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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12991	A sermon preached at Paules Crosse on Barthelmew day, being the 24. of August. 1578 Wherin, besides many other profitable matters meete for all Christians to follovv, is at large prooued, that it is the part of all those that are fathers, householders, and scholemaisters, to instruct all those vnder their gouernement, in the vvord and knovvledge of the Lorde. By Iohn Stockvvood scholemaister of Tunbridge.	Stockwood, John, d. 1610.	1578 (1578)	STC 23284; ESTC S106625	73,966	202

of those vnder oure gouernement in the worde of the Lorde bée suche as by the commaundement of God is laide vppon all if Kings notwithstanding their many cares and troubles are not exempted from this dutie if Capitaines in warre who of al other might séeme to be priuiledged are tied to this charge If Helie the Priest of the Lord were punished with the necke breake for omitting it if Abraham were greatly praised for the dooing of it What is he that can chalenge to himselfe fréedome from the performaunce of thys bothe godly and necessarie duetie God fayeth of Abraham I know he wil teach his children and housholde to walke in the wayes of the Lorde But alas my beloued what is the man or where is his dwelling of whome we maye saye I knowe he is painefull in instructing his children and housholde in the wayes of the lord Surely suche a one is almoste as rare vpon earth as a blacke Swan It is saide of this oure Cornelius that he feared God with his whole houshold but how many housholdes may ●e ●nd amongest vs where the goodman himself maketh no accompts of religion 〈◊〉 maruell then if the reste of his familie be Godlesse The Lorde by Moses commaundeth his people daylye to ins●●●●●● their children in the knowledge of hys worde but so farre are the moste parte of vs from doing thereof that we oure selues reade not in a yeare a Chapiter of it And whereas euerye man is bounde to catechize his owne familie a greate many of oure ministers are so ignorant that they hadde néede to learne Catechismes themselues whiche as in respecte of their ignoraunce it is very mét they should do so for the same respecte it were farre better that they were vtterly remoued and able Pastors put in theyr roomths Dauid will walke with an vprighte heart in the middest of his house and we wil walke in our houses we care not howe loosely Iosias at once hearing the lawe of the Lorde immediatlye prepareth hymselfe to obey the same and bindeth all his Subiectes by couenaunte to doe the like The Lorde putte it into the mynde of oure godly Princesse that as she is of hir selfe willing to heare the Lawe of the Lorde so likewise after the example of good Iosias she may be carefull to cause all hir Subiectes to make a couenaunte to walke after the commaundementes of the LORDE so I trust there would be spéedie remedy againste this great neglecting of our dutie in the vertuous education of oure families in the feare of the Lorde the whiche on oure partes being so muche forslewed it is no maruaile if manye times wée find small obedience at the handes of oure housholde For so doeth God often leaue manifest tokens of hys wrath in punishing disobedience wyth disobedience Howe canste thou whosoeuer thou arte looke to haue thy familie faithfull vnto thée and thou thy selfe art faithlesse to GOD doest thou maruayle that thy seruauntes feare not thée when as thou fearest not the Lorde wilte thou stiffely maintaine thine aucthoritie ouer those vnder thy charge and thy selfe yeld no obedience vnto the aucthoritie of the eternall Thinkest thou muche that thy wife and thy children shewe themselues not so obedient vnto thée as peraduenture they oughte and canste thou not sée howe thy selfe arte a Traytoure and Rebel vnto God withoute all kéepe or regarde breaking his statutes and without any pricke or remorse of conscience neglecting and contemning his commandementes Howe shall those vnder thy charge performe their dutie vnto thée if thou performe no duety vnto God Nay howe rather shall they fyrste learne to feare God and then next truly serue thée without instruction in the worde of the Lorde Is it not expreslye sette downe in the Psalme Howe God established a testimonie in Iacob and ordained a Lawe in Israell whiche he commaunded oure fathers that they shoulde teache theyr children And this lawe whiche he speaketh of is the commaundement before recited out of Deuteronomie concerning parentes often and diligent acquainting their children with the word of the lord You sée therefore beloued that it greatlye concerneth al you that are householders to be very well exercised and practised in the holy