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Advice to parents and children the sum of a few sermons contracted and published at the request of many pious hearers / by Daniel Burgess ...
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Burgess, Daniel, 1645-1713.
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It is required of Superiors according to that power they receive from God and that relation wherein they stand to love pray for and bless their Inferiors to instruct counsel and admonish them countenancing commending and rewarding such as do well discountenancing reproving and chastising such as do ill protecting and providing for them all things necessary for soul and body and by grave wise holy and exemplary carriage to procure Glory to God honour to themselves and so to preserve that Authority which God hath put upon them I will transcribe no more of our many Summaries But propose these particulars which I take to be comprehensive And such that God will judge all the neglecters of and not hold them guiltless however full they be of excuses Knowing the Terror of the Lord I thus instruct and perswade every Christian Parent 1. Be Exemplary in Vniversal Duty Ill Example is the rankest Poyson in the World Parents ill Example is the worst that Children can have I know not what God hath forbid or required if he forbids not ill and requires not good Example Good Example for Duty foresaid Wouldst be a good Parent Thou canst not till thou dost understandly affectionately and practically keep the Gospel-Covenant Owning the Engagement of thy Holy Baptism renewing it at the Lords Supper observing it in all thy ways towards God other Men and thy self You that do not this ye bid your Children not to do it In practice ye bid ' em And ye who bid them not to do this ye bid them virtually be Atheists and Devils and Rebels to God and to your selves As little as ye think of it this ye do God and Godly Men count you so to do Parents Parents con ye well Job 22 21 22 23. Job is advised to Acquaint himself with God to receive and lay up God's Word in his Heart to return unto the Almighty that is to do all I have here foresaid And for his encouragement he is then told his relative Duties will come on with their Blessings He shall be built up that is he shall have more Children And he shall put away Iniquity far from his Tabernacles that is he shall be a good Father and Master and remove the Iniquity of his Children and Servants and promote Family-Godliness Which without that course prescribed he could not expect to do Preceptive Teaching alone is a little more than a Cypher 't is practical Teaching is the Figure The Language that God binds Parents and all Teachers to use is this Come with me unto this and that Duty Fly with me from this and that Sin Mourn with me for this and that Omission and Commission sinful Delight with me in this and that Holy Service And be it written on all our Walls They that are not Patterns to their Children be plagues to their Children They who give them not good Example give them nothing good at least nothing like to do them good For a grain of bad Example doth an hundred times more hurt than a pound of good Counsel ordinarily doth good 2. Be as full of prayer as St. Austin's Mother That Holy Creature got her Son and her Husband Converted by her Prayer But not by slight and sleepy Prayer Think of this Parents As their greatest Wickedness makes not Prayer hopeless so your greatest Sanctity makes not Prayer useless Our Redeemer whose Obedience is Meritorious he himself asks before God gives Nor will God give till in his Name ye ask Ordinarily he will not But if ye ask not amiss ye can never miss of what ye ask And I will be allowed to say Prayer for our Children is that Duty to them without which we can discharge none We must be joyned to God in the Covenant of Grace before we can rightly Pray And we must Pray before we can expect to benefit our selves or our Children by any means possible Gen. 17.18 20. Abraham prayed for Ishmael and that warmly And what says the Text God said and as for Ishmael I have heard thee behold I have blessed him and will make him Fruitful and will multiply him exceedingly twelve Princes shall he beget and I will make him a great Nation David prayed hard for Solomon his Son O Lord God of Abraham Isaac and of Israel our Fathers give to Solomon my Son a perfect heart to keep thy Commandments and thy Statutes 1 Chron. 22 12 1 Chron. 29 18 19. The seventy second Psalm is David's Prayer for his Solomon Parents Of all things be not niggardly of your prayers for your Children Rather deny them Victuals and Drink For many can give them both that cannot put up prayers for them And the same may be said of the will as of the power of most I know few do think it but 't is true a stock of prayers is a richer Child portion than a stock of broad Gold 3. Be Catechizers through the whole compass of the words of Eternal Life Suffer not thy Child to say there is one Truth or one Grace or one Duty necessary to Salvation that thou knewest but never taughtest him Who ever doubted but if a Man had a blind Child he was bound to use all the likely means he could come by to recover it's sight I am very confident that Adam Seth Noah and Sem were all Catechisers From the Cradle the Church was still kept up by Catechising Of Abraham God speaks plainly Gen. 18. 19. For I know him that he will command his Children and his household after him and they shall keep the way of the Lord to do Justice and Judgment that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him David and Bathsheba too Catechised Solomon soundly 1 Kings 2.2 3. I go the way of all the Earth be thou strong therefore and shew thy self a Man And keep the charge of the Lord thy God to walk in his ways to keep his Statutes and his Commandments and his Judgments and his Testimonies as it is written in the Law of Moses that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest and whithersoever thou turnest thy self 1 Chron. 28.9 And thou Solomon my Son know thou the God of thy Father and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind for the Lord searcheth all hearts and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts if thou seek him he will be found of thee but if thou forsake him he will cast thee off for ever Prov. 31.1 The words of King Lemuel the prophesie that his mother taught him Lois and Eunice are praised on this account 2 Tim. 1.5 3 15. When I call to remembrance the unfeigned Faith that is in thee which dwelt first in thy Grand-mother Lois and thy Mother Eunice and I am perswaded that in thee also And that from a Child thou hast known the holy Scriptures which are able to make thee wise unto Salvation through Faith which is in Christ Jesus After the death of the Apostles the Churches had
