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A49758	Parents groans over their wicked children several sermons on Prov. XVII, 25, published for the benefit of all, but especially of good parents and their children / by Edward Lawrence ...	Lawrence, Edward, 1623-1695.	1681 (1681)	Wing L654; ESTC R5524	46,723	144

of your youth God is much concern'd for young persons the Proverbs of Solomon are written to give to the young man knowledge and discretion Prov. 1.4 and one great use of the word of God is to teach young men to cleanse their way Psal 119.9 Young men and maidens and children are call'd upon to praise the Name of the Lord Psal 148.12 13. We find many mourning with holy Augustine that they loved God so late but none complaining that they loved him too soon as young as you are in heaven and hell it 's better be a young child of God than a young child of the Devil young Saints are the glory of God the fulness and accomplishment of Christ the joy of Angels the security and support of Religion the crown of their Parents and the blessing of their Generation 5. Fill your time with the fruits of the Spirit see that your hearts be fill'd with grace and then your days will be fill'd with fruit be always receiving Christ and resigning your selves to him feel your hearts continually laying hold on eternal life and live as if ye were always running to heaven spend every day so that ye may lye down in peace at night that the Lords-day may be pleasant death gainful and eternity glorious 6. Improve Gods Ordinances of worship feel your vow of Baptism always fresh and strong upon you feel the difference betwixt the Lords-day and other days see that the word Preached be mixt with faith ingrafted in your hearts that it kill your sins and reform your lives pray continually and in that duty see that ye be with the spirits of children with your Father in Heaven let all your affairs pass through praying-hearts and reckon all your own which ye sincerely pray for Sing Psalms as those that make God your song and joy and as if ye were sensible that ye are in the gates of heaven ready to enter therein to joyn with that world of blessed Angels and Saints in admiring and praising God When ye come to the Lords-Supper see all that is presented to you receive all that is offered and do all that is commanded you 7. Be saithful to the Truth and then ye need not be afraid of your selves or of any other this is your greatest safety and ye may then feel the ground firm under you and may say with David Psal 26.12 My foot standeth in an even place and if ye are called to suffer chuse it rather than sin and seeing men cannot kill your souls let not the fear of them make you destroy them your selves 8. Decline evil company do not go with them to Hell who will not go with you to Heaven but if ye are called into such company feel your selves with God whilst ye are with them and carry it as those that are sensible that there is a God in the place exercise those graces which are contrary to and do cendemn their sins be humble with the proud meek with the angry loving with the malicious that they may be reproved by your graces and that ye may not be defiled by their sins 9. Labour to be a blessing to all persons let men see that in you for which they may have cause to love and praise God bear all wrongs but do none do what in you lyes to make all persons holy and joyful but make none sinful angry or sad forgive all but let none have need to forgive you exercise their love but do not by your sins exercise their patience give all cause to bless God for you but give not cause to any to wish they had never known you 10. Dread debts do not unnecessarily bring your selves under the bondage of debtors look upon it as more just and honourable to beg than to borrow if ye are not likely to pay except in that case ye plainly acquaint the lender with your condition that he may know what adventure he makes and when ye are able pay seasonably fully and thankfully I would have none to lend to any children of mine without first advising with me except they be in a hopeful way of trade and my advice to such of you is that you be afraid of being too much trusted for it 's often seen that they who go to the length of their credit are injurious to others and prove bankrupts themselves 11. Abhor Lying This is a sin which is an abomination to the Lord whom ye should always please it 's contrary to the Divine Nature which is in every one that is born of God Ephes 4.24 It 's an abuse of your tongues which should be your glory for the use of your tongues is to express your minds but in a lye your minds and thoughts do contradict your words it 's a wrong to others whom ye would have believe you when ye do not believe your selves it makes you unfit for humane society for who will converse with those whom they cannot believe ye hereby rot your names for a lyar is one of the worst characters of the devil of hell ye destroy your bodies and souls for ever for all lyars shall have their part in the lake of fire and brimstone which is the second death 12. Do not dare to steal take nothing from any person but what ye can say ye received it from the hand of God and can praise him for it and can comfortably beg his blessing upon it kill those lusts which ye would feed with the fruit of other mens labours consider that when ye are tempted to this sin of theft ye are tempted to bring a curse on your estates and persons to thrust a dagger into your Fathers heart and to hasten your selves to an untimely and shameful death and a tormenting eternity 13. Deride and jeer no persons let your jests be harmless and make not your selves the fools of your company but whilst ye are cheerful as men and women lose not the savour of Christians 14. Haunt not Taverns or Ale-houses c. Go not into such places but when God calls you stay no longer than he will stay with you and do nothing there but what ye shall have cause to bless God for when ye come away 15. Be thankful to them who have shew'd mercy and kindness to me and you pray for them inquire how it is with their posterity and as ye are capable do them good remember Prov. 27.10 Thy own friend and thy fathers friend forsake not 16. Forgive all that have done me wrong and pray to God not to visit it on them or their posterity ye know I have had hard measure from some and I know that I have stood before God to speak good for them and to turn away his wrath from them 17. As for you that are or may be hereafter set up for your selves in a way of trade my counsel to you is this See that your persons be upright with God that ye may have a Scripture-right to the promises of the life that now is and

