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Waters of Marah drawn forth in two funerall sermons, October 1653 and since (upon desire) enlarged / by Henry Hibbert ...
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Hibbert, Henry, 1601 or 2-1678.
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be discouraged Frequently hereupon Children fall into an Athymy or despondency of mind being as it were out of all heart Whereby either first their Spirits if tender-hearted are too much sadned and this sadnesse inclosed in the heart is like a moth to a Garment or a worme to wood bringing diseases and immature death Or secondly through too much dejectednesse they are made stupid and so rendred incapable of any considerable attainments or commendable actions Or thirdly they become desperate and contumacious whereby they provoke God and God cuts them off Certainly Parents need abundance of prudence in correcting their Children If Parents will not be found wanting towards their Children they must mind their education Not only fitting them for an outward and particular calling in reference to the world and well being of their bodies But also having an eye mainly at their generall and spirituall calling in relation to God and their soules Thus the Apostle Eph. 5.4 Bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. And God himselfe seems to be very confident of his servants care in this particular he saith of Abraham I know him Gen. 18.19 that he will command his children and his houshold after him and they shall keep the way of the Lord to do justice and judgement that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him You are not inhibited the having of respect unto due decency for education doth consist in Religion Learning and Behaviour But have a care that sauce exceed not meat Every one ought to say of his naturall as John of his spirituall children 3 Joh. 3. I have no greater joy than to know that my children walke in truth A mamma corporali ad mammam spiritualem Chrys O Parents above all be mostly carefull of your childrens soules Hannah brought her Son Samuel very speedily from the naturall to the spirituall dugge so do ye Be good examples to your Children Instruct them Distâ—â—… good things into them as they are capable of receiving Children are like unto straight-neck'd bottles admitting by drops Isa 18.10 here a little there a little Yea Castigationes madicamentorum fimiles sunt non ciborum Cattw in Pro. 31.2 and correct them likewise when their is occasion Provided it be with moderation and upon necessity as Physick not frequent and famiâ—iar as daily food Such is the reiterated counrell of wise Solomon 1 Sam. 4. We know how fatall Ely's indulgence proved to his Sons being both slaine in one day and for the old man himselfe difficult it were to tell whether his neck or heart were first broken 2 Sam. 18.17 We leave Absalsm that was so much cockered up with an heape of stones upon him And it ended far from well with Adonijah 1 Kin. 2.25 whom his Father had not displeased at any time We shall discover in our children many vices which we had need to cut off whilest they are young lest they grow up with them when they are old It was said of Ptolomy that he was too young to reigne but old enough to love Harâ—ots So there are many who are in Age children but can commit sin like men Wise to do evill Jer. 4.22 but to do good they have no knowledge But O let not any nearenesse of relation make us to connive at wickednesse or be silent at sin In case of Gods dishonour we should forget our selves to be Parents and them Children using sin as a Serpent the nearer it creeps unto us the more to flye and hate it Youth is a plant very flexible but old age a tree and inflexible Youth is like soft wax fit to take a good impression but old age is hard and more unfit to take such a counterfeit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I read of Diogenes who seeing the rude carriage of a Boy did reach his Master a reall invective saying The fault is not in the Scholar but in the Master I am afraid much of the sin of Children will be laid to the charge of Parents If we have a piece of ground we will be at cost and paines in the manuring and tilling of it We take delight in ordering our Gardens and shall we neglect our Children Ought we not much more to weed sin out of them and to improve them Psal 127.3 Children we heard are the inheritance of the Lord and the fruit of the wombe is his reward and shall we reward the giver so unkindly as not to give them education O let us have a care of them while they are young lest both they and we repent afterwards when it is too late 1 Kin. 21.3 Naboth would not give the inheritance of his Fathers to Ahab Children are the inheritances given us of God take heed that through our negligence we do not what in us lyeth to give them to the Devill Commonly those Parents are most reverenced of their Children that have wisely and orderly corrected them They that have laid the reines on their necks and suffered them to go without correction are most contemned and despised of their Children afterward Correct thy Son Pro. 29.17 and he shall give thee rest yea he shall give delight unto thy soule 1 King 1. Adonijah whom David would not displease displeased his Father afterward and came at last to an untimely end A third thing required of Parents is To mixe Prayer with their Childrens Education When we carefully plough sow weed our Corn we may hopefully pray for a good harvest This was the quotidian practise of holy Job Quò multorum pignorum pateres plures sunt pro quibus deum de preceres multorum animae redimendae Cypr. He rose up earely in the morning marke this man prayed for his Children next his heart and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all he begs a particular blessing on every childs head thus did Job continually And thus Bathsheba bespeakes her beloved Son Solomon under the name of Lemuel What my Son and what the Son of my wombe and what the Son of my Vows O it is good for Children that they have praying Parents and good for Parents that they be at some proportionable expence for their Children in spirituals laying up Prayers as well as Portions for them The Prayers of faithfull Parents are as seed sown in their life-time the fruit of which their Children may reape after they are dead Christians I tell you the time is comming and now is that Parents prayers may be of more profit unto their Children than their Estates Fourthly let Parents take need and beware of idolizing their children They are given to succeed in your stead But beware you set them not up to your selves in Gods stead 1 Sam. 2.29 It was heavens complaint against Eli that he honoured his Sons above God that is did chuse to please them rather than God If any fond Parents be guilty of this
