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Advice to parents and children the sum of a few sermons contracted and published at the request of many pious hearers / by Daniel Burgess ...
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Burgess, Daniel, 1645-1713.
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Of all Man-kind my Parents Breasts be the Treasuries of my thoughts What I do not communicate unto them I am not like to communicate to any Souls living Children take your Parents advice as to your Trades your Matches and all things of Moment And as far as their words do agree with God's word closely follow them If ever you repent it upon me be shame and your curse 9. Pray and beg others prayers for the conversion of your Parents if they be unregenerate Abraham did all he could to help his Father Terah out of his Idolatry Compare Acts 7.3 4. with Gen. 11. latter end and 12.1 and Josh 24.2 3. In this City I have the request of several pious Children to pray for their prophane Parents Conversion And to send Letters and Books to some of them 10. Praise and imitate all that is good in your living Parents and decently honour them at their death It is said of the Vertuous Woman Prov. 31 28. Her Children rise up and call her Blessed Every Godly Parent speaks to his Children in words much like the Apostles Phil. 4.9 The things which you have both learned and received and heard and seen in me do and the God of peace shall be with you Happy the Children that obey that charge Abrahams Sons buried him honourably Gen. 25.9 So also did Isaacs Sons bury him Gen. 35.29 As for Jacob it is said that Joseph went up to bury his Father and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh the elders of his house and all the elders of the Land of Egypt And all the house of Joseph and his Brethren and his Fathers house There went up with him both Chariots and Horsemen and it was a very great company Gen. 50.7 8 9. Some observe that Isaac mourned the space of three years for his Mother Sarahs death He is then said to have been comforted against his trouble when he took Rebecca to Wife Gen. 24.67 And they make it three years after the death of his Mother that he Married In a word the Children that quickly forget Parents when they are Dead did never overload them with honour when they were Alive And 't is a wonder if they themselves do not both live undesired and dye unlamented Now the Lord make the following Considerations to be indeed Motives And of good significancy unto as many Children as shall read them C. 1. Parents do most of all represent God unto their Children Their Generation shadows forth his Creation Their Education his Propriety Government and Love To contemn Parents is to contemn God in his most lively Representatives unto Men. C. 2. Parents are under God the greatest of Benefactors unto Children By them God conveighs his Spiritual and Temporal Blessings unto Children Rom. 11.28 The Children are beloved for the Fathers sakes Prov. 20.7 The just man walketh in his integrity his Children are blessed after him Undutifulness to Parents is the lowest pit of ungratitude toward Mortals C. 3. Parents are next unto God the principal Owners and Rulers of Children God the sole Proprietor hath made Children most eminently theirs He gives his Servants Children for Rewards Psal 127.3 God the supream and universal Rector hath made Parents his special Vicegerents To Teach Rule and Judge Children Whosoever therefore resisteth Parents resisteth the Ordinance of God and is most aggravatedly Felon and Traitor C. 4. Sins against Parents are most prolifical sins Such as do bear all sort of sins against God Men and our selves If a Child honour not his Father and Mother whom he hath seen how shall he honour God whom he hath not seen If he Curse his Father and do not Bless his Mother that gave him his being how shall he as to others Bless and Curse not Ezek. 22.7 In thee Jerusalem have they set light by Father and Mother The Hebrew word is directly opposite to that used in the fifth Commandment The word there used for Honour signifies weightily and in extraordinary measure to honour Here in Ezekiel the word used signifies to lighten and to abate weight and measure The fifth Command would be read thus Load with Honour thy Father and Mother But it is said here that in Jerusalem Children had took off that load They had made great abatements of the due honour of Parents Well and what then Why then Hell broke loose then Bloodshed then Oppression then Profaneness then Sabbath-breaking then Adultery and Fornication and what not He that allows himself in sin against Parents must not pretend to disallow any sin Or if he does he must not be believed to be other then an absurd Pretender C. 5. Sins against Parents are threatened with the most and worst of Judgments Disobedient Children are branded for Fools Prov. 15.5 A Fool despiseth his Fathers instruction but he that regardeth reproof is prudent And for Bruits Prov. 12.1 Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge but he that hateth reproof is brutish They are told they shall come to a shameful end Prov. 20.20 Whoso curseth his Father or his Mother his Lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness To an infamous death and terrible Prov. 30.17 The Eye that mocketh at his Father and despiseth to obey his Mother the Ravens of the Valley shall pick it out and the young Eagles shall eat it Of old God commanded the Civil Magistrate to put them to death Exod. 21.17 And he that curseth his Father or his Mother shall surely be put to death Lev. 20.9 For every one that curseth his Father or his Mother shall be surely put to death He hath cursed his Father or his Mother his blood shall be upon him 'T is certain therefore if ye Honour not your Parents you Fear not him that is able to destroy both Soul and Body C. 6. Sins against Parents very long persisted in are a token of utter Desertion by God 'T is seldom they return that long walk in disobedience to Parents O what words do I read 1 Sam. 2.25 They hearkened not unto the voice of their Father because the Lord would slay them Child Child stay and read over this ten times together If God give thee not Grace to hearken obediently unto thy Father thou must look for nothing from his hands less then slaughter C. 7. Childrens sins are Parents sorrows and stains in the World Prov. 17.25 A foolish Son is bitterness to her that bare him Parents need no proofs of this Lev. 21.9 If the Daughter of any Priest profane her self she profaneth her Father she shall be burnt with fire She profanes her Father that is she exposes his Person Ministry and Religion unto contempt Hear me Children Under the Gospel true Christians are all and every one of them Priests And if you are profane you see what you do And you may see more Tit. 1.6 The scandal of riotous Children and unruly do make a Parent unqualified for the Ministry If you will be Impious your poor Parents must be Infamous in a measure with you The Father
