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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57346	The cursed family; or, A short tract, shewing the pernicious influence of wicked prayer-less houses, upon this church and kingdom Humbly tender'd by way of subserviency to His Majesties Royal Proclamations, and Acts of Parliament, for preventing and punishing immorality and prophaness. By THomas Risley Master of Arts, and sometime fellow of Pembrook-Colledge in Oxford. With a prefatory epistle by the reverend Mr. John Howe.	Risley, Thomas, 1630-1716.; Howe, John, 1630-1705.	1700 (1700)	Wing R1539; ESTC R218001	38,264	98

weigh not in God's Ballance That Man that is a Real Christian in his Family bears the Image of his Maker and therefore Raised to the Highest Pitch of Honour in this World The Righteous is more excellent then his Neighbour Prov. 12. 26. Tell me can there be a greater Reproach to Heads of Families in the best part of Christendom than to be Prophane and Irreligious in their Dwellings What a Cursed shame is it that thy House should be an Increase of a Sinful Generation that Wickedness should Survive in thy Posterity when thou art turned to Dust and that it should be alive in thy House and in Hell too How great is thy Stain and Stench left behind thee What a Plague Sore is this which neither Long-lived-Time nor Ever-abiding Eternity can wear away What a Parent a Christian Parent and yet Ungodly Careless of Heaven Covetous of the Earth and Prodigal of thine own as well as thy Childrens Salvation This is to be Parent to the Bodies of thy Children and Destroyer of their Souls Let the World Honour Parens Corporum Pernicies animarum its own with Monuments and Golden Letters Yet know that the Name of the Wicked shall Rot Prov. 10. 7. What can be more for the Raising of thy Name O Christian Parent then to serve God in thy Family whereas Vice and Ungodliness is the Blot of True Honour and Reverse the Coat-Armour of every Dignified Person in our English Church and Kingdom If it were possible to be Wicked alone without Infecting others it would not be so Infamous as to make others to Sin as do all Wicked Families That Jeroboam made Israel to Sin is the Standing Monument of his Infamy God threatneth Baasha to make his House like the House of Jeroboam the Son of Nebat i. e. A Base Ruined and Vile House 1 Kings 16. 3. And may not all Wicked Heads of Families fear least the Lord punish them and their Posterity after them for their sins and make them as vile in Ages to come as they have been wicked in times past 2. Is your Health dear unto you O ye 2. In their Health wicked Prayer-less Families Is it better then your Goods It is not in Mercy to wicked Men it is lyable to God's Curse Thy Body O wicked Man is a Fair House but the Plague is in it even the Plague of thy own Heart 1 King 8. 38. Can'st thou say from thy heart thou art in good Health and wast never sick of Sin Nusquam pejus quam in Sano Corpore Aeger Animus habitas and never knewest the Physitian of Souls Mat. 9. 12 Ah! It were better that thy Bodily Health were turned into a lingring Consumption Palsy Dropsy Stone Collick Gout or any painful Disease having health in thy Soul then to live without it in Swearing Cursing Lying Stealing Sabbath-breaking Pride Covetousness Idleness Uncleanness Oppression Questionless there is a Secret Curse running in the veins of an Healthy Body which is spent in the Pursuit of Sensual Contentments Health the Best Thing next to Grace for want of the Blessing of Allmighty God is the Worst Thing in the World next to a Life in Hell How many give the First Fruits of their Youth to Vanity and Wildness How many at Ripe Age for want of God's Grace run out of Prodigality into Covetousness thinking to make Amends by a Thrifty Sin for an Unthrifty Life or mistaking Exchange of Sins to be Amendment of Life What Comfort in that Health which is the Undoing of the Soul to all Eternity What Comfort in that Health that cannot that will not be at leasure nor spare time nor a little of its strength and vitals for Holiness and Heaven What Comfort in that Health which is subject to the Inordinacy of Sense and thereby denies the Soul its Rational and Religious Liberties for God's Worship either in his House or in their own Houses What Comfort in that healthy Body which is made a sink of Sin and slave to every noisom Lust Certainly this Corporal Health and Strength is worse then brutish for the Beast Feeds Works Resleth Playeth for the benefit of Man but a Wicked Healthy Man is not onely