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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44074	A treatise of marriage with a defence of the 32th article of religion of the Church of England : viz. bishops, priests and deacons are not commanded by God's law either to vow the state of single life, or to abstain from marriage : therefore it is lawful for them, as for all other men, to marry at their own discretion, as they shall judge the same to serve better to godliness.	Hodges, Thomas, d. 1688.	1673 (1673)	Wing H2324; ESTC R28670	53,897	120

Leah which two did build up the house of Israel and I may say also Which two did build up the Church of God And if they built up God's Church on Earth they made ready a people prepared for the Lord in Heaven And as Jerusalem which is above is said to be the Mother of us all so in another respect Jerusalem that is below I mean the Church on Earth doth bring forth Sons and Daughters to God and is the Mother of all the Children of men that are indeed also the Children of God and Members of the new Jerusalem in Heaven or above CHAP. V. Of the Education of Children CHildren of themselves a blessing prove a cross and a curse too unto their Parents if not cultivated or well managed by a good Education Teach a Child the way he should go and he 'll not forsake it when he is old Quo semel est imbuta recens servabit ●dorem Testa diu Although ragged Colts prove often good horses yet let the horses run till they are six or seven years old wild and unbroken it will be a hard matter to tame and manage them 'T is good that a man bear the yoke in his youth Blaspheme not saying A young Saint will prove an old Devil rather a young Devil is like to prove an old Beelzebub You may bend the Oak as well as the Osier whilst it is young and tender Now now is the time the season the very nick article and joynt of time when you may turn your Children which way you please Oh then now teach them mind them to remember their Creator in the days of their youth bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. Let God have the first-fruits of their time the flower of their age dedicate them to God betimes by engaging them to him and his service in the first place God would have Children presented to him in the Temple at forty days old our Saviour saith Suffer little children to come unto me and forbid them not for of such is the kingdom of God And our Lord was pleased with the Childrens Hosanna's as he rode in Triumph to Jerusalem Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast ordained or perfected praise saith the Psalmist Psal 8. God of old call'd to young Samuel again and again whilst he was a Child rather than to old Eli. We keep a day to Commemorate the young Infants of about two years old that were murthered for the cause of Christ as well as of St. Stephen the Protomartyr and of St. Paul the aged that were put to death for the name of the Lord Jesus God of old seal'd the males amongst the Israelites at eight days old for his own his peculiar Treasure And if God will own your Children why do not ye Parents present them to him Children within the pale of the Church God looks on as his Children And if ye take his Children your Sons and Daughters which you brought unto him and offer them to Molock to Baal to Idols or bring them forth and up to the Murtherer or the Abaddon the Destroyer of souls by evil or careless Education a thousand times better had it been they had never been born How will Children in Hell curse their Parents that by their evil counsel or evil example or want of good Precepts and good Paterns brought them to the place of torment Oh therefore teach them by instilling good Principles into them betimes and guide them by your good example always be able to say to them Be ye followers of us as we are of Christ or Walk so as ye have us for an example drop good and precious instructions daily into these narrow mouth'd Vessels and when they are old they will retain the good infused into them in their young days Chasten them if they offend if you love them but in measure that it may appear you love them Correct them but not in anger lest they be discouraged lest you provoke them to wrath also lest your bitterness to them imbitter their spirits towards you Teach them Affability Courtesie Gentleness Humility that as you love them so may every body else that so they may pass their time in peace and quietness both at home in their own bosoms and abroad in the world Next after they are fitted by a competency of Learning for some honest and suitable Calling be sure you dispose of them accordingly considering what Bishop Sanderson hath left on Record in one of his Sermons that Idle Gentlemen and idle Beggars are the pests of the Commonwealth Let yours therefore be careful to maintain some honest Trades or Callings that they be not unfruitful These things are good and profitable unto men Whereas the Grecians would have all Children to be bound to keep their Parents when old the Athenians put in this Exception Vnless their Parents had taught them no Trade whereby to get their living Every man saith Mr. Perkins besides his general Calling as a Christian must have some personal particular Calling to walk in either publick or private either in the Church or Commonwealth or Family Adam his personal Calling assigned him by God was to dress and keep the Garden and Christ the second Adam lived with Joseph saith Mr. Perkins in the calling of a Carpenter And hereupon it was that the Jews said Is not this the Carpenter the son of Mary Mark 6.3 Nor is it a calling to devote your Sons and Daughters to be Monks and Nuns in the Monasteries beyond Seas The ancient Church saith the same Author condemned all Monks for Thieves and Robbers that besides the general duties of Prayer and Fasting did not withal employ themselves in some other Calling for their better maintenance Give your Children then Callings If you ask what Callings I answer 1. according to their Natural inclinations And secondly according to their Natural parts and gifts Those Children which excel in the gifts of the body bring them up to Mechanical Arts those Children which excel in gifts of the mind bring them up to the Liberal Sciences to Academical Learning that they may be serviceable thereby in Church or Commonwealth Athanasius that famous Bishop was first put to Learning because he was found by the Sea side doing the part of a Minister amongst a company of little Children like himself examining and baptizing them according to the solemn Order used in the Congregation The Athenians before they placed their Children in any Calling did first bring them into a Publick Place where Instruments of all sorts were laid and they observ'd with what kind of Instrument they took delight to the like Art after did they apply them with good success Christians may do well to follow the example of the Heathens in this so rational a practice Choose Callings for your Children for which they are fitted and to which they are inclined they then will delight in ther Employment and their lives will be comfortable to them their very