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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08772	The prentises practise in Godlinesse, and his true freedome Diuided into ten chapters. Written by B.P.	B. P., fl. 1608.; T. R., fl. 1608.	1608 (1608)	STC 19057; ESTC S120852	65,287	210

godly seruaÌ„ts for the liberal disposition of a child is easily spilt with the leaud manners of a seruant Hence it commeth that almost their first words are ribauldrie and feareful othes and that they learne to blaspheme God before they can plainely speake GOD yea sometime they proue twofold more the children of Satan then their Tutors were For a new vessell will keep the tatch of the first seasoning a long time after Cause them therefore to frequent the holy exercise of religion as Preaching Catechising Praier Sacraments c. Bring them with you where they may be instructed in the waies of the Lord to doe righteousnesse especially on the Sabbath day because that is a day appointed and set apart of God himselfe for his worship and seruice wherein he wil haue our seruant as free as our selues and to the end we may prepare them the better to the sanctifying of the Lords day we are to call them vp betimes in the morning to praier wherein first we are to thanke the Lord for all his mercies to such vnworthy wretches and namely for the rest and preseruation the night past Then to beseech his Maiestie that hee would so prepare and fit our hearts to the profitable retaining of his most holy and blessed word and so direct the mouthes of his ministers that day in the vttering of it that it may be a comfortable sauour of life and saluation to vs and not a sauour of death vnto destruction And hauing ended this duty by 7. in the morning we may if wee will directly goe where there shall bee a Sermon vntill eight so comming home we are to goe to our owne Parish Church both in the forenoone and in the afternoone and after that to some Lecture as there be diuers blessed bee GOD in diuers parts of the City And hauing thus spent the day till six at night we are not to content our selues there thinking we haue done by this time a work of supererogation but to come directly from the Lecture to our houses and call our seruants together to praiers to almighty God that it would please his Maiestie to giue a blessing vpon that which we haue heard that wee may auoide the sinnes execute the good duties feare the threatnings and lay vp the comforts from the mouth of his ministers plainely shewed and laid down vnto vs. And hauing ended praiers for that instant we are to examine euery one of them particularly what lessons they haue learned at Church and what vses they were taught of those lessons and hauing done that to giue them a generall exhortation incouraging them to goe forward in godlinesse which hath promises of this life and of that which is to come and so to make an end for that time with singing a Psalm of thankesgiuing NOW as we are to performe these duties on the Sabbath day so we haue our duties to performe on the weeke daies also For it is not enough for any man to giue his family victuals and prouision one day in the weeke and let them fast all the rest of the weeke after for so he should soone make a leane houshold but we must deale with our seruants in Spiritual things as we deale with them in Corporall things that is as wee allow them meat and drinke sufficiently all the weeke daies and on the Sabbath day they haue extraordinary dishes So although we haue beene carefull to pray and instruct them in religion on the Sabbath day yet we must looke we do our duties in the weeke daies also although not like vnto the Sabbath for the Lord doth not require it at our hands This discipline and good order if wee would carefully inure our Prentises to seuen or eight yeares together till their first youth the age which is set vpon the very pinacle of temptations be past ouer methinkes it were enough to kill all the weedes of vices in them to make euen Atheists religious and grow into a habit of sanctimony and godlinesse Here I thinke it needfull for euery one of vs as we are yet seruants to know our duties also that wee may demeane our selues agreeably to our present condition Seruants duty First then wee are to follow the counsel of the Apostle to be obedient vnto our bodily masters with feare and trembling because they be in their places vnto vs as God God hath set theÌ„ ouer vs in his own stead and therefore we ought not onely to carry a reuerend estimation of them counting them worthy of all honor but to performe our duty and seruice vnto them not to the eie as men pleasers but as the seruants of Christ doing the will of God himselfe singlie and from the heart labouring continually to please them and submitting our selues to theÌ„ in all things as the holy Ghost commandeth But this must not be vnderstood absolutely but with an exception So they bee lawfull things For if a master command his seruant to speake a lie or to sweare his commodities cost so much when they cost much lesse or to breake the Lords Sabbath in such a case we ought rather to obey God then man but in all iust and lawfull impositions not crossing their roiall commandement we are to conforme our selues in all duty and obedience to them yea not only to the good and courteous but euen to the froward sower For this is thankworthy saith Saint Peter if a seruant for conscience toward GOD endure smart suffering wrongfully But it is a great fault in vs that are seruants that if correction be giuen vs though with iustice and discretion we will say most commonly wee deserue it not This is not the saying of the holy Ghost For saith he what praise is it for a seruant to be buffeted for his faults but and if yee fault not and yet suffer hard vsage and take it patiently then is there thanke with God And herein what better satisfaction or quieting of our mindes can we desire then the example of our Sauiour himselfe who neuer sinned neither was there guile found in his mouth yet he was reuiled and reuiled not againe he suffered beyond all degrees of patience opened not his mouth but committed reuenge to him that iudgeth righteously euen to God his Father So ought wee my Brethren when our masters bee out of reason and offer vs extreame measure to put it vp and endure it patiently knowing that they also haue a master in Heauen who beholdeth with an equall eie both vs and them and not to answer Sir I deserue it not For if correction should not bee giuen to the most of vs till wee confesse we deserue it it should neuer be giuen vs. Heere I cannot keepe silence but I must needes make known how good and gratious the Lord hath shewed himselfe in this case to mee his most vnworthy seruant and the rather to cause all other Prentises to thinke themselues not miserable but most happy when the Lord hath set ouer them such

