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Man's monitor, or, The free-school of virtue; holding forth the duties required and sins forbidden in the two tables of the law. In easie English vers [sic]. Fit to bee implanted in the memories of all Christian children. / By W. Barton preacher of God's word at North-winfield in Darby-shire.
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Barton, William
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Wing B1002A; ESTC R172281
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tongues or ignorance And slubbering over any Ordinance For all irreverence in the things of heaven Argue's a heart that is profanely given This mightily condemn's the careless minde That move's the lip and leave 's the heart behinde That heedless is of what wee execute In prayer mindeless and psalm-singing mute Entring on duty with a heart unbent And unprepar'd receiving Sacrament Beeing at Baptism as a bare spectator No whit regarding the baptismal water Unreverent posture when they go to pray As if wee serv'd an image made of clay Sleepy and lazy prayers in our bed Unless by weakenss so occasioned Creeds Avemaries and I know not what Jabbled for prayers like the parrot's chat Yea and our Lord 's own words to idolize As if the bare rehearsal did suffice Jeering the Saints for their religion's sake All these for hainous profanations take Hearing without affection to apply Feeding our ears but not our hearts thereby Ore-curious questions wilfull cavillation Unreverent gesture or misapplication Entring the Church and starting out again When there are holy things to entertain Going to sit and sleep to muse and gaze To state on Beauty or where pomp doth blaze To keep our heart or eye without a curb And to do any thing that will disturb And lastly with a wicked life to stain A good profession take's God's name in vain Duties and Trespasses implied in the Fourth Commandment THe Fourth require's a seventh of all our dayes Spent in religion for our Maker's prais Preparing still against each Sabbath day Then rising early and avoid delay The chief are publick duties singing Psalms Pray'rs sermons sacraments and giving alms In private also wee must read and pray Discours sing Psalms and meditate that day Repeat the holy lessons wee have heard Nor may the works of mercy be defer'd Wee may do needfull works of earthly kinde Yet should wee do them with more heavenly minde Seasoning our corporal food with spiritual salt And all that edifie's wee should exalt At baptism wee must minde the bath of blood And spirit of grace pour'd on us as a flood Praying for him or her that is baptis'd That they with us may bee Spiritualliz'd Receiving Sacraments with hearts prepar'd With faith and charity and great regard Noting the breaking of the Corps-like bread The wine pour'd out as Christ his blood was shed Remembring he was God that could foretell By apt resemblance what himself befell The giving taking and to taste and feed Are all to be appli'd with carefull heed The Parent master and the magistrate Must look to all that are within their gate But these offences every one of them The fourth Commandement doth much condemâ— Not to confess or not to understand The moral nature of the fourth Command Not to prefer redemption to creätion As caus sufficient of the day's translation Forgetfulness of Sabbaths when they com Or out of slothfulness to stay at home Preferring duties don in private sort Before the place where all the Church resort Neglect of preparation meer delay Wearie attendance haste to get away Leaving of holie things som part behinde And suffering loos distractions in our mind A heart that run's a tongue that talk's in vain Of worldly toyes and following lures of gain To lay instruction or good things aside Neglecting to becom our families guide To be employ'd in errands trim attires Or labors which a common day require's Say that on Sabbaths need should chance enforâ— The hasty buâ—ial of a noysome cors Yet can it not compel in any wise To keep the funeral solemnities To ring and riot il become's a hers Much less when men should Christianly convers To crowd the Corpses in the Church that day Argue's the buriers are as dead as they Preambulations chattings or pastimes Feasts journyes visits or som lewder crimes As diceing carding Som are lewder yet Hurrying men headlong to the dreadfull pit As Stews and Stage-playes every day abhor'd But much more on the Sabbath of the LORD And lastly suffering sinners to profane The holy Sabbath when wee might restrain Although som sin by scrupulositie Pining poor creatures under miserie When sudden sickness or extreme distress Call's for a speedy succour and redress As when indeed wee cannot com or stay Our will 's accepted