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A67047	A word in season. Or Three great duties of Christians in the worst of times viz. abiding in Christ, thirsting after his institutions, and submission to his providences. The first opened, from 1 John 2.28. The second from Psal. 42.1,2. The third from Jer. 14.19. By a servant of Christs in the work of his Gospel. To which is added, by way of appendix, the advice of some ministers to their people for the reviving the power and practice of godliness in their families.	Servant of Christ in the work of his Gospel.	1668 (1668)	Wing W3548A; ESTC R204145	100,163	272

and if they ●ave any thing to do with Christians ●t is secretly coming by night as Nico●emus to Christ But saith this Text ●f any be ashamed of me and my ●ords of him Shall the Son of man be ●shamed when he cometh in the glory of ●is Father The contrary is implied also if there be any that an evil time cannot make ashamed of Christ and the wayes of Christ but he will dare to own them in the face of the world when most peevish and angry that is the man whom the Lord when he comes to judge the world will not be ashamed to own Oh! what an honour will this be to a poor worm when all the world shall be gathered together before the Judgement Seat of the great God and a poor creature shall stand amongst them of whom it may be while he lived his friends were ashamed great persons durst not own him if they met him they were ashamed to speak to him because he was lookt upon as a Puritane and the Eternal Son of God at that day shall not be ashamed to own him as hi● Child his Servant Nay honour is no● all in the business Our eternal happiness dependeth upon our Lords owning us or being ashamed of us at tha● day Christ will be ashamed of non● at that day to whom he will not say● Depart from me ye cursed into everlastin● burnings For Christ at that day not t●● ●e ashamed of us is the same thing as ●o give us the Kingdom which he hath prepared for them that love him But ●et a little further in demonstration of ●his see that Text Luke 22.28 29. Luke 22.28 29. You are they which have continued with ●e in my temptations And I appoint ●nto you a Kingdom as my Father hath ●ppointed unto me Christs temptations there mentioned were his trials and ●buses from men which he met with ●uring his labour in the accomplishment of our Redemption Christ hath his temptations still not ●ersonally but mystically not in the body ●f his flesh but in his body which is the ●hurch His precious members have yet ●he trial of cruel scoffs and mockings o● ●aols and imprisonments The Gospel is ●bjected to the same persecutions to ●hich the Lord of the Gospel subjected ●imself Now some there are that abide ●ith Christ in his temptations whilst ●thers turn their back professing they ●nnot burn What shall these men ●ave I appoint saith our Saviour 〈◊〉 you a Kingdom A Kingdom what 〈◊〉 reward is this What will not vain men venture what will not they suffer that they may but usurp a Kingdom 〈◊〉 When they have it what have they more than a gilded Crown of rea● thorns upon their heads But what i● this Kingdom not earthly but heavenly not a Kingdom for care trouble sollicitude and domination but for pleasure joy and happiness unspeakable 〈◊〉 Kingdom without a care a Kingdom without an enemy a State having a● the sweetness happiness and conten● but nothing of the trouble and burthe● of an earthly Principality Nay he add● As my Father hath appointed me Th● particle as may either refer to th● Kingdom before spoken of then it 〈◊〉 nota similitudinis non equalitatis not 〈◊〉 note of equality but of similitude Go● abiding servants shall not have an equ●● degree of glory but the same specific● glory with Christ Or else the parti●● may denote the title and assurance 〈◊〉 certainly as the Father hath appointed me a Kingdom and I shall have it certainly shall you have your Kingdo●● On the other side not to abide w●● Christ and in Christ in an evil time 〈◊〉 a matter of great dishonour and highest disadvantage to us It will be of great dishonour to us both in this life and at the great day of the Lord. In this life first and that with all sorts of men Constancy to principles and profession ●s a virtue which commends it self to the worst of men for the contrary argues either a want of judgment in our first em●racing principles and undertaking ●rofession or a levity of mind and want ●f conscience both which are high dis●aragements to our reputation and ●onour For a man to engage in Religi●n not understanding or not having ●uly weighed the principles of it in the ●allance of the Sanctuary is no better ●han to erect an Athenian Altar To the ●nknown God if he hath weighed them ●nd approved them as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●e most excellent things to desert ●hem argues such a want of conscience ●s fitteth none but those who make a ●heap reckoning of eternity and will ●ell their souls and highest concernments for a morsel of bread Hence it 〈◊〉 that an Apostate never is in credit ●ith the men of the world or that faction in it to which he hath