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A75032	The whole duty of man epitomiz'd for the benefit of the poor. With select prayers suited to every partition. By Edm. Stacy, a minister of the Church of England.; Whole duty of man. Abridgments	Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681.; Stacy, Edmund, b. 1657 or 8.	1700 (1700)	Wing A1193A; ESTC R223863	44,918	146

third Qualification is that of Relation Duties in respect to Relation and of this there are divers sorts as First that of a Debtor to a Creditor and of an oblig'd Person to his Benefactor and in both these Particulars we are bound by the strictest ties of Justice and Gratitude Not to pay our just Gratitude to Benefactors the contrary too common Debts when we are able is a Vice almost unpardonable and 〈◊〉 be ungrateful to a Benefactor however common it may be in this unthankful Age is an Act the most sordidly base and disingenieus PARTITION XIV Of Duty to Magistrates Pastors Of the Duty of Parents to Children c. Of Childrens Duty to Parents I Come now to the Duty to Parents nearest kind of Relations and in the first Rank of those I place our Duty to Parents whether Civil Spiritual or Natural The Civil Parent is To the Supream Magistrate Honour he who by a just right possesses the Throne and to him we owe Honour and Reverence we are to look upon him as a Person upon whom God has stamp'd a great deal of his own Power and Authority and upon no Account to speak evil of him or revile him Next we owe him our Tribute which we are to pay him with the utmost both of Justice and Freedom Thirdly Tribute Prayers and Obedience We are to Pray for him that God would direct and assist him in all his Undertakings And Fourthly We owe him a solemn and strict Obedience which both the Laws of God and Nature have commanded us to observe wi●● the most awful and religious Submission The second sorts of Parents a●● the Spiritual viz. th● Ministers of God● Duties to our Pastors Word and such a● are entrusted with the Salvation of Souls to them we owe the highest Love and Kindness we are oblig'd to esteem and value them as our best and truest Friends we are likewise to contribute to their Maintenance Love Esteem Maintenance Obedience and Prayer and witha● to look upon them a● Gods Messengers and upon that Account t● behave our selves 〈◊〉 them with a great deal of distance and respect and to put up our earnest Prayers to God for them that he would grant them the assistance of his Spirit to enable them rightly to discharge their Holy Calling The third sort of Parent is the Natural Duties to our Natural Parent by which is meant the Fathers of our ●lesh Towards these ●e are to demean our Reverence Love c. ●●lves with Reverence and Humility and ●pon no Account to contemn or ●●spise them either in our outward ●ehaviour or in our Hearts we we them our most ardent Love and ●nderest Affection and ought to ●●hor every thing that can give them the least Cause of Grief or ●isquiet We owe likewise Obedience ●r Obedience to all ●e Commands of our Parents that ●●e not opposite to the Laws of ●od and cannot violate them ●●thout exposing our selves to the Punishments he has so often denounc'd in Scripture against disobedient Children Children are not to Marry without the Children not to Marry without the Consent of their Parents Consent of their Parents every Child is so much the Right and Possession of his Parent that he mu●● be guilty of Theft to dispose 〈◊〉 himself without his Consent We are likewise bound according to 〈◊〉 Abilities to supp●● their Wants and 〈◊〉 To provide for their Wants Duties to the worst of Parents administer to them 〈◊〉 any kind of Extremity and all this is 〈◊〉 be done even to th● worst of Parents But as there a●● many things due fro● Duties of Parents to Children the Child to the ●●rent so there are so●● from the Parent 〈◊〉 the Child The Parent is oblig● to nourish and sustain the Chi●● till he comes of Age to do it himself he is likewise to take Care for his Soul by bringing him early to the To bring them to Baptism to educate them Sacrament of Baptism and by having him timely instructed in the Principles of Religion and educated in the true Faith and Fear of God and as a Means to improve his Education too he is Means towards their Education to encourage and correct him and to use all wise and gentle Means in order to impress upon him a timely Sence of Vertue and good Morals Thirdly The Parent The Parent to watch over the Childs Soul is to watch over the Soul of his Child after he comes to years of Maturity and as often as he finds occasion to exhort encourage and reprove him he is likewise to take Care of his outward To provide for their Sustenance State by providing him with a suitable Condition of Life but above all he is to lay before him a good Example To give them good Example and to make his own Life a fit Pattern for him from whence he may transcribe the true Rules of Vertue Honour Honesty and Godliness and then he is to Bless him and Pray To Bless them and to give them no unreasonable Commands for him and to recommend him often to God's Care and Protection And besides all this too he must be extreamly careful that all the Commands he laies upon him are just and reasonable and in all respects utterly distant from all sorts of harshness or severity PARTITION XV. Of Duties to our Brethren and Relations Husband Wife Friends Masters Servants THE second sort Duties to Brethren Natural Love of Relation is that of a Brother which we may take in a double Sence either Natural or Spiritual I begin with the First the Duties between Natural Brethren I mean such that are of the same immediate Parents And the Duty of these is to have united Hearts and Affections to love one another with great Tenderness and Sincerity and to do their utmost to promote their mutual Good and Happiness This is a Duty so necessary in all The necessity of Love among Brethren Points that without ●t no Family where there is any number of Brothers and Sisters can propose any tolerable Ease or Satisfaction The second sort are Spiritual Brethren Spiritual Brethren under which Notion are comprehended all those that are baptiz'd in the same Faith and Church with our selves and to all these our Compassion is to be the most melting and affectionate with these we are to profess and defend the Faith of Christ Crucify'd and to communicate with 'em in Our Duty to hold Communion with them To bear their Infirmities to restore them after falls and to sympathize with them all Holy Offices we are to bear with their Infirmities and in a friendly manner to admonish and reprove 'em and by fair and gentle Methods to endeavour to bring them to Repentance after they are fall'n We are to sympathize with them in all their Agonies and Distresses whether of Soul Mind or Body The third Relation is that between Husband The

