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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.
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Cobbet, Thomas, 1608-1685.
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tremble to think of the issue of such speaking Symtomes of degeneration and Apostasie what for you now to be as he that confessed Prov. 5. 14. I was utmost in all wickedness in the middest of the Congregation or like those in Isaiah 26. 10. Let favour be shewed to the wicked yet will he not learn Righteousness in the Land of uprightness shall he deal unjustly and will not behold the majesty of God and will not this be bitterness to you in the latter end but that I may quit my hands and heart of the blood of the souls of any such and if blood must needs lye that it may lie upon the heads of your selves who are degenerate Children give me leave to do two things To represent somewhat first of the evill of sin in such degeneration of yours Secondly of the mischiefs attending the same And because we Evils of sin in the degenerating of the Children of the godly in generall propounded the use of Reproof as respecting first all degenerate Children in general Secondly such degenerate ones in speciall who have had their inward workings upon their Spirits seen much felt much promised much and given great hopes of comming to good we shall therefore begin with the former sort and then fall upon the latter sort Concerning degeneration 1. It is unsuitable to what God and his people may challenge from them of the posterity of the godly in generall I say That it is most cross and unsuitable to what God and his people also may challenge from you and therefore very evill and sinfull it may be said to you as it was to that degenerate generation Mica 2. 7. O thou that art named the house of Israel is the Spirit of the Lord straightned are these his doings do not my words do good too them that walk uprightly or as he said in another case Nehe. 6. 11. Should such a man as I flye so should such men and women as you of such and such Parents and interests be so and so degenerate or as he said to him in that case 2 Sam. 13. 4. Why art thou being the Kings Son so As by externall calling and covenant interest lean from day to day so here why are such and such of you being Sons and Daughters of spirituall Princes and Priests before God so declining so degenerating from day to day And that this your sin may even in this first respect further appear seriously consider 1. That such as you are you are in and through Holy and devoted to God your Parents an holy devoted and speciall people to God above others and should such be as bad or worse than others thus when God would disswade that generation of Abraham Isaac and Jacob from fellowship with the Canaanites persons or practices Deut. 7. 1 2 3 4 5. This is the Argument v. 6. For thou art an holy people to the Lord thy God thy God hath chosen thee to be a speciall people unto himself above all other people So Deut. 14. 1. Ye are the Children of the Lord your God ye shall not cut your selves nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead heathenish and Idolatrous customes For vers 2. Thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God So vers 21. Ye shall not eat any thing that dieth of it self c. For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God c. 2. Such as you are are near unto God in Covenant Near unto God and Church respects how ever formerly in pagan Ancestors far off hence that speech to that degenerate posterity of Abraham Esay 57. 19. I create the fruit of the lips to be peace peace to him that is far off namely to the gentile to him that is near namely to the Jewes which though in their sinfull and naturall estates as far off as the Gentile yet in Covenant and Church respects near to the Lord. Now should such as in some respects are so near God by their degenerate principles and practices remove your selves so far from God what a vile evill must this needs be hence that way of Gods Aggravation of the sin of that degenerate posterity of Jacob Esay 43. 21 22 23 24. This people have I formed for my self they shall shew forth my praise But thou hast not called upon me O Jacob but thou hast been weary of me O Israel thou hast caused me to serve with thy sins and wearied me with thine iniquities and Oh that God had not too just a cause to take up this heavy complaint against many of you that are the posterity of the godly in these dayes that though made for himself and formed for his praise yet you have not worshipped him or called upon him but have been weary of him flung off his yoke cast his words behind your back tyred out his patience in awaiting your return from your vain and sinfull principles and practices whil'st you have made God to wait the leasures and pleasures of your lusts if he look for any service at length from you 3. Such as you are by externall calling Gods His servants houshold servants as it s said of the like Levit. 25. 42 55. They and their Children are my servants saith the Lord. Now as Mal. 1. 6. a Servant honoureth his Master if I then am a Master saith God to that degenerate generation so to you where is my fear If Iob accounted that so grievous in his servants in way of commission and of omission Iob 19. 15 16. They that dwell in my house my Maids count me for a stranger I am an Alien in their sight I called to my servant but he gave me no answer I intreated him with my mouth O how ill doth God take this at your hands and how grievous and loathsome is it that such as dwell in his house in his Church count him for a stranger he is in your sight an Alien you will not come at this your blessed Master you will not come nigh him you will not understand what he saith to you though he call you beeing his servants by externall calling as he did that degenerate Apostatising generation Hos 11. 7. My people are bent to backsliding from me though they his Prophets called them to the most high none at all would exalt him namely by Repentance Faith and Obedience no more will any of you being servants of God by calling make God any such obedientiall Answer yea though the Lord instruct you with his mouth as it s said 2 Cor. 5. 20. As though God did beseech you we pray you in Christs stead to be reconciled to God yet how few of you regard these blessed beseechings and intreaties of the glorious and high God Besides you also are by externall calling Gods Children to whom God saith as to those degenerate ones in Malac. 1. 6. If I am a Father His Children where is my Honour And if the fifth Commandement require such