made defection who cannot but look upo● him as wanting either judgement o● conscience Did he first engage in 〈◊〉 course and practice of Religion with out any enquiry into the principles 〈◊〉 it or examining the truth of the●● What could be a greater levity or vanity Did he understand the principle● and compare them with other pretended spiritual things and judge these 〈◊〉 which he hath walked the most rational the most agreeable to the will 〈◊〉 God Why hath he now reject● them why is he departed from them● Is the will of God altered Is the Yea and Nay with him Is the 〈◊〉 the same the will of God the same an● his judgment altered and practi●● turned What lightness is this Ho● unworthy of a man much more of Christian God therefore calls after h● antient people the Jews turned Re●●gadoes from him Jer. 2.10 11. Jer. 2.10 11. P● over to the Isles of Chittim and send u●● Kedar and consider diligently and set there be such a thing Hath a Nati●● changed their gods which yet are 〈◊〉 gods but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit Object Some will say to me Is then every change of a Christians mind in the p●actice of Religion infamous or unlawful Sol. I answer No. There is a Religion which men have ex traduce a religious course which they have taken up meerly from the example or instinct of their parents without any exercise of their own judgment and I am afraid this is the Religion of the most in the world They can give no other account why they worship God this or that way but because this was the way their fore-fathers worshipped God and they hope they are gone to heaven and should they be wiser than their fathers This was the Religion of the Woman of Samaria before she was converted Joh. 4.20 Our father 's worshipped in this mountain and you teach that in Jerusalem we ought to worship This is that which the Heathens generally said for their superstitious worships and which they urged to Christians from time to time There is no true reproach ariseth to any from changing his practice in Religion taken up upon

reducible to four heads 1. Reading in the Book of the Lord. 2. Prayer 3. Praise 4. Instruction 1. For reading the holy Scriptures That this is a family-duty doth appear from that of Moses Deut. 6.6 9. where we are commanded to have the Law of God wrote upon our posts and the gates of our house From that of the Apostle Col. 3.16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you a Metaphor drawn from members of Families which dwell together For the further proof of this duty we commend you to an excellent Book called Family Religion further revived by Mr. Philip Goodwin Printed at London 1655. and to a Book of Mr. Whites for the profitable reading of the Scriptures Chap. 9. 2. For Prayer We are commanded to pray alwayes and who so considereth that the Law of God requireth it of single persons and of the first and least society that of a man and his Wife 1 Pet. 3.7 cannot think 1 Pet. 3.7 that a man is excused from it with his children and servants It is the blessing with which the Superiours in families ought to bless their infeririours 3. For Praise by singing of Psalms As praising of God is a natural duty so the doing of it by Psalms Hymns and Spiritual Songs which are the three titles of the Psalms of David is commanded by the Apostle In the same place where God saith I will be the God of all the families of Israel Col. 3.16 and they shall be my people Jer. 31.1 2. he also ver 7. saith O shout with joy and sing amongst the Nations 4. Instruction is a general duty God commendeth Abraham for it Gen. 18.17 For the matter of it in our present discourse it is In the things of God Now this may be done several wayes 1. By Catechizing which is by experience found the most plain and familiar way of teaching and that by which the Papists confess the Protestant Religion hath been highly advantaged in the world We therefore urge this in a more especial manner upon all the heads of families as the nearest way to bring those under their roof to the knowledge of God and the establishing of them against the errors of the sinful times wherein they live 2. By repeating of Sermons to them an antient and profitable duty wherein every Christian is a fellow-worker with and a preparer of the work of the Holy Spirit of God Joh. 14.26 whose work it is saith our Saviour To bring to remembrance the things we have heard of God By opening the word of God read unto our families which though it be not a work to which every private Christian is fit yet may be profitably performed if any Christian will but take the pains to spend a little time before duty in fitting himself for it by reading the Annotations upon the Chapter or any of those profitable Notes wrote by Mr. Ainsworth on the five Books of Moses Mr. Jackson upon all the Historical Books of Scripture Mr. Dickson upon the Psalms Mr. Calvin on Job and Deuteronomy and Daniel Dr. Willet on Genesis Exodus and Leviticus Mr. Hutchinson on the small Prophets Mr. Dickson on Matthew Mr. Hutchinson on John Mr. Fergusson on Galatians Ephesians Philippians Colossians and many others 4. By occasional discourses of Religion and applying Scripture unto our relations according to the Precept Deut. 6.6 7 8 9. 