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duty_n	holy_a	lord_n	sabbath_n	2,282	5	9.1465	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81235	Correction, instruction or, a treatise of afflictions: first conceived by way of private meditations: afterward digested into certain sermons, preach'd at Aldermanbury. And now published for the help and comfort of humble suffering Christians. By Tho. Case, M.A. sometimes student of Ch. Ch. Oxon. now preacher of the Gospel in London.	Case, Thomas, 1598-1682.	1652 (1652)	Wing C824; Thomason E1329_1; ESTC R209098	113,561	301

have layd the foundation of their own forrows their childrens ruine and the desolation of the Nation in the looseness and delicacy of their education and yet are not sensible of it to this day We have not corrected our children and therefore God is correcting us in our children We * God makes our children our rods because we have withheld the rod from them We gave them too much rest and therefore they give us none Pro. 29 17 Levit. 26 have not cross'd them in their wills and therefore God doth cross us in our wills We have walked even in this point exceedingly contrary to God and to his Discipline and therefore God is walking contrary to us and is punishing us seven times more for this iniquity And therefore Oh that Parents would at length awaken themselves to follow both the pattern and precept of their heavenly Father who as he correcteth whom he loveth so he commands them to correct Melius est perire in virga patris quam in blandimentis perire praedonis if they love their children Withhold not correction from the child for if thou correct him with the Rod he shall not dye If the Rod draw blood should need be it is ad salutem it is as the Physician deals with them to prevent a feaver a feaver of boyling passions here and of boyling fire and brimstone hereafter it is to cure not to kill yea thou killest if thou dost not wound and therfore again I say withhold it not Give the rod unto thy childe and he will one day give thee thanks for it Yea it is worth observation that the same word in the original 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is translated withhold signifieth also to forbid meeting with another distemper in Parents who as they will not correct their children themselves so also they forbid others to correct them under whose tuition they put them As if they were afraid their children would not have sin enough here nor hell enough hereafter they lay in Caveats against the means which God hath sanctified for their reclaiming What tears of blood are sufficient to bewail this folly You that are godly-wise and wisely-loving take heed of it and when you commit your children to others hands do not in the mean while hold their hands if thou judgest them not wise why dost thou chuse them if thou chuse them why dost thou not trust them Well then if the rod be in thine own hand withhold it not if in thy friends hand forbid it not Certainly there is great need of this duty which the Spirit of God doth frequently inculcate all along the Proverbs I will conclude this branch of the Exhortation with inverting the Counsel of our Saviour In this sence be ye not merciful that you may be the children of your heavenly Father Mat. 5.44 45 for whom he loveth he correcteth and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth Go thou and do likewise and this shall be your mercy and love to your children He that spareth the rod hateth his son Pro. 13.24 but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes Secondly 2 Exhort Add Instruction to Correction You that are Parents or in stead of Parents If you would have your children happy Add Instruction to correction imitate God in this part of patternal Discipline also let Chastisement and Instruction go together It is that which the Holy Ghost urgeth upon you Bring them up in the NURTURE and ADMONITION of the Lord Eph. 6.4 There be two words relating to both these Parental duties 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in * Qua Pater erudit filium Bez. castigatione in the Chastisement or Correction and it is added of the Lord that is either in the Chastisement wherewith the Lord exerciseth his children or in the Chastisement which the Lord commandeth earthly Parents to exercise towards their children this is the first duty of which already And then there is another word which holdeth forth the end and design of Parental Correction and that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Monitis ex verbo Dei petitis sive sanctis Deo acceptis Bez. in the Admonition and Instruction of the Lord i. e. in Counsels and Instructions taken out of the Word of God or such as are approved of by God The sum is this That while we chasten the flesh Proprie fignificat admonitionem non simpliciter sed talem qualem in mentem pueri ponas ingerasquae sunt illi ad salutem necessaria Zanch. in loc we should labor to inform and form the minde and spirit by infusing right principles pressing and urging upon their tender hearts counsel reproof and instruction as the matter requireth This is the duty of Parents to imitate God to let Instruction expound Correction and with a rod in the hand and a word in the mouth to train up their children to life eternal A dumb rod is but a brutish Discipline and will leave the child as brutish as it found him Chastisement without teaching may sooner break the bones then the heart it may mortifie the flesh but not corruption extinguish nature but never beget grace But the Rod and REPROOF give wisdom Pro. 29.15 Instruction added to Correction as it makes excellent Christians so it makes good Children There be Parents that are severe and curst enough to their children they spare for no blows in stead of breaking them of their wills by a wise and moderate correction they are ready to break their bones and their necks too sometimes in their moods and passions But they never minde the other branch of Paternal Discipline sc Instruction and Admonition of such Parents I suppose the Apostle speaketh Heb. 12.9 10. We have had Fathers of our flesh who corrected and chastened us after THEIR OVVN PLEASURE He speaketh not of all Parents but his meaning is there be such men and women in the world who are most unlike to God and in smiting their children rather please themselves then profit their children He for our profit but they after their own pleasure to give vent to their passion and satisfie their vindictive rage and fury and when is that truly when the Rod and Reproof do not go together it is an argument there is more passion then judgment more lust then love in such chastisements Such Parents do rather betray their own folly then take a course to make their children wise Schola Crucis Schola Lucis The Rod and Reproof give wisdom neither alone will do it the Rod without Reproof will harden the heart and teach the children sooner to hate the Parent then to hate sin Absque afflictione nulli utilia discunt and Reproof without the Rod will leave no impression Reproofs of instruction are the way of life Pro 6.23 or Corrections of instruction a lesson set on with a whiping is best remembred It is divine truth that must be the instrument of working saving grace

