. 18. 9. Fifthly to attribute the honour and reuerence giuen to them to themselues not to Gods Image in them and so God himselfe Actes 12. 23. Sixthly not to correct and punish sin and sinners but the innocent 2. King 22. 16. Vices of Inferiours forbidden First to hate their Superiours for their Callings sake as carnall Gospellers doe Ministers because in spirit they hate God Amos 5. 10. Secondly to ascribe or giue more honour to them then is due Actes 12. 21. 22. Thirdly to aggrauate and discouer their infirmities Gen. 9. 22. Fourthly to flatter them in their sins as all parasites and flatterers do 1. Kin. 12. 14. 15. Ier. 6. 13. 14. Ier. 14. 13. 1. King 22. 6. Fifthly not to admonish them in loue and reuerence if neede require Ioab offended herein 2. Sam. 19. 5. 6. 7. Sixthly to contemne their lawfull and iust commandements 2 Speciall duties of particular Callings Duties of Parents to their Children First the mother must preserue the life of the child with all care till it be borne and come to yeares of strength Secondly she ought to nurce her child as all godly Matrones haue done 1. Tim. 5. 10. Gen. 21. 7. 1. Sam 1. 29. Thirdly Fathers must prouide for the maintenance of wife and children 1. Tim. 5. 8. Gen. 30. 30. Fourthly both parents iointly must bring vp their children in instruction and information in the Lord Deut. 4. 9. Deut. 6. 6. Eph. 6. 4. Pro. 31. 1. Tim. 1. 5. 1. Tim. 3. 15. Fifthly Parents must correct and chasten their children with wisedome and moderation and that betimes Pro. 13. 24. Prou. 19. 18. Pro. 23. 13. 14. Pro. 22. 15 Pro. 3. 12. Heb. 12. 5. Sixthly Parents must traine vp their children in some Profession or particular Calling that they may bee profitable members in the Church and Common-wealth Prou. 22. 6. Seuenthly Parents must haue a godly care for the marriage of their children that it may bee helpefull for their generall Calling Gen. 24. 1. 2. Gen. 27. 46. Gen. 26. 35. Ruth 3. 1. 2. 3. Eighthly they must consecrate their children wholly to the Lord that they may bee his and do him seruice Duties of children to their parents First cheerefull reuerence that is to loue and feare them Leu. 19. 3. Secondly to obey their lawfull commandem●nts readily and willingly Ephes 6. 1. Gen. 22. Ier. 35. 14. Luke 2. 51. Thirdly to help their parents infirmities and to prouide for them when they are old 1. Tim. 5. 4. Gen. 45. 9. 2. Tim. 3. 3. Fourthly to beare with and to couer their parents infirmities 1. Sam. 19. 3. 4. Gen. 9. 23. Fifthly to defend their parents from their aduersaries to their power c. Vices of parents forbidden First not to prouide for the welfare of their children 1. Tim. 5. 8. Secondly to carke and care for their bodies but to suffer their soules to rot in sinne Such bring not vp children for God but reare vp beasts for the Deuill Pro. 23. 13. 14. Thirdly to bring vp their children in loosenesse pride idlenesse and wantonnesse 1. Sam. 1. 2. 1. King 1. 6. Fourthly to prouoke them to anger through vnreasonable chasticemēts in words and stripes Ephes 6. 4. Fifthly to make sport and pastime at their childrens folly either of their words or déeds Sixthly to allure them to obedience with flatttering words promises and gifts rather then from the knowledge of their duties and conscience of sinne begotten in them by Catechising and instruction Seuenthly to giue euill example to their children or to speake any thing that may corrupt their minds Eighthly to with-hold their children from marrying longer then is conuenient for riches sake thereby causing them to fall into diuerse lusts Ninthly to dispose of their children in marriage for goods sake with an idolatrous or prophane person or without their childrens loue liking and consent Tenthly to marry them in their child-hood for goods sake or some other sinister respect Vices of children forbidden First vnreuerent and contemptible behauiour towards their parents Gen. 9. 22. Pro. 20. 17. Secondly to reuile them to curse or to speake bitterly to them Exod. 21. 17. Thirdly to smite father or mother and to turne againe on them Exod. 21. 15. Fourthly disobedience to their lawfull Commandements and stubborne refusall of their good admonitions Deut. 20. 20. 