Scriptures For how can it bée possible that one shoulde teache another the thing that he himselfe is ignoraunte in The father can not teache his sonne that which he himself knoweth not The maister cannot instruct his seruaunte in the word which he neuer readeth The husband as Paul cōmaundeth he should can not teache hys wife himselfe being rude and ignoraunt The Prince can not declare vnto his subiectes the wyll of the Lord the whiche himselfe hath not learned out of his worde all these notwythstanding being as you haue heard charged from the Lord with this duty it doth hereof necessarily follow that fathers maisters husbandes yea the prince himselfe ought diligently to exercise thēselues in the reading of the worde of God that they maye euerye one seuerally teache it to them of their charge that they out of it maye learne to feare the Lorde The Lorde hys blessing the diligence of Cornelius in the vertuous education of hys familie with profyting generallye in his feare oughte to encourage vs all to followe hys moste godly example hoping that GOD in his greate mercye wyll graunt vnto our Christian trauayle lyke successe For it can not be that eyther the Prince of subiectes or the father of hys children or the husbande of hys wyfe or the maister of his seruauntes shoulde hope for that subiection that obedience that reuerence that faythfulnesse which they of right ought to haue and the other of duetie are bound to perfourme vnlesse they laboure to teache them the feare of the Lorde It maye be also that a man faythfullye labouring to bring vp hys familye in the knowledge of GOD shall haue notwithstanding vngodly and disobedient children wife or seruauntes for Adam had Cain Noah had Cham Abraham had Ismael Isaac had Esau Iacob had of his owne sonnes that woulde ●●ue firste slaine but afterwarde altered ●heir purpose and tolde Ioseph Helie had ●ophm Phinehas Samuel his sonnes ●●ere vniuste Iudges ouer the people ●ob hys wyfe bydde hir husbande curse GOD and dye Dauid his own son Ab●alon rebelled agaynste hym and Iu●as for money betrayed hys Mayster Christe yet for all this muste not we ●et passe thys duetie of teaching oure ●ouseholdes but besides instructyng ●se also correctyng where sinnes bée committed or else wée shall bée guyltie of those sinnes whyche we let passe in those vnder our gouernemente vncorrected whether we be priuate persons ●or Magistrates For the holye Scrip●ures layeth vppon Helie the vngodlynesse of his sonnes whiche was committed with his knowledge and the children of Israels worshipping of the Golden Calues is imputed to those kings which eyther commaunded them or suffred thē ●or else did not destroye them Paule also to the Romanes saith that not onely they which

of all without exception neglected to the high displeasure of almightie God who hathe straightly and expresly commaunded it and also to the great shame of vs that haue so fowlie foreslewed it But bycause this maye séeme vnto some a straunge doctrine and I peraduenture be iudged verye precise that woulde laye such a heauie burthen vpon mens necks I will therefore directly proue vnto you out of the worde of GOD that it belongeth generallye vnto all persons of what degrée and calling soeuer to instructe their children and familie in the worde of the LORDE insomuche that not the greatest Emperoure nor Monarche of the worlde can omit this duetie wythoute highe contempte vnto GOD in neglecte of that whiche hée hath so plainely and earnestly commanded nay I say further that euerye housholder whatsoeuer is not onely bound himself to be godly and to traine vp his housholde in godlinesse but also to turne out of his house seruice all suche as are vngodly and tell scorne to learne And I will not onely saye this but directlye proue it by the Scripture and I will doe it as drawen therevnto by manifeste occasion of my Texte whiche sayth that Cornelius wyth all hys housholde feared god For I haue hitherto noted nothing neither hereafter meane to doe but that the godly maye easily sée that the circumstances of my Text led me euidently therevnto the whiche I speake bycause of scoffing quarellers who if the Preacher in greate zeale speake any thing to the rebuking of some notorious synne althoughe it be neuer so godly spoken yet if it be not bounded within the limites of hys Texte they by and by flowte at it and saye it was done for wante of matter albeit in déede it make no matter what suche scoffers prate and babble In the fourth of Deuteronomie it is written thus But take heede to thy self and keepe thy soule diligently that thou forget not the thinges whiche thine eies haue seene that they departe not out of thine hearte all the dayes of thy life but teach