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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15695	A childes patrimony laid out upon the good culture or tilling over his whole man. The first part, respecting a childe in his first and second age.	Woodward, Ezekias, 1590-1675.	1640 (1640)	STC 25971; ESTC S120251	379,238	456

debter Suppose we the most dutifull and observant childe standing forth that ever yet was clothed with sinfull flesh telling the reciprocation of his duty and mutuall workings thereof towards The name and nature of the Stork Heb. his mother that he hath done towards her as the young Stork to the old the same say the Naturalists which once the old did to the young suppose all this the Mother could 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hesiod c. Quinta aetas Homer Iliad 4. Lege Hex Basilii Hom. 8. answer all in few words Remember childe if thou canst the turnings of my stomacke not the least part of my sorrows the pains I felt every one as so many daggers to the heart sinking my spirits and throwing up my tyred breath as if I should never take it in again Should the mother say no more but this what she suffered for the childe though much she did for it afterwards And there is more then nature in it say some that so much she did unto it when it lay like a b Hom Odys l. 6. ●●cretius man after a shipwrack cast up upon the shoare the most forlorne and helplesse creature that can be thought of in the world Should she I say but tell what she suffered for the childe when in the wombe and bringing thence she hath answered all the childe can say and left it farre in her books so farre that it can never get out death only cancells that bond The parent and the childe can never cut scores or strike tallyes for they can never lye even And so much that thou may est honour thy Mother for then thou art as a Ecclus. 3. 4. one that layeth up a blessing Mark that for by the rule of contraries he that dishonours the Mother is as one that layeth up a curse Honour thy Mother and forget it not † 2. Thy Father too look to it thou dost not set light by A se migrat ab homine totus transit in bestiam paterne pietatis immemor gratiae genitoris oblius Chrysol de prodego Ser. 2. him so thou dost do it thou dost set light by his admonitions For that is a sinne which calleth down a curse from the Almightie And though I should not plead my right and thy dutie yet the Lord would do both Nay it I should pray against the curse as God forbid I should forbeare to do yet would it according to Gods ordinary dispensation certainly fall the arme of flesh being too short to keep it off He is the God of Recompences He looks up on the breach of that sacred band betwixt parents and children a Si gravaris auscultare pa● ontibus esto dicto audious carnfici quod si neque haic obedire sicstines obeduo 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Catachis Lutb and will require it That which Luther speaks is very notable and may winne much upon a stubborn childe if any thing will If thy neck be so stiffe that thou wilt not bow nor bend nor relent by all the perswasions entreaties of thy parents then expect that the Executioner shall bend thee If thou wilt not heare what thy parents say for thy instruction thou art like to heare what the Hangman saith for thy cutting off and destruction b Prov. 17. 11. Carnifex Trem. Ephes 6. 1. Sicut post Deum d●ligere parentes pietas est sic plus quàm Deum impietas Chrysost in Mat. Lat. tantum Hom 26. A cruell messenger shall be sent to a Son of rebellion If thou wilt not put thy necke under the yoke thy parents would put upon thee which is no other but what God enjoyneth and for thy good annexing a large blessing thereunto If thou wilt not submit to this easie and sweet yoke In the Lord for this is right thou must then submit to an iron yoke in putting thy neck into the executioners halter for that is but just So Doctor Lu. speaks in our plain English and addes thereto That the experience of all Ages have evidenced the Truth thereof And for the yet clearer evidencing the same This I adde further I have been young and am not farre from being old but never saw I a dutifull childe that went away without his blessing nor a childe stubborn and undutifull to prosper a Hist of the World 2. 13. 5. pag. 361. The debts of crueltie and mercy are never left unsatisfied saith one in another case we may say the same in this case Disobedience to parents ever receives its due punishment No lesse then a thousand witnesses give in cleare evidence hereunto and it is worth our giving our eare unto them and our eye also For therefore are judgements wrought in the earth that they might be had in continuall remembrance like a great mountain still in the Travellers Eye It was written for our Instruction That he who rose up against his father left behinde him no other then an heape of stones a monument of his shame and a pillar the onely 2 Sam 18. 17 18. memoriall of his name Examples there are an heape of them of more fresh and bleeding memory which I shall passe over and recall to minde Times further off and give instance only in two who because they are very great examples examples are rules and yeeld us the shortest plainest and most certaine Instruction being persons of the highest ranke and qualitie are I conceive the fuller of use to those of the meanest The first is concerning Robert Duke of Normandy eldest sonne to William the first of England so famous for his conquest there This sonne was stain'd saith my Author with this only fault Disobedience to his father if I forget not he tooke up Armes against him thrice and once un hors'd his father and wounded him in his arme ignorantly saith the Author not knowing him to be his father for when he did he hasted to remount him humbly craving pardon this now requires our mark This Roberts younger brothers ●S Daniel p. 41. succeeded in their Fathers Throne William the second and Henry the first Robert puts hard for the Crown against King Henry his youngest Brother and obtains the payment of three thousand Marks by the yeer and the reversion of the Crowne a succession in his Brothers Throne in case he survived Thus they capitulated and on these termes they stood for the present Robert safe in Normandy and Henry in England But contentions betwixt brothers and betwixt them for a Crown are like the Barrs of a Castle once two never one again Quickly after the fire of contention raked under cold Embers burnt out again betwixt the two brothers Kings love not to know their heire unlesse he come out of their own bowels and consumed divers worthy men in a mightie battell whereby England won Normandy and one the same day such are the turnings in humane affaires whereon fortie yeers before Normandy overcame England And here Robert who stood