any hour o th' day For this rule hold's in Sabbath-exercise God will have Mercy and not Sacrifice Duties and Trespasses implied in the Fift Commandment HEre are the Duties and Digressions touch'd Which in the fift Commandement are couch'd First then the powers Supreme must first of all Bee sure they have a right and lawfull call Good wholsom Lawes they must by counsel frame â—nferior Powers must execute the same Unrighteous Lawes Superiors must repeal And set in order Chuch and Common-weal Even Kings and Princes daily should convers With sacred Scriptures and those rules rehers â—nd in their proper persons most excell 〈◊〉 godliness and guide their Housholds well Brave men they must promote of able parts Incourage virtue and reward deserts Judges they must appoint and officers And stir up able teaching Ministers Giving them charge that with alacrity They do their several duties faithfully Who they that prove corrupt and vile must bee Remov'd and censur'd by severe decree The Judges must give light to every cause Respect no persons but regard the laws They must maintain true freedom faithfully Propertie peace and civil honestie But most of all Religion that must have A sure defens against each storm and wave And thus far doubtless should compulsion go To cause to practise what men clearly know Wherefore the Christian magistracie ought Take care that people may bee truly taught And for that teaching caus them to maintain A learned Ministry to take the pain They are obliged allwaies to suppress Strife whoredom drunkenness and Idleness Profaneness conjuring witchcraft blasphemie Idolatry Heresie vain astrologie And all iniquitie since both tables are Committed to their custody and care All publick persons that are put in trust Must bee religious wise couragious just Patient to hear and hating covetousness Give good example and good Counsel press With Justice Equitie must go along Els utmost right may prove extreamest wrong Especially when as the innocent Among the guilty suffer punishment This care concern's likewise the Jurie-men And Officers and every one of them Umpires and Abitrators are no less Oblig'd to Equitie and righteousness But usurpation of the throne one hour Or putting vicious men in place of power Rigor remisness partiality Taking of bribes exaction tyrannie And toleration of those evil things The Lord's sure wrath upon the Rulers bring 's If Magistrates encourage not the Word And godly people by the civil sword If they reliev not the oppress'd with speed And let not flie against an evill deed If they will act no more then for their friends Or for their interests and worldly ends If they be cold or take an evil cours They hearten sinners and themselvs sin wors 'T is sin to
thy Master's Exposition And chiefly that which suit 's with thy Condition As first abandon negligence and sloth Abhor a lie and tremble at an oath Shun Faith and Troth by ' r Lady and the Mass 'T is sin and shame to let such speeches pass Shun quarrelling lest passion should bee stir'd And scorn to give the least opprobrious word To hear some foul-mouth'd Brats would make one gather The unclean spirit were their ghostly father Never imploy thy wits to scoff and jeer Nor let thy pen in wanton works appear The Ribauld Poët is a sordid Swine Because his Art should make him all Divine With honest Recreations whet thy wit But let no baseness prompt or poyson it The lord of Misrule with his sports uncivil Is fit to make a Bearward for the Divel Esteem of Sundayes not for sport and play As Thursdayes but as Repetition day Then do the Sabbath duties with delight A constant Zealot still this way stand's right Hee that is careless and profane herein Run's headlong into all excess of sin In secret place by practice learn to pray Meer want will teach a beggar what to say Sin yield's confession for thou know'st thy pranks And blessings teach the gratefull to give thanks But hee that would bee prompt in supplication Must oft use practice and premeditation Inquire for Christ learn who and what hee is His double Natures and his Offices Hee that like David or young Samuel Know's Christ in childhood shall in age excel A young Saint and a sound I dare presage Shall shine like to an Angel in his age And now I leav thee with my last advice Hoping to see thee once in Paradise If thou must leav both school and scholarship And taste of learning but a little sip Read godly Books first Bishop Usher's best For Science and for Conscience Baxter's Rest Dent for the plain man Hildersham and Dod And above all books els the Book of God W. B. ERRATA Page 3. line 18. for since read sin p. 5. l. 17. of r. or p. 7. l. 15. was r. wee p. 14. l. 26. Jâ—bbled r. Babbled p. 18. l. 7. Who r. For. l. last Officers r. Officers p. 19. l. 1. Abitrator