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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 Lights clear your Minds from Folly and Ignorance and cause your Wills to feel the attractive Power of his Blessed Word And to make a most free and firm Choice of your required Duty which is your undoubted Interest Heathens and Mahometans Jews and Papists Protestants of all perswasions agree herein I conclude with this only added unto both PARENTS and CHILDREN This word which contains the very reason of my first Preaching and now Publishing what is presented Religion is horribly decayed among us All sensible Christians are still crying Reformation or Ruine is at our door And dream ye not that the best King Lords and Commons can keep us safe in our sins The Nation cannot be reformed till the Church is Nor the whole of the Church till the parts be so Nor our Congregational Churches till their Members be Which said Members then Reform and not before when they come to Davids resolution Psal 101.2 I will walk within my house with a perfect heart And Joshua's Jos 24.15 As for me and my house we will serve the Lord. Nor is Reformation to be expected but from Family-Piety beginning and promoting it I mean the Pious discharge of Parents duties to Children and theirs unto Parents For this I Pray and Labour As in my self most certain that if the Lord come not and thus turn the Hearts of the Fathers to the Children and the Hearts of Children to their Parents he will surely come and smite our Land with one or other or many or all his sorest Curses Mal. 4.6 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus grant of his great Grace better things Namely that in our Lands the Fathers to the Children may make known his Truth Isa 38.19 And the Children may obey their Parents in the Lord in all things for this is right and well pleasing to the Lord. Eph. 6.1 Col. 3.20 Amen and Amen! FINIS Books lately Published by Mr. Daniel Burgess and are to be Sold by Thomas Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapside A Call to Sinners such as are under sentence o Death and such as are under any prospect of it from the long-suffering and gracious but most righteous God Three Questions resolved briefly and plainly viz. 1. What Conceptions ought we to have of the blessed God 2. What are those Truths whereof the Knowledge appeareth most indispensably necessary unto our Salvation and therefore to be first and most learnt by us 3. What is the change wrought in a Man by Gods H. Word and Spirit before he can safely conclude himself passed from Death to Life Being the Summ of three Sermons The Christian Temper Or the Quiet state of Mind that Gods Servants labour for Set forth in a Sermon at the Funeral of Mrs. Vrsula Collins A seasonable Question plainly resolved viz. What are we to judge of their spiritual estate who neglect the Lords Supper And what is that discerning of the Lords Body in it without which men do Eat and Drink their own Damnation The Christians earnest Expectation and Longing for the Glorious Appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ Set forth in a Discourse occasioned by the Decease of that Excellent Christian and Minister of Christ Mr. Noah Webb late of Sandhurst in the County of Berks. Some Books sold by John Lawrance at the Angel in the Poultrey GElls Remains being sundry Pious and Learned Notes and Observations on the New Testament opening and explaining it wherein Jesus Christ as yesterday to day and the same for ever is illustrated by that Learned and Judicious Man Dr. R. Gell late Rector of St. Mary Aldermary London In Folio The Jesuits Catechism according to St. Ignatius Loyola wherein the Impiety of their Principles Perniciousness of their Doctrines and Iniquity of their Practices are declared Quarto The Priviledges and Practices of Parliament in England Collected out of the Common Laws of the Land Commended to the High Court of Parliament Quarto A Vindication of the Reverend Mr. Alexander Osborn from the aspersions cast upon him in Mr. George Walkers Account of the Siege of Derry c. Together with an Historical Narration of the Proceedings of the Nonconformists of the North of Ireland Quarto Monsieur Jurieaus Judgment with Relation to the Affairs of England being a Vindication of the present Revolution Quarto A Discourse of the Nature and Power of the Conventions in the Kingdoms of England and Scotland Quarto Several Discourses viz. I. Of Purity and Charity II. Of Repentance III. Of seeking first the Kingdom of God By Hezekiah Burton D. D. Published by Dean Tillotson Octavo The Triumphs of Grace Or the last words and edifying death of the Lady Margaret de la Musse a Noble French Lady who dyed May 1681. Aged only 16 years Twelves Clavis Grammatica Or the ready way to the Latin Tongue containing most plain demonstrations for the regular Translating of English into Latin by F. B. School-master in London Octavo Orbis Imperantis Tabellae Geographico Historico Geneologico Caronologicae in quibus Geographiae Epitome Mappis quo fieri potuit exactioribus descriptio Historica Imperiorum Regnorum Rerum Publicarum seculorum series a Christo Nato ad hunc usque An. 1685. On Copper Plates Octavo A Relation of the Conquest of Florida by the Spaniards To which is added Two Journeys of the present Emperor of China into Tartary in 1682 1683. Octavo A Help to true Spelling and Reading with a Scripture Catechism By William Scoffin Octavo FINIS
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