5. By examining their children and servants what they remember upon hearing Chapters read or Sermons preached or repeated 2. Particularly we commend unto Christians A more extraordinary care to inform their families concerning the true Nature of Worship in general concerning the several acts of Gospel Worship and the right way and method of performing of them as well the external as internal manner by which means they will not only be armed against temptations to Superstition and Will-Worship which is abomination to the Lord but also kept from a formal and perfunctory slighty service of the great and living God And the better to enable Christians to do this we do by the blessing of God intend to contribute our pains to the utmost in some exercises of this nature 3. If any one ask us how often these duties are to be performed We answer that we have in this no stated rule but as we are sure they cannot be too often and reason teacheth that they should be so often as to reach their ends So the Scripture doth not obscurely hint some kind of Instruction and Prayer to be used Morning and Evening Deut. 6. We are commanded to talk to our children of the Law of the Lord when we lye down and when we rise up God of old required a Morning and Evening Sacrifice David Psal 55.17 and Daniel Chap. 6. v. 10. prayed thrice a day which possibly may hint to us that those who have more leisure from the world than others ought to spend more time than others in this worship But we should press upon our Brethren 1. That none of them would omit praying and reading the Scriptures or some other way of instructing their families twice each day viz. in the morning and evening The morning is an excellent time 1. Because no excuse can be for the omitting it It may be done and is fittest to be done before the world calleth us off 2. It is the time when our spirits are most refreshed and fit for duty when worldly occasions have not seized on our thoughts 3. We are bid to say Prosper thou the works of our hands upon us and that is the time when the works of our hands begin 4. It is commended to us by many Scriptures Psal 5.3 Psal 59.16 Psal 88.13 Psal 92.2 Psal 119.147 The Evening is also a proper time 1. To beg pardon for the sins of the day and to give thanks for the mercies of the day and to beg the Protection and sleep of the night 2. The work of our hands is done and it is reasonable to beg Gods blessing upon it 3. Our sleep is the image of death and many never rise from their beds it is reasonable we should therefore commend our spirits and the spirits our of relations to the Lord. 4. It is commended in Scripture Psal 141.2 Psal 55.17 2. That if possible these constant duties may be performed before we be disadvantaged for them Either 1. By intermedling with the world or 2. By inclinations to rest and sleep which usually make the performance of religious duty late at night or after supper a very slightly perfunctory serving of God 3. We commend the Reading of the Scripture repeating a Sermon or singing of a Psalm before prayer not only as duties in themselves but as excellent means to call home the thoughts prepare the heart and fix the mind to a more steddy contemplation of God and devotion toward him in prayer 4. We commend to our brethren the repeating of Sermons and Catechizing to be at least once performed every week besides on the Lords Day 5. For

singing of Psalms It is proper for the Sabbath but never out of season we leave that and occasional instruction of families out of the Scripture to private Christians as God shall give them opportunities and an heart thereunto Only commending them as duties fit to be sometimes done and not wholly omitted by any 2. Having thus far offered you our thoughts for the Family-Worship of every day We come in the next place to commend to you the special sanctification of the Lords day where we shall not speak to the more publick solemn sanctification of it but keep our selves within the bounds of the private house We know our Brethren understand that by the fourth Commandment God hath reserved a seventh part of our Time to himself That what should be the seventh part under the old dispensation of the Covenant to the Jews was determined by God to be the seventh day from the Creation That our seventh part is determined by the practice of the Apostles who were wont to meet and sanctie the first day of the Week counting the seventh from our redemption when the world was as it was created anew That we are tied to the sanctification of this day by the fourth Commandment none can doubt but he must question whether there be ten Commandments or no or whether the fourth be a Moral Law Nor can any sound reason be given why the fourth Commandment should not concern Christians as much as any of the other nine Hence it is plain that it must be kept as a day of holy rest from labour and recreations at other times lawful and to spiritual services publick and private These