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A51047	Christian advice both to old and young, rich and poor which may serve as a directory at hand, ready to direct all persons almost in every state and condition. Under XXVII general useful heads.	Mocket, Thomas, 1602-1670?; Cross, Thomas, fl. 1632-1682, engraver.	1671 (1671)	Wing M2303A; ESTC R217853	68,834	211

CHRISTIAN ADVICE Both to OLD and YOUNG RICH and POOR Which may serve as A DIRECTORY At hand Ready to direct all Persons almost in every State and Condition Under XXVII General useful Heads Rom. 10.1 Brethren my hearts desire to God and prayer for you all is that ye may be saved 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Omne crede diem tibi deluxisse supremum Hor. Si Christum noscis nihil est si caetera nescis Si Christum nescis nihil est si caeteta noscis If Christ you know though nothing else 'T will bring you unto bliss If all things else and know not Christ Of Heaven you shall miss LONDON Printed for Edw. Brewster at the Crane in Pauls Church-yard 1671. T. Cross sculpsit The Effigies of Mr. Tho Mocket some time of Qu Col Camb Mr of A in both the Universities and Minister of the Gospel Aetatis suae 68. A D 1670. The Effigies of the Reverend Author of this Worke M T M Haveing knowne him many yeares I thought good to add out of respects to him Edw Brewster A few VERSES On Psal 39. v. 5. Amici cujusdam THreescore and ten the age and life of man In holy Davids eyes seem'd but a span Yet half that time is lost and spent in sleep So only thirty five for use we keep Our dayes of youth must be abated all Child hood and youth wise Solomon doth call But vanity meer vanity he saies Is what befalls us in our childish daies Our daies of age we take no pleasure in Our daies of grief we wish had never bin So time deducted youth and age and sorrow Only a span is all the time we borrow Now we do count our time by years monthes dayes Ere long we reckon must another wayes Make it your work here so to live and dye That you may live with God eternally Live every day as if it were your last day To The Right Honourable truly Noble and Religious and now also the aged Lady the Countess of Exceter increase of honour holiness and comfort here and perfection hereafter Madam ALthough you might wonder that such an one as I should presume to present so small and mean a piece to your hands and under your name to the world who have so many rare and excellent Workes of eminent men of your own already yet be pleased to pass by my boldness and to accept my Reasons that moved me so to doe though slender I had sometimes the honour to wait on and preach to the Right honourable Lord John Earle of Bridge-water Baron of Brackly and Elsemere c. your Father and then Lord President of the Marches of Wales under King Charles the first long since deceased and had I may truly say without ostentation respect and favour above my expectation and deserts and promises of preferment I also well knew the Lady Catherine Courten your Sister deceased very worthy to be remembred and honoured who was pleased to accept of a small piece from my hand also your great candor piety and goodness which God of his free grace hath inriched you with for which I cannot but much honour you and if your Ladyship shall be pleased to favour a poor Minister of Christ so far as to let this mean piece come to your hand and pass abroad under your Name though mean and homely I trust it may be of some use to others and possibly to your self seeing the truths of God are the same though in a mean dress and great souls must be nourished with the same sincere milk of the word go to Heaven in the same plain way of truth and holiness Though this be but as Goats hair was to make an outward covering to save the rich Furniture and Curtains of the Tabernacle and make other rich pieces appear with more lustre and beauty this plain homely dish of spiritual food may give you occasion to relish value and desire others the more and to feed more savourly on them And so your Lady ship will oblige me to be most ready MADAM To love honour and serve you in the Lord while I am THO. MOCKET The Contents and principal Heads handled in this Treatise THe Preface Pag. 1 An Exhortation to some to get and exercise these fundamental Graces Pag. 4 1 Sound Knowledg Pag. 5 2 Saving Faith Pag. 25 3 True Repentance Pag. 26 4 Unfained Live to God and Men Pag. 27 5 Sincere Obedience Pag. 29 Six moving considerations to get and grow in those Pag. 36 Exhortations and Advices to all in general Pag. 41 1 To read the Holy Scriptures dally Pag. 42 2 To take and improve the opportunities of hearing Pag. 45 3 To meditate often Pag. 46 4 To be careful to keep holy the Christian Sabbath and Lords-day Pag. 47 5 To pray daily Pag. 48 6 To sing Psalms often Pag. 53 7 In performing duties to be careful to perform them in a right manner and not to rest in the duty Pag. 54 8 To obey Magistrates Pag. 56 9 To have a lawful Calling and use it lawfully Pag. 58 10 To be watchful to observe the seasons and opportunities of doing and receiving good Pag. 64 11 To Charity Pag. 72 12 To them in prosperity Pag. 75 13 To them in adversity Pag. 77 14 To them under temptations to sin Pag. 82 15 To studie unity peace and love Pag. 85 16 To endeavour to be and walk always in the fear of the Lord Pag. 90 17 To study to carry themselves affably courteously and neighbourly to all Pag. 104 18 Use a moderation in all things at all times and to all persons Pag. 106 19 Study and endeavour to be good and useful in all relations Pag. 112 20 To use recreations when nature requires lawfully and wisely Pag. 114 21 To think often and prepare for death Pag. 115 22 To married persons generally particularly to Husbands Wives Page 118 23 To Parents Pag. 130 24 To Children Pag. 139 25 To Masters and Governours of Families Pag. 153 26 To Servants Pag. 160 27 To them that are poor Pag. 173 28 Some Objections answered Pag. 177 29 The Conclusion with some choice Scriptures Pag. 188 To My dear Relations Friends and Acquaintance especially in the Counties of Kent London Middlesex Hertford and Essex T. M. heartily wisheth Grace Mercy and Peace from God the Father and from our Lord Jesus Christ with a daily encrease thereof DEAR FRIENDS YOu have been loving kind and respective unto me and mine and now being Aged drawing near unto seventy I am very desirous to leave with you a few lines instead of a worldly Legacy which I am sure many of you need not nor desire as a Testimony of my thankfulness unfeigned love due respects and hearty desire of your real good temporal and eternal that they may be present with you and speak unto you when I cannot come at you or am gone from you into the place of silence and therefore I have been desirous to publish these lines the substance