With your lives live his praise hath God taught thee If thou wouldst glorifie God go and put all the Lessons which thou hast learned into print shew forth the graces of him that hath called thee out of darkness into his marvelous light 1 Pet. 2.9 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the excelencies print them in such a legible character that who so runs may read Lip-praise is good but life-praise is better He that offers me praise glorifieth me and to him that ORDERETH HIS CONVERSATION ARIGHT will I shew the Salvation of God Psa 50.23 It is good to speak so Loquere ut te videam that men may see that standers by may be Gods witnesses and yours that you are taught of God and say Lo what hath God wrought how holily and humbly and fruitfully and self-denyingly do these servants of God walk since they came out of tribulation Live so that you may take off the scandal of the Cross of Christ and bring men into love with a suffering condition Mat. 5.16 Let your light shine before men that they may see your good works and glorifie your Father which is in Heaven * Caelum quoddam luci dissimis virtutum stellis exornatum that you may be a little Heaven-sparkling with bright stars of divine graces as it was said of Joseph 3. Now God hath taught thee 3. Be ready to teach others be thou ready to teach others It is a debt which thou owest to all thou conversest with When thou art converted strengthen thy Brethren Communicate what God hath taught thee to thy yoke-fellow children servants friends upon all seasonable opportunities Sanctified knowledg is communicative Freely thou hast received freely give * Mark 4.21 God never lighttd this candle that it should be put under the bed or under the bushel the bed of pleasure or the bushel of profit but that it may be put into the candlestick of thy conversation and so shine before men that they may see and glorifie thy Father which is in Heaven This is indeed to glorifie God And thus much for the first Duty I come to the second Duty and that is Labor to preserve the teachings of God upon thy Spirit 2 Duty To preserve a good frame of spirit Study how to maintain that sweet gracious frame of heart into which God hath taught thee by affliction It is the duty which Christians should practise as oft as they come from the Word or any other divine Ordinance When we come out of a Sabbath we should sit down and observe with what frame of spirit God sends us away from the Ordinance If the Ordinance hath left no savory gracious impression upon the heart to lie in the dust and mourn and commune with our own hearts and lament after God If there be an Ordinance-frame we should rejoyce in it bless God for it and labor to keep up such a frame upon the heart till the next solemn approach to God Christians how much more should this be our care and study when we come out of Gods furnace that solemn Ordinance of affliction to labor to maintain that melting frame of heart that warmth and heat that life and vigor which we have brought with us out of affliction 2 John 3 Look to your selves that ye lose not those things which God hath wrought in you To that end take a few Means or Helps First Means to preserve a good frame of heart 1. Be often perusing your Lessons Be often reading over the LESSONS which God hath taught you frequently revive the remembrance of them in your heads and work the impressions of them upon your hearts labor not onely to say them without book but indeed to get them by heart I tell you Christians you had need to take much pains with your selves to keep the Teachings of God alive upon your spirits For be sure of this that you will finde a great difference between your hearts yet under affliction and when the affliction is taken off and without infinite watchfulness your hearts will be too hard for you The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked Jer. 17.9 There is much of a Pharaoh-like disposition in every man very prone to harden when the storm is over It is sad and wonderful to consider how a corruption will lie as if it were quite dead while danger and death are before us and how suddenly and powerfully it will revive and without special take-heed betray the Soul when the danger is over That Caution which God by Moses gave the Israelites in the wilderness may make every wise Christian to tremble Deut. 31 21 I know their imaginations which they go about EVEN NOVV BEFORE I have brought them into the Land which I sware Their hearts were secretly projecting for their lusts even while they were yet smarting under the rod and in the howling wilderness they are forecasting hwo to satisfie sense and serve their carnal interests when they should come into the Land that flowed with milk and honey Possibly these were not down-right resolves but saith the Lord I know their imaginations O my Brethren we should harken to the whisperings of Lust in our own bosoms and labor to suppress them to crush the Serpent while it is in the shell for if there be such floatings of sin in the imagination while yet in durance what projecting and contrivements will there be in the heart when liberty and enlargement shall present temptations and opportunities And therefore keep we our hearts with all diligence Prov. 4 23 or as the Hebrew phraseth it of all keepings keep our hearts Hic sons bo●● peccandi ●●igo Hieron for out of them come the issues of life and when the days of affliction and trouble are gone work Truths and Counsels received frequently and fixedly upon your Consciences that you may like good Scribes instructed to the Kingdom of God Mat. 13 52 bring out of your treasures things new and old and have always in a readiness wherewith to oppose and check temptation and may practise every Lesson which God hath taught you in the season thereof Secondly Renew also 2 Help Renew the remembrance of the affliction often upon your Souls the remembrance of the sharpness and bitterness of the affliction it will be a notable corrective to sensuality and give check to sinful excesses The flesh will quickly grow wanton when it findeth ease Jesurun when the neck was got from under the yoke quickly waxed fat Deut. 32 15 Psal 106 13 and kicked They soon forgat his works they waited not for his counsel but lusted exceedingly WORKS and COUNSEL CHASTISEMENTS and TEACHINGS were quickly forgotten when once the affliction was over They quickly forgot a barren wilderness in a Land that flowed with milk and hony They waited not for his Counsel they grew weary of Counsel when once free from Correction and chose rather to walk by the