Mothers as of Fathers and all Duty towards them You must Love your Parents constantly sincerely and eminently Your Father must not be despised when poor nor your Mother when she is old Prov. 23.22 Nor either of them when they rebuke you for sin Pro. 29. Your Love must be pure and not mercenary for gain from them As Absolom's was for all his Flattery 2 Sam. 14. And it must be eminent 'T is unnatural to Love a Father or Mother no more than we Love the most beneficial of our Friends in the World Nature and Justice give Parents the Preheminence 2. Honour your Parents most highly Next unto God most highly In your Thoughts Words and Behaviours Honour them Fear to think an ill thought of them Their faults forget and cover this is praiseworthy Shem and Japheth are Blessed and Cain's posterity Cursed Gen. 9.22 to 28. Let every Speech unto your Parents be expresly Reverent Rachel's to Laban was so Let not my Lord be displeased Gen 31.35 'T is unnatural when it is not so Mal. 1.6 A Son honoureth his Father that is naturally Sons do Break a bone as soon as omit to bow it to your Parents Irreverent gestures of body are wicked most scandalously Solomon bowed to his Mother 1 Kings 2.19 Joseph bowed himself with his Face to the Earth unto his Father Gen. 41.12 Where I see not this threefold Reverence in you to your Parents I cannot think you other than ignorant despisers of God and your Parents 3. Obey your Parents most absolutely I mean in the Lord as the Scripture speaks Where God forbids not do what they bid you and because they bid you though it be against your own minds and wills For this is God's most Wise and Holy Will Col. 3.10 Children obey your Parents in all things for this is well-pleasing unto the Lord. Where is the honour required in the Fifth Commandment without this Read Prov. 13.1 Prov. 1.8 9. Prov. 30.17 Children Rebecca and Rachel kept Sheep at their Parents command Gen. 24. Gen. 29. Jesus Christ himself was subject to Joseph and Mary in their mean employment Luke 2.57 Matt. 13.15 How wonderoufly yielded Isaac to Abraham see Gen. 22.9.10 And the Rechabites to their Father Jer. 35.5 6 7 to v. 11. He that says I will not do what my Parents would have me he therein saith also I will not do what God would have me Unless he can say therefore do I disobey my Parents because I should otherwise sin against God A good Childs heart speaks thus Whatever I can do without sin let my Parents command and spare not 4. Requite your Parents most Zealously 1. Tim. 5.4 Let them learn with Piety at home to requite their Parents for that is good and acceptable toward God The Honour in the Fifth Commandment includes Recompence which is called Honour Numb 22.37 1 Tim. 5.17 Children had you Kingdoms to give your Parents they would not pay your Debt unto them You must all your lives long be paying of it you will never have paid the sum total Never come out of your Parents debt Therefore always according to their needs and your abilities you must be paying your Thank-Offerings A Child is a servant Mal. 3.17 As thee his son that serveth him Phil. 2.22 As a son with the Father hath he served with me You must ever promptly serve them to your power in every innocent matter And if they fall into want you must supply them readily as ever they supplied you and as liberally and more richly too if you are able You must in many cases spare from your selves to give them Yea you must lay out the less upon the Worship of God too to bestow on them To withdraw from Parents even for God's Worship was an abominable fault of the Pharisees condemned by our Saviour Mark 7.9 10 11 12 13. In a word 't is not enough if you do nothing to grieve your Parents You sin if you omit any thing in the power of your hands to comfort them and to make their Loyns bless you Blessed are the Josephs that nourish their Parents and Brethren Gen. 47.12 5. Behave your selves so that you may be high Honours unto your Parents I mean so Holily toward God so Righteously toward Men so Temperately toward your selves So as may make for the Honour of your Parents The Honour of their granted prayers and their blessed pains took for you So as may make both Town and Countrey have your Parents in more Notice and Reputation for you This Counsel comprehends all O what a World should we have if it were followed Children come on and begin and set to mend this World You cannot doubt but this my Counsel is certainly commanded in the Fifth Commandment You must needs know he cannot Honour his Father and Mother that is a reproach and shame to them Whose whole life casts disgrace on their Persons Families and Names Yet so do theirs do that observe not this Counsel See Prov. 17.25 A Foolish son is a grief to his Father and bitterness to her that bare him Come unless you will say plainly ye will be Atheists that your Conversion shall never make joy in Heaven take this day my advice Say just now If prayers and pains will prevail I will make glad my Father and Mother that ever they had me given unto them I will learn diligently every Truth they teach me I will pray hard for every Grace they commend I will perform seriously every Duty they set me I will resist every Lust and Temptation they warn me of I will imitate all the good I see in them God I will know His Gospel-Covenant I will enter and live by My Holy Baptism I will know and keep The Lords Table I will prepare for and hasten to Holiness I will industriously perfect in the fear of God No Man living shall say henceforth that I wrong him wilfully or do him right unwillingly And neither of my Parents shall be able with truth to say that I do so much as seem to forget my debt to them and its depth When this is truly said and with full purpose of heart you then first begin to be good Children and dutiful Then you may be called the Crown and Honour of your Fathers as Prov. 17.6 and their very Glory as it is Hos 9.11 Such as make them not ashamed but honoured in the Gate or in all company as Psal 127.4 5. And until you thus resolve and declare you are the clean contrary For you are Fools And he that begeteth a Fool doth it to his sorrow the Father of a Fool hath no joy 'T is no joy save to a Fool to beget and breed up Slaves for the Devil and Fuel for Hell And this Holy Parents do know if you not sc That A wicked Child of Godly Parents is one of Earths uglyest burthens and without wonderful Grace intervening one of Hells certainest Fire-brands More particularly I now Exhort You. 1. Be it for Conscience