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A49812	A serious remembrancer to live well written primarily to children and young people, secondarily to parents, useful (I hope) for all : lastly, compendious remarks of the death of Jonah Lawson who finished his course upon earth the 23d day of the month called February, 1683, in the 14th year of his age / [by] Tho. Lawson.	Lawson, Thomas, 1630-1691.	1684 (1684)	Wing L727; ESTC R34960	10,152	32

A Serious Remembrancer To Live Well Written Primarily to CHILDREN And Young PEOPLE Secondarily to PARENTS Useful I hope for All. Lastly Compendious Remarks of the Death of Jonah Lawson who finished his Course upon Earth the 23d Day of the Month called February 1683. in the 14th Year of his Age. Non misere quisquam qui bene vixit obit O be wise-hearted knowing that beneath We always sail towards the Port of Death THO. LAWSON London Printed in the Year 1684. A Serious Remembrancer To Live well c. CHildren and Young People promise not to your selves many days you know not how near your Glass is run out when you shall be commended to Earthen Sheets to your long home Let not the Indulgence of Teachers nor the Example of the Multitude sunk in the Mire of Folly Vanity Youthful Lusts Intemperancy Unruliness of Mind Unstayedness Wantonness and of Unsavouriness be prevalent with you or give you encouragement to forget the Lord in your tender Years who made you to bear his Image to submit to his Scepter to live under his Holy and Righteous Government and Regiment in a word to serve him all the days of your appointed time in Newness of Life and not your selves who Crowns his Followers with Endless Peace and Spiritual Consolation and Enriches them with Durable Lasting yea Everlasting Treasures and Substance Superlatively Surmounting all Worldly Tempting Offers of Fading Wealth Pleasures or Honours 'T is a precious thing when Children and Young People like Gideon's Fleece drink up betime the Pearly Dew of Divine Grace and Heavenly Vertue so that their Spiritual Growth in the Faith tends Heaven-wards upright and tall of Stature Fruitful always Green and Flourishing as the Palm-Tree not bowed down with the weight of the Worldly Spirit or Earthly-mindedness Children and Young People promise not to your selves length of Days he that gives Life and Breath can take it when and how he pleases Read your Mortality in the Creation the fair Damask Rose soon withers the fairest Blossom is soon blasted the most fragrant Aromatical Flower quickly fades the Dewy Morning hastes away the Sun the glorious Lamp of the Firmament soon sets the Shadow is gone in a Moment Jonah's Gourd presently withered the Meadows graced with Smaragdine Greenness are quickly naked the melodious Bird now here is presently gone the Pearled Dew of the Spring soon ascends an Hour is but a short time or continuance the bubble of a Brook is soon dispersed the Course of a Shuttle is swift a Writing on the Sand is soon obliterated a Thought soon passeth away a Dream is soon gone the glyding of a Chrystal Stream soon passeth by an Arrow from the Bow of the Mighty is quickly gone the time betwixt Flood and Ebb is as no time the Spiders Web is soon rent Lightning from the Sky is soon vanished a Post is quick in his Course the Snow quickly dissolves whem Summer comes Such is the Life of Man of short continuance here upon Earth soon gone hence and seen no more Our Life saith Petrarch is a Race unto Death What then ought to be the Living Concern of every one Even to mind the One thing necessary To do that which is right in the sight of the Lord to give all diligence to make our Calling and Election sure faithfully to improve God's Gift to walk with him as Enoch did to grow in Acquaintance and in Favour with him to finish the short course of Life in the Holy Faith Reverence and Fear in the end to receive the Reward of the Righteous Everlasting Blessedness in the Fruition of God Children and Young People and whosoever reads this that you may be honoured with the Blessedness and Happy End of the Righteous take Counsel and comply with God's way and means that leads to this Blessedness Consider John's Record of the Eternal Word who said In him was Life and the Life was the Light of Men Mark this His Life is the Light of Men Of what Men Of every Man that comes into the World yea Light which is of the Life shines in Darkness in Hearts darkened by Satan the Captain and Ring-leader of his wretched Captives and Slaves but Darkness Satan's Captives comprehends not the Light nor such as walk in it John 1.4 5 9. This Record of John evidently holds out the Quality of the Light to be of the Life a Pure Divine Heavenly and Essential Principle and the Universality of it in every Man And Paul was sent To turn People from Darkness which comprehends not the Light nor the Leadings and Operations thereof nor the Children of Light to the Light which comprehends Darkness and the Children of Darkness Acts 26.16 17 18. So Children and Young People come out of Darkness out of defiling Self to the pure divine essential Principle in you be ye separate from Darkness to the Light of Life then are you Separatists indeed and shall grow up in the Saving Knowledge of the Lord of the Mysteries of his Kingdom and of the things that concern your