of Belial Deut. 13.13 and the Apostle compares such to brute and unruly beasts 3. Maintenance also is due unto Parents from the children in case of want or need to their utmost ability to visit them in time of sickness weakness and trouble as Joseph did his father Gen. 48.1 comfort them in time of mourning and sorrow as Jacobs children did Gen. 42.5 and relieve them in their wants and nourish them as Joseph did Gen. 47.12 and Ruth her good mother-in-law Ruth 2.8 And this is that which the Apostle requires of children to requite their parents which he calls a shewing piety at home and says it is good and acceptable before God These things are contained under the word Honour Secondly Children must love their Parents unfeinedly for their great love and many respects to them and to esteem them highly as worthy all love honour and obedience from them Thirdly Pray for your Parents daily heartily fervently Fourthly If you observe any failings and infirmities in them as alas who living is without being frail sinful men all subject to like passions and infirmities I say 't is your duty above all others to bear with them and cover them in love as far as you can Notable is the example of Shem and Japhet Noahs sons towards their father Noah for which they were blessed and Cham and Canaan for discovering their fathers shame cursed Gen. 9.22 c. This is a duty due from all inferiors-to their Superiors There are many strong and weighty reasons obliging children to the performance of all these duties to reverence their parents both of them equally to obey them also to maintain them love them esteem them bear with and cover their infirmities As 1. Because you have your beings from them you never had a being in the world and so a capacity of being holy and happy to all eternity without them Therefore you owe unto them next under God your own selves and all you have and can do for them 2. Because of the great pain and trouble in child-bearing breeding and bringing forth 3. Their great pains care and trouble day and night continually to preserve you and nurse you up when you were the most weak helpless shiftless and vilest creatures in the world by reason of native corruption and original guilt 4. For covering and clothing you when you were naked and worse than naked all polluted in your blood Ezek. 16.3 6. 5. For their continual care and cost in bringing you up to be able to shift and do something for your selves 6. They intend that all they have laboured for taken great pains and care early and late day and night shall be yours in due time 7. Especially for their many prayers pains and endeavors in instructing you c. that you may be born again be new creatures sanctified and saved eternally Fifthly Give all diligence to learn of them to get sound and saving knowledg grace and holiness to be truly Godly and live holily to be justified sanctified and eternally saved Now while you are young as soon as you are capable of doing any thing towards your salvation in the use of means before the world hath gotten room and possession in your hearts and affections Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth saith the wise Solomon Eccles 12.1 Now you are most fit for that duty now your minds and hearts are in some respects like clean white paper free to receive any thing in to write any thing upon If the devil once ingrave wickedness in your hearts and the world its sinful vanities you are like to live always die and perish in your sins for ever unless God be very merciful unto you But if you get your minds and hearts seasoned with sound knowledg and saving Grace while you are young you will be always good godly and everlastingly saved and happy Oh! it is a lovely thing to be Godly while young to see young persons breathing and panting after grace and holiness following hard after the Lord and walking in the ways of God as young King Josiah did and young Samuel and Timothy a thing very pleasing to God He delights greatly in such persons communicates much of himself unto them honors them much When you come into years you will have many worldly occasions and businesses to mind besides you do not know how soon you may die how short your lives are and how little time you have to get that which of necessity must be had or perish for ever namely sound knowledge of the doctrine of salvation true living Grace and holiness your persons justified by the only righteousness of Jesus Christ and so pardon of sin reconciliation with God acceptation of your persons services in the blood and for the sake merit and mediation of Jesus Christ for by Nature and your first birth you were the children of wrath children and slaves to sin and Satan walking in the lusts of the flesh and fulfilling the lusts of the flesh utterly unable to do any thing that is truly good and acceptable to God or to avoid evil and the wrath to come as the Apostle and experience assures us Ephes 2.1 2 3. Titus 3.3 Four things which a good old experienced Christian but the last night before I wrote this put some few of you in mind of which I will here set down with some enlargement 1. To labour to get sin imbittered That is to see and be truly sensible what an evil thing sin is how filthy hateful dangerous and damnable that it may be bitter unto you loathed subdued and mortified by you by all means through the assistance of the Spirit of God Rom. 8.13 2. To be self-emptied That is to see how empty you are of any thin that is truly and spiritually good in and of your selves that the best performances even of the most holy persons are so imperfect that they must utterly renounce all confidence in them in the point of justification before God Isai 64.6 Luk. 17.10 Rom. 3.23 to the end Gal. 2.16 3. To esteem Christ highly as only necessary to redeem you justifie and save you and most worthy of all your love service and obedience 4. To imbrace holiness also as that which is absolutely necessary to spiritual life and salvation Heb. 12.14 1 Pet. 1.14 15. To this end consider and what I say to you in this as also in the former things I say unto all consider seriously two things 1. The torments of hell as most intolerable easeless and endless Oh! to suffer eternally without all possibility of an end or any intermission ease or mitigation it is a thing most astonishing fully to consider of and see into 2. The joys felicity and glory of Heaven in the presence immediate and full enjoyment of God himself Jesus Christ c. and that for ever and ever never to have any end nor abatement Such and so great as mortal eyes never saw nor ear heard nor the heart of man