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A33522	A fruitfull and usefull discourse touching the honour due from children wherein both the respective duties of children to parents and of parents to children are cleared from Scripture, together with what may either further or hinder the same ... / by Thomas Cobbet.	Cobbet, Thomas, 1608-1685.	1656 (1656)	Wing C4777; ESTC R29964	162,603	256

judge the world namely of the ungodly and so their ungracious Children also among the rest neither Son or Daughter wil then be respected by them and if zealous Levi in that way of divine Justice here Know not his own Children Deut. 33. 9. much more hereafter where Godly zeal shall be in its perfection and without any drosse of sinfull nature cleaving to it Godly Parents in attesting and gladly owning the righteous sentence of Jesus Christ against all and every sinner saying Depart from me ye cursed into everstasting fire prepared for the Devill and his Angels Matth. 25. 41. They shall know neither Son nor Daughter Now in all these mischiefs attending degenerating Mischiefs attending the degeneration of the hopeful Children of the godly from the waies of God and precepts and examples of godly Parents those degenerate ones who have given good hopes of better thnigs you also have you share with others but I would adde and present a few things more unto your sad and serious consideration 1. That it is very questionable whether ever 1. God may never come so near to them again God will come so near you again yea or no he may wholy with draw and return no more as in the case of degenerate Saul Rehoboam Iehoash and others 2. That if he should return again the work 2. The work will be the more painfull will be more difficultly painfully brought on You have broken Gods Prison and if brought in again you must expect more of Gods Irons to be clapt upon you God was in setting your bones and you foolishly breaking them again it will be more painfull to have them set again you have falsifyed your trust with God and he will more hardly be drawn to trust you again with such mercies 3. You will be more apt to be hardened in the 3. They are rather most apt to be hardened in their way way of degenerating and apostacy when you once begin to turn away you will be apt to superadde other sins and likewise many excuses for that which drawes you away from God and good which will but fasten and further you more in your way of degenerating 4. That you will be more afraid of God or to 4. They will be the more afraid and discouraged to come nigh to God come nigh to him being privie to your selves how far how long and against how much light you have gone from him yea you will grow discouraged and at length at a point with God even desperate in your course As those degenerate ones who Ier. 2. 25. say There is no hope but we will walk after our own devices or like those of a like stamp in Ezech. 33. 10. Who when called to come to God they say if we pine away in 5. Commonly the latter end of such is worse than their beginning our iniquities and our sins be upon us how shall we then live 5. It is well if God leaving you such as you are upon your leaving of him it befall not you which is parabolically represented to befall that degenerate generation that the unclean spirit being to mans view gone out of them being restlesse he resolveth to return as to his own house and finding them empty of the Spirit indwelling in them though swept from many pollutions of the world and garnished with goodly common gifts of the Spirit and the like he returneth with seven worse spirits and so their latter end becommeth worse than their beginning Matth. 12. 43 44 45. We have done with the use of reproof We come now to the second use which serveth for exhortation 1. To Parents 2. To Children Use of exhortation to Parents to use all good meanes to farther this reflect Honour from their Children First then let godly and Christian Parents be exhorted So to be and so to carry it in your place of Parents as may further that reflect Honour due to you from Children especially in this respect that your Children may rise up after you to hold up purity power of Religion as your selves do desire indeavour to doe and that your children may not degenerate there from neither whilest you are with them nor after your selves shall be moved from out of this world And for this end First and chiefly let good Parents take speciall care use the utmost diligence you can about the 1. By their good godly education matter of the good and godly education of your Children I have lightly touched this formerly I shall now more fully prosecute the same this is expresly charged and that as the especiall duty respecting Parents in their place in regard of the honour due to them from their children in their place Ep. 6. 2 3 4. Honour thy father thy Mother saith God to Children hereupon annexeth And you Fathers provoke not your Children to wrath so to hinder your Children from honouring of you but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord and so further your due honour from them Prov. 22. 6. Train up a Child in the way that he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it Would you have your Children to understand the Scriptures and to make profitable use thereof to their own and others best good train them up thereunto betime So was Timothy by his good Mother Eunice witness that 2 Tim. 3. 15. And that from a Child thou hast known the holy Scriptures which are able to make thee wise to Salvation through faith in Christ. Or would you have your Children afterwards to pray or to praise God and Christ aright then inure them to that also betime As those godly Parents did theirs whence that in Matth. 24. 15 16. There were Children crying in the Temple saying Hosanna to the Son of David and you may see there how Christ took it and that he justified it and grounded it upon the Scripture Psal 8. 2. Out of the mouths of Babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies that thou maist still the Enemy and Avenger Christ made account that his praise was much perfected by the Hosannahs of Children which they have been taught to utter by their good Parents God had much glory by the prudent answer of that Child who spake as we formerly mentioned at the martyrdome of Romanus the enemie had much confusion as Mr. Fox saies well in his first Book of Martyrs If you would have them believe in their old age further them in it in their childhood and Youth So did the Parents of David a type of Christ further him this way Whence that speech Psalm 2 2. 10. I was cast upon thee from the Womb thou art my God from my Mothers belly and vers 4. thou madest me hope when I was upon my Mothers breasts that is very early very betimes in my very Childhood Hence the blessed succession of the indwelling of faith first in the