an Enemy but a Curse to himself and to all that partake with him in his Sin And now speak What greater Curse then thus to abuse Corporal Health for the sake of which in time of Sickness so many Friends and Relations stand Weeping and Sighing and so many Messangers and Doctors are employed VVhat a Curse is it VVhat an Absurd piece of VVickedness and Folly to part with That at any vile Rate for the Recovery of which thou art VVilling to Have Every thing though at the Highest Rate VVhat a Curse is it to Sacrifice That to the Devil and the VVorld which in Holy Baptism thou hast solemnly Dedicated and Devoted to God's VVorship VVhat a Bitter Curse is it to VVork out thy Damnation with that Health wherewith God hath commanded thee to work out thy Salvation 3. The Wicked Mans prolonged Life 3. In Long Life is a Curse to him The sinner being an hundred years old shall be Accursed Isa. 65. 20. As he fills his days and years so he fills up the measure of his sins His bones are full of the sins of his youth which shall go down with him into the dust Job 20. 11. Solomon saith A wicked Man prolongeth his life in his wickedness Eccles. 7. 15. Such a Life will prove like it self as Heavy of Curses as it hath made Light of Sinning O what a misery is it for an Old Sinner to begin to Live when he is ready to Dye What a woefull thing is it to find Governours Quidam tunc incipiunt vivere cum desivendum est c. Sen. Ep. 23. of Families in their Gray Haires taking pleasure to discourse of the sins of their youth Doe they not hereby recommend those sins to be committed by their children which they by reason of their Impotency cannot commit And is not this a sign of God's Curse impending over their Families in respect of Long Life O what a Judgment is it That Long Life is still growing Riper and Riper for Destruction to all Eternity The Amorites were not cut off because their Iniquity was not yet full Gen. 15. 16. O what a Curse is it to be an Old Gray-headed Sinner a Swearer Drunkard Sabbath-breaker Scorner of Religion O what a sad thing is it to see strong sins in feeble Age Sins in the Meridian when Life is Setting What a deplorable thing is it That Gospel-time the most precious time in the World should have ever have suffered so Great a Loss by thee and Thou so great a Punishment When the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty Angles in flameing fire takeing Vengeance on them that know not God and that obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ who shall he punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of

the Lord and from the glory of his power 2 Thes. 1. 7 8 9 What a misery is it that thou hast lived to see so many Gospel-years with Rain and Sun-shine hast been partaker of the Labours of God's Husbandmen and of their Seed and should'st have come into the Barn as a Shock of Corn in his season yet now at last thou provest no better then a Bundle of Tares Ah what a Curse is it to be thus long-liv'd Is it not a sad Spectacle to see Governours of Families in Gray-haires and without the Leaves of outward Religious Duties in their Houses Matt. 21. 19 It may be said of such that they have unhappily improved the Stock of Sin as long and as far as they could and that a long-lived Eternity of Punishment is their desert Matt. 25. 41. 4. The sweetness of Friends shall be taken 4. Their Friends from the Wicked God withdraweth from them Spiritual and they have no better then Carnal Friends who are willing to please them in their sins Although this is accounted in Scripture to be Hatred to their Friends and Neighbours Lev. 19. 17. Thou shalt not hate thy Brother in thy Heart thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy Neighbour and not suffer sin upon him O what a Curse is it to make choice of such Friends as are hurtful to our Souls to wit of loose jovial vain Persons O what a Curse is it to have no better Friends then such as be Friends to our Sins and Enemies to our Souls Admit that a Worlding or a Loose Liver may carry Friendly from a Principle of common honesty and the Interest of his Reputation yet they do not they cannot and whilst such they will not shew a Christian Care over the Affairs of greatest moment namely the Education of the Posterity of the Deceased in Vertue and Piety Compute then what comfort a Wicked Man finds in his Friend or rather come and lament the Misery of all such Persons and Families considering that for the want of this faithful Christian Friendship and Trust the Children of Irreligious Worldly Families are in