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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47513	A new family-book, or, The true interest of families being directions to parents and children, and to those who are instead of parents : shewing them their several duties, and how they may be happy in one another : together with several prayers for families and children, and graces before and after meat : to which is annexed a discourse about the right way of improving our time / by James Kirkwood ... ; with a preface, by Dr. Horneck.	Kirkwood, James, 1650?-1709.; Horneck, Anthony, 1641-1697.	1693 (1693)	Wing K647; ESTC R15399	107,616	291

whereby we have provoked thee to Wrath against us We have not only sinned through Ignorance but have sinned also against Knowledge we have acted contrary to that light which thou hast made to shine upon us We have been very Inconstant in good Purposes and Resolutions We have often confessed our Sins and yet soon after returned to them O Lord have Mercy upon us and forgive us all our Sins for Jesus Christ's sake Thou who knowest the Deceitfulness and desperate Wickedness of our Hearts make us what thou requirest us to be put thy Spirit within us and cause us to walk in thy Statutes and to keep thy Judgments and do them Give us unfeigned Repentance for all our past Offences Work in us strong Resolutions to observe thy Laws for the time to come Make us Watchful and Circumspect in all our Words and Actions Lord watch thou over us for good and never leave us nor forsake us Make us sensible of thy Power and Faithfulness that we may put our Trust and Confidence in thee Acquaint us more and more with our own Hearts and Lives that the sense of our Weakness and Folly of our manifold and great Sins may make us very humble and careful to avoid those Temptations which do so often and easily prevail over us Fortifie us with great Measures of Meekness and Patience That we may bear and endure all those uneasie things which thou seest fit to exercise us with Possess us with a lively sense of thy wise and just Providence that in all things which befall us we may say Good is the Word of the Lord. Save us from the Immoderate Love of all Earthly things from all vain Hopes and groundless Fears Make us content and thankful in every condition of Life Faithful and Just in all our Dealings careful to do to others what we would have them do to us And as much as in us lieth to live peaceably with all Men. Set a Watch before our Lips that we offend not with our Tongues save us from Lying and Slandering from Foolish Talking and Sinful Jesting and from all manner of Corrupt Communication And grant that our words being seasoned with Salt may Minister Grace to the Hearers Keep us mindful of thy all-seeing Eye that we may be in thy Fear all the day long that whether we eat or drink or whatever else we do we may do all to thy Glory Lord be Merciful to the many Nations which sit in Darkness send the Light of the Gospel unto them Grant that all they upon whom this Glorious Light does shine may walk as Children of the Light and of the Day that they may put off the Works of Darkness and put on the Armour of Light Bless all Rulers and Governours make them wise and good just and merciful Let it be their chiefest care to encourage Piety and to restrain whatever is dishonourable to thee the King of Kings and Lord of Lords Have mercy on these sinful Lands Bless and preserve our King and Queen and all the Royal Family Direct our Judges and Magistrates Sanctifie and assist all thy Ministers Be gracious to all our Friends every where and forgive those who wrong us by word or deed Let thy Blessing be on this Family Bless our Children make them thy Children put thy Fear within them Grant that as they grow in Years they may grow in Grace shed abroad thy Love in their Hearts that they may never depart from thee save them from every evil thing Be favourable O Lord to all others for whom we are bound to pray on any account whatsoever Bless them and us in our Souls and Bodies and in all our Affairs and Concerns We give thee our Hearty Thanks for preserving us and watching over us and our Habitation the last night for affording us quiet Repose and for raising us up in Health and Safety this Morning Be with us this Day Assist and direct us in all our ways Give thy Angels charge concerning us Lord make us ready to leave this vain World Let the sense of our Frailty stir us up to redeem our time and to give all dilligence to make our Calling and Election sure Grant that this day we may do somewhat worthy of Christians for thy Glory the Advantage of others and our own Everlasting Happiness and Comfort Let it be our constant Study and Endeavour to follow the Example of our Blessed Saviour who went about doing good In whose most Blessed Name and Words we conclude our Prayers Our Father c. An Evening Prayer for Parents or Masters of Families with their Family O Lord our God what shall we render unto thee for the many and great Favours which thou hast been pleased from Time to Time to bestow upon us We bless thee for giving us a Being for making us reasonable Creatures capable to know and love thee and to live for ever with thee for preserving us in the World and for affording us all things needful for our Support and Comfort But above all we bless thee for thy Love in Christ Jesus whom thou hast sent into the World to visit us to make his abode among us to dye for us That he might wash us from our Sins in his Blood Lord what is Man that thou art mindful of him or the Son of Man that thou doest in this gracious manner visit him Tho' thou hast bestowed innumerable Mercies upon us and hast visited us with this great Salvation yet we have been very unthankful and undutiful to thee We have abused thy Goodness and turned thy Grace into wantonness We have set at naught thy Counsels and despised thy Reproofs we have trampled under foot the Blood of our Saviour we have quenched the motions of thy good Spirit we have refused to obey thy Commands and to follow thy kind and gracious Invitations we have not regarded thy Promises nor been afraid of thy Threatnings we have been too often led by the sinful Examples and Manners of the World we have in many Things gratified our Lusts and Rassions We have drawn near to thee with our Mouth and Honoured thee with our Lips when our Hearts have been far from thee we have promised our selves Peace and Safety in the broad way that leads to Destruction O Lord We have destroyed our selves but in thee is our Help Our only Hopes are in thy infinite Mercy who hast hitherto spared us notwithstanding our manifold and crying Provocations Most Gracious God have Mercy upon us For Jesus Christ's sake pardon us all our sinful Thoughts Words and Deeds Renew and Sanctifie us by thy Holy Spirit that henceforth we may live thy faithful Servants and may be always ready to do or to endure whatever is thy Holy Will and Pleasure Thou knowest our Weakness and Inconstancy let thy Grace continually prevent and follow us that we may abhor that which is Evil and cleave to that which is Good Make us Faithful unto Death that at last we may obtain the Crown of