thought Parents in many respects denyed themselves for their childrens sakes fared the harder that they might have food enough sometimes spared it from their own bellies that their children might have it they went meanly and coarsely clad that the children might have the better apparel especially those little children that were more shiftless that the rest they should be sure to have of the best they could get for them Let children also in many respects deny themselves for their more shiftless parents sake It was not cost their parents stood upon according to their abilities and ranck they would willingly sequester of the best of their estates so their children might have what was fit for them for back or belly for their education to literature or other imployments as they were thereof more capable let children repay like for like in this to spare no cost for them and to let parents partake of the best of what God giveth them and not of the refuse thereof for their supply It was an ingenious Act of Reuben who finding a thing better than ordinary a Mandrake he bringeth and giveth it to his Mother Leah Gen. 30. 14. And Sampson if he meet with hony and hony-combe his Father and Mother shall have part of it Judg. 14. 9 And Joseph sendeth his Father not of the refuse but of the good things or better sort of things of Egypt Gen. 45. 23. And when he commeth to Egypt he doth not put him into some wast building or into some blind and old hole and barren out-corner of the Land but he procureth him and his houshold to be placed in Goshen in the best part of Egypt Gen. 45. 13. compared with Chap. 47. 6. And what though children should be fain to spare somewhat from themselves for such like needfull supplies of their parents out of their best things yet they must do like for like their parents having done as much and more for them as we said even now It is a good speech of Aristotle Ethic. l. 9. cap. 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Children seem in speciall fort to be bound as debtors to supply their parents with things necessary for their provision And it is more comely to supply necessaries to the causes of our being than to our selves And then he addeth that speech 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and we must give honour to them even as it were to Gods see in what a plentifull way by the light of nature this heathen Philosopher seeth children ought to minister to their parents even in all things they stand need of and in what a self-denying way Judging it meetest for children to prefer their parents in such supplies before themselves and in what an honourable awfull and conscientious way as I may call it all should be carryed even as if they were offering some Sacrifice to God himself And how justly all this is due from children to parents it s not a matter left to their own curtesie and will whether they will do it or not do it nor is it a matter of meer charity as alms to other poor but children are bound thereto as debtors and no wonder he saith its meeter we provide for the causes of our being than for our selves For he maketh children and that rightly parents debtors as he doth else-where in his Ethicks and debtors we know must in case take care to pay their Creditors and to Live of the rest as the Prophet advised her 2 Kings 4. So must children in case spare it from their own selves that parents may Reasons why recompence is due to parents are taken 1. from Childrens state as Children being Gods rewards be supplyed Now let us briefly give some reasons of this duty The 1. Reason may be taken from the Condition and state of children as children they are or should be made up of recompence be all recompence they are given of God to their godly parents as rewards Psal 128. 3. The fruit of the womb is his reward God intends them as rewards if they prove otherwise than such every way they do what in them lyeth to frustrate Gods ends so are they an heritage of the Lord Ibid. Not alone such as God will improve for his own honour and possess for his own use but such as should by the blessing of God Minister a blessed income of comfort succour support and supply to their parents as from the Lord by them according as they may stand in need thereof 2. Reason may be taken from the nature of such 2. From the nature of such recompence it is piety gratefull recompence it is counted and called of God by the name of piety 1 Tim. 5. 4. Let them learn 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to exercise piety towards their own house or to requite their parents In some cases it is preferred before giving to religious uses as to the Corban for Temple uses Mark 7. 10 11 12 13. Christ condemneth the giving to the Corban that which should have been rather sequestred for parents supply by their Children 3. Reason from the justice and equity of it 3. From the justice and equity of it children have received their very essence and existence instrumentally from parents and that is more than all that which children can Minister to them as Christ said in another case Is not the life more than meat and the body than rayment and so I might say here and what then can children return to parents in lieu thereof besides all the cares fears exercises and troubles of parents in behalf of their Childrens outward and inward welfare for which children can never make them amends 4. From the benefits comming by parents 4. Reason may be taken from that blessed fruit which children of good parents reap even in outward blessings by their Prayers blessing covenant-interests and the like A good man leaveth an inheritance to his childrens children respecting the outward as well as the inward man Prov. 20. 7. the just mans children are blessed after him in outward matters so far as is good for them as well as in spirituall things Psal 112. 1 2 3. The seed of fearers of God have Gods promise of becomming mighty upon the earth and the generation of the upright shall be blessed blessed indefinitely and so every way blessed blessed in their bodies blessed in their spirits blessed in their names in their labours in their estates in their relations in their undertakings in their choices and changes blessed in their protections provisions plenty and the like And surely children are then bound in regard of so much good which commeth by their parents to communicate to them in all the good blessings of God which for their sakes they the rather received Let us now make some use and application of what hath been said the use serveth Use 1. For reproof and conviction to all Use of reproof 1. To ingratefull Children children who are ungratefull to your parents to be unthankfull to any