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A47519	The true interest of families, or, Directions how parents may be happy in their children, and children in their parents to which is annexed a discourse about the right way of improving our time / by a divine of the Church of England ; with a preface by A. Horneck.	Kirkwood, James, 1650?-1709.	1692 (1692)	Wing K651; ESTC R24423	91,974	261

is the first Commandment in the Law with Promise and to let you see how God delights in your honouring your Parents and obeying their wholesom Counsels he hath singled out that Precept and dress'd it with more than ordinary encouragements But then the Honour you shew them must not spend it self in some outward Civilities but must be expressed in Actions in Speeches and in Patience according to the Advice of the Son of Syrach Ecclesiastic 3.12 13 14. In Actions so as to execute their lawful Commands with great alacrity and fidelity to labour and to take pains for their maintenance and support if they are fallen to decay and to relieve their necessities according to your ability In Words and Speeches so as to speak honourably of them to answer them with humility to comfort them when they are in trouble and to pacifie them with soft language when they are angry and displeased In Patience so as to bear their anger patiently and to endure their frowardness and pettishness without contradiction to receive their severer Commands and such as are contrary to your genius and inclination with gentleness and to do them without murmuring These are Duties which draw more than ordinary Blessings upon you God that sees you do so will have thoughts of peace towards you he will be concerned for you and you may be confident he will not leave you nor forsake you In honouring your Parents you honour your selves It 's that which will not only procure you favour with God but with men too It 's upon this account that Wise men have recorded the Dutifulness of some excellent Children and made them immortal by their Writings and there are such Examples of this filial Respect even among the Heathen that it would be odious and dreadful if the Children of Christians should fall short of their Duty God lays so great a stress upon it that as he promises the kindest things to it so he threatens as severe punishments where it is neglected and that he doth not only threaten but execute these Judgments any man may see that will take notice of his Providences But all this the Reader will be more fully convinced of by reading the following Discourse which that God may bless with success and edification shall be my hearty Prayer A. Horneck ADVICE TO PARENTS BY A Divine of the Church of England LONDON Printed for S. Lowndes near the Savoy-Gate in the Strand 1690. THE CONTENTS Of Advice to Parents PART I. THE Introduction shewing the great Importance of the right Education of Children Pag. 1 How Parents ought to be affected while Children are yet in the Womb. 2 How they ought to he affected when their Children are born 3 The Duties of Parents for their Childrens Souls 1. Duty To Consecrate them to God in Baptism 4 2. Duty to season their minds betimes with good Impressions 7 3 Duty to teach them to pray 9 4. Duty to observe carefully their Temper and Disposition and to endeavour to reform what is amiss therein 12 5. Duty to see that they be taught to read 18 Great care ought to be taken what Books they read 20 6. Duty to bring them to the place of publick Worship so soon as they are fit for it 23 7. Duty to make them understand their Baptismal Covenant 24 The Benefit of Confirmation if performed in a right manner 25 8. Duty to encourage them to come to the Lord's Table 28 9. Duty to take care that they accustom themselves to self-Examination 30 Some plain and easie Directions how to Examin themselves 31 32 c. 10. Duty to observe what Providences they meet with and to acquaint them therewith in due time 36 Some Directions to Parents how to render their Endeavours Effectual 1. Direction They must give their Children good Example 37 2. They must chuse good Company for them 38 Advice to Parents who send their Children abroad to Travel 31 3 They must as need requires reprove and chasten their Children and how 42 The Evil of too great Severity 44. 4. They must carefully improve the time of their Childrens sickness or of any other afflictions they meet with towards the making of them wiser and better 45 5. They must daily pray to God for them 47 Some Motives to excite Parents to do these things 1. Motive from the Divine Command 48 2. Motive from its being a Work worthy of the utmost care and pains of Parents 49 3. Motive from the Rewards which attend those who faithfully do these things 51 4. Motive from the sad effects which attend the neglect of these Duties 52. PART II. The Duties of Parents as to their Childrens Bodies 1. Duty it belongs to the Mother to give suck to her Children 56 2. Duty about Childrens dyet 58 3. Duty about Childrens Apparel 59 The Duty of Parents as to the outward Estate of their Children 1. Duty about chusing a fit trade for their Children 61 2. Duty about disposing of them in Marriage 62 3. Duty about providing somewhat that may be the foundation for their comfortable subsistence in the World 65 The above mentioned particulars earnestly recommended to Parents 68 An Appendix concerning the Duty of Parents when God removeth their Children by Death 1. They ought to consider that it is the Lord who does it 75 2. They ought to consider that their Children were born mortal 76 3. They should consider from whence and whither they are gone 81 4. They should consider that there will be a Resurrection 86 5. They should consider that their giving way to excessive grief and mourning can do no good but will certainly do a great deal of hurt 88 Some Forms of Prayer which Parents may teach their Children according to their Age. 93 THE CONTENTS OF Advice to Children THE Introduction 103 1. Duty of Children to honour their Parents And how they are to honour them 104 Against those who dishonour their rents 107 2. Duty of Children to obey their Parents 110 Against Stubborn and disobedient Children 112 3. Duty of Children to be determined by their Parents as to their Calling 114 Against Children who neglect this Duty 116 4. Duty of Children not to suffer themselves to be bestowed in marriage against their Parents will 118 Against those Children who neglect this Duty 120 5. Duty of Children to submit to their Parents Reproofs and chastenings 120 Against Rebellious Children 122 6. Duty of Children to love their Parents and how they are to express their Love 124 Against unkind and unnatural Children 127 7. Duty of Children to pray for their Parents 128 Against Cursers of Parents 129 Motives to excite Children to do these things 1. Motive from the Authority of him who commands them to do these things 131 2. Motive from the Promise made to those who do their Duty 133 3. Motive from the Example of our Blessed Master 136 4. Motive from the Examples of some Heathens 139 The Conclusion shewing how Children ought to improve what hath been