unwilling he was to let them go Dentibus Vnguibus O that we could lay hold on our God as he did on the Galley even with tooth and naile and hold him as our life This is the doctrine of wisdome Pro. 4.13 Take fast hold let him not go keep him for he is thy life Cant. 3.4 And thus the Church deales with Christ So soons as she had found him whom her fouls loved she held him and would not let him go Having now obtained her beloved she would not part with him againe upon any termes whatsoever She came by him hardly and will not part with him lightly She knows nothing in the wide Universe comparable to such a Jewell Take all only leave her this pearle of price and she hath riches enough to make her fully happy Psal 73.25 Whom have I in heaven but thee and on earth there is none that I desire in comparison of thee Christ is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever Come now and let us reason together Hast thou lost thine estate Here is a full Portion Lam. 3.24 The Lord is my portion saith my soule Hast thou lost thy Goods Here is a God that may satisfie Gen. 15.1 Nim is avarus cui Deus non sufficit He is an exceeding great reward Hast thou lost or rather lent a child unto God Here 's a Christ in lieu Hast thou parted with a first-borne Here is the first-borne among many brethren Indeed Children are an Heritage but God is the goodly heritage Psa 16.5 6. So saith David The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance The lines are fallen to me in pleasant places yea I have a goodly heritage Micha of Mount Ephraim he thought it was sufficient cause of complaint when he was deprived of his Gods Judg. 18.24 Ye have taken away my Gods saith he and what have I more I allude to it we may lose all we have in the world and yet have more but if we lose our God what have we more Many things may yea all we have in the world will one day give us a Vale and depart from us But we are never spit in the face with a woe untill God depart from us Hos 9.12 We to them when I depart from them O then get closer Communion with God Crave familiarity Beg some smiles When the Creature-comforts hoise saile and make away entreat that the loving-kindnesse of the Lord may tarry with thee A smile in Gods face is better than a world from his hand Imitate holy Job Job 1.20 when God is taking away be humbling your selves before him praying worshipping If we do but keep God our losses cannot be very considerable What is the losse of a withered Nosegay when we may smell to the flowers fresh in the stem Or the want of a Puddle when we may draw water out of the Fountaine Injoying God we have all freshly and fully 1 Sam. 1.8 God is better unto us than many Sons Waters of Marab RUTH 1. Part of the twentieth ver Call me not Naomi call me Marah for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me THe high and holy one of heaven and wise disposer of all things is a most free Agent owing unto no Creature an account of his actions Psal 135.6 Whatsoever the Lord pleased that did he in heaven and in earth and in all places This God doth all in righteousnesse and there is alwaies a most wise reason of his will though unto us his will must be a sufficient reason His actings are like unto himselfe Rom. 11.33 deepe and mysterious How unsearchabblâ— are his judgements and his waies past finding out As soone may a man wade through the Sea as passe through his bottomlesse depths Or hold all the water of it in his hand as comprehend his proceedings They are such as can neither be expressed in words nor fathomed with man's reason Higher above us than the spangled heavens and deeper below us than the Center of the earth If then it be Gods part to act his will it is surely ours to submit to that will as holy just and unerring Reverently adoring what we are unable to comprehend To this end I here present you with a pious patterne the imitable example of this holy Matron Naomi The last time I appeared in work of this nature since when a poore pittance hath passed we did instead of sweet spices pound galls I meane preach of bitter griefe And being now called upon the like occasion I know nothing more seasonable than the like Subject Suffer me therefore once more to requite my bay and sweet water with a sprig of wormewood That we may a little sit down by the Rivers Psal 137. and hang our Harpes upon the Willows Yea that our Harpe may be turned into mourning Job 30.31 and our Organ into the voice of them that weep Call me not Naomi call me Marah for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me The Chapter presents us with a Tragical story concerning the great affliction that befell a good woman in all which she was supported by God and left as a patterne of faith and patience to succeeding Ages The Series of Gods providence concerning her runs thus A Famine is sent upon the whole Land of Israel Annot. in loc occasioned as our Divines conceive and is very pregnant by those plundering and spoyling Tyrants the Midianites who wasted the Country for many yeares together Ver. 1. Whereupon Elimelech a man of Bethlehem-Judah with this Naomi his Wife and Mahlon and Chilion their two Sons are forced to flee from the mouth of this meager devourer Ver. 1 2. and seek sustenance in the Land of Moab There she had not long so journed but meets with a tart dispensation being in a manner stript at once of all her outward helps and bereft of her chiefest and choicest friends Her Husband and both her Sons dye and she poore widdow remaines in a desolate and disconsolate condition Ver. 3 5. being left to the wide world in a strange and heathenish Countrey Yet so soon as she heares God had visited his people with plenty she endeavours some mitigation of her misery by returning to her native place accompanied with the two yong widdows her daughters in Law Ver. 6 7. By the way she useth some disswasive Rhetorick as one desirous to dismisse them And whether she speake seriously out of her love towards them as loath to bring them into an afflicted condition by living with her in extreme poverty Or because she would try the truth and constancy of their affection towards her I leave to others But this is the effect Ver. 8 9 c. the one is disswaded the other is not Herein Orpah is the embleme of a temporary professour but Ruth beares the resemblance of a resolved Saint It is our duty to follow the Lambe whithersoever he