21. Fifthly vnreuerent and sullen answeres Gen. 34. 30. 31. Sixthly vnthankefulnesse and want of louing affection to parents 1. Tim. 5. 4. Prou. 23. 22. Seuenthly secretly to wish their death to enioy their goods lands houses possessious or for liberty Gen. 27. 41. Eightly to marry without parents knowledge and consent Gen. 27. 46. Duties of Maisters and Seruants First Maisters must instruct their seruants in the knowledge of God Tit. 2. 10. Gen. 18. 19. Gen. 14. 14. Act. 10. 7. Act. 16. 15. Secondly Maisters must giue to their housholds good example of faith godlinesse purity sobriety and to guide them in loue méekenesse wisedome and iudgement Thirdly Maisters must giue to their seruants the recompence of their labours Col. 4. 1. Fourthly Maisters must bee bountifull towards faichfull and good seruants Gen. 15. 2. 3. Fifthly Maisters must giue a liberall reward to them that haue serued them long at their departure Deut. 15. 13. 14. Sixthly Maisters must correct the vices of their seruants especially their sinnes against God and according to piety and not their owne lusts Pro. 29. 19. ver 21. 1. King 16. 11. 1. King 11. 21. Seuenthly they must lay aside all anger and wrath Eightly they must harbour no slanderers lyars nor tale-bearers to poison their Families Psal 101. 10. Ninthly they must passe by and couer many faults in good seruants Eccles 7. 23. Tenthly Lesser faults must bee punished with admonitions Pro. 17. 10. Eleuenthly greater sinnes must be chastised and corrected Pro. 29. 19. Duties of Seruants First Humble and Christian subiection to their Maisters in word and gesture Tit. 2. 9. Secondly Obedience to their lawfull commandements Col. 3. 22. Thirdly

tending to our neighbours hurt as if I had but this or that c. 2 Particular wishes and desires as I would such an house were mine such a liuing such a thing c. V. All vnchaste dreames arising from concupisence Vertues commanded I. A pure heart towards our neighbour 1. Tim. 1. 5. II. Holy thoughts and motions of the Spirit 1. Thess 5. 23. Eph. 4. 23. III. A conflict or warfare against the euill affections and lusts of the flesh Rom. 7. 21. 23. 24. 2. Cor. 12. 7. 8. 9. ROM 7. 7. I knew not sinne but by the Law for I had not knowne lust except the Law had said thou shalt not lust Exod. 20. 17. 9 I was once aliue without the Law but when the Commandement came sinne reuiued 14 For the Law is spirituall but I am carnall sold vnder sinne 24 O wretched man that I am who shall deliuer mee from the body of this death PSAL. 119. 9. Wherewithall shall a yong man cleanse his way euen by ruling himselfe after thy Word A Prayer for any priuate Person MOST mighty God and in Iesus Christ my most louing Father and mercifull Sauiour I being one of the meanest of thy seruants and vnworthy of the least of all thy mercies do acknowledge and confesse thy great goodnesse and bounty towards mee in that thou hast from my birth till this present powerfully preserued mee graciously susteyned mee and mercifully prouided all things needfull for my soule and body as well as for thy deerest children Thou mightst haue made mee a serpent hatefull and loathsome to all thy creatures Thou mightst haue vtterly taken from mee the spirit of wisedome vnderstanding and knowledge and giuen me vp into a reprobate minde and into a foolish and corrupt iudgement to hate the truth and to beleeue lies Thou mightst haue taken from me health strength and soundnesse of body and continually haue tormented mee with paines sickenesses and diseases and haue fastened all the sharpe arrowes of thy wrathfull indignation in my head heart liuer lungs and other members of my body Thou mightst haue depriued me of all the meanes of necessary maintenance and made mee a common reproach and by-word to the most abiect and basest people Yea thou mightst with-draw thy presence from mee and cause the fretting worme of feare and despaire to gnaw on my heart day and night giuing mee my portion heere with the wicked and after death with the damned in hell for euermore But louing Fathert ●y mercy hath beene endlesse towards mee a wretched sinner thou hast not with-drawne thy louing kindnesse from mee but alwaies comforted and refreshed mee both in soule and body with all things