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A75929	A Christian family builded by God, directing all governours of families how to act. 1. Gods timber and framing. 2. Gods foundation and upper building. 3. Gods finishing. 4. Gods furnishing. The sum whereof is shewed after the epistle. By Robert Abbott, Pastour of the Church of God at Austines, near Pauls gate in Watling-street in London.	Abbot, Robert, 1588?-1662?	1653 (1653)	Wing A68; Thomason E1233_2; ESTC R6379	56,335	120

Lords prisoners by sicknesse in truth not pretended when they are to rest in the night except in extraordinarie cases and when they are bound according to good orders of the Family to serve the Lord either privately with their masters or publikely upon the Lords day Now thirdly the reasons why servants must thus obey are these 1. Because thus they honour Christ They are more Christs then their masters therefore they obey as the Eph. 6. 6. 1 Pet. 2. 19 20. Col. 3. 24. 1 Pet. 2. 21. servants of Christ 2. Because this is acceptable to God and he will pay better wages then men for they shall receive the reward of inheritance 3. Because thereunto they are called and heartned by Christs example who served to the uttermost for our good Oh that all servants would learn to be better servants then they are or have been according to these directions I am sure if they doe not at the last they will lie down in sorrow Oh that they would carefully studie the lessons of servants as they are laid Col. 3. 1 Pet. 2. Tit. 2 Eph. 6. down in the good word of God! Oh that the patterns of noble servants in the Scripture lay before them as of Eliezer Abrahams servant that faithful praying and diligent man and of Jacob when he was a servant to Laban and of the Centurions servants who were at such a punctual beck Oh that they would never forget Pauls motive That you Gen. 24. Gen. 31. Matth. 8. Tit. 2. 10. may adorn the Doctrine of God our Saviour in all things Oh that they would think what a disgrace it is for unworthy servants to live under the blessed beams of this Gospel of light and life Certainly if God set these things home they would alter their course and be obedient according to Christs will SECT 16. 2. MAsters must give unto their servants that which is just and equal Masters Col. 4. 1. must make it their first care to chuse servants aright How watchful was David for this when he said No deceitful person shall live in my sight he that telleth lies shall not abide before Psalm 101. me Truely so should it be with all masters This will blesse their state as we see in Jacob and Joseph and the contrarie will poyson children and all the comforts of our Families I heartily pray that men may be as warie to chuse them as they are to chuse sheep and swine and dogs and horses according to their races And having chosen them that they would 1. Give them that which is iust 2. Give to them that which is equal 1. Masters must give to them that which is just that is what is due to them by positive lawes This they must perform both 1. In Thought 2. In Words 3. And in Deeds 1. In Thought not thinking to exercise absolute dominion over them but such as they must account for to God therefore the Apostle Eph. 6. 9. useth this motive knowing that ye have a master in heaven 2. In words both in commands and instructions Pia possibilia proportionalia The masters commands must be pious possible and proportionable They must be pious that is things agreeable to Gods will not as Sauls was to Doeg to fall upon 1 Sam. 22. 18. 2 Sam. 13. the Lords Priests nor as Absolons to his servants to kill Amnon They must be possible of things feazable Therefore when Eliezer suspected the possibilitie of his doing after Abrahams command he said what if the woman will not follow me Abraham replied Gen. 24. 8. then thou shalt be clear They must be proportionable when they command them labour but not above strength The poor Israelites were servants in Egypt and the Taskmaster Exod. 5. caused them to gather straw and make their old tale of brick this was above strength and so unjust But God saith over your brethren Levit. 25. 46. you shall not rule with rigour or crueltie They must also do justice in instructions Servants must serve their masters as Christ and this they cannot without instructions first Abraham armed all his trained servants that is his Catechized servants whom he had so Gen. 14. 14 well instructed that they would follow him through all dangers and Hezekiah made the servants copy out part of Solomons Proverbs Prov. 25. 1. for their rules to follow If masters take not this course their servants cannot adorn the Doctrine of Christ 3. In deeds as masters must be careful for their servants health if in their service they be sick as that good Centurion was who Matth. 8. 5 6. went to Christ for his help and in providing sufficient meat and drink for them as Solomon did for his workmen and the good housewife 2 Chr. 2. 10 Prov. 31. 15. 1 Cor. 8. 9. for hers according to the equitie of that rule Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the Oxe which treadeth out the corn and in providing due punishment for them according to Law when they do amisse by which means masters should be better served so by justly paying them their wages This maketh up a Deut. 15. 13 14. sweet harmony betwixt masters and servants according to that expression of Christ He agreed with them for a penny they make a sweet Matth. 29. 2 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 James 5. 4. symphonie or harmonie betwixt them but the contrary makes a fearful jarre and crie which God hears 2. Masters must give to their servants that which is equal which is due by Charitie and Christian meeknesse For equal doth not comprehend equal honour and equal offices of love that is such as the servants performe to the master for this is a good rule To Inaequalibus dare aequalia inaequale est give equal things to unequal persons is unequal But it is to be referred to the mind and manner of doing that as the servant performs his dutie equally so the master must perform his The servant obeyes as to the Lord the master rules as the Lord piously The servant obeyes from the heart willingly the master rules with a mild and fatherly affection Now this equalitie comprehends foure Job 31. 15. Phile. v. 16. Habent cutem communem licet non vestem Job 31. 13. 14. duties 1. To account that servants are of the same mould yea and partakers of the same grace of Christ They have a common skin though not a common covering 2. To hearken to them and yield to them when reason and truth is on their side 3. To have respect to humane infirmities as sicknesse age and passions 4. To give well deserving servants more then is due to them by Covenant and bargain If they be better then servants it is but equal that we be better then masters Oh that all masters would labour to be such I shall give you but three motives 1. Our servants are fellow servants with us to God If the Angel said to John