being the confessed general duties of Christians as to the sanctification of the Sabbath we shall only offer some Propositions for particular practice in reference to these general ends 1. That all heads of families take care that no kind of civil labour necessary to be done which can be done before be left to be done in any part of the Sabbath For no work can be justified on the Sabbath as a work of Necessity which though necessary to be done might yet have been done before that day cometh 2. That all Christians would endeavour but those especially whose callings in the world do not so much hinder them the Evening before the Sabbath to direct their family-duty as much as they can both as to Instruction and Prayer to prepare the several persons of their family for the Sabbath 3. That all heads of families would take care that on the Morning of the Sabbath they their children and servants rise up from their beds either as soon as on other dayes or at least so soon that the necessary business of the family may be dispatched and family duties performed before they go to the publick service 4. That those of their families who are not employed in any necessary work of the family whiles all the rest be ready employ their time being once ready in reading the Scriptures or other good Books 5. That the heads of families so order the rising of their families that morning that they may have full time to do their houshold necessary business and also to attend family duties In which we conceive it is the duty of Christians that day to spend some more time than on other dayes because it is a day wholly dedicated to the Lord. 6. We commend to our brethren as part of their family duty that morning to instruct their families in the Nature of Worship the several acts of it The true manner both of the outward and inward performance The morality of the Sabbath the true way of sanctifying of it To which purpose we recommend to them Mr. Sheppards Treatise of the Sabbath clearing the morality and Mr. Bernards threefold Treatise of the Sabbath 6. After the publick service in the morning and dinner which we think that day should be moderate we recommend to our brethren if they have time the calling of their family together repeating the Sermon heard to them or examining them about it and prayer and the like we again recommend to them after Evening Sermon and before Supper 7. We commend singing of Psalms to our Brethren as a special duty of the Sabbath we find that David composed Psalm 92. on purpose for the Sabbath We desire that our Brethren would not omit it at least to do it once every Lords Day 8. Finally We beseech our Brethren that they take especial care of all within their gates on the Lords Day that they profane not the Sabbath by unnecessary work sleep or recreations It is a day of rest but of holy rest A day of rest and therefore profaned by labour that is worldly and unnecessary An holy rest and therefore profaned by excessive sleeping which is natural rest idleness or recreations which are but a Civil rest 3. Having thus far offered to our Brethren our thoughts in reference to their families we conclude with a word or two in reference to their personal conversation 1. We suppose our Brethren conscientious in matters of Justice to remember to do in their callings to all as they would be done to to take heed of all gross and scandalous evils and shall only mind them of some things which God requireth of them wherein they are to do more than others as having received more from God and being under a more special Covenant and Obligations as also of some duties specially to be practiced with reference to these times wherein if ever Christians are by the Providence of God called out to a more winning conversation and to a more prudent conversation fulfilling that of our Saviour Be you wise as Serpents and innocent as Doves 1. In reference to the first We seriously commend to our brethren 1. Private prayer in their closets according to our Saviours precept Mat. 6.6 at least to be performed once every day 2. Private reading the Scriptures the example of the Eunuch Acts 8. shews how much God hath owned it and is pleased with it 3. Private self-examination 2 Cor. 13.5 Psal 4.4 4. Private Meditation commended Gen. 24.63 Josh 1.8 Psal 1.2 Psal 63.6 Psal 119.15 23 48 78 148. Psal 104.34 Psal 119.97 If Christians would be particularly instructed in this duty we commend them to Mr. Joseph Symmonds Three excellent Treatises Printed at London 1653. one of which is upon this subject 2. As to the prudent conversation of Christians and something of their farther duty in these times we recommend to our Brethren 1. As much as in them lyes to avoid all meetings of people at feasts or otherwise Where they foresee they may probably be engaged in discourses which will either tempt them to any thing that is sinful or to discover their opposition to such courses of others in a place where probably their speaking will but make them odious 2. As it is their duty at all times to do good to all though more especially to those of the houshold of faith