with naturally free inclination 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. and very inward esteem of him Pos 3. Duty unto Man is a fruit of Duty unto God Of Flattery and Pageantry I do not speak but very Duty and such Duty unto Man as is acceptable unto God This all of it grows from Duty unto God as its root Our Duty unto God is double First Submission unto his Authority Secondly Expression Practical of that Submission Now till we submit to his Authority and own him to be what he is unto us we cannot be rightly affected unto our selves or unto any other Creature And till we set our selves to express our submission to his Power by observance of his Precepts we cannot square aright one action toward them or our selves But when we subject our selves to the divine Power and conform our ways to the divine Precepts what followeth Why then our Lunacy is over Owning him our Head we own every fellow Member too And being by him governed every just office to him and to our fellow Creatures is introduced His Authority is sufficient to oblige unto both and his Laws are extant obliging unto them Wherefore rendering unto God the things that are Gods we necessarily render unto Man the things that are Mans. Whereas while we are Rebels unto God we are Divels to our selves and unto one another And must needs be so being that so long as we are in the state of Rebellion we are deserted by the Spirit of all good and are acted by the clean contrary Spirit Blind they are therefore that see not the Nobility of second Table duty in its Heavenly Descent It cometh from first Table-Duty and therefore must needs partake of its Dignity and Excellence It is very observable that according to what is said all second Table-Duties are pressed from the consideration of the first As those of Subjects unto the Higher Powers Rom. 13.1 Let every Soul be subject to the Higher Powers For there is no power but of God the powers that be are ordained of God Of Wives to Husbands Eph. 5 22. Wives submit your selves unto your own Husbands as unto the Lord. Of Children to Parents Eph. 6 1. Children obey your Parents in the Lord for this is right Of People unto their Ministers 1 Thess 5 12. And we beseech you Brethren to know them which Labour among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you Of Servants to Masters Colos 3 22. Servants obey in all things your Masters according to the flesh not with eye-service as men-pleasers but in singleness of heart fearing God The one Agument unto all is Conscience of the first Commandment Which as the Great Luther well said Is in every Commandment to be understood Pos 4. Duty unto Man is a very great Mean of Duty unto God I have read of a Tree growing in a hot and dry Countrey whose Leaves do drop a Liquor that excellently moistens and maintains the Root Duty to God is indeed the Root of Duty to Man But Duty to Man is that whose influences do greatly contribute to the Life and Liveliness of that Root A Truth so bright that it needs no proof nor meets with any denial Lev. 19.3 Reverence unto Parents seemeth called for as a mean of the Sanctification of Sabbaths And 2 Tim. 1.2 We are plainly bid to do our great Duty to Kings and all in Authority yea and to all Men for this very end that we may lead quiet Lives in all Godliness and Honesty In a word it is the Holy Spirits pleasure ever to verify this memorable saying All Graces and Duties be mutually Mother and Daughter unto each other Love of God and his Service brings forth Love and Serviceableness unto Man And Love and Serviceableness unto Man brings a like Love and Service of God He that would not Love and Serve Men for their own sakes should do both for the sake of the Love and Service of God A Duke would Court the Friendship of a Begger if that would half so much promote his Friendship with the King Pos 5. Duty unto Man is the only convincing proof of sincerity and Duty unto God Duties toward God are for the most part Spiritual and Invisible When you are true therein who but God and Conscience can see your Truth The Duties toward God that are Bodily and Visible are now in the Gospel-day all very easie and cheap Very Hypocrites do not begrudge them and unfeigned Friends of God can never be known by them 'T is otherwise as to Duties toward Men. They are naked and open to Mens Eyes Their Light as the Sun shineth before all Men. And few will question your Piety if they see your Vniversal and Exquisite Honesty For this reason it seemeth that in the day of Judgment Christ insisteth upon Christians Duties of the Second Table Mat. 25.35 Because they are the most sensible Discoveries of Faith and Holiness and fittest to justifie Saints before the World The Servants of God are obliged to shew abroad who their Master is But they have no way to do it without that which is foresaid Therefore is it that the World so hardly believeth us Christ's Disciples because we so little Love one another They will acknowledge us his Servants when they see more of his Livery which is Love among us Pos 6. Duty to man hath Promises of Reward as well as Duty unto God Wonderful yet most certain this is The Fifth Command is known to be called the first with Promise Eph. 6.2 The Second hath but a general Promise made to the Keepers of the whole Law The Fifth hath a particular Promise made to the Keepers of that single Commandment Let it never be doubted therefore but that it shall be richly Rewarded by God whatever at his Command you perform toward Man Even toward the poorest Child The Gift of a Cup of Water shall be as truly rewarded as Martyrdom it self And be it known unto you Parents and Children that of all Duties between Man and Man the greatest are those between you The Fifth Commandment seemeth the Hinge of both Tables And by its place to speak thus much sc That in order to the Knowledge and Obedience of all the other Commandments it is highly necessary that the Fifth be well Known and Obeyed It is true Natural Parents are not all that be meant therein All true Governors are included But Parents only are mentioned as being the first Governors we have some years before Kings take notice of us And as being the Principal Governors to whom we are most obliged as the Authors of our Beings and those whose Government is not founded in Choice and Contract as others is but in Nature it self Which being considered I proceed Parents Advised to their more Genearl and Particular Duties And pressed with Motives thereto The Duty of Parents to Children is imply'd and concluded in the Fifth Commandment It thus summarily expressed in the Westminster Assemblies Larger Catechism