needfull thou hast reioyced my heart with the riches of thy grace thou hast measurably corrected mee louingly instructed mee and plentifully offered the meanes of saluation vnto mee And now most gracious God least I forget those fearefull iudgements oft-time● inflicted on thy deerest children and despise these heauenly graces and tender mercies through the deceitfulnesse of sinne sathan and this euill world thou that openest mine eyes from bodily sleepe of the night open I beseech thee also the eyes of my minde enlighten me with the sauing knowledge of thee thy blessed will and holy waies that I sleepe not in death lighten the heauinesse of my wordly heart waken the drowsinesse of my dul dead spirit reforme and set in order my sensuall and earthly affections take from me this hardnesse of heart rebellion of will foolish thoughts vaine imaginations selfe-loue pride frowardnesse take from me the way of lying dissembling double-dealing treachery flattery worldly craftinesse and all vnlawfull getting Conuert ô Lord and strengthen my vnbeleeuing fearefull and distrustfull heart that trusting in thee the liuing God and relying wholly on thy gracious prouidence in the lawfull vse of such meanes as thou daily offerest to mee I may escape the snares of the deuill and auoid a sea of euils whereinto the men of this world doe plunge themselues to eternall perdition O Lord incline my heart to thy Word and not to couetousnesse cause mee to valew the worth thereof aboue gold and siluer and to humble my selfe to my Spirituall Pastors and Teachers whom thou hast sent to call mee out of the darkenesse of this world into thy maruellous light Giue mee power and strength to redresse my waies according to thy Word and let not those common sinnes of presumption and carnall security get the dominion ouer mee Inable mee in some good measure to discerne the spirits of men and the vaine fashion of this transitory world that I turne not aside with the multitude to do euill but that I may delight in the Saints heere on earth and such as excell in vertue And whereas Satan and his instruments are enemies to Christian loue and fellowship giue me wisedome strength and constancie that I neither giue offence vnto them whereby they should withdraw themselues from my company neither yet take offence at their infirmities and imperfections that I should withdraw my affections from them to sort my selfe with such as know not thee feare not thee and condemne the generation of thy children Giue me grace to walke warily in these latter euill daies preserue my going out and comming in this day and euermore and send thy good Angell to guide and protect mee in all my waies And as ô Lord I grow elder in yeares and euery day draw neerer to my graue so grant that I may grow in knowledge faith hope loue and all vertue that when it shall please thee to call me to giue vp an account of my Stewardship I may enter into thine euerlasting ioy Vouchsafe ô Lord to bestow and encrease these graces in me for thy deerely beloued Sons sake Christ Iesus my Sauiour in whom onely thou art well pleased to whom with Thee and the holy Spirit bee giuen all honour glory praise and thankesgiuing now and for euer Thankes-giuing before Meate VVEe thank thée O heauenly Father for all thy mercies and blessings heretofore bestowed vpon vs and still continued and renewed vnto vs and especially at this time for these thy good creatures that of thine owne goodnesse and bounty thou hast ordained and prouided for the maintenance of our bodies giue them vertue and power to nourish vs that thereby our strengths being renued wee may bee made the more fit and able to serue thee in the duties of our Callings to thy honour and glorie and to the comfort of our owne soules and consciences through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen Thankes-giuing after Meate THe God of all glory and power who hath created redéemed and presently ●ed vs hee blessed and praised now and for euermore Amen God preserue his Church our King his Realmes and Dominions increase in vs a true and liuely faith continuall peace of conscience and the comfortable ioy of the Holy Ghost through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen FINIS