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A20559	The bright star which leadeth wise men to our Lord Jesus Christ, or, A familiar and learned exposition on the ten commandements gathered from the mouth of a faithfull pastor by a gracious young man, sometime scholler in Cambridge.; Plaine and familiar exposition of the Ten Commandments	Dod, John, 1549?-1645.; Cleaver, Robert, 1561 or 2-ca. 1625.	1603 (1603)	STC 6967.5; ESTC S5010	304,208	396

before their children shall make euen with them and reuenge and quitte there parents wronges to the full by the like fauage dealing with them A second dutie of thankefulnesse is to pray for their parents As in Tim. 2. He commands that prayers be made for all in authoritie And if any must praye for those that be further of in common weale much more for those that are nearer in the familie Therefore this is a fault to bee greatly condemned in many that can see their parents faults and speake of them too much but cannot finde time to fall downe before God and beseech him to heale their nature and helpe them out of their sinnes Many haue liued a longe time with their parents yet cannot say that they sent vp an heartie prayer to heauen for their parents so vnnaturall and vnthankefull be they The vse of all these duties to those whose parents are not aliue is to looke that their sinnes be not aliue after their parents death And therefore to examine themselues whether they haue beene faultie in any of these things and if they do repent for it and desire pardon else they be lyable to two plagues First that their children should take their parents quarrell in hand and requite their wicked dealing in what euer dutie they haue fayled and haue not repented of it And secondly that as honouring parents brings a long and happie life so their dishonouring their parents should make them haue a short life and miserable or if a long life yet full of Gods curses for their vnrepented sonne Therfore let such as be now fatherlesse marke themselues and finding that their children are stubborne against them and vnthankfull and rebellions euerie way as many may see it openly and wofully let call themselues backe and see what kinde of children they were before how they behaued themselues to their parents whether they were not all together faultie in this point If it be so let them confesle that their owne sinnes haue found them out and are turned open let them acknowledge that God is iust and hath giuen the same measure into their bosomes their own euill is fallen vpon their owne heads they digged a pit in their youth and now in their age are fallen into it And thus much of the duties of children Now follow the duties of parents to their children For vnder the dutie of inferiour is comprehended also the dutie of the superiour And as God would haue inferiours to giue honour so he commaunds superiours to carrie themselues in that manner that they may deserue honour And doth bind them as straightly as the inferiours Now the duties of parents to their children are eyther in their tender yeares riper age The parents dutie to the children in their tender yeares and childhood is first to instruct them in religion to season them with the words of pietie or by little and little to drop in the grounds of holinesse into them euen so soone as they are able to speake and beginne to haue the least vse of vnderstanding So Prouerb Teach a childe in the trade of his youth and he will remember it afterwards Where the holy ghost exhorting men to teach their young children meetes with an obiection Alasse might one say teach such little ones what good will that doe we shall but loose our labour for they cannot vnderstand it nor conceiue the meaning of these things The holy ghost answeres Be it that for the time he cannot vnderstand the sense yet teach him the words and tearmes of goodnesse and though while he continues a child perhaps it seeme a fruitlesse thing yet you shall see afterwards it will not be in vaine for the crop of this seede that was soone in the childhood will appeare when he comes to age though for a time it lay hidden then he wil remember these things that to good vse which it seemed he got no good by when he was so young wanting vnderstanding Therefore let him haue the words taught him when he is able to heare and speake words and after when he is of more discretion he will conceiue remember the sense too And this dutie the holy ghost commaunds Ephes 6. 4. Bring them up in instruction and feare of the Lord. And this Timothies mother did put in practise For it is noted of her that she instructed Timothie in the scriptures from a child and that was the cause he was so holy a man she was a nurse to his soule as wel as to his bodie and gaue him milke out of the breasts of the scripture so soone as he had done sucking her owne breasts so that as he waxed strong in naturall strength of naturall life so he waxed strong in the knowledge of the life to come and therefore he grew so excellent a man and so worthy a preacher and member of the Church because his mother fedde his soule as well as his bodie The second dutie of parents to their children in their yonger yeares is to correct them to giue them correction which the holy ghost in the Prouerbs commaunds often and shews the fruit of it Correct him and thou shalt saue his soule chasten him and he will giue thee pleasure In the latter the rod of correction driues away folly this is the onely meanes to make a diuorse betwixt folishnesse and his heart which are so neerely wedded together But in correction these rules must be obserued First let it be seasonable and done in time passe it not ouer to long but begin early enough So Salomon saith Hee that loues him corrects him be time and doth not omit it till it be to late but takes the fittest opportunitie when he may with most ease and fewest stripes doe most good For indeed a small twig and a fewe blowes in time when he is yet a child not hardened in sinne will doe more good then many tods and abundance of stripes afterwards if this seaso be let slip for if the child be not mastred when he is young he will maister his parents when he growes elder Therefore let them not get an head for if they doe they will prooue like an young colt that hath gotten an ill tricke at the first he hath once cast his rider he was marred in the beginning and now you may sooner almost kill him then breake him and bring him in any good order againe Secondly it must be done with great compassion and mercie not in bitternesse to ease ones selfe with the paine of the child which is too barbarous crueltie For in truth commonly there is good cause why the father should be as much grieued or rather more then the child because for the most part he doth but correct his owne sinnes in his sonne for if the childe be curst and froward is it not because he hath seene the parents brawling and contentious if he lye hath not his father giuen him a patterne of dissembling and if he sweare being