Peace and Everlasting Well-being And as you keep to and continue in the pure Principle of God in you it will shew you Sin and Evil every vain Thought Desire Imagination and Unrighteous Inclinations and secretly check and reprove you when you enter into the same for the Reproofs of Instruction are the way of Life it will kindle you into desires after Innocency and beget in you a hunger after Righteousness and you will come to be weaned from the vain Ways Customs Fashions Sports and Pastimes of the World and being established in Grace you come to know what the true Worship is even in Spirit and in Truth that Repentance which is never to be repented of the pure and undefiled Religion which keeps out of the Spots of the World the Fear of the Lord which is the beginning of Wisdom even that Fear which tendeth to Life where strong Confidence is here the Fountain of Life is known here every Evil Way is hated and the Snares of Death are escaped John bare Record that Christ lighteth every Man and Christ informs us who are Lovers thereof and who are not Every one that doth Evil saith he hateth the Light and will not come to it lest his Deeds should be reproved but he that doth Truth cometh to the Light that his Deeds may be made manifest that they are wrought in God John 3.20 21. Evil cannot be wrought in the Light nor Good without it Children and Young People who are inwardly touched to make a Good Confession of the Pure Divine Principle in you not by Verbal Demonstration only but by willing and ready Obedience and Subjection to its Commands in faithful Wrestling against the Evil it manifests whether Thought Word or Deed and pressing after the Good Vertuous and Sober Life it calls for persevere in this Grace so shall you be living Witnesses of precious things yea that ye are God's Workmanship The Shunamite's Child being dead Elisha stretched

himself upon it and the Flesh of the Child waxed warm and neesed seven times an evident sign of Life and Strength Nature arising to expel Flatulent and Peccant Vapours he opened his Eyes and was embraced by his Mother 2 Kings 4. This you shall read continuing in the Grace of God living in that which crucifies the Flesh tho' dead in Sins and Trespasses you shall receive the Quickening Power your Hearts shall grow warm as I may say a Spiritual Warmness issues from the Quickening Power Said not the Disciples after Christ was risen Did not our Hearts burn within us while he talked with us by the way and while he opened to us the Scriptures Luke 24. Here was a Spiritual Warming This you shall read as you live in the Grace of God and become inward Jews Worshippers of God in Spirit and in Truth tho' you were once Dark yea Darkness it self yet receiving the Pure Divine Principle in you you become enlightned by it and living in it and obeying it in all things a Heavenly Increase is known here is a changing from Glory to Glory once Darkness now Light in the Lord a walking as Children of the Light and walking here the whole course of your Life is a Feast kindly receive what comes from the Hand of the Lord be true to that which secretly Reproves and Judges remembering that Zion is redeemed with Judgment and her Converts with Righteousness keep out of the Snares of the Earth knowing the way of God walk in it remember she was cloathed with the Sun that had the Moon under her feet Rev. 12. So in the Faith put on the Lord Jesus Children and Young People and who-ever read this Remember that under the First Covenant the Law was written in Tables of Stone but in the New Covenant the Law is written in the Heart in the inward parts and that the Lord will be the Teacher of his People and that he will blot out their Sins and remember their Iniquities no more this Law is Pure Divine Essential and to be owned and received where it is and they who do not are deniers of the New Covenant their Names are written in the Earth 't is Satan's sleight to bring Men to neglect Divine Grace the Royal Law where it is and to seek it where it is not to be found That 's it which in the Closet of your Hearts shews you Sin and Evil checks and reproves and disquiets you when Evil is committed And moves to Righteousness in the Obedience a daily Mortification is known a daily blotting out of Iniquity is witnessed your Name comes to be written in the Book of Life Fellowship with the Father in the Son is known The Renovation of Man is a gradual Work the outward Jews divided the Night into several Watches They had their beginning of the Watches Lam 12.19 Their middle Watch Judg. 7. The Morning Watch Exod. 14. In this The Egyptians were drowned In this Jesus walked on the Sea Mat. 14. In these Watches the outward Jew saw the Curtain of the Night wear out pass away one succeeded another By disobedience a Night of Blindness Darkness Ignorance and Infidelity came upon Man herein he was overwhelmed the Sun of Righteousness being manifest he Preached us a Watch of a Spiritual Nature and Tendency saying What I say to one I say to all Watch Mark 13.37 You owning the Light of Life in you the pure Principle of God which shews you Sin and Evil if you obey it you are come to the beginning the day dawning and the Day-Star arising in your Hearts in this Morning-Watch you see the Egyptian's Flesh Crucified with the Affections and