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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

Professors whilst accurate Catechising of all sorts of people which did so much good in the * Cognitio scientia Christi Evangelii olim Christiano populo multo perspectior fuit quàm hodie Id. ut supra Primitive times is so generally neglected Sect. 8. You cannot with any colour of reason expect to be made partakers of the sealing Ordinances without knowledge this is one main thing wherein the trial of your fitness is to be made whether or no you discern the Lords body If you eat and drink without knowledge you eat it undiscerningly 〈◊〉 if you eat undiscerningly you eat unworthily and if you eat unworthily 1 Cor. 11. you eat and drink your own damnation In the Synod of Dort it was thought fit that all that brought their children to baptism Non admittitur testis Baptismi c. should give an account of their faith and knowledg before their children were baptized and that none should be a witness at the baptizing of an Infant who were not first examined concerning the nature of that Sacrament and the Office and Duty of a Witness And for the Sacrament of the Lords Supper they judge that none should be admitted to it but those who first make a publique profession of their Faith before the whole Congregation Ad coenae Dominicae usum nemo admittetur nisi qui Doctrinam Chatecheticam probe teneat fidei suae rationem coram totâ Eccl●siâ publice reddat Judic Hassio Theol Our Liturgy enjoyned not onely Parents and Masters to cause their Children Servants and Apprentices to attend d●ligently and obediently upon publique Catechizing until they had learned the Catechism appointed Rubrick for Confirm but also strictly forbids to admit any to the Commu●ion until such time as they could say the Catechism and were confirmed Ignorance as well as scandal was ever reckoned a bar sufficient to keep from the Sacrament Sect. 9. Ministers are to take care of all the flock Act. 20.28 over which God hath made them overseers Elder people are either members of the several flocks or no if not then these are as sheep without a shepheard if so then they are not to exempt themselves from that care which we are obliged to take of the whole flock The sheep which withdraw themselves from their shepheards care are manifestly exposed to the worrying of the ravening Wolf Sect. 10 Ministers are to give an account to God for their people Heb. 13.27 which when I seriously consider I profess my sinews are loosened and my joynts tremble to think what an account we have to make to God I have sometimes wondered at the self-denying modesty of those times when Gregory● Naziene● Ambrose In their Lives printed before their Works and others being called to be Bishops hid themselves and fled away from such high imployment But when I sadly consider the weight of the Ministerial imployment and the account that must be given to God for the flock I wonder that more do not flie from it And if they must give an account to God for you it is but reasonable that they take an account of you God hath made us Stewards in his house it is a great honor but withal a great trust If a Noble man will exact an account of all the business of his family at his Stewards hands it must be necessarily implied that others shall give up their account to him else how shall he be accountable to his Lord If we must be called to an account for your proficiency we may justly call you to an account about it O that you would help us to give up our account that we may do it with joy and not with grief for that will be unprofitable for you 1 Thess 2.19 A thriving people are here a Ministers crown and joy and will be much more so when he is to give up his account in the day of Jesus Christ What a comfort will it be when God calls a Minister to reckoning for his imployment if he can bring with him many precious souls which he hath by his Ministery converted strengthened confirmed and can say in the language of the great Shepheard of our fouls Behold here am I Isa 8.18 and the children which the Lord hath given me When God shall ask him as Esau did Jacob Gen. 33.5 Who are these with thee he can chearfully answer as Jacob did These are the children that God hath graciously given to thy servant in the exercise of his Ministery On the other hand what a grief will it be to a Minister when God shall call him to an account of his employment that in the bitterness of his spirit he must return such an answer as this Lord I have preached in vain I have labored in vain I have stretched out my hands all my life long to a rebellious people I have spoken to them the great things of thy Law but they have accounted them a vain thing I would have healed them and they would not be healed I would have gathered them and they would not be gathered I have piped to them and they have not danced I have mourned for them but they have not wept I have laid thy Law before them but they have not trembled I have preached the Gospel to them but they have not beleived Lord thou knowest how I have daily bended my knees to thee in prayer for them I have spent my strength and time in preaching to them I have watched for them when they slept and labored night and day to bring them to the knowledge of Jesus Christ I would have instructed them but they would not learn but they have continued proud and peevish and stubborn and ignorant and refuse instruction Good friends take heed and be well advised such an account would neither be to a Ministers comfort nor to a peoples profit Sect. 11. The concurrent consent of all Protestant Divines Synod of Dort ses 15. not onely singly considered and dispersed which would be too tedious to recite but as united into one body in the most considerable Assembly that hath been of the Protestants since the Reformation Where though some thought it would be a difficult work to bring antient people to be publickly catechized especially in the first setting this unusual work on foot unless they would voluntarily submit themselves thereunto yet they all agree in this that Parents and Masters ought to be constantly present at the publique Catechizing their Children and Families that so they may the better take notice of their proficiency and know how either to encourage or reprehend them accordingly and be hereby the better inabled to teach them themselves in private And further that they ought to submit themselves to trial if not publique as some noble persons had done to the great advantage of the Church of God yet that they would be content to learn in private which is all that we now press and which they all

