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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
faith_n	circumcision_n	covenant_n	seal_n	7,337	5	9.8059	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33522	A fruitfull and usefull discourse touching the honour due from children wherein both the respective duties of children to parents and of parents to children are cleared from Scripture, together with what may either further or hinder the same ... / by Thomas Cobbet.	Cobbet, Thomas, 1608-1685.	1656 (1656)	Wing C4777; ESTC R29964	162,603	256

Honour of Respect Reverence Obedience and Recompence to Fathers of our flesh and such carrying of it so by Children as it redoundeth to parents honour as we have largely declared O what Honour of Respect Reverence Obedience and holy Recompence to him and what manner of carrying of it so as may redound to his Honour doth God expect from you his Chldren to whom he is not only a Father of your Spirit or Soul as he is to all others but a Covenant-Father If God require that to Parents from their Children upon pain of life and death he much more requireth this from you his Covenant and Church-Children upon pain of loss of eternal life and undergoing eternal death But is that the Honour of Respect which you who are degenerate Children give to this your Father to have no desire of the knowledge of his wayes As it is said of that degenerate generation in Job 21. 14 15. whether those in Jobs own time or those before the floud of whom Job 22. 15 16 17 18. but to wish rather what those wretches there mentioned that God might depart from you in respect of any such motions which he maketh and convictions and restraints upon your Spirits which sometimes you meet with and to take no delight at all in God in his word worship wayes daies government Saints and Servants Or is this the honour of Reverence which you give him to be awless fearless of his presence when you are in his house when at Prayer with your Parents or the like and to be constantly fearless of his displeasure or of sinning against him Or is this the Honour of Obedience which you give him to obey the motions of your own hearts lusts of your Companions of Seducers and of the very Divell himself but as for Gods charge or Commands you make light of them So that God may say of you as he did of that degenerate generation of old and speak of it as inter horrenda Hear O Heavens and give ear O earth for the Lord hath spoken I have nourished Children and they have rebelled against me the Oxe knoweth his owner the Ass his Masters Crib but Israel doth not know my people doth not consider Ah sinfull Nation Children that are corruptors they have forsaken the holy one they are gone away backward Isa 1. 2 3 4. And as Isa 30. 9. This is a rebellious people lying Children Children that will not hear the law of the Lord. Or is this the honour of holy Recompence which you should have rendered to him for all his benefits towards you to depart from him to vex and provoke his holy Spirit which is striving with you as he was with that degenerate generation in Gen. 6. 2 3. to corrupt your selves as did that other generation mentioned Deut. 32. 5. whose spot was not the spot of Children or of right-bred children of God who were a crooked and perverse generation Surely God may and doth say to you as he did by Moses to them vers 6. Do you thus requite the Lord O foolish people and unwise is not he thy Father that hath bought thee hath not he made and established thee finally is this your being an honour to God your heavenly father to cause the name of God to be blasphemed and the way of truth to be evill spoken of for your sakes as it may be said of you which was said of those degenerate Jewes Rom. 2. 23. Thou that makest thy boast of the law through breaking of the law dishonourest thou God vers 24. For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you when such as you are by your vile speeches carriages opinions or courses of life shall occasion the prophaner sort or enemies to God and his Church Ironically to say as they of old did of those degenerate Jewes Ezech. 36. 20. These are the people of the Lord So by your meanes others now a daies to say of you Yea these are your younger generation of the Church these are those that are in the Covenant of grace these are your Church-members these are they which in their Infant-Baptism were devoted to the faith and worship of Father Son and Holy Ghost these are the brood of such Puritan Ministers and other precise followers and the like blasphemous sarcasmes wherin the Lords precious name together with his Truth Covenant Saints and Servants are also vilely reproached Again as such Children are Gods Servants and Children so they are by externall calling Covenant and Church Interest his subjects also Of them is Gods kingdome Luk. 18. 16 17. Now for His Subjects such as you are who are the subjects of the Lord thus to break your Oath or Covenant of Allegiance and to reject his goverment over you by his Word Spirit or Discipline like those degenerate Jewes who said of the promised Messiah Jesus Christ We will not have this man to rule over us Luke 19. 27. Hereby you do but rebel against your Lord and Soveraign and what is rebellion but as the sin of witchcraft 1 Sam. 15. 23. even a hellish execrable and damnable crime But to proceed to the other branches of the evill of sin in this degeneration of such Children In which we shall be more brief 2. Hereby you become breakers of Covenant 2. It is a breach of Covenant with God with God with whom you are confederate Yea you hereby tear off the very seal of the Covenant even your Baptism Thus God when telling Moses how that people would degenerate he saith Deut. 31. 20. They would break his Covenant so Isaiah charging the degenerate generation in his daies also with their sin he saith Isa 24. 5. They have transgressed the Lawes they have broken the everlasting Covenant And as for invalidating after a sort of the Covenant-seal thereby you may see it in those degenerate ones mentioned even now Rom. 2. 25. If thou be a breaker of the law thy Circumcision which to them was the seal of the Covenant and of the righteousness of faith as Baptism is to us Gen. 10. 11 13. Rom. 4. 11. is made uncicumcision and so ineffectuall It is as it were torn off and trampled under foot through that sin of theirs Now if this be so heinous a thing with men to break Covenant with Princes to tear off tread under foot their broad seals how evill is this in Gods sight and if that breach of a Covenant made before God even with a tyrant by Zedechiah were so grievous to God that as Ezech. 17. 15 16 17. he saith Shall he escape that doth such things or shall he break Covenant and be delivered So I may say here to these degenerate Children of the godly shall such as you are escape the fiery displeasure of God that do such things or shall you that break Gods Covenant be delivered from wrath to come no assuredly unlesse the Lord give you repentance unto life And consider of it in the fear of God