Lusts thereof Christ walking on the Sea Waves of Iniquity brought under his Power he ruling in your Hearts by Faith The Apostle read this who said The Night is far spent the Day is at hand let us cast off the works of Darkness and let us put on the Armour of Light Rom. 13.12 Now Kindreds Tongues People and Nations Professors or Profane who deny the Light and Subjection thereunto they are not come to the beginning of Watches so are far from the Morning But you that own the Light of Life in you and are livingly concerned that your Light may shine forth before Men you that in Faith and Patience bear about in your Bodies the Dying of the Lord Jesus that his Life may be manifest in your Mortal Bodies You that labour and wrestle for a part in the first Resurrection you have your Senses exercised to the discerning of Good and Evil you have the Senses of the New Man created in Christ Jesus you have an Eye to see your Creator and his name is in your Foreheads you hear his Voice and deny the Voice of the Stranger the sweet Savour of Christ as precious Spikenard refreshes you you daily taste that the Lord is Gracious your hands handle the Word of Life Children young People and others who feel a pure divine Principle in you moving Heaven-wards be obedient to it in all things so you grow from Grace to Grace in the invisible Life as you put off what it manifests to be evil watch in it wait in it to grow up in the living Truth therein gird up the loyns of your Minds 1 Pet. 1.13 Let not any inward impediments stop you in your Heavenly Journey In Eastern Countries they wear long and loose Garments which-several tucked and girded up lest they should hinder them as Souldiers Jewish Priests Travellers Runners Wrestlers Table-Servers to serve more readily Now the Apostle brings them to the Inward to the Spiritual Girding up saying Gird up the loyns of your Minds 1 Pet. 1.13 And 't is of as absolute necessity now as then to wait in the Light of Life gird up the loyns of your Mind set your Affections on Heavenly things otherwise you cannot be good Souldiers of Jesus Christ to fight the Fight of Faith neither can you be of the Royal Priesthood nor perform the Heavenly Journey nor run the Race of the Righteous nor wrestle so as to obtain the Blessing nor sit at Christ's Table partake of his Blessings manifold Spiritual Graces so keep out of the Earth growing up in Heavenly mindedness Christ said to the Pharisees who lived in obstinate contradiction to him and his saving Doctrine The Kingdom of God is within you Luke 17.21 They slighted the Kingdom of God where it was and sought it where it was not to be found in empty Observations without as deluded Formalists do now He also saith The Kingdom of God is like to a Grain of Mustard-Seed to Leaven to a Pearl Now Children young People and who ever reads this mind the Kingdom of God within you the Light of Life which shews you Sin and Evil ●nd in complying therewith it leads you out of the Region of Death and ●stablishes you in the just Man's Path ●o you read these Parables and come to ●he end and fulfilling thereof A Grain of Mustard-Seed

Comfort when other Lessons invented by Man will signifie nothing but be a Burthen Ye Fathers c. saith Paul bring up your Children in the Nurture and Admonition of the Lord Ephes 6.4 Such as are careless upon this account 't is an evident token they are not truly season'd unto God for they that are they cannot but desire the Spiritual and Eternal well-being of their Children Now you Parents truly made alive by the Quickening Word who Live Move and have your Being in God be concern'd for your Children that they may witness the same Travel when the Keepers of the House shall tremble and the strong Men shall bow themselves and the Grinders cease because they are few and those that look out of the Windows be darkned in a word when Old Age hath seized on you so as you wait for and expect the Dissolution of your Earthly Tabernacles 't will minister much Comfort and Consolation to you that you feel your Children growing up in Innocency Branches of the true Vine Christ Jesus and in them after your Bodies are commended to Earthen Sheets you as I may say Live Ambrose in his Funeral Oration upon Theodosius a Christian Emperor said Theodosius a great Emperor is gone from us but he is not wholly gone for he hath left us his Children in whom he lives still Or if according to the good Pleasure of the Almighty you Survive your Child or Children 't will be great Comfort and Satisfaction to you that such a Child or Children in that exercise in the least measure feels the sustaining and comforting Presence of the Lord so that you have ground to believe that Child or those Children go hence in the favour of the Lord. This was my Exercise of late I had a Son one only Son whose name was Jonah by Interpretation a Dove who in Nature I believe much answered his Name who tho' Educated in a mixed School where his Progress was above what could reasonably be expected from his Years was so acted and preserved as that in the days of his short Age I never knew him at variance or strife with any or bring any complaint against any Scholar or Servant I kept I never to my knowledge found a Lie in his Mouth or sought to cloke any thing I disliked but would nakedly and simply