What if thy child come not to be great nor rich in this world yet he may be an honest gracious man and rich toward God but if thou sufferest him to live in ignorance of Religion whatever thou providest for him else in the end he will be most miserable Poor Lazarus would not change skins though it were full of sores with rich Dives Verily our extraordinary diligence in making temporal provision for our children will rise in judgement against us for our utter neglect of their eternal welfare Sect. 7. This is the fittest season to instil knowledge into them before their hearts be corrupted with the pleasures or insnared with the profits of this world If you suffer those things to preingage them it will be a harder matter to make them unlearn evil then it would have been to have made them learn that which was good before While they are young their memories are best their appetites are strongest their affections keen and eager they are now apter to learn and to take any impression you shall set upon them now they must be followed close Pers Sat. 3. v. Casaub Plato 2. de legibus Vdum molle lutum es Nunc nunc properand c. As age grows on they will be more hard to learn They are now of an active disposition they find themselves employed in something If you employ them not in what is good they will employ themselves in what is bad Good things are as easily learnt as bad were they but as diligently taught a Catechise as easily learned as a Ballad or a tale of Robin Hood Whatsoever you would have your children excellent in teach it them betimes Heyl. Geog. in Russia In Russia they train up their children to shooting in their minority and give them nothing to eat till they can hit a white that is set before them The Baleant give them no meat Flor. hist l. 3. c. 8. but what they can kill with their sling Cibum puer à Matre non accipit nisi quem ipsâ monstrante percussit time and use makes them Masters of their Art Much may be done with children ere we think fit to trouble them with such things They can learn to swear and to prophane the Sabbath why might they not as well be taught to read to be catechised to learn some choice Scriptures by heart I have heard of that Noble Lady the now Lady Packington daughter of the Lord Keeper Coventry that in her minority she was tyed by the strictness of her education to learn daily such a proportion of Scripture by heart before she should eat a bit of bread by which custome and assiduity she became in a short time so perfect in the Scripture that she had a great part of the Old Testament and all the New so perfectly by heart that she could repeat any chapter backward or forward tell you any particular verse or words where they were what went before and what followed after Indeed she was a living Concordance the very Prodigy of Memory whose excellencies in these attainments are almost beyond the belief of any but of those who have seen or heard her examined Husbandmen know that they must not expect a good crop unless they sow in a right season Youth is the time to have the seeds of grace and godliness sown else there 's little hope of a good and a holy life Sect. 8. Children are the seed-plot of the Church and Common-wealth those who are now children will soon grow up to be men of action both in things concerning God and their countrey Such as they are when they cease to be children such they will be when they begin to be men Those who spend their youth in ignorance idleness naughtiness what can you expect from them when they become men but to grow from bad to worse As youth leaves them manhood finds them good if good if bad stark naught What impressions are put upon wax when it is melted you shall find upon it when it is hardned What you write upon white paper sticks there What savor your vessels have when they are new they retain when they are old What good you infuse into youth it will relish on when it is ripened into age The wise man gives counsel like himself Train up or catechize a child in the way that he should go Prov. 22.6 and in his age he will no● depart from it It should be something to us to consider what posterity we are like to leave behind us and that we may labour to make the generation to come happier then this by giving our children better instruction then perhaps we have had Pythagoras was wont to say Lilius Gyrald ●ymb Pythanum propter opes that the main end of our begetting and bringing forth children should be● that we might leave those behind us who may serve God in their generation When we consider the trouble and miseries which our eyes have seen we are ready to wish and hope that our children may see better times Good men will make good times Time is in it self nor good nor evil but as the persons are who live in them Do your duty and you may much promote your own desires Labour to make them more knowing men and more obedient to God and that will make better men and better men will make better times Sect. 9. This will enable them to profit by the Sermons which they hear And the want of this is one main ground of that strange non-proficiency amongst men that live even under powerful Ministers God hath been exceedingly gracious in giving his word a free passage which is by many men set on with a great deal of power and life yet many even of such complain in the bitterness of their souls and say Lord who hath believed our report and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed In many such places there 's but little good done and this I conceive amongst others is not the smallest cause that they who come to hear the Word Preached are in no measure prepared thereunto by understanding the Principles of Religion If they understood beforehand what Justification Sanctification Adoption c. were what the covenant of works and the covenant of grace were then they would be able to go along with us in what we say But being so arrantly ignorant of Fundamental necessary truths we only speak into the air they give us the hearing and they depart no wiser then they came A man would wonder else what shift many men could make to remain so ignorant who are like the Ectones Heyl. Geo. in Lyvon the original inhabitants of Poland who are diligent frequenters of the Churches but so extreamly ignorant that hardly one in a Village can say his Pater Noster Should any of you hear a man make a learned Discourse concerning any point in Geometry Arithmetick c. you might admire what you did not understand but if you were