matters as giue them deserued correction with wisedome discretion For certainly my Brethren had not I had such a master whose care and diligence hath beene so great ouer me in restraining mee from that scope liberty which my wretched and vntamed nature did desire it had beene better a thousand times I had neuer beene borne For my bringing vp from my childhood vntill the time I came to my master was most miserable and wretched by reason of my sinnes and the ignorance wherein I liued as the case of too too many is in these daies yea and since I came to be a Prentise vntill of late time my life was most odious and abominable both in the sight of GOD and Man But blessed bee the name of the Lord who hath giuen me a good master to hold me backe that I could not be so wicked as I would and hath now also in some measure opened mine eies which haue beene a long time kept shut that I might see how to wind my feet out of the snare of Satan Therefore my deere Brethren vnto all those I speake that desire to bee partakers of the heauenly ioyes in the life to come shew yourselues obedient to your masters and submit your selues vnder the yoake yea although it bee irksome to the flesh for you knowe nor the great profit and rewarde that commeth thereby Vngodlinesse of Prentises But certainly in griefe I speake it Prentises for the most part were neuer so leaudly and so wickedly giuen neuer so vaine and so licentious neuer so full of scoffing and derision neuer so insolent and contemptuous of God and good men as they be in these dayes For we are so apt to be corrupted and being corrupted to corrupt partly by reason of our nature and partly of the place that vnlesse our Masters be the more circumspect in bringing of vs vp the soules of many thousand Prentises will be required at their hands impunitie boldening vs in sinne and sinne deceitfully hardening our hearts that all thought of repentance is put away from vs or if any shall friendly remember vs his best thanke is a mock for his labour When inquisition shall be made for bloud of soules I would euery one could stand forth say Not guiltie but the Prentises themselues But I feare greatly that the Masters will be to blame in that day also and be put to their shifts for a currant answer when they shall find none For without offence to any man I will speake a little where is that Master almost that questions with his seruants about any religion at all It may be sometimes he will send them to Church but when they returne what doth he aske them of their learning or profiting there vnlesse perhaps once at the hundreds end hee vouchsafe to knowe the chapter and verse of the Text which betweene the Church-doore and home euen a Parrot wold be taught to pronounce Let him send any of his people of some worldly businesse and hee will be sure to aske him how he sped and nothing will he leaue vnasked to vnderstand the effect of the errand hee sent him about but for Gods businesse and soule matters be they performed negligently or not done at all it mattereth not he is sure no account will be required of any such thing all the time of his prentiship And this is the reason that seruants depart as ignorant after they haue serued seuen or eight yeares seruice as they were when they came first not of their trades I meane of that which is more worth then all the trades in the worlde For a man shall profit much to know God The true knowledge of God will bring more sound profit in one day to a man then the best trade in London will doe in seuen yeares For godlinesse is profitable vnto all things saith the Apostle as hauing the blessings of this life and of that which is to come Howbeit some there be in London that I knowe and more I doubt not that I knowe not which vse good orders in their houses to the generall good of their families and I desire the Lord to increase their number But a hundred to one neuer spent any time with their seruants in the exercises of religion no not so much as to call them to prayers either morning or euening once in a yeare whereas they are bound in duty to God to do it euery morning euening and although there were no coÌ„mandement from God nor president in this kind yet very necessity and the sloth of youth should coÌ„straine vs surely if masters would care as they should to traine vp their housholds in the feare of god in the practise of good things it could not be that London should harbor so many vngodly PreÌ„tises or that diuers men shold coÌ„plain as they do of seruants leaudnes that they cannot thriue in the world for they haue good meanes of getting but is spent they cannot tell how so soone as it is gotten Alas how can it be any otherwise if their seruants be not taught the feare of GOD and to keep a good coÌ„science how is it possible that euer they should haue any true seruice at their hands But some will say againe this is not so for by experience I can speake this of a truth that for mine own part I neuer instructed my folks in all my life in any religion at all No I neuer heard them so much as to read a chapter and yet I thanke God he hath blessed me with good seruaÌ„ts For I finde my riches to increase and I thriue well and therefore it is not the bringing of them vp in religion that makes a man come forward in the world but if his fortune be good wealth with come on Fortune no no it is the great handy work of GOD in some mens seruants that hunger and thirst after righteousnesse and seeke more for saluation then their masters be aware of or else their poore soules might be cast away and perish for euer and then who knowes not that such a man thriues for his seruants sake as Laban did for Iacobs and as Potiphar did for Iosephs Or it may be GOD casts his blessings into thy lap euen against all meanes to stirre thee vp to greater thankfulnesse and care to serue him afterwards or else to leaue thee the more vnexcusable in his great iudgement for not performing such duty and seruice And therefore let none cast surmises of excuse to colour or shift out the matter any longer but wherein it appeareth to your owne consciences you haue beene negligent make amends with more care hereafter aske not which of your neighbours doth thus and thus and if they do it not you meane not to begin But resolue you with Ioshua let others take what course they will I and my house will serue the Lord. Let your people see you going before them in the practise of euery good thing and in the abhorring and

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