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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62640	Six sermons I. Stedfastness in religion. II. Family-religion. III. IV. V. Education of children. VI. The advantages of an early piety : preached in the church of St. Lawrence Jury in London / by ... John Lord Archbishop of Canterbury.; Sermons. Selections	Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.	1694 (1694)	Wing T1268A; ESTC R218939	82,517	218

Offspring Good Children are the hopes of Posterity and we cannot leave the World a better Legacy than well-disciplin'd Children This gives the World the best Security that Religion will be propagated to Posterity and that the Generations to come shall know God and the Children that are to be born shall fear the Lord. This was the great Glory of Abraham next to his being the Friend of God that he was the Father of the Faithful And the careful Education of Children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord is so honourable to Parents that God himself would not pass it by in Abraham without special mention of it to his ●verlasting commendation I know Abraham says God that he will command his children and his Houshold after him to keep the way of the Lord and to do Justice and Judgment Gen 18. 19. Fifthly Consider yet further the great Evils consequent upon this neglect And they are manifold But not to enlarge particularly upon them they all end in this the final miscarriage and ruin of Children Do but leave depraved corrupt Nature to its self and it will take its own course and the end of it in all probability will be miserable If the generous Seeds of Religion and Virtue be not carefully sown in the tender Minds of Children and those Seeds be not cultivated by good Education there will certainly spring up Briars and Thorns of which Parents will not only feel the inconvenience but every body else that comes near them Neglectis urenda filix innascitur Agris If the Ground be not planted with something that is good it will bring forth that which is either useless or hurtful or both For Nature is seldom barren it will either bring forth useful ●lants or Weeds We are naturally inclined to Evil and the neglect of Education puts Children upon a kind of necessity of becoming what they are naturally inclin'd to be Do but let them alone and they will soon be habituated to Sin and Vice And when they are once accustomed to do evil they have lost their Liberty and Choice They are then hardly capable of good counsel and instruction Or if they be patient to hear it they have no power to follow it being bound in the chains of their Sins and led captive by Satan at his pleasure And when they have brought themselves into this condition their Ruin seems to be sealed and without a Miracle of God's Grace they are never to be reclaimed Nor doth the mischief of this neglect end here but it extends it self to the Publick and to Posterity If we neglect the good Education of our Children they will in all probability prove bad Men and these will neglect their Children and so the Foundation of an endless Mischief is laid and our Posterity will be bad Members both of Church and Commonwealth If they be neglected in matter of In●●●ction they will either be ignorant or ●rroneous Either they will not mind Religion or they will disturb the Church with new and wild Opinions And I fear that the neglect of instructing and Catechising Youth of which this Age hath been so grossly guilty hath made it so fruitful of Errors and strange Opinions But if besides this no care be taken of their Lives and Manners they will become burthens of the Earth and Pests of Human Society and so much Poison and infection let abroad into the World Sixthly and Lastly Parents should often consider that the neglect of this Duty will not only involve them in the inconvenience and shame and sorrow of their Childrens miscarriage but in a great measure in the guilt of it They will have a great share in all the Evil they do and be in some sort chargeable with all the Sins they commit If the Children bring forth wild and sowre Grapes the Parents teeth will be set on edge The temporal Mischiefs and inconveniences which come from the careless Education of Children as to Credit Health and Estate all which do usually suffer by the vicious and lewd courses of your Children these methinks should awaken your care and diligence But what is this to the guilt which will redound to you upon their account Part of all their wickedness will be put upon your score and possibly the Sins which they commit many years afte● you are dead and gone will follow you into the other World and bring new fewel to Hell to heat that 〈◊〉 hotter upon you However this is certain that 〈◊〉 must one Day be accountable for all their neglects of their Children And so likewise shall Ministers and Masters of Families for their People and Servants so far as they had the Charge of them And what will Parents be able to say to God at the Day of Judgment for all their neglects of their Children in matter of Instruction and Example and Restraint from evil How will it make your ears to tingle when God shall arise terribly to Judgment and say to you Behold the Children which I have given you They were ignorant and you instructed them not They made themselves vile and you restrained them not Why did not you teach them at Home and bring them to Church to the publick Ordinances and Worship of God and train them up to the exercise of Piety and Devotion But you did not only neglect to give them good Instruction but you gave them bad Example And lo they have followed you to Hell to be an addition to your Torment there Unnatural Wretches that have thus neglected and by your neglect destroyed those whose Happiness by so many bonds of Duty and Affection you were obliged to procure Behold the Books are now open and there is not one Prayer upon Record that ever you put up for your Children There is no Memorial no not so much as of one Hour that ever was seriously spent to train them up to a sense of God and to the knowledge of their Duty But on the contrary it appears that you have many ways contrived their Misery and contributed to their Ruin and help'd forward their Damnation How could you ●e thus unnatural How could you thus hate your own Fl●sh and hate your own Souls How much better had it been for them and how much better for you that they had never been born Would not such a heavy Charge as this make every joint of you to tremble Will it not cut you to the heart and pierce your very Souls to have your Children challenge you in that Day and say to you one by one Had you been as careful to teach me the good knowledge of the Lord as I was capable of learning it Had you been but as forward to instruct me in my Duty as I was ready to have hearken'd to it it had not been with me as it is at this Day I had not now stood trembling here in a fearful expectation of the eternal Doom which is just ready to be pass'd upon me Cursed be the Man that begate me and