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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51388	The Urim of conscience to which the author has had recourse for plain answers, in his own particular case (as every man living ought to do in his) to four questions of great weight and importance, viz. 1. who and what art thou? 2. where hast thous been? 3. where art thou now going? 4. whither art thou going? : together with three select prayers for private families / by Sir Samuel Morland.	Morland, Samuel, Sir, 1625-1695.	1695 (1695)	Wing M2785; ESTC R26850	73,650	220

Childhood and Youth and yet as they grew up to a riper and more mature Age by reason of such cruel Usage became melancholy and mopish and at last meer Sots Dullards and Dunces Now if Masters and Mistresses are charged with so great Cruelty for abusing the Children of Strangers What can be said in the behalf of some Fathers and Mothers who as barbarously beat and bruise the heads of those very Children who came out of their own Loins even in their tender years never considering how softly our blessed Saviour laid his tender hands upon young Childrens heads when he took them up into his Arms and blessed them There is yet a Generation of Vipers I mean some particular Nurses who are so barbarous as to give dangerous Blows in their Fury and rage to poor young Infants in their Cradles and in their own Laps insomuch that those innocent Babes dread as much the fierce Looks of those Furies as Men usually dread the sight of Lions or Tigers Not to mention some other Behaviour of some of those Nurses after they have taken upon them so great a Charge that many times proves the loss of those poor Infants Lives for all which they must undoubtedly one day Answer it being a kind of Man-slaughter and so near a-kin to Murder Servants are to be obedient to their Masters according to the Flesh in singleness of heart as unto Christ Not with Eye-service as Men pleasers but as the Servants of Christ doing the Will of God from the heart with good will doing service as to the Lord and not to Men 6 Ephes 5 6 c. Masters are to be just and kind to their Servants forbearing threatning as knowing that their Master also is in Heaven 6. Ephes 9. And for that reason they ought not to be as Lions in their Houses nor Frantick among their Servants as the Son of Sirach wisely advises 4 Ecclesiasticus 30. Joshua 's Declaration before all the Tribes of Israel at Shechem is an excellent President for all Parents and Masters of Families and plainly admonishes and points out to them their Duties viz. Choose you this day whom you will serve whether the Gods which your Fathers served that were on the other side of the Flood or the Gods of the Amorites in whose Land ye dwell but as for me and my House we will serve the the Lord 24 Joh. 15. All Subjects are commanded in the Holy Scriptures both to pray for and to yield due obedience to Kings and all Supreme Governours as to God's Vice-Gerents Forasmuch as by Him King's Reign and there is no Power but of God and therefore whoever resisteth the Power resisteth the Ordinance of God 13 Rom. 1 2. On the other side Kings and Queens Soveraign Princes and Princesses who receive their Crowns and Scepters from the Hands of the great King of Kings are to be considered as Nursing-Fathers and Nursing-Mothers to all their Subjects but more particularly to his own Church where ever it is planted or established within their respective Realms and Dominions according to those Royal Presidents of David Hezekiah Josiah and several others recorded in the Holy Scriptures It is both the Honour and Duty of Senators Counsellors and Ministers who are in effect Pilots of those great Ships called Empires Kingdoms and Common-wealths with their utmost Skill Wisdom and Diligence to discharge the great Trusts that are reposed in them by their Soveraign Lords and Masters 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to keep the Helm of the Government steddy to have a watchful Eye upon their Compass and never to give Directions for either Larboard Port or Starboard with an intention to steer a wrong Course to gratify their ambitious Desires or for any other sinister or Self-ends Bishops have their respective Diocesses and inferior Pastors and Ministers their particular Congregations and ought to act as good Shepherds watching over and feeding the Flocks of Christ committed to their charge Judges and Magistrates are commanded by God to hear the Cause of the Widow and Fatherless and to be no respectors of Persons Lawyers both Civilians and others for the very same reason are obliged to plead with zeal and diligence for the Oppressed against the Oppressors and not to spin or wire-draw just and righteous Causes while a Man might make several Voyages to and from the East or West-Indies nor to suffer their Atto●neys Proctors or Sollicitors to cut large Thongs out of their Clients Hides The proceedings of Physicians with their sick Patients forasmuch as the best of their Skill lies in a very narrow Compass by reason of the great variety of Constitutions and the daily Mutations which happen in the same Human Bodies ought to be with great caution and very conscientious never throwing away Men's lives to make Experiments or feeding them with vain hopes when they plainly see them drawing near to their last Agonies or for greedy Lucre to play with little Distempers till they turn to remediless Diseases There is likewise a Conscience to be used by Apothecaries in preparing and administring their Doses and Potions the particulars whereof I leave to their own private reflections Chyrurgions ought to be very cautious how they dally with slight Sores till they become incurable Wounds God alone knows what some Shop-keepers have to answer for making false Protestations to put off their Wares to unskilful Buyers or Customers Merchants and Trades-men of all Professions are required and commanded by God himself to be just and upright in all their Dealings and not to defraud or go beyond their Brethren in Sales or Bargains or in any wise to break their Covenants for Gain and Advantage for which they will do well to read what the aforesaid Son of Sirach observes A Merchant shall hardly keep himself from doing Wrong and an Huckster shall not be freed from Sin 25 Ecclesiasticus 29. The Rich and Mighty are not to oppress the Poor and Needy or to make use of their Labours Skill or particular Talents without giving them sufficient Recompences and Rewards as the custom of some is feeding them with fair Promises and flattering Speeches till they have obtained their own Ends and Purposes and then taking no more notice of them then if they had never known them which Behaviour of theirs together with a friendly Caution to such poor Men is not unaptly expressed in the following Verses When Great Men cajole thee mark well their design True Friendship 's a Goddess that few Men adore It 's something they want from thee or from thine Which when they have got they know thee no more By the foregoing Passages we are taught and instructed in the Holy Scriptures what God requires either to be done or not to be done on our parts in pursuance of his second Covenant made with us and how we are to demean our selves while we remain in these fleshy Tabernacles To encourage us to the performance of which with all Integrity and Faithfulness we have in the first place