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A43572	The best entail, or, Dying parents living hopes for their surviving children grounded upon the covenant of Gods grace, with believers and their seed, being a short discourse upon 2 Sam. 23, 5 : wherein is a collection of several covenant-promises to support the faith, and some pleas to direct and quicken the prayers of Gods covenanted people for their surviving posterity / by O.H. ...	Heywood, Oliver, 1629-1702.	1693 (1693)	Wing H1761; ESTC R40552	56,018	114

exercise Repentance and enquire what sin he is now punishing you for thus you may make a virtue of necessity Your defect of Children may prove an increase of your graces But take heed of despising the blessing or taking occasion of revelling away your Estates that 's an extream one way as penuriousness is unreasonable in you on the other hand both are sins to be avoided and mortified study Col. 3.5 Mortifie therefore your members which are upon the Earth Fornication Vncleanness Inordinate Affection Evil Concupisence and Covetousness which is Idolatry Away with all licentious practises live Chastly modestly moderately humbly diligently in both callings 3. Adopt some to be a Child or Children to you if you be persons of any Estates this is Mr. Paul Bains advice they must saith he not revel with their Substance nor must they live like idle persons and busy-bodies for want of this imployment but they must save the matter of their Estate and depute some as Adopted Children and be helpful in Educating others Thus he Adoption hath been used in all civilized nations and it is In alienam familiam transitus A passing legally out of one Family into another And amongst the Romans it was Aut per praetorium aut per populum That which was done by the Proetors was called Adoption That which was done by the People was called Arrogation They had many formalities about it needless here to be recounted But by this means you may have children whom you may account as your own you rich men that God hath denied the fruit of your bodies to have you no near kinsmen or poor neighbours to whom God hath granted a lovely off-spring surely it would be acceptable both to God them and your selves to pick out an ingenuous child help him to learning train him up for God bequeath your Estates to make an Experiment of him while you live So may you have comfort of him and he may bear up your name Do good with your Estate and be serviceable in Church and Commonwealth I know some rich men grudg and envy any that are likely to enter into their labours but as their glory will not descend after them so usually those Estates do no good when they are gone Psal 49.17 Eccl. 2.19 For who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool that shall have rule over his labour 4. Take more time and pains for the good of your own Souls and lay out your selves for the good of others if you be unmarried study that Text 1 Cor. 7.33 35. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord how he may please the Lord. Not that married persons have a Supersedeas or Quietus est from Soul-concerns But the un-married have a more leisure and fairer opportunity for immediate acts of Devotion Married persons have some divertisements in themselves lawful which un-married are free from The Married may have numerous Children and so have many distractions which Childless persons are not intangled in and so may Vacare Deo be more at leisure for God or as the word is attend on the Lord without distraction 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sit close to the Lord without Disjunction Indivisâ cum domino conjunctione vivatur like the faithful servants who depart not from their Masters side O happy souls who have an heart and leisure to keep so close to God! You have more time than others see your feet and hands and heart run parallel Your opportunities are double to others Let your improvement be doubled You have no children to lay up for Lay out the more for God He expects more from you than from others You have no children to maintain Honour the Lord with your substance Prov. 3.9 Buy Bibles and Catechisms for poor Children Maintain them at School Relieve the poor Incourage a Gospel Ministry Give the tenth part at least of your yearly incomes to charitable Uses Let your own hands be your Executors Trust not others when you are dead For as it is no thanks to you to bequeath Legacies when you are forced to leave all so you know not how they will be imbezelled or disbursed Besides you lose the opportunity of shewing your charitable Disposition Living Springs send forth streams liberally Dead Pits afford nothing but what is drawn out with Buckets Watch and catch at Objects and occasions of doing good Spare upon your selves but be liberal in good uses Let your Superfluities give way to your Brothers Conveniencies Your Conveniencies to his Necessities Yea your Necessities must go to supply his Extremities Fear not wanting your selves You put all into a good Bank Dare you not trust God upon his Bills of Return Promises If you lend to the Lord doubtless he will repay Do you fear the Alsufficient God will turn Bankrupt Consult the Experiences of Gods servants and see if the Jewish Proverb have not proved true Decima ut dives fias Pay Tythes that thou mayest be rich Remember what our Lord saith Luke 6.38 Give and it shall be given you good measure pressed down shaken together and running over shall men give into your bosomes CHAP. IX An Exhortation to Parents to have their Children within the blessed Covenant I Have dispatched the three first Exhortations 4. The last concerns all Parents to do their endeavour to the uttermost to bring their Children and leave them under this Covenant Alas What signifies your leaving them great Estates Hundreds a Year or Thousands of Gold and Silver in comparison of this David was a King and his many Sons Noble Princes and Solomon one of the most glorious Monarchs that ever the Sun saw so that it became a Proverb Solomon in all his glory Mat. 6.29 2 Chro. 11.15 Laurence Saunder writ to his Wife Riches I have none to endow you with but that treasure of tasting How sweet Christ is which I feel I bequeath to you Fox Mon. And David left him in peaceable possession of the Kingdom and the Lord magnified him exceedingly Yet all this did not cheer up dying Davids heart so much as this blessed Covenant That 's but a carnal heart that can brag of what treasures of worldly riches he leaves his children The gracious soul would rather bequeath a promise to them than all the wealth of the Indies Zenophon tells us that one being asked Where 's your Treasure He answered him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Where Cyrus my friend is Much more may a Christian say Christ is my Friend and my All. Oh that I could leave him in the bosom of my dear Child That is the height of my Ambition to have my Children gracious and glorified As an honest Minister said If I may but see the fear of God in my Children Satis habeo satisque mihi uxori filiis filiabus perspexi I have enough and my self Wife Sons Daughters are all well provided for I need no more Oh! that God would set Parents hearts towards the Covenant