much as I ought to have done to know thee and to do thy Will but have done my own will in many things and followed my own foolish and sinful inclinations I have broken many of thy most Holy and Just Laws in thought word and deed * Here they may make a particular Confession of their Sins whereby I have deserved thy Wrath and Curse Father of Mercies have mercy upon me forgive me all my sins for Jesus Christ his sake who dyed for sinners Give me a true and hearty Repentance for all mine Iniquities that I may not wilfully break thy Laws any more Lord never leave me nor forsake me Hold up my goings in thy Paths that my footsteps may not slide Grant that henceforth I may love thee with all my heart and may be afraid to sin against thee Work in me a true Faith and a lively hope make me humble meek and patient sober and temperate in all things Charitable and compassionate towards all that are in distress true and faithful in my words and sincere and upright in my Actions well content and thankful in every condition of Life and zealous for thy Glory Grant that I may daily grow in Grace and spiritual Knowledge Create in me a clean Heart and renew a right Spirit wethin me and cause me to walk in thy ways O Lord send thy Gospel through the World pour our plentifully the Blessings of thy holy Spirit on all thy People Bless and preserve our King and Queen Guide our Judges and Magistrates Sanctifie and assist the Ministers of the Gospel Be with all my Friends and Relations particularly bless and preserve my Father and Mother Reward them for their care and kindness towards me Make me a loving and dutiful Child unto them * If there be any Brothers or Sisters he may pray for them and for Grandfather and Grandmother if they be alive Comfort all that are in trouble and sanctifie their afflictions to them I thank thee O Lord for thy care of me this Night Watch over over me this day Bless and direct me in all I do or say Keep me mindful that I am always in thy sight that I may be in thy fear all the day long Cause me to remember that I must shortly dye and come to judgment that I may not mispend my precious time but employ it in a constant and chearful Obedience to thy holy and righteous Laws that when this vain and short life is at an end I may be made partaker of everlasting Life through Jesus Christ our Lord in whose Holy Name and words I pray Our Father c. This Prayer may serve likewise at Night until you come to the last part which begins with these words I thank thee O Lord for thy care of me this Night c. instead thereof you may say as follows I thank thee O Lord for thy care of me this day watch over me this Night and grant me quiet repose save me from every Evil thing for the sake of thy dear Son Jesus Christ in whose Holy Name and words I conclude my imperfect Prayers saying Our Father c. ADVICE TO CHILDREN BY A Divine of the Church of England LONDON Printed for S. Lowndes near the Savoy-Gate in the Strand ADVICE TO CHILDREN THERE is scarce any thing wherein all Nations and Men of all Religions do more agree than in the Common Duties of Children to their Parents Neither is there any thing that tends more to the comfort and happiness the beauty and strength of Society than for Children to perform all those Duties which they owe to their Parents And yet hew sad is it to think that a great many Children who have not only all the advantages which natural Religion affords but likewise the assistance of Divine Revelation do nevertheless carry themselves in that manner towards their Parents as if they either understood nothing of their Duty or were most prodigiously perverse and resolved to rebel against the Light to trample upon all the Principles both of Natural and Revealed Religion The Design of this short Treatise is to shew what the Duties of Children are towards their Parents and to suggest some Considerations to excite them to do their Duty 1. Duty of Children to honour their Parents and how they are to honour them First Children are bound to honour their Parents which imports First That they should entertain respectful and reverend thoughts of them as being under God the Authors of their Life and Being they must not think slightingly and under valuingly of their Parents whatever be their weaknesses and imperfections They ought to hate and abhor their Vices every thing in them that is evil dishonourable to God and contrary to his Laws and Commandments but still they ought to love and honour their persons And if at any time disrespectful and irreverend thoughts arise in their minds they ought to check them to accuse and be angry with themselves for them and to call to mind what God hath commanded them to do when he saith Honour thy father and thy mother that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee Secondly This imports that they ought to express their inward Reverence and Esteem by all the outward marks and demonstrations thereof in their words and deeds their looks and gestures these things are the Picture of the Mind they ordinarily represent the temper and disposition thereof so that if there be any thing of real esteem and regard towards any body in the heart it will discover it self by some of those outward expressions We see how Solomon carried himself towards his Mother 1 Kings 2.19 Bathsheba went unto King Solomon to speak unto him for Adonijah And the King rose up to meet her and bowed himself unto her and sate down on his Throne and caused a seat to be set for the King's Mother and she sate on his right hand Children are more apt to carry themselves irreverently and slightingly towards their Mother which is the reason as some think that she is set down first Lev. 19.3 Ye shall fear every man his mother and his father Thirdly This imports that they ought to cover the infirmities and weaknesses the imperfections and indiscretions of their Parents to do as Shem and Japhet did Gen. 9.23 when Noah their Father was drunken and was uncovered within his Tent. They took a garment and laid it upon both their shoulders and went backwards and covered the nakedness of their father and their faces were backward and they saw not their fathers nakedness Children are not to publish the faults and follies of their Parents but ought to conceal them all that they can However there are two things very consistent with this Duty First Children may and ought to do all that they can by their private modest and humble Advice to reclaim their Parents from their sinful practices Secondly If they find it not so fit for them immediately to advise