1 Cor. 14. 40. Gen. 29. 22. John 2. 3. The mutual rejoycing of the friends comes in next and surely there is a lawfulnesse of feasting and mutual rejoycing at marriages Else Christ would not have blessed one with his presence and first miracle nor would Es 62. 5. God have described the joy that he takes in Matth. 9. 15 Matth. 22. his Church by the joy of marriage nor would Christ have compared the kingdome of heaven to a wedding feast But let me say withall that there are no greater sins committed then about things lawfull It is lawfull to eat drink weare apparel and to feast hence thousands of excesses and miseries have come in Excesses as at Nabals feast was drunkennesse at Absolons was murther at Ahasuerus his was a breach betwixt him and his wife Vashti at Belteshazzars carrousing and blasphemy at Herods wanton dancing and cutting off of Iohn Baptists head Mi●●ries as Elah was smote and killed while he was drinking Benhadad was surprised Israel while meat was in their mouth felt wrath and Jobs children were stifled Therefore warily consider what ye do at weddings and what ye should do Ye do rejoyce indeed but it is with wanton dancings bawdy jests and hellish carrowsings But what should ye do Ye should be carefull to prevent excess as Christ saith Take heed Luke 21. that your hearts be not oppressed with surfetting and drunkenness lest that day come upon you at unawares Ye should bring God into all your thoughts that you feed not without fear Ye Iude. Philip. 4 should do nothing which is dishonest or of ill report Ye should have good wishes speaches counsels and prayers to the new married couples like those that said The Ruth 4. 11. Lord make thy wife like Rachel and Leah which two builded the house of Israel and do thou worthily in Ephrata and be famous in Bethlehem SECT 10. 3. THe consequents of marriage in the Lord are two 1. Cohabitation 2. Communion 1. Man and wife must dwell together Let the husband dwell with his wife saith Peter 1 Pet. 3. 7. Prov. 5. 18 19. and Solomon saith Rejoyce in the wife of thy youth and let her breasts satisfie thee at all times and delight continually in her This cannot be without Cohabitation The first institution was a remedy against solitariness It is not Gen. 2. good for man to be alone let us make an help meet for him and let him cleave to his wife Quest I know what you will say may they never live asunder Answ Yes upon three occasions Vpon mutual consent for a time for the good of the Family My husband saith she is not at home he is gone Prov. 7. 19 20. a far journey at the time appointed he will come again Vpon Compulsion when persecution or imprisonment forceth it When some weightie affairs either in Church or Common-wealth requires it This was Vriahs case 2 Sam. 11. 11. when he would not go to his own house while the Ark and Israel and Iudah with his Lord Ioab were in Tents Yet must they not live asunder out of choice It is for an harlot to be called a strange woman but for a Prov. 2. 16. 2 Sam. 12. wife to be a lamb in the bosome as for the other causes so for samenesse of dwelling 2. As Cohabitation followes upon marriage 1 Cor. 7. 3. 1 Cor. 7. 4. so Communion which stands in three things a communion of Bodies a communio● of helps and a communion of joyes They must have a communion of Bodies whereby they defraud not one another except it be by consent for a time that they may give themselves ●● fasting and prayer yet must not this be excessive for there may be too much uxoriousness at home as well as adulterie abroad Ez●k 18. 6. 1 Cor. 7. 5. Gen. 25. 21 1 Sam. 1. ●7 And it must be sanctified by the Word o● God and Prayer Doe it by rule and with Prayer as Isaac and Hannah did They mus● have a Communion of helps in nourishing and cherishing each other To this end there must be a communion of goods they must have one purse but not for waste a communion of Counsel in matters domestical they must have one head as Pilats wife and the Shunamite and a communion of labours they must have one hand and that an helper Lastly they must have a communion of joy by having one heart as Isaack and Rebeckah who sported together and as Solomon gives Gen. 26. 8. Prov. 5. 18 19. in rule Rejoyce with the wife of thy youth Oh how happy a foundation of Gods building would such a marriage lay to last till death us do part Thus of the first part of Gods setting up of his building in a Family the Foundation SECT 11. NOw secondly of the upper building which stands perfectly 1. In wife and husband 2. In parents and children 3. In masters and servants Begin where God begins still with inferiours Amor descendit officium ascendit Love descends but dutie ascends The first pair of beams in an house builded by God are wife and husband who bear up this frame The wife must submit to her husband as unto the Eph. 5. 22 24. Lord yea as the Church is subject to Christ The woman saith Paul is bound to the law Rom. 7. 2 of her husband yea this is comely it is the best fashion that ever they wore Therefore Col. 3. 18. 1 Tim. 2. 12. saith God I permit not a woman to usurp authoritie Object Whatsoever thou permittest will some women say I will do it Sol. Nay saith God Thy desire shall be subiect to thy husband and he shall rule over thee Gen. 3. 16. Quest Will any good woman ask me What it is to submit that she may conscionably do it Answ It is to put her self willingly under the government of her husband Quest Will she further ask me how she must submit Answ Surely not by way of bondage but free service for her self because she and her husband do make but one Quest Will she further ask wherein she must submit Answ Paul saith In all things that are lawfull and honest Eph. 5. 22. In general she must submit to her husbands honour Sarah honoured her husband and called him Lord. The good wife calls her husband 1 Pet. 3. 6. Hos 2. Prov. 7. 19. Ishi my man but the harlot saith plain Ish the man is gone abroad this is a clear sign that she honours him not In particular she must submit three wayes By an inward act of the mind acknowledging Eph. 5. ult his headship and taking direction from him if he be wise and for him if he be a fool By an inward act of the will conforming to his good manners and affections By these outward acts of dutie which depend upon these thus 1. They must answer their husbands wills Their questions must not be Whose will shall be