apparent danger to follow the steps of their Parents and Friends and so perpetuate and as it were entayl God's Curse upon the House still How should Families in matters of Trust for Posterity be careful in Chusing Feoffees I mean chiefly about Religion that it may not Dye in a Pious Family of Children when their Parents Dye If Seneca esteem'd at an high Rate Civil or Moral Friendship it teaches us to esteem at an higher rate Christian Friendship * Non judicabam me cum illos superstites relinquerem mori putabam inquam me victurum non cum illis sed per illos c. Ep. 78. I saith Seneca esteemed my Friends so much my Self that I thought my Self never Dead while they Lived that although I lived not on Earth with them yet being Dead I Lived by them so that I seemed rather to Deposit my Life as well as my Cares with them then to Depart this Life Not unlike one of our late English Senators Expressions viz. † L. Bacon's Essays A Friend is far more then a Mans Self Men have their Time and Dye in the desire of some things which they principally take to heart the Bestowing of a Child the Finishing of a Work or the like If a Man have a True Friend he may rest almost Secure that the Care of these things shall continue after him So that a Man hath as it were Two Lives in his Desires Obj. But Solomon in one place saith That the rich hath many friends Prov. 14. 20. And in another Wealth maketh many friends Prov. 19. 4 What matter then Money is my Friend my Estate is my Friend Ans. Solomon in both places discovers the Covetousness and Partiality of Men in the World who for Advantage-sake sell the Truth in Witness-bearing and accept Persons in Judgment And who knows not how apt Men are to be drawn with Silver and Gold Twist * Utilis amicitia ultimum habet locum quas amicitias utilitas conglutinat easdem resolvit Cic. in Laelia Amicitia non est nisi inter bonos Ibid. Of all sorts of Friends Money-Friends are the worst-Friends to the Purse not to the Person Hence it is that if they Judge the Gift or Fee too little then they conclude their Service and Trust too cheap and they will do far less or quite neglect their Duty The truth is A Real Substantial Friend is the Conscientious Man Neh. 7. 2. Daniel Chap. 6. 4 5. Verses It is a True saying Friendship cannot be there where Goodness is not He that loveth pureness of heart for the grace of his lips the King shall be his friend Prov. 22. 11. Parts and Endowments of Wicked Men 5. Parts and Endowments are lyable to God's Curse And what a sore evil do Parents and Masters of Families bring upon themselves and those under their Charge hereby What a Cursed thing is it to have their Intellectuals poyson'd infatuated and corrupted with Atheistical Principles dangerous Opinions and Damnable Practices What a Judgment is it to have their Gold and Silver Canker'd and their choisest Endowments vitiated Let no Wicked Person conclude and presume of God's Love to him from Gifts It is not Distribution nor Receiving of Gifts no true sign of Grace Talents but Grace to employ them well which is an Evidence of God's Love Matt. 25. 30. What great pitty is it to see Men of Breeding and Quality in the World whose Time of Education hath been as Expensive as the Lives of most Men to strip themselves of their Ornaments and trample upon them in the Vomit and Sink of Luxury and Surfeting And how sad is it afterwards in stead of Ingenuity to acknowledge to Prostitute their Gifts and Parts to make Defences for their Enormities Is not this Treason against Heaven to Clip God's Coin his Gifts to Guild their own Dross their Sins to make them Currant in the World Namely to call Healthing and Carousing Good Fellowship Loyalty or Civility To call Swearing Hectoring and Duelling Gallantry or Manhood to call Covetousness good Husbandry and Prodigality Generosity Ah What a Curse is this to become Panders and Devils to draw themselves and others into Hell more securely Is it not Cursed for knowing Persons to hide extenuate and plead for Sin Is not this to Justify that which Christ came to Condemn than which what is more vile and abominable Woe to them that call evil good and good evil that put darkness for light and light for darkness that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter Isa. 5. 20. These are wise to do evil but to do good have no knowledge Jer. 4. 22. The light of the body is the eye therefore when thine eye is single thy whole body is full of light but when thine eye is evil thy body is full of darkness Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee