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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B03435	A fathers advice to his son at the university: wherein is hinted some general directions, which may be usefully read by persons of any age or sex.		1693 (1693)	Wing F553A; ESTC R176976	82,678	160

plainly holds forth the duty of Christians in their whole life is uncontraverted● clear from the Scriptures and all Debates 〈◊〉 religious matters that have not the alone prospect of bettering and advancing of Knowledge are certainly not allowable And as your heart● all times ought to be over-filled with true love 〈◊〉 God and such as bears his Image so especially be respective to the Ministers of the Gospel being Ambassadors for Christ and Administrator of the Ordinances appointed by him in the Ne●● Testament as the Apostle enjoyns 1 Thes 5 1●● I beseech you brethren mark them which labour amongst you and are over you in the Lord and adminish you and esteem them very highly in Love for the works sake And let not the infirmities of any 〈◊〉 them procure in your heart any disrespect to th●● holy Calling But mind what the same Apostle saith 2 Cor. 4.7 That we have this Treasure in earth en Vessels that the exeellency of the power may be 〈◊〉 God and not of us 13. As you are to have a Pity and Love eve● towards such as altogether wants Religion 〈◊〉 worships God not truly as he hath appointed 〈◊〉 his Word so ye would altogether avoid the least of Animosity with such as with Charity 〈◊〉 may judge differs only anent Church-government or any thing else not inconsistent with the salvation of their Souls not doubting but ye will sin● at the day of Judgment that the many Niceitie● which a great part do but too much concern themselves in are the effects of want of Charit and a gospel Frame and disposition of heart 14. The wickedness of our hearts is such as doth altogether unfit for the doing of Duty Have we any prosperity in the enjoyment of health or any thing desireable in the world we are seldom or never in a frame for rightly acknowledging God for his Mercies and improving them to the end of our having thereof And if Providence tryst our being crossed in what is delightful to us how ready are we to dejection of mind and what does unfit for Duty let every Dispensation of God to you-ward lead you to the consideration of failings in your bypast life and stir you up to a suitable walk under what you are trysted with Endeavour an equality of Temper in all your ways if Dispensations any ways prosperous be your Lot consider you have them from God and humbly acknowledge his Mercy in what ever you meet with and if what is more cross befal you repine not thereat but mind that the worst of Conditions is above your desert Seek of him with earnestness that you may truly learn his holy Will in all his Dispensations and in Prosperity or Adversity let all your care be to know what ye are called to as Duty and to endeavour with diligence the doing thereof even in things relating to this life then with chearful Submission leave the event of all your concerns to God who is wonderful in goodness to such as fear and trust in him 15. When the Lords day is come remember to keep it holy as God has expresly appointed in his 4th Command And in order thereto prepare your Heart for the Duties thereof before it approach for however a great many in this Age may contravert the Morality of that Precept for the due observation of the Sabbath yet may you be satisfied with what is fully held forth by I may say all the most serious and godly of Divines that it is from the Practise no● only of the Primitive Church being the mospure of Christians but even of the Appostles wh● were immediately inspired of God and whose Example we are bound to follow And as the due Observance of the Sabbath under the Law was enjoyned under the certification of gre●● wrath from God as in Nehemiah 13. cap. v. 17. and 18. What evil is this that ye do and propha●● the Sabbath did not your Fathers thus and did 〈◊〉 our God bring all this evil upon us and upon this C●ty yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profanity the Sabbath So the Promises to the doing there of were great as in Isa 56.2 Blessed is the m●● that doth this and the son of man that layeth hold●● it that keepeth the Sabbath from polluting it A●● 58.13 14. If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath and from doing thy pleasure on my holy day a●● call the Sabbath of the Lord a delight the holy of the Lord honourable and shalt honour him not finding thi●● own pleasure nor speaking thine own words then sha●● thou delight thy self in the Lord and I will cause th●● to ride upon the high places of the earth and feed the with the heretage of Jacob thy father for the mou●● of the Lord hath spoken it Yea not only from History the judgments of God upon Sabbath-breakers are manifest but such as are of small Experience may evidently perceive the dreadful consequences thereof in the confession of almost all Malefactors that comes to publick Execution It is tr●● such as are pleased to have no respect to the d● Observation of the Sabbath and to object again● the obligation upon Christians for keeping it holy doth answer to that of its being so generally confessed by dying Penitents that the same flows but from their Education and its being inculcat in them to be so sinful but what answer will such I may say prophane Wretches give to this so palpable Evidence of God's displeasure with the profanation of that Day that He in his over-ruling Providence often permits notorious Breakers of the Sabbath to fall in such sins as even brings them to open and shameful Punishment in this World And albeit the ways of God's Providence are not to be fathomed and gross Sinners of every kind do's in things relating to this life Die without any appearing Marks of God's displeasure which may fully satisfie all rational Persons that there is a Judgment to come so the temporal Calamities sometimes trysting Sinners in this World are an Earnest of what shall be Dispensed at that dreadful Day to such and it may plainly appear to you that the Cavilling against the Obligations for keeping Holy the Sabbath of our Lord is of the Devil being that only such as want tenderness of Conscience and Love not to live in any thing according to the Rules of the Gospel do thus declare themselves whereas Persons whose hearts are God-ward however their Frailty may hinder the due performance of their Duty are ever ready to acknowledge their Obligation to the observation of that Day to be kept a Sabbath Holy to the Lord. Yea Sir Matthew Hale late L. Chief Justice of England whose Memory is Savoury to all good men that knew or heard of him in his Directions to his Children for keeping the Lords Day doth press it upon them for several Reasons and in one whereof he saith because I have found by long and sound Experience that the due observance of that