declare Truth I never heard as much as Mass or Mary proceed out of his Mouth or any Oath too common in many Schools having learned his Yea and Nay in a word as he was comfortable to us in his Life so in his Death also He was wonderfully afflicted with the Small-Pox and when we judged he was past the heighth thereof he came to be sadly troubled with Flegm with a Scowring and great Thirst which in a few days carried him away the nearer he drew to his end the more he called for my company and was not willing to want me The Night before he died I being beside him John the Son of Lancelot Fallowfield came in and said Jonah How dost thou He answered I am well Spiritually but indifferent in Body presently after he said Father talk with me I said to him Jonah What shall we talk on He said I know not Then being afflicted for him and silled with Love to him I said Jonah thou knowest I was never harsh but always tender to thee he said It is so Then I said Jonah we will talk of another Kingdom Our continuance here is very little think of that City whose Builder and Maker is God This World is but at the best a Bitter-Sweet but Heaven is nothing but Joy Have God in thy Thoughts Then he answered Ay Father and I hope I have little to answer for and that I have a good Conscience I have abhorred Lying and Swearing and what I saw to be Evil and I am willing to die if it be his pleasure or to live to praise him His Sister Ruth weeping beside him he said to her Weep not I hope we shall meet in a better place Soon after he uttered these words to the Lord The time thou hast appointed for me on the Earth give me Grace to praise thy Name Presently after as answered from above he said O sweet God A little after I coming to him he said to me Father Pray for me His last words a very little before his departure were to me and to his Sister Ruth So so I am coming I am coming I must yield I must yield Tho' his Affliction was exceeding great yet he never utter'd one word savouring of Impatiency and Vanity but such was his Patience and such things so tenderly and savourily dropped from him as wrought me into that Frame of Spirit as freely though dearer to me than all visible and transitory things to commend him to the Lord touched with much Confidence of his future Happiness And I wish I may never forget his finishing of his Course neither do I remember it but I am bettered by the remembrance thereof I remember what David said to Solomon in order to the Building the Material Temple Vp and be doing and the Lord will be with thee 1 Chron. 22.16 So you that read this Vp arise from Death to Life be doing work in the Life so the Lord will be with you to the Building a Temple without Hands knowing your Bodies the Temple of the Holy Ghost you feeding on Heavenly Food cannot but desire that others may partake with you Abraham's Sons and Daughters in the Faith are not Nabal's Fools and Churles but desire that others may feed of their Morsels partake of Spiritual Blessings with them so I conclude with Joachim Camerarius Vos virtutis iter gnatis monstrate Parentes Ipsa Aquila ut pullos fida volare docet Ut canere alma ocept pullos Philomela tenellos Sic gegitor gnatos format ipse pius Which thus I English You Parents teach your Children Vertue 's way As Eagles teach their Young to fly not stray As Nightingales do teach their Young to sing So Parents Just wash theirs in Vertue 's Spring After this I had written looking among his Papers I found several Affectionate Epistles written in Verse to one John Hall School-Master in Cleeve-Land his Quondam School-fellow a thing I never put him on nor encouraged him to and Verses upon several Subjects most of which his Sisters knew the time and occasion of writing them he wrote this following upon Man's Mortality Death puts an end to all that do remain Or which this mortal wretched World contain Croesus his Riches nothing can prevail Against the Darts of Death when they assail 'T is to be moved by no means at all Nor any spares but brings to all a fall The lofty Monarch it nothing doth regard Nor from poor Irus poverty 's debard It can be shunned by no Man's intreaty Of high and low at length it makes a booty The strength of Milo nothing doth prevail The Streams of Eloquence at length must fail What if a Prince heap Silver up and Gold Yet he must be interr'd within its Fold What if a Mortal very learned be Yet he of Death gets not the Victory What if a Poor Man with Intreaty strive Those his Intreaties keep not him alive He that of Death to get the Victory Contends he weaves th' Web of Penelope Seeing 't is so be mindful of thy end Thy few Days here in Vertuous Living spend Upon another Subject he wrote thus Humility the Spring of Vertue is Humbling thy self Vertue thou canst not miss Delight in Vertue Vice be sure to shun He 's happy that a Vertuous Course doth run One Night this Winter some Scholars in my absence propounded Questions one to another upon which he went to the Table and wrote these following A Virgin rare that 's past compare Doth in few places dwell But always she a Friend will be To those that love her well After a little season he said This Virgin is Wisdom which comes from above which indeed too few entertain but such as do she is their Guide and Leader to Life Eternal THE END