Parents Groans OVER THEIR Wicked Children SEVERAL SERMONS On PROV XVII 25. Published for the Benefit of all but especially of good Parents and their Children By EDWARD LAWRENCE M. A. sometimes Minister of the Gospel at Baschurch in the County of Salop. 1 Sam. 2.25 Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto the voice of their Father because the Lord would slay them LONDON Printed for Thomas Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapside near Mercers-Chappel and Joseph Collier at the Bible under the Gate on London-Bridge 1681. To my beloved Children Deborah Samuel Edward John Thomas Elizabeth Mary Benjamin Nathanael and to all the Children of Christian Parents My dear Children I Am sensible of my unworthiness and unfitness to be seen in Print it is now above Twenty years since by the power and goodness of God I was unexpectedly rescued from the jaws of death which was the reason I then published that little book called Christs Power over bodily Diseases and I had never been the Author of a book of this Title had not two of you but especially one made me the Father of fools I shall here say no more particularly to you two but that sound repentance and the fruits thereof in a setled reformation of life will yet be your glory and my joy but if ye hate to be reform'd which God forbid I shall mourn till I dye for the loss of Children but ye will be tormented for ever for the loss of God Children I have not of the things of this world to leave you I do acknowledge the wisdom of God in not judging me sit to be intrusted with these things but it 's enough for us if we can call God our own though we cannot call the riches of the world our own some of you do with comfort remember how we have often worshipped God together in singing with delight those words Psal 37.16 17 18 19 20. A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked c. I here leave you this Letter of the counsel and advice of your aged and loving and faithful Father who sees death looking him and you in the face and beholds the Judg before the door this will speak to you when death hath silenc'd me and it speaks the same things which God and Christ and your own Consciences speak to you and it speaks to you as it were in the hearing of the world 1. Put a true value on your own Beings for ye cannot love God and Christ if ye do not love your selves ye are of that kind of creatures who are made much higher than all other visible creatures and but a little lower than the Angels ye are capable to know and chuse and love and delight in God and to speak of him and to entertain your selves continually with him ye are of those creatures in whose happiness God glorifies all his perfections he made this world for man he commanded his only-begotten Son to sacrifice himself for man and sent him to be born and to live and dye and to rise again and to intercede in heaven for man he hath reveal'd all the Truths of the Christian Religion for the good of man and therefore ye should think it greater madness to sell your precious souls and bodies to the Devil and your lusts for the short and dirty pleasures of sin than to sell a purse of gold or a cabinet full of jewels for a bag of chaff or cherry-stones and should account it below you to give your selves to any but to God 2. Know that as your Beings are great so your happiness or misery will be very great Riches or poverty sickness or health this present life or the death that deprives you of it are things too little to make you blessed or miserable all the curses of God or the blessings of the Gospel will be upon you presently and ye can neither live like men nor like Christians till ye know what it is to be sav'd or damn'd and what it is to lose or enjoy God 3. That ye may escape the wrath and obtain the glory set before you let it be your chief end and interest to know and honour and enjoy God use the creatures as his witnesses to testifie and declare the being and glory of God to you for God hath not only made and appointed them to fill your hearts with food and gladness but also that in the use of them ye may feel and find and fill your souls with God but especially behold the glory of God as he is presented to you in the glass of the Scriptures that he may have that name in your hearts which he hath in his word Present him to your souls as God over all blessed for ever that ye may conclude that he who is so infinitely good as to be his own happiness is sufficient to make you happy And that this God may be your eternal life and happiness ye must know and behold his glory in the face of Jesus Christ who is the Image of the invisible God the brightness of his glory and the express image of his person and therefore behold his glory as the Father of such a Son and as the Lord of such a servant for Jesus Christ is the Lords Christ Luk. 2.26 Christ is Gods 1 Cor. 3.23 and executes his office of a Mediator in obedience to the will and to the glory of God the Father whose glory ye may behold in his calling him to such a high office in his accomplishing him for the execution thereof in prospering him and making him successful in his whole work in giving him such a blessed seed in making him victorious over all his enemies and in rewarding him for his great service and obedience so that according to the intent of the Scriptures forenamed ye must labour to get such a sight of the glory of God shining upon you in the face of Jesus Christ as will make an impression of his image in your souls And therefore loathe and abhor sin which is against the glory of God and which is the only evil that can make you lose such a glorious God And for this reason be convinc'd of the vanity of this world which is but a poor thing when the glory of God shines on your souls for ye will be most blessed in him when this world shall be dissolv'd and pass'd away And let this make Jesus Christ glorious and acceptable to you whose office and work it is to redeem you from all sin and misery and to make you blessed for ever in the likeness and enjoyment of this glorious God And let this also cause you to endeavour to fill all persons with the great Name of God and Christ that ye may gain them all the hearts and love and service ye can and therefore in all company let God and Christ have your good word 4. Know that to love and delight in God is the best imployment for the days