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VVords to give to the young-man knowledg and discretion, or, The law of kindness in the tongue of a father to his son by Francis Fuller ...
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Fuller, Francis, 1637?-1701.
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willing to spend and be spent like a Taper that consumes it self by giving Light to others A good Minister is a Light and his Motto must be Lucendo pereo or that of the Phoenix Dum pario pereo Qui sibi nequam cui bonus Heb. 13 4. Be a good Minister for the good of others and a good Man for your own Marriage is honourable in all and Parentage Parts and Portion are good Ingredients in a Match but not the principals to guide your choice let not therefore your Affections so far bribe your Judgment as to put you upon the choice of a Wife for Money or Beauty only but for Religion the best and strongest Marriage-knot so strong that it cannot be cut asunder for they that are thus joyned together neither Life nor Death can part Never pawn your Honesty to please your Fancy If you marry and live to have Children and have any thing to give them give them what you can spare while you are alive or at last they will thank Death for it and not you If you have nothing to give them or whether you have or have not leave them under God's Blessing and you will leave them rich A Table though never so richly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 adorn'd and furnish'd with Food differs according to the Greek Proverb nothing from a Manger therefore how meanly soever your Table is furnish'd with Food let it be furnish'd with good Discourse that all that come there may fare as of old they did at Plato's Banquets the better for it afterwards The Ear trys Words as the Job 12. 11. Mouth tasts Meat In two things the Philosopher Pythag. says we are like to God viz. in speaking the Truth and in bestowing Benefits God is a God of Truth he cannot lye and they that are like to Titus 1. 2. him will not God is good and does good Isa 63. 8. Ps 25. 8. Exo. 34. 6. he is abundant in it and the more any exceed in Bounty which is Goodness enlarged the more like to him they are Therefore When God enlarges his hand in Bounty to you do you enlarge yours in Bounty to others Charity may begin at home but it must not end there Dr. Taylor 's Advice to his Son was that if God did bless him with the things of this World he should count it his chiefest Riches to be rich in Alms and it will be your Wisdom to believe so some indeed think it is the next way to be undone for what is thus given they conclude is thrown away but they are mistaken that think so for it is a way not only to secure what you have but to encrease it in that whatever you thus give you lend and that not Prov. 28. 27. to a Bankrupt but to God who has all the Riches of Heaven and Prov. 19. 17. Earth and stands Principal in that Bond which secures the payment back again of what you thus lend in this Life and of something better in the Life to come I had rather you should want an Estate than a heart to be charitable a Capacity this way to do good than a Will or an Inclination to it The holy Scriptures contain'd in the old and new Testament are the Word of God the Statute-book 2 Tim. 3. 16. of Heaven the Will of your heavenly Father the Advice of Christ your heavenly Physician the Counsel of him your Advocate Phil. 2. 16. Act. 13. 26 Rom 10. 8. 2 Tim. 3. 15. Eph 1. 13. the Word of Life and Salvation the Word of Faith and Truth therefore Believe it firmly Here let the Ark of your Faith rest Read it daily and diligently That you may find Christ the rich Treasure in this Field Hear it attentively The more heed you give to Act 16. 14. Heb. 2. 1. what you hear the more you will remember Love it sincerely There is no Love like that to God and his Word and such as your Love is to his Word such is your Love to him Meditate on it constantly Psal 1. 2. The Blessing is entail'd upon them that meditate on it day and night Contend for it earnestly It is the Word of Faith and Jude 3. you must be a Defender of it Obey it faithfully You neither read hear understand nor believe aright any more than what you practice Action is the best part of Jam. 1. 22 23. a Christian and there is no doing like to that of the Word The Work of Creation being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gen. 2. 2. 3. He sanctify'd it or set it apart and appointed it to be a holy rest for his Worship ended on the seventh day God rested on that day from all his Work which he had made and blessed the seventh day and sanctified it He sanctified it by Institution that the Jews might sanctifie it by Observation he by setting it apart to a holy use that they might by keeping it so Now as the first day on which the work of Creation was finish'd was consecrated and set apart for a holy Sabbath to God so the first day on which the work of Redemption was perfected was set apart as a holy rest unto him that was as Athanasius says the end of the first Creation and this the beginning of the second Creation and as that was kept holy to God so this as appears by the Act. 20. 7. 1 Cor. 16. 12. Rev. 1. 10. practice of the Apostles and by the universal Practice of the Christian Church has ever since for many hundred Years been kept holy to him in the Christian Church both by converted Jews and gentile Christians And I can assure you from my own Observation I never yet knew any but the more strict they were in the profession of Religion the more strict they were in the Observation of this day Besides there are two reasons to oblige you to the keeping of this day that the Jews had not to oblige them to the keeping of their Sabbath viz. The Resurrection of Christ John 20. Luke 24. from the dead on this day and The Descension of the Holy Ghost Since then there are such Reasons to enforce the practice of it let it be your great care to sanctifie this day and that 1. By ceasing From all evil Works which are Sins on other days and double Sabbatum Satana Sins on this From all Works of Recreation Sabbatum Aurei Vituli or Pleasure viz. such as are not natural and necessary but voluntary and needless From all Works of Labour that Sabbatum Tyri are not Works of Necessity Piety or Mercy nor tending thereunto 2. By doing all the Works of Piety both publick and private which are the proper Works of this day and not barely doing of them but by doing of them with Exactness Constancy and Delight The Sacrifices of old were double Num. 28. 9 on the Sabbath-day and God requires more Service