grandmother Lois and then in her Daughter Eunice and then in her young Son Timothy 2 Tim. 1. 5. This holy Parentall industry in such instructions and education of their Children it is Gods own ordinance Eph. 6. 4. and Prov. 22. 6. and therefore one of Gods ordinary waies and means to effect saving good in Children therefore in an ordinary way his Blessing is upon it as upon any other Ordinance of his Hence that engagement of God Train up a Child in the way he shall go Parents do you instruct and educate your Children well and through my Blessing it shall come about that they shall not alone be towardly for a time but in their old age it will stick by them they will not apostatize nor degenerate therefrom Hence that ingagement of the Lord touching Abrahams faithfull care and endeavour with his Children Gen. 18. 19. I know Abraham that he will command his Children and his household after him and they shall keep the way of the Lord that God might bring upon Abraham that which he hath promised And here give me leave a little to clear up that place in Gen. 14. 14. He armed his trained servants born in his house trained servants namely to his religion not to warlike affaires onely or chiefly so in the Margen of your greater Bibles it is well rendred instructed it is the same Hebrew word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 used there as is used in Prov. 22. 6. Train up a Child c. Or as the Geneva notes have it there Train up a Child virtuously when he is young Nor is that Hebrew word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whence that word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his trained ones Gen. 14. 14. is taken ever used so farr as I can find in Scripture but in a religious sense it is used for dedicating a thing to holy use Numb 7. 10 11 84 88. 1 King 8. 63. 2 Chron. 7. 5 9. Ezra 6. 16 17. Nehem. 12. 27. Deut. 20. 5. Psalm 30. Title It is used in Dan. 3. 23. for the consecrating of that Idoll which though an abuse yet still the word noteth a religious sense of it and possibly godly Jared the Father of Enoch did therefore call his Son 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is a dedicated a devoted one one to be trained up and initiated from a very Child to the Lord and to his use as it seemed he was proved a very worthy man one that walked long with God himself Gen. 5. and was of publick good use to others as Judg. 11. sheweth I have the more largely insisted upon these passages respecting Abraham and his Family 1. Because Abraham hath his name to be a Father of all believers Gen. 17. 5. Who amongst them have that blessing amongst others to be accomplished which is mentioned Gen. 12. 3. In thee shall all families of the earth be blessed which as in the first place it looketh to Christ comming out of Abrahams Loins in whom they should all be blessed so in a second place in and through Christ it is fulfilled in all and each of Abrahams beleeving seed who becoming Fathers Mothers of Families shall also become by the blessing of grace upon their Covenant-interests Prayers and holy diligence in matters of education Blessings to their respected Families throughout all the earth So that hence also godly Parents may be incouraged to take paines in Vertuous and Religious education of their Children in that it is a Covenant-blessing to them in their Father Abrahams Charter for them that they shall become Blessings to their Families Hence also in one tespect among others Christ sayed This day is salvation come to this house for as much as he also Zacheus is become a Child of Abraham Lu. 19. 9. Hence also that Act. 16. 31. Beleeve in the Lord Jesus thou shalt be saved thy house 2. That it might appear what a Family-church Abraham had in his house the adult circumcised ones were all proselited and such as from very Childhood gave pledges of fearing God through their good education for they were Sons of his house or born there most of them Gen. 14. 14. with 17. Gen. 23. He circumcised all that were born in his house Such as Eliezer is said to be Gen. 15. 3. A Son of his house or born there and how godly a man he was let his works declare Gen. 24. 2 9 12 15 21 26 27 33 42 43 44 45 48 49 52 56. and how godly the rest were may be gathered by their conscionable obedience to Abraham who therefore could undertake that on all their behalf mentioned Gen. 14. 23. The Angel spake also of Abraham by experience of what was already when he sayed Gen. 18. 19. I have found him such an one by experience That he will command his Children and household after him they shall keep his way he that had so done will do so and indeed beeing most of them Sons of his house or born there therefore faithfull Abraham must needs see them so educated from their very Childhood that they might walk in Gods wayes 3. That it may be seen in our Father Abrahams Church how exactly carefull God was that the Children of godly proselites and members of the Church might be admitted to the seal of the covenant of the righteousness of faith as it is called Gen. 17. 11 13. My Covenant in their flesh i seal of it Ro. 4. circumcision the seal of righteousnesse of faith Y●● was Abrahams Church no Jewish Church all but Abraham and Sarah being not of Eber but of other Ancestors Nor was it a nationall Church for they were all one intire congregation in covenant with God and each other implicitly at least and meeting constantly in one place to wor-God together as 600 might very well do if that 300. Genesis 14. were doubled that the weight of such pious educating of Children may appear namely to be Gods appointed means of good of grace in Children as the meanes for the full effecting of the promises of grace as the end which promises are made to godly Parents with respect to their children namely that God will be a God to them c. Gen. 17. 7. and 18. 19. For so God saith to this Father and pattern believer He will command his Children and they shall walk in his waies that God may bring upon Abraham in his Children also what he hath spoken of him with respect also to his Children Hence David in his instructing of Solomon taketh up the like speech 1 King 23. 4. and keep the Charge of the Lord that God may confirm his word and that promise in the generall Gen. 17. 7. being not of an absolute but of a conditionall nature So that the greatest love and faithfulness which Parents as Covenanters can shew to God and to their Children who in and with themselves are joynt Covenanters with God is so to educate them that what in them lieth the conditions of the