Ioseph shewes Genesis 48. He was a great Prince and his father but a poore man and liued at his finding he had his sight and his father for age was blinde and therefore could not see his dutie yet when he comes to his poore father and his blind father he bowes to the ground and behaues himselfe so lolily as if his father had beene a mightie man and had his sight as perfectly as euer in his life Because he knew that neither blindnesse nor pouertie coulde take a way the nature of a father nor the dutie of a sonne Therefore he being a prince is as dutifull to his father a poore man as if his father had beene a Prince he poore for the outward estate did not moue him so much as the conscience and regard of his dutie which he knew to be nothing lessened So king Solomon when his mother came vnto him sitting on his throane it is noted that hee rose vp from hsi throane and bowed himselfe vnto her and caused all things els to cease till he had set his olde mother in a place of honour fit for her And he would haue all his people to know that though hee was as wise and rich a king and that of Gods owne appointing as euer was yet this his greatnesse did nothing diminish his mothers superioritie nor his reuerent cariadge towardes her This serues to confute those vngrations and wretched children that doe not reuerence their parents in heart but contemne them and thinke basely of them and content not themselues with this inward vndutifulnesse but shew it also by rough wordes by froward countenance by vnreuerent and vnfit actions and manie grow so familiar with their parēts as that one that had not known them seeing their behauiour would rather thinke them to bee neighbour and neighbour then father and sonne so vnreuerently and vndutifullie do they behaue themselues without any outward tokens of reuerence And indeed what doth the froward speaches and lookes of manie children proclaime but that they haue no feare of God in their hearts no righteousnesse in their hands nor anie regard of the duties of the first or second table If euer these persons liue to haue children and God doe not in his iustice cutte them of they shall finde that their children will reuenge their fathers wrongs into their bosome and be as readie to despise them and carrie themselues vnreuerently to them as if they were to doe it to their parents The next dutie is obedience which is commanded Coloss 3 Children obey your parents and he adds a reason this is pleasing to God It is not only a pleasing and a ioyfull thing to the parents that the childe should obey his comandements But this is a thing that God takes greate delight in and is well pleased with all and on the contrarie it doth not only greiue and offende the parents that children be stubborne and rebellious but it offendeth Gods maiestie also and greeueth his spirit Now the thinges where in children must obey their parents are especiallie these First in doing the thinges that they command and performing that worke that there parents set them about that it be neuer so base and painefull to doe so far as their strength will permit For though some children may thinke why this worke is to base and vnbeseeming my worth for as euerie one is more proud idle so he hath a greater conceite of himselfe and as he is most base and contemptible so hath he a higher imagination of his owne excellencie and worth though they may thinke the workes too base yet that may not excuse Is it too base I but did your father comand it and resraine you doe it Then you are a base and proud person that make no more account of your owne flesh then of Gods commandement for so soone as the father hath cōmanded it being a lawful thing Gods stampe is set on it it caries the face of Gods commandement he that thinkes himselfe to good to doe it thinkes himselfe too good to obey God This will not serue the turne then it is a contemptible thing in the world and men will mocke me why but are you a christian and haue you not learned so farre to denie the world as to preferre Gods commandement before the contentment and mocking of men and were it not better for you that the worlde should speake euill of you vniustly for well doing Then that god should instly plague you for well doing An example of this obedience we haue in Isaac who yeelded to his fathers commadement so far as to suffer his head to be chopt of and himselfe bound and laid one the woode and burnt Because his father being a Prophet had warrant so to doe and could shew the commandement of God vnto him to proue it a lawfull thing he did and t was his dutie to obey If he had not seene Gods commandement Abraham had gon beyonde his commission for it had beene willfull murder and he ought not to haue obeyed but when the thing was lawfull Isaac was bounde to submit himselfe to his father euen vnto death So Christ was obedient to his father in the most base and painfull thinge of all for what burden more contemptible then the burden of our sinnes and to be hanged on the crosse mockt and spitted on and buffetted and what more painfull then to vndergoe the curse and plague of God yet if he his father would haue him suffer all this he would not stand with him for such a mattter but willingly submitted himselfe to the death of the crosse So that if the thing be lawfull though it be a thing of no credit and of much paine yet if it be the fathers commandement it is Gods commandement and the child must obey and by how much the thing is more base and contemptible and more hard and painfull by so much he is a better childe and shall haue a greater reward for in matters that be easie and pleasing hee doth serue himselfe now a good child should serue his father for euery christian childe must be his fathers seruant but hee that is vndutifull and stub borne is a rebell against God And as in other matters the parents are to be obeyed so espeically in mariage As Isaac being a man of discretion of 40. yeares old yet would not once goe about to take a wife for himselfe but was content to stand at his fathers chosing And Iacob would not dispose of himselfe in mariage till Isaac and Rebecca had consulted vpon the matter and had directed him whether hee should and among whom he should chose his wife Naomi being but a daughter in law yet would not be at her owne disposition to take what husband liked her best but was willing to be disposed by Naomi in matter of mariage especially therefore children must giue this honour to their parents to thinke their fathers wiser and better able to make choyce themselues and as in