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enemy_n	sleep_v	sow_v	tare_n	1,022	5	12.2153	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

noble Theophilus To speak modestly of themselves Ma●k 10. 8. 17. Luke 1. 3. 1 Sam. 25. 41. as Abigail to Davids messenger Let thy handmaid be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my Lord. To salute lovingly as Boaz and his reapers The Lord be with you the Lord blesse thee And to thank for kindnesses Ruth 2. 4. as Paul to Aquila and Priscilla to whom not onely I give thanks but all the Rom. 16. 4. Churches of the Gentiles 3. In Gestures they must learn them To meet those that come towards them as Abraham did his strangers To rise before Gen. 18. 2. Levit. 19. 32. Gen. 18. their elders To stand before their betters as Abraham while his guests did eat To bow to them to whom they are subject as Solomon 1 Kings 2. 19. Luke 14 8. to his mother and to give the chief place to betters and to offer it to others of courtesie Oh what a bundle of pride would this dig out of childrens hearts before it come to a grown surliness and scorn 3. They must bring them up to labour either of body or of brain Idlenesse is a poyson to all especially to youth who by it have leisure to invent fantastical fashions or to gaze upon other fools in Israel and follow them Water be it never so clean with standing stinks and while men slept the enemy sowed tares So long as Sampson warred Matth. 13. he could never be overcome of the Philistims but when he idled it in Delilahs lap he lost strength eyes and life ere long It is true to trie a child to too much were severe nicenesse or paternal crueltie for 1 Cor. 13 when I was a childe I did as a childe But yet they must know as strength of body and parts increaseth they are born to labour not to loyter 4. They must subject them as they doe amisse to correction As it is not enough to plant a Vine except we prune and dresse it so nor is it enough to have children except we correct them We have the best example in the world and that is God correcting his children who must be our pattern God doth correct them with the rod of his Sonne Among the Romanes none that were free Acts 22. 25. born might be whipt but God correcteth every Heb. 12. 7. sonne and so must Parents God correcteth them in love He is angry with nothing in them but with their sinnes and so should it be with Parents Consul Brutus executed his trayterous sons Exuit patrem ut indueret consulem with his own hands he put off the father that he might put on the just Judge but Eli when his sonnes made themselves vile restrained them not Elies anger waxed luke-warm towards his sonnes and Gods anger 1 Sam. 2. Ira Ely tepuit in filios ira Dei exarsit in illum waxed hot against him He that will not correct will not take a knife as Abraham did though God bid him Again God moderates his correction He Lam. 2 stands like an adversary but in the midst of anger he remembers mercy and correcteth Hab. 3. with the rod of men Yea God measures out corrections answerable to sinnes He weighs a path for his anger by weight number measure So should Parents Though they correct with the rod of men yet if sonnes rise Psal 78. 50 to rebellion they must bring them forth and cast the first stone 3. They must bring up their children in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Admonition of the Lord to frame them like Christian men to this end 1. They must train them up religiously 2. They must guard their Religion and Pietie 1. In training them up religiously lies their greatest care and comfort by making their Children Gods children If Damatria could say I had rather have a Mallem habere filium mortuum quam bello inutilem dead sonne then to have a sonne unprofitable for warre much more should a Christian say I had rather have none then such as are uselesse to God If Aulus Fulvius said when his sonne Ego te non catilinae sed patriae genui was in Catilines conspiracie I begat thee not for Catiline but for thy Countrey much more should we say I begat not my children for the world flesh and devil but for God This training them religiously doth respect two things 1. Their admittance into the Church by Baptisme To have a childe the childe of the Church by Baptisme is the glory of a Christian He can not with truth and glory to God think that the children of the Jewes should have a greater priviledge then the children of Christians therefore as the first care of the Jew was for Circumcision so his first care is for Baptisme and Circumcision Col. 2. 11 12. that is made without hands 2. Their bringing up in the Church in the fear of God As in Ieremiah's visions God first shewed him the Rod of an Almond tree Jer. 1. 11. because it blossoms first so God likes the dayes of youth to be consecrated to God Therefore Parents must first instruct them so soon as they are capable It was a Law in Deut. 6. 7. 20. Psal 78. 5 6 Israel that the fathers should teach the children 2. They must instruct them according to their capacitie Train up a childe in his way saith Solomon as Iacob drave all his according Prov. 22. 6. to their paces They are like us in what they are unlike to God They may die in their youth and folly and then the sinnes of their youth will lie down with them in the dust They are born blind The first Adam was the Father of living ones the second Adam Pater viventium pater aeternitatis patres caecorum the Father of Eternitie and we are the Fathers of the blind Our bringing them up in Gods fear may by Gods blessing be a means of opening their eyes that they may be turned from darkness Acts 28. Col. 1. to light and brought out of the kingdome of darknesse into the kingdome of Gods dear Sonne 3. They must so near as they can make choise of the best masters for them As Moses had the chief instructer for the sciences of Egypt so Iehoash had good Iehojadah This among others is reckoned a cause of Iulians Apostacie that he had two wicked Heathens to be his masters Libanus and Iamblicus 2. They must guard their Religion and Pietie three wayes First by putting them under Gods protection by dayly prayer Secondly By providing for them some lawfull imployment for God annointed Saul while he was seeking his fathers Asses David was taken from the sheepfold and two famous Prophets Elishah and Amos were taken the one from the plough the other from the herd Thirdly by disposing of them for the best advantage for their souls in marriage We have a precept Take wives to your sonnes and Jer. 29. 6.