M Vendor ●ucht scul Printed for J Taylor J. Eueringham A NEW Family-Book OR THE True Interest OF FAMILIES BEING Directions to Parents and Children and to those who are instead of Parents shewing them their several DUTIES and how they may be Happy in one another Together with several PRAYERS for Families and Children and GRACES before and after Meat To which is annexed a DISCOURSE about the Right Way of Improving our TIME By JAMES KIRKWOOD Rector of Astwick in Bedfordshire With a Preface by Dr. Horneck The Second Edition Corrected and much Enlarged LONDON Printed for J. Taylor at the Ship-in St. Paul's Church-Yard and J. Everingham at the Star in Ludgate-Street 1693. To my Honoured Friend and Patron Thomas Brown of Arlsey Esq and to Mrs. Mary Brown his Wife ALL who have a right Sense of Things and understand but a little of the State of Religion in the World cannot but see and lament the great decay thereof every where amongst us Atheism and Irreligion are become too much in fashion and have too many Votaries and Followers It has not been known in any Age that such sort of Men or rather Monsters for Man is too Honourable a Name for them have been so numerous so daring and impudent and so successful Who could imagine that in a Christian State there should be such Persons who are at great pains to propagate Atheism and to run down if they were able our most Holy Religion As the neglect of Educating Children aright contributes too much to this degeneracy so the most likely Remedy of this dangerous and spreading Distemper is a due care in Parents and others who have the Charge of Children to train them up in the Knowledge Fear and Love of God To do what in them lies to fortifie their Minds against those Snares and Temptations to which they are exposed and to shine before them in the Practice of sincere Piety themselves Tho' too many on whom God has bestowed Children are so far from doing their Duty for their Souls that they corrupt and utterly ruin them which one of the Ancients calls a greater Cruelty than if they killed their Bodies Yet blessed be God there are some who consider it as their main Business with Relation to their Children to make them wise and good Lovers of God and Haters of every Evil Thing Amongst those who are governed by this Religious Principle God hath made you my most Honoured Friends great Patterns As he hath blessed you with a numerous offspring so he hath given you of the Wisdom from above to know how to Train them up in Piety and Virtue The happy mixture of Kindness and Severity which you use towards them makes them not only to stand in awe of you but to love you I might be allowed on this occasion to say somewhat in Commendation of those Excellent Qualities which God has blessed you with and which appear not only in your way and manner of Educating your Children but in other things likewise The many and great Expressions of your kindness for me ever since I had the Honour to be known to you require the most publick Testimony of my grateful Resentment thereof But 't is one of your Virtues that you chuse rather to be concealed than to make any great noise in the World I shall therefore restrain my self from what otherwise not only Gratitude but the great and just Esteem and Affection I have for you do mightily tempt me unto And shall conclude this Address with my Prayers to God for you That he would increase his Grace in you more and more that you may abound in all the Fruits of Righteousness and true Holiness until you obtain the End of your Faith the Salvation of your Souls I am Tour most Affectionate Friend and most Faithful Servant James Kirkwood THE PREFACE THE Author of the ensuing Treatise having thought fit to recommend his Papers to my perusal I was willing to usher them into the World with some remarks upon his pious design The Welfare of a Common Wealth doth in a great measure depend upon the Duties of the Relatives here treated of and did Parents and Children conscientiously discharge all the Ob●igations incumbent upon them by the Law of God and Nature the World could not be so wicked as it is Education makes the first impressions upon the Souls of Men and were care taken that the Ground be impregnated with good Seed such a Harvest might be expected from it that Posterity might be the better for it I am sensible that Conversation and the Humour of the Age is apt to make strange alterations in the Principles we imb●be yet something will stick and when the thoughts are cool and Men come to reflect the Principles they have learned when the wax was soft will recoil and oblige them to return to their Duty Of this we have experience and though there is no Rule so general but admits of exceptions yet it 's enough that this effect doth frequently appear which is no inconsiderable Motive to the serious consideration of a thing of this importance It was a wise answer which one of the LXXII Interpreters gave to Ptolemaeus Philadelphus who asked him what was the greatest negligence The neglect saith he of the good Education of Children It is so and the hurt that 's done by it both to them and to the Publick is unspeakable Whence is it that there are so many Prodigals that so many come to an untimely end that so many run into excesses which destroy both Soul and Body From want of pious Education It was a severe Censure which Carneades the Philosopher passed upon the Children of Rich Men that they learned nothing but to ride well Indeed it is to be wondered that Rational Creatures should be so careful to breed up their Progeny to sensuality and neglect the cultivation of that which makes them differ from Bruits and shews they are Creatures of a nobler extract Can any thing be more reasonable than Virtue and the fear of God Is not this it which both Scripture and Philosophy teaches Do not we our selves confess so much and do not most Men acknowledge it when they come to dye And yet that we should make this the least part of our care in the Education of Youth is wondrous strange Some seem to fancy that sending their Children to School or to teach them their Catechism is all the Care that is incumbent upon them Though I cannot say but that this is a Duty yet it is so imperfect that I can scarce honour it with the Title of doing it by halves it being but the beginning or the least part of it Instruction Precept and Example are the mighty Engines and Instruments in the promoting and accomplishing this Work and perhaps nothing hath a greater influence than Example for all the Moral Precepts of the Parents are like Water spilt upon the Ground where Example doth not concomitate the instruction How