them thy sonnes and thy sons sonnes Likewise in the sixte chapiter of the same booke And thou shalt rehearse them continually vnto thy children and shalte talke of them when thou tarriest in thine house and as thou walkest by the way and when thou liest downe and when thou risest vp This is againe repeated in the eleauenth chapiter and a blessing added to those that performe it in these wordes That youre daies may be multiplyed and the dayes of youre children in the lande whiche the Lorde sware vnto youre fathers to giue them as long as the Heauens are aboue the Earth The like you haue in the Psalme where you find it thus writtē That the posteritie might know it the childrē which shoulde be borne shoulde stande vp and declare it to their children that they might set their hope on God and not forget the workes of God but kepe his commaundements To the Ephesians parentes are commaunded to bring vppe their children in instruction and information of the Lord. In Deuteronomie the king himselfe is charged diligently to be exercised in the reading of the worde of the Lorde as well for the instruction of himselfe as also the better gouernement of his subiects in the feare of the Lorde This thing didde the good King Iosias obserue reading his owne selfe the lawe of the Lorde vnto his subiectes and caused all to make a couenaunt that they would walke according to that whiche they vnderstood the Lord to require at their hande Iosua the valiaunte and vertuous Capitaine of the LORDE didde dayly reade the word of the Lorde and out of it verye godlye exhorte all the people to feare and serue the Lord. The Quéene of Sheba greatlye commendeth King Salomon for his godly order in his house familie Dauid whom the scriptures reporte to haue bin a King according to God his owne hearte was not onely godly himselfe but also carefull to haue all his subiectes and principallye those of his owne house vnfainedly to feare the Lorde as appeareth in the Psalme 101. where he sayeth That he will destroy suche as priuily slaunder their neighbour that he will not suffer those that haue proude lookes and highe hartes that those whyche are the faithfull of the lande shall dwell with hym and those that walke in the perfect way shall serue him that no deceitful person shall dwell wyth hym nor anye that telleth lyes remaine in his sighte that he will betymes cutte off all the wicked of the lande and to be shorte concerning the gouernement of his house that hée will walke in the vprightnesse of hys harte in the middest of his house whereby as the wordes following doe declare he meaneth to vse exquisite diligence in trayning vppe his housholde in the seruice of the lord Helie the Priest of the Lorde for letting his children runne at libertie is himselfe charged to haue committed those sinnes whiche in his sonnes he lette passe vnpunished besides that God fearefully punished both him and his sonnes for neglecting hys dutie in this behalfe for he himselfe fell and brake his neck his two sonnes were slaine in battell both in one daye the Arke of the Lord takē by the Philistins and .3000 people slaine his sonnes wife vppon the newes sodainelye broughte to bedde before hir time and dieth in trauaile whiche heauie iudgementes maye learne al men worthily to tremble at the forslewing their duetie in instructing their families Abraham is greatly praised for his carefulnesse in teaching his children houshold to walk in the waies of the Lord For thus it is writtē of him For I know him that he wil cōmand his sons his houshold after that they kepe the way of the Lord to do righteousnes and iudgement that the Lord may bring vppon Abraham that he hathe spoken vnto him All these bothe commaundementes and examples do I trust sufficiently proue that it is the part of al men of what calling soeuer to vse singular diligence and trauaile to haue their familie and suche as belong to their charge to feare the Lorde As for that I sayde they muste also kéepe none suche in their house as are stubborne and tell scorne to serue the Lorde the example of Dauid out of the .101 psalme who will suffer no wicked person to dwell wyth hym nor serue him and therefore none that feareth not the Lord doth sufficiently proue it But thou wilte saye Dauid was a King and I saye vnto thée so arte thou both a King and Bishoppe to ouer thy house and familie a King by gouernement to kéepe in awe and a Byshoppe by instruction to teach mayst so muche the easier and with lesse daunger teach and correct thine owne familie as it is easier and lesse dangerous to deale with a priuate familie thā with a whole realme therfore the greater punishmnt shalte thou haue if herein thou omit thy dutie If then the instructing