in a faire possibilitie of two Crowns of England and Ierusalem was deprived of his hopes there in both places and of his Dutchy also of all he had But there ended not his Tragedy Out of Normandy he was brought prisoner into England and committed to the Castle of Cardiffe where to adde to his misery he had the misfortune of a long life surviving after he had lost himselfe twentie six yeers whereof the most part he saw not having his eyes put out whereby he was only left to his thoughts A punishment barbarously inflicted on him for attempting an escape but wherein we may see the righteous Acts of God withering those armes which were reached forth against the hands which embrac'd him in his swadling clothes as the old Father speaks to his Andronicus See Turkish Story pag 158. and suffering those eyes to be pickt out that set so light by him out of whose loynes he descended Gods Iudgements are as the great deepe and we are too shallow to conceive of them but what lyeth on the top or surface as it were we may take for our use and that we have heard The next is concerning Edward the third of England He stept over his Fathers head to his Throne That was not the Sons fault saith the Author for he had the Crown by resignation from his Father But Crowns are not easily parted with The sonnes of Zerviah were too hard for him The Father was over-powred so just was Gods judgement upon him that before gave up his power to the lusts of others who quickly set that under-foot which is every mans The Law is every mans master M. A●rel Ant. lib. 10. Med●t 25. pag. 171. master and so made their King and people miserable and then he must resigne what he could not keepe so the Sonne was put in the Throne and the Father thrust out And persons of such eminency seldome finde a meane betwixt the highest floud of honour and the lowest a No mea●e between highest and not●●ng Tacit. supp●e p. ● ebbe of disgrace If they ●all from their pinnacle seldome do they meet with any stop till they fall to the bottome The Father now unking'd was most miserably contemned most despitefully used and then in a most hideous manner murdered He was forc'd such instruments defac'd Majestie meet with-all to sit on a Mole hill whilst he was shaven and washed with cold water out of a ditch but indeed he told them that in despight of them he would have warme water at his Barbing and therewith shed aboundance of teares Other vile reproaches were put upon him as if he had not been anoynted with oyle b 2. Sam. 1. 21. and quickly after his savage ●aylour muthered him by thrusting up an hot Iron into his bowels thorow an hollow instrument whereby no outward note might appeare to bewray how he came by his death so they gave out that he dyed of extreame griefe and so he did indeed and of paine to boote Though this were not the sonnes fault so saith the Relatour and it needs not our debate yet the sonne had a punishment and in a most high kinde which requires our marke for having so plentifull and able an Issue-Male as none before him or since seven sonnes whereof five lived to have issue he had not yet a sonne of his own to sit upon his seat He left his kingdome worse then he found it and a great Inheritance like a large summe divided into Fractions all was rent from him before he died excepting onely the poore Town of Calais So concludeth the storie and his life which secureth those of the highest degree a Gen. 41. 32. That their Throne is established in righteousnesse a conclusion doubled twice as the dreame b Prov. 20. 28. 25. 5. 29. 14. because of its certaintie And it instructeth those of the lowest degree That they be subject to the fathers of their bodies and that the sonne thrust not into his fathers place before he be fairely removed and cold in his grave It teacheth the childe to honour the father and to see to it That no despight be done unto him which the childe can possibly keepe off And so much that thou mayest learn to honour thy mother and thy father so I invert the order for this time and that thou mayest not set light by either so shalt thou escape the curse and as was said be as one that layeth up a treasure And now having digress'd a little that thou mightest the better learne thy dutie at the wombe and see how thou art engaged unto it I returne againe to Him to whom all honour and praise and thanks are due for there we left § 2. Thou must yet take further notice of Gods good hand towards thee and of the wonderfulnesse of His work for the goodnesse of God must interveine all along which way soever our method leadeth but while we are upon this point it must be wonderfull in our eyes It is not necessary nor is it my care to set my words in such an exact order or posture as figures stand in Arithmeticke whereof if one be Quis artem quaerit ubi affectus dominatur out of order all are out of tale it is not so in words Consider then He that gave thee roomth in the world and bid thee stand out when there was no need of thee might have refused that any should have been at further cost and trouble with thee save only to wrap thee up in a winding-sheet instead of swadling thee in a blanket He that took thee from the wombe might the same moment of Time have sent thee to the grave and from thence to thine own place the Acts 1. 25. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nethermost parts of the earth where it is I know not but the farthest off from Him who prepared it of old and our Deus non expectabat Angelos Amb. own place it is the proper and just inheritance of a sinner Thus He might have dealt with thee thus quick and short as He was with those who were once farre more excellent Gods patience to a sinner is the purchase of blood the fruit of the Gospel then thou art now and yet salling from God the chiefe good they fell from their happinesse into a bottomlesse gulph of irrecoverable misery and both at one instant In the same moment of Time they sinn'd they also fell and so fell that they shall never rise again Take notice then thou must of Gods exceeding goodnesse and patience towards thee in sparing and repreeving thee yet longer And despise not his patience and rich goodnesse but account that the Long-suffering of the Lord is salvation and 2. Pet. 3. 15. sith he hath graciously spared thee thus long Labour thou it is the Apostles word but too short of his meaning losing 2 Cor. 5 9. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 much of its weight in our tongue flat and dead to his