signifies yet more it means by Faith we should believe the Holy Scriptures to be his Word and that all that he speaks to us by them are most true that all that he affirms is Indubitable that his Commands Of Faith of God's Affirmations Commands Threatnings and Promises are Just and Equal his Threatnings and Punishments certain and unavoidable and that all his Promises are Yea and Amen and will most certainly be made good to all those that faithfully depend upon him This is the summ of our Faith or Belief of those things God has been pleased to reveal to us in the Holy Scriptures The next Duty to God is Hope which is a comfortable Expectation of his Promises and should be always preserv'd from the dangerous extream Of Hope Presumption and Despair of Presumption or Despair We should neither depend to much nor too little upon his Mercies but rely upon his Justice and Integrity for our Rewards and Punishments A Third Duty we owe to God is Love Of Love and the Motives i. e. Gods Goodness Excellence and his kindness to Men. a Duty which without doubt he has the the greatest right to both upon the account of his Goodness and Compassion to us his Innate Excellence and his particular Kindness to all Mankind God is most Good Just and Excellent he is perfectly Holy Kind and Compassionate and cannot be charg'd with any Impurity or the least mixture of any thing that is evil his Goodness and Kindness are Immence and Infinite and have been so abundantly demonstrated both to our Bodies and Souls that we cannot refuse him our Love without the greatest Injustice The Scripture abound with Holy Invitations endearing Promises and affectionate Offers by which he endeavours as it were to woo us into good Lives and to entreat us to accept of Happiness here and Eternal Happiness hereafter The two great Tokens of our true The Fruits of Love a desire to please● and enjoy him Love to God are First An earnest desire to please him 〈◊〉 and Secondly To enjoy him This is the common Indication of true Love in all ordinary Cases and above all othe● things doth best approve us to thos● we have a real value for The reality of ou● Affections to Go● Of pleasing God are best declar'd b● a steady Conformit● to the Divine Will a readiness t● obey his Commandments and a● awful regard to his Precepts the● are indeed Arguments of our real Love and Affection and the only way we can make use of either to please him or to shew the sincerity of our Hearts Next to pleasing Of enjoying him God a desire to enjoy him is consistent with our Love if we love God in earnest we shall covet to be always in his Company conversing with him in Prayers and Meditations hearing his Word and receiving his Sacraments which is the only means of enjoying God in this World Our enjoyment of God in the next is far more permanent and compleat there we shall be continually with him in eternal fruition of Joy and Happiness in comparison of which all our advantages in ●his Life are but empty Baubles and Trifles A Fourth Duty to Fear God is Fear which ●rises from the consideration of his Power and Justice and those in Conjunction do both enable and oblige him to punish the Wicked an awful regard and belief of which is the only means that can restr 〈…〉 us from offending him God is the chiefes● Object of Fear and We ought not to fear Man more than God therefore we ough● not to fear Man mor● than God I will no● fear says the Psal●mist what Man can do unto me Me● have no Power to do us hurt unles● by God's Permission and then the● Malice can reach no further neithe● than our Goods Names Liberties or our Lives the Destruction o● Soul and Body together is Gods Pre●rogative only 'T is God alone that knows a● our secret Thoughts and Transact●ons all our Sins though committe● with never so much Privacy lie al●ways open before him and he 'll b● sure to find us out and punish 〈◊〉 unless we repent which indeed i● the greatest Argument that can b● to awaken our Fears and engage ou● Apprehensions A Fifth Duty to God is Trust that is Trust a depending and resting upon him in all our Dangers Wants and Extremities whether Spiritual or Temporal In our Spiritual Dangers we are to Spiritual Dangers throw our selves upon God's Assistance and to implore him to strengthen us with the Grace of his Holy Spirit that we may be able to withstand or at least to remove the Temptation In our Temporal Temporal Dangers Dangers we are to rest and depend upon him to commit our selves to the shadow of his Wings under the Royal Prophets Assurance Psalm ●4 22. That the Lord delivereth the Souls of the Saints and all that put their trust in him shall not be destitute In all our Dangers and Distresses with Prayers and Tears we are to implore his aid and not attempt to deliver our selves by any wicked Act we must never use sinful means not We must not seek to deliver our selves by Sin even the Preservation of our Lives and Liberties can make any the least pretence for the doing an unjust thing Christ himself has told us that if we gain the whole World and loose our own Souls we are great loosers by the Bargain if therefore things should ever come to that unhappy Issue that we must part with our Estates perhaps our Lives or else commit Sin we should then remember that that 's the proper season to fight under the Banner of the great Captain of our Salvation the Crucify'd JESVS In our spiritual Necessities we are to Spiritual wants fly to God with Tears in our Eyes and invoke his Assistance we are to pour out our Souls before him and then we may depend upon it that as he has commanded us nothing that he has not given us Power to perform so he will suffer us to want nothing that we ask of him with a holy and devout Integrity of mind We are likewise to rely upon him in all Temporal wants our Temporal and Bodily Wants he has oblig'd himself to take care of all his faithful Servants his Eye is upon them that fear him and them that hope in his Mercy to deliver their Souls from Death and to feed them in the time of Famine If we do our Duty honestly and religiously The Benefits of trusting in God in our several Places and Callings then as the Apostle adviseth we may cast all our Care upon God who careth for us and he who is subject to no sort of Deceit or Impoverishment that best knows our wants and is best able to supply 'em will be sure in the proper season to relieve us against all Dangers and Necessities whether Spiritual or Temporal I conclude this with the words of the Apostle Phil. 4. 6.