on this day than on others and an extraordinary exercise of Grace in them The whole day is his and unless works of Necessity and Mercy Mat. 127. relating either to Man or Beast intervene it must be wholly denoted to him The Duties of the day are not all of a sort but various there are all the means and ways of Communion with God on this day to take off Tediousness and promote Delight in them If you come with rejoycing Ps 122. 1. you will go away so Christ's coming in the Flesh was the fulfilling of the Law the coming down of his Spirit on this day was the fulfilling of the Gospel then he took our Nature on this we were made Partakers of his when he died he shed his Blood effectually for our Justification on this he shed abroad his Spirit abundantly for our Sanctification on this day he arose and then his Spirit quicken'd his natural Body on this day his Spirit descended and quicken'd his mystical Body when he ascended he carried our Nature up to Heaven and on this day he sent down his Spirit to us Now my Prayer for you shall be That the same Spirit that descended this day may sanctifie you that you may sanctifie this day and that you by it may be made holy that you may keep this day holy to God that made it so that keeping this day of rest here you may at last be taken up into his Rest that remains for ever hereafter Heb. 2. 9. Live to the Honour of that worthy Name in which you were baptiz'd and by which you are Jam. 2. 7. called Baptism is a sacred Flood sent not to drown but to save the World but then you must be in Christ the Ark and walk worthy 1 Thess 2. 12. of him that as you are in the Bond of the Covenant you may be also under the Blessing of it The outward Baptism of Water will avail you nothing Mat. 3. 11. without the inward Baptism of the Spirit The Sacrament of the Lords Supper was instituted by Christ and appointed as a standing Ordinance Matth. to the end of the World for the commemoration of Christs Death and his great Love in it and for the Confirmation of all those Blessings obtain'd by him to them that believe in him They only that are in the Covenant have a right to the Seal of it Some seldom receive it some never living in a wilful breach and contempt both of God's Law and Mans some are careless and negligent when they do receive But do you 1. Duely attend upon it 2. Come worthily to it 1. Duely attend upon it While you live in the neglect of it you reject not only motives but instituted means to subdue your Corruptions and strengthen your Graces question God's Wisdom as if he had ordain'd a needless and superfluous thing contemn Christ and his Love as if they were not worth the remembring and live in disobedience to a Gospel Command and thereby become liable to the Wrath of God He that came to the Feast Mat. 22. 3. 4 5 6 7 11 12 13. without a wedding-garment was destroy'd and so were they too that did not come 2. Come worthily to it The Sacrament is a Feast the Souls Exceedings if you come not to it you will starve your Soul if you come unworthily you will poison it eating Damnation as surely as you eat Bread and 1 Cor. 11. 29. drinking a Cup of Wrath instead of a Cup of Blessing and therefore do what you can to come in a worthy manner viz. With hungring and thirsting after Righteousness Unless you come empty you Mat. 5. 6. Luk. 15. 3. wil be sent away so With Faith without which Christus fide digerendus though you eat you will never be nourish'd You may touch the Body but you will receive no Vertue from it With inflamed Love to God for giving Christ to you and to Christ for offering up himself for you He is the Founder of the Feast and died to make it With a Heart deeply humbled for Sin that you may not crucifie him afresh but mourn over him Heb. 6. 6. who was crucified for you and by you A broken Saviour must be received with a broken Heart With Humility and lowliness of mind as unworthy of the Crums that fall from his Table much more as a Guest to sit there The more humble the more welcome With Praise and Thanksgiving The Feast is all of free-cost and you can do no less than take the Cup of Salvation Ps 116. 13 and bless him for it In the Sacrament Christ's death is shewn forth and in a holy Conversation his Life now when in that you have shewn forth his Death go and shew forth his Life in the Holiness of yours that it may appear you have an interest in the Power of his Cross as well as in the Merit of it Sin is an Impostor it comes of a cheating kind by the Fathers and Mothers side viz. the Devil and your Heart he is the Incubus and that the Womb. The first Sin by which you may judge of all the rest came into the World by a cheat and all whether Angels or Men that ever had any thing to do with it have been deceived by it your great wisdom Pro. 11. 18 therefore will be to understand the deceitfulness of Sin and Heb. 3. 13. to watch against it Our first Parents expected Gen. 3. 5 6 7. to be as Gods but they became as Devils Unbelief is a Sin That gave life to the first actual Sin and ever since gives life to Gen. 3. all and maintains the life of them in the Judgment as in a Castle in the Heart as in a Closet and in the Life as in a Trade All Grace acts in the strength of Faith and all Sin in the strength of Unbelief A Sin that puts God in the Devils place and the Devil in God's for By dis-believing God you believe the Devil A Sin that binds the Guilt of all other Sins fast upon you they deserve Punishment but this binds you over to it Hell seems to be prepar'd on purpose for Unbelievers and Hypocrites as the chief of Sinners I hope you have so much Faith Heb. 3. 12. Quantò magis à Deo recedimus tantò minus sumus as to believe this that you may take heed and beware of an evil Heart of Unbelief in departing from the living God By going from a living God will go to a killing Devil Pambo was thirty years as he says learning how to rule his Tongue and yet had not perfectly learn'd that Lesson and Saint James tells us the Tongue is an unruly Member not easily tamed yet an endeavour to do it is not more difficult than necessary for without it your Religion is Jam. 3. 8. 1. 26. vain The Sins of the Tongue are many but I shall here only advise you in an