so doing will be beyond what can be well expressed D. Theophil if Men and Women of whatsoever Degree or Quality had the serious Belief of a Judgment to come it would be easie to perswade to Duty and which time surely approaches and will come to the grievous Conviction of Sinners For however mans Corruption may lead him to Atheism yet not only does the concurring Consent of all Nations speak forth a Deity but that there is a particular Providence in relation to Mankind and all worldly Concerns is beyond all contradiction and which Providences are ordered by our Only and Almighty God My being unqualified and the narrow Bounds of this Letter hinders my making plain from Reason that the owning of a Providence is the owning of God and that our God is the only living and true God Yea such a God to whom it is vastly unsuitable even in the thoughts of Man to compareall Heathenish Vanities or pretended Deities whatsoever How man● things occurring to Man may satisfie him of th● certaintie of a Judgment to come I have m● self been satisfied in the certainty of a day fo● Gods Judging of Men from the consideration 〈◊〉 the great Wickedness of the grosly Prophane And that the Omniscient and Omnipotent God however He in his wise ordering of all thing● for his own Reasons unfathomable by frail Ma● suffers for a time so far as wretched man can d● even to the contempt of his glorious Power wi● doubtless require an account of all Actions 〈◊〉 say I have in being present among such lew●● Compancy which alas has not been at th●● time nor since my hearts grief from a rig●● Principle had the full satisfaction of the certainty of God's punishing Sinners Let it be o●● Work to bring our Hearts to such a stav●● Frame as we may fully see that God ove●● rules the Actions of Men and that he will 〈◊〉 His due time vindicate his Justice where wret●●ed Mankind has not a Claim to Mercy in a●● through Christ And let us so live as know●● that all sublunary Enjoyments are of no wor●● without God's blessing and that frail Man 〈◊〉 propose no solid Satisfaction in the enjoyment any thing under the Sun excepting in th●● having their Hearts towards God their seek●● with earnestness of Him for Christs sake Gra●● and their fully endeavouring toward God a●● Man so to live as the Saviour of Sinners 〈◊〉 be their Portion I have my self much rea●● to lument the great wickedness of my corr●● Heart yet blessed be God I can and does least sometimes say with Reverend Elavil 〈◊〉 of his occasional Meditations printed with his Husbandry spiritualized For my own part I wish I may so order my Conversation in the world that when I am dead I may live in the affections of the best and live a honourable Testimony in the Conscience of the worst and whilst I live I may oppress none do good to 〈◊〉 say when dying as good Ambrose did I am neither ashamed to live nor arrayed to die or as he says in another of the same Meditations Die I must but I wish I may lay up that good Treasure before I go Mat. 6.20 ●arry with me a good Conscience when I go 2 Tim. 4.6 ● And leave behind me a good Example when I a●● gone and then let death●●m● and 〈◊〉 but least I should exceed in what may be but too iustly considered little worth your Consideration I shall conclude assuring you I continue D. Theophil Your Theocritus Dear THEOPHIL AS I am this Morning taking my Pe● to express to you what has been some part of my thoughts since my last writing I am not without an sense that even the time I imploy in doing thereof may be very truly reckoned amongst what is spent in my insignificant Actions which alas does not only with what I otherways sinfully and vainly do and think take take up a part but almost the whole of my Life yet if I could by Writ make plain my Notion of what does often occur to me I am satisfied I imploy much of my time worse than I would in so doing Mi. Theophil I can from my Experience speak of the Distractions of a wretche● Heart in poor frail miserable Man And 〈◊〉 think what may be said thereof might not only exceed the bounds of this Letter but truly would offer Matter for more than either my Time 〈◊〉 Capacity can comprehend yea the wickedne●● in the heart of Man is not fathomable and th● consideration thereof holds forth the Strength of that Argument for the Scriptures being from men influenced by the Spirit of God that they speak so elegantly what carnal Reason could never reach and particularly in expressing the deceitfulness of Man's Heart as in the Gen. 6.5 Gen. 8.21 and the 17. Jerem. 9● Saying that it is evil yea only evil and containually evil and that the Imaginations a●● so from the youth of Man and that it is decei●ful above all things and desperatly wicked who can know it The due pondering whereof should induce to the serious and entire Dependence upon our God that He for Christ● sake may guard us against every wicked Inclination and direct and strengthen to Duty● which Dependance is absolutely necessar to fra●● miserable Man And it would be our work intently to ply the means for bringing up our Hearts to and keeping them in that Duty Our having the benefite of the Scriptures is an unvaluable Mercy but we are little earnest that God by his Spirit may enable us aright to read them which if we would in humility and with Hearts desire endeavour our Happiness and Advantage therefrom were beyond what I can express and as it is our Duty to depend upon God for Strength and Direction in reading his Word so we are to do it not only with what seriousness and presence of mind we can but also for our better understanding thereof to make use of for our assistance what helps we are trysted with I remember we have sometimes whilst together been speaking of the Notes lately printed with the Bible and a beit some parts thereof give but too much ground to such whose Hearts delight not in that blessed Book to Cavil yet as our Saviours Sermon upon the Mount is what cannot be too often read so I have with satisfaction read the Notes thereupon ●ea the whole Notes upon the Evangelists which appears according to my Capacity to have been done by one who deservedly may have the respect due to a worthy and solid Divine These Notes upon the first three Evangelists which in appearance are the works of one Man has many things desirable I remember what he has upon the Prayer of the Cananitish woman to our Saviour is worth our Consideration and indeed that Prayer gives both Direction and Encouragment to a sinner sensible of it's Sin in drawing near to God and what the Anonator says thereupon would be imprinted on our Hearts he therein tells us three