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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08964	A serious exhortation to the necessary duties of [brace] family and personal instruction made (formerly) to the inhabitants of the parish of Tredington in the county of Wercester, and now upon request published for their use / by William Durham.	Durham, William, d. 1686.	1659 (1659)	Wing D2832A; ESTC R229159	38,436	108

consent we may exact when they come to have their children baptized or to be made partakers of the Lords Supper Sect. 12. It was the practice of the Minister of the Church of Empden Ibid. once a year to visit every house to exhort Parents Children and all the Houshold to their Duties and chiefly that they continued in the duty of catechising St. In Vit. Aug. c. 7. Austin was wont to teach publickly in the Church and privately in particular private houses as he could meet with occasion to instruct his people Docebat ac praedicabat publice privatim in domo in ecclesia verbum Dei Act. 2.46 5.42 20.20 It 's a frequent expression of the Apostles that he taught them in the mysteries of the Gospel not onely publickly but from house to house he taught them not onely in the Temple at their general meetings but from house to house in private too as opportunity was offered him Private domestical personal instruction is necessary and exceeding useful whilst it is done in subordination and subserviency not in opposition to the work of publick teaching But by the way those words from house to house may bear another sense The Church of God at Jerusalem was now so great and the members of it so many Beza in Act. 2.46 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that they could not meet in one place for the service of God and the participation of Ordinances That Mother Church sent out as it were Colonies they divided themselves into more Congregations which met at several places houses and so the Apostles preaching from house to house might be but his taking care of and instructing these several new planted Churches in the doctrine of the Gospel But I pass that Sect. 13. How many have made sad complaints against their former Ministers that they were ignorant and unable or lazy careless and negligent in instructing them in the ways that tend to life If now they may have help and means that way by such as beseech them to accept of their help if now I say they refuse neglect and contemn that motion it will be more then suspitious that it was not out of conscience and desire to be better instructed that they sought their removal but for the revenging of some old grudge or for the obtaining of some base carnal sordid temporal advantage of their own Where such rotten principles set men on work it is no wonder that they remain as bad as ever It is just with God to render that Ministery unsuccesful to them who never sought it for the subduing but for the gratifying of their lusts Sect. 14. The saving knowledge of Jesus Christ will enable you to undervalue all these sublunary things and makes abundant recompence for the want of them The former of these is clear from the Apostles judgement and practice 1 Cor. 2.2 who contented himself with the knowledge of Jesus Christ as with the richest treasure yea he counted all things but loss and dung for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ our Lord. Phil. 3.8 The latter is as manifest as the former in this that when others comfort themselves in their corn and wine and oyl when they glory in their Houses Lands Friends Revenews Rents he whose soul is enlightned from above can glory in the Lord and in the knowledge of his Name which overweighs them all When the King of Spains Herald its a known story had proclaimed all his Masters swelling titles King of Spain and Arragon King of Naples and Jerusalem c. The King of France his Herald answers him by proclaiming his Master as often King of France King of France intimating that that one Kingdom of France was worth all the Dominions of the proud Spaniard When carnal men have crackt of all their earthly Priviledges prerogatives and enjoyments they all fall short of this inestimable treasure of knowing God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Arrian Epict. l. 4. c. 9. and him whom he hath sent his Son Jesus Christ The Philosopher could encourage his Schollar against the vaunts of wicked men in their worldly enjoyments by bidding him put his Philosophy in the scales against them all if thou hadst nothing saith he to lay against their enjoyments thou art miserable indeed but if thou hast the knowledge of Philosophy thou hast that which is more worth then all their enjoyments How much rather may we say so of the saving knowledge of God in Christ if thou hast that thou hast that to which all earthly things bear no proportion Sect. 15. It will be a leading example and a great encouragement to those under your charge to submit themselves to learn when they see their Parents and Masters not disdain to be instructed Inferiors live more by the Eye then by the Ear they rather observe what you do your selves then what you command them to do If the examples which you set before them be speckled and ring streaked their practises will be such too it will little avail any of you to command your families to be sober when they see you frequently reeling and drunken to command them not to swear while they hear you daily swearing and blaspheming to command them to observe the Sabbath whilst you prophane it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Xenep de inst Cyr. in princ to be catechised whilst you your selves hate instruction Lynus yet a child when he compared the strictness or the education of the Persian youth with the drunkenness of the old Courtiers could tell his Grandfather Astiages That they commanded the Youth one thing but did the quite contrary themselves We have severe Lectures of Sobriety read us when as saith he your stammering tongues and stumbling feet proclaim your Drunkenness Judg 12.5 The best way to make them good who are under your charge is to give them good example If there be any thing worse then other in your behavior they are aptest to pick out that for their imitation Gen. 12. Gen. 20. Abraham was an eminent servant of God both for his faith and obedience the greatest failure we finde in him was in his dissembling to say no worse when he denied Sarah to be his Wife And yet we finde Isaak who was a good man Gen. 26. culling out this sin for his imitation and sinning after the similitude of Abrahams transgression so apt are we to follow the evil that is set before us It concerns you much to take he●d what examples you give seeing your children are so apt to write after the copies which you set them when you your selves ingage in that which is good and then say to your families as Gideon did to his Souldiers as you see me do so do yee then there 's some hope of an effectual reformation Inferiors suffer themselves easily to be bound by those laws which they see observed by those that made them thou shalt have them readily obedient to thy