r. Arbitrator p. 30 l. 24. love r. love's p. 31. l. 29. pretensed r. prepensed p. 33. l. 9. fit r. filâ—'s l. 12. end r. and p. 41. l. 11. beser r. baser MAN'S MONITOR DUTIES and TRESPASSES implied in the First COMMANDMENT THe first Command require's the inward Man With all the power that possibly he can To give attendance alwaies on the Lord In Trinitie and Unitie ador'd To do each dutie in our Saviour's merit And by assistance of his sacred Spirit It binde's to blessed Virtues touching God As filial fear and reverence of his rod Spiritual knowledg as the only scope Of all our skill and heaven-assuring hope Holie rejoicing and strong confidence Unwearied patience and true penitence Zeal for his glorie kindled with good will And earnest longing for his presence still Attending for the comming and the call Of Christ our Lord and soveraign judg of all And among virtues as the very chief It bind's unto particular belief Of sins remission and our souls salvation By Christ our Saviour's death and mediation To gratefull thoughts and great humilitie To fervent love without hypocrisie In which affections nothing may partake But allwaies under him and for his sake It also binde's to outward adoration Profession of God's Name and invocation Our rising and reposing thoughts must bee Bestow'd on God then must wee bow the knee And humbly offer him with daily care The sacrifices of our solemn prayer Not naming heathenish Gods without disdain Nor any Customes that to them pertain Their temples altars images must bee Abominated in a high degree Only the true God's beeing ours in Christ Should draw up our affections to the high'st It bind's us to beleev what scripture saith Touching the pinciples of Christian faith One true eternal God unchang'able Most holy wise just mighty mercifull Invisible immense and infinite And having all things alwaies in his sight Incomprerensible in persons three For father son and holy Ghost they bee The fountain of this personalitie Beget's the Word who work 's from his supplie Both these produce the Spirit which proceed's And work 's from both they by him their deed So non's afore but in this order rare All Coëternal and Coëqual are Predestination and foreseen decree How for God's glorie every thing shall bee Creätion of the world in six daies space All Angels first Man in the latest place Perpetual Providence the helpless fall Of sinning Angels some ne're sin'd at all These were elect and prais their Maker still And with great quickness execute his will These wait on Saints and bear them in their arm Those by permission tempt accuse and harm Reserv'd in chains of darkness which dismay Untill the judgment of the general day Man's innocence and happiness at first That Covenant broke and all therein accurst Original corruption Actual sin Transgression censur'd and thus death came in The law so plainly written in man's heart Obliterated for the greater part The earthly paradise quite lost and gone And all mankind slain by the sin of one A better Covenant wrought man's restoration By Christ the second person's incarnation Conceiv'd in Virgins womb by heavenly powers His man-hood since excepted just like ours To th' second person joyn'd immediately And mediately to the rest thereby Making both natures but one person still Though having both divine and humane will Divine and humane properties distinct Man-God God-man both these rogether link't Equall with God in his spirituall Nature Inferiour to him as the Mediator Yet in both natures not in man's alone Far above Angels in the highest throne His perfect life and blessed doctrine taught Back'd with a world of wonders which he wrought His judgment passion buriall Resurrection Ascension session in his bright perfection And intercession there at God's right hand And having all things under his Command The universal Churches sure election Calling adoption triall and correction Redounding to their good Justification Sanctification and sure preservation The seal of Baptism and the sacred Cup With many an Ordinance to build them up All to be guided by the Scripture's light Which saints did pen and God's own spirit indiâ— The common call and gifts of many a one Never built up unto perfection Immortal souls of saints celestial bliss Imprisonment of theirs that liv'd amiss The Resurrection and great judgment day Where Christ in chief and all the saints bear sway The world that was accurst for man misled Purged by fire and re-established Then reprobates must pack to endless pain And saints in endless glory shall remain He that discern's not these nor cares to see Condemn'd of wilfull ignorance shall bee He that believe's not this his sin goe's higher For unbelievers have made God a liar These then are sins of which wee must repent