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A52802	A Christians walk and work on earth, until he attain to heaven which may serve as a practical guide, and a plain direction in his pilgrimage thither, through his personal and relative duties : marvelously useful to all persons, and families of all ranks and qualities, both in city and country / by Christopher Nesse ...	Ness, Christopher, 1621-1705.	1678 (1678)	Wing N443; ESTC R3369	121,975	273

where Religion is set up that house is a Beth-el an house of God and there is the gate of Heaven Gen 28. 16. 17. not only for your Prayers ascending up to God but also for his blessings descending down upon you for he is Rich unto all persons and Families that call upon him Rom. 10. 12. Job 8. 6. whether you be small or great God is not an Austere Master but a liberal pay Master but that house wherein the Worship of God is not nor any calling upon his Name 't is not a Bethel but a Beth-Aven Hos 10. 5. an house of Sin and God will poure out his curse upon it and not his blessing Jer. 10. 25. Neglect of Family-duty doth as it were uncover the roof for Gods curse to be rained down upon a Mans Tables Beds all things he hath or doth Prov. 3. 33. yea Brimstone is is scattered upon his habitation Job 28. 15. which the wrath of God may soon give fire to Psal 11. 6. and hale in Hell at ' its Heels 15. Secondly a short word of Direction to the Governed as they stand related to the Governours 1. In General to all such whether Children or Servants c. The first Rule is account it your mercy and priviledg and not your burden that you live in Religious Families where Prayer Reading Catechizing yea order and discipline are observed Gen. 16. 8. 18. 19. Children of many Prayers and Servants of many Prayers and Spiritual helps may not say what a weariness is this Mal. 1. 13. 't was cursed Jeroboam that said 't is too much to do so 1 King 12. 28. Yea 't was the mad and raging Heathens that cryed let us break these bands asunder and cast away those cords from us Psal 2. 3. Those are Children of Belial that like not to be yoked as the word signifies no not with Christs easy yoak and those are the Redeemed of the Lord that look on Family duties not as Cords and Bands but as garters and girdles to confine them where they ought to be Rom. 7. 22. Christ left this pattern for all Families by the ordering of his own as 1 To worship God Joh. 4. 22. 2 To keep the Sabbath Luke 4. 16. 3 To pray with the Family Luke 9. 18. alone there is meant apart from the Multitude for his Disciples which were his Family were with him 4 To pray privately or secretly by himself Luke 5. 16. 5 And that morning and evening Mark 1. 35. Math. 14. 23. And 6 This was his practice and custome Luke 22. 39. yea 7 Sometimes all night long Luke 6. 12. And lastly with Submission and Devotion as a Servant of God Math. 26. 39. Governours and governed learn of him Math. 11. 29. he is your best Master all this Practice of Piety 't is no matter how dull the Scholler be if but desirous to learn so Christ himself be but your Teacher 16. Secondly in particular First to Children the second Rule is Obey your Parents Eph 6. 1. as Isaao did Abraham in submitting to be Sacrificed though he was then grown up and might have resisted and as Christ became obedient even to the death of the Cross Good Children help to lengthen their Parents days as Joseph did Jacobs God therefore in the first Commandment promises by way of requital to lengthen theirs Remember you are stars in Josephs dream who was himself a whole constellation of graces O be a bright and morning Star in Christ who is so called Revel 22. 16. be a morning-seeker in the morning of your life Prov. 8. 17. and grow in wisdom as well as in stature and in favour with God and man as the Child Jesus did Luke 2. 52. but be not a blazing meteor not a falling but a fixed Star not Sancti Juvenes Satanici Senes not degenerate plants Jer. 2. 21. Degenerating not only from your Godly Parents though a Child of many Prayers cannot easily miscarry as Ambrose told Monica concerning Austin her Son while a Manichee But from your seeming godly self in your younger years a falling Star falls not to the Earth only but as the Star wormwood Rev. 8. 11. bitter to Parents and self into the bottomless Pit also and is it not pitty that any one chip of the good old blocks should become fewel for everlasting burnings 17. The third Rule is be a Serving Son Mal. 3. 17. 't is an old and yet a true saying that God Parents and School Masters can never be requited both for your being and for your well being Parents have power to require the service of their Children and as it is the Parents priviledg to command service so 't is Childrens duty to do service even churlish Laban had serving Sons Gen. 30. 35. and so had the old seducing Prophet 1 King 13. 13. yea and the Prince or Priest of Midian had serving Daughters Exod. 2. 16. This is the honour that God commands Children to pay to their Parents Exod. 20. 12. Children can never do enough for their Parents that have done so much and also suffred so much for them 't is very remarkable that good Jonathan who was otherwise a truly serving Son was taken by Lot 1 Sam. 14. 42. the whole disposing whereof is of the Lord Prov. 16. 33. and this may well be supposed to be some Reason that God hereby did shew how tender he is in allowing the least shew of disobedience to Superiours and to make Children fear and avoid even the Rash and causeless curses of Parents which by a secret Judgment of God are sometimes inflicted a wise serving Son makes a glad Father c. Prov. 10. 1. every Son should be an Abner which signifies his Fathers light and every Daughter an Abigail which signifies her Fathers joy O then whether you be Son or Daughter do not bring down the gray hairs of your Parents with sorrow to the grave Gen. 42. 38. 44. 31. 18. The fourth Rule is you must nourish your Parents in their old Age that nourished you in your youth and as you expect that your Children should nourish you when you are old good Joseph is a blessed pattern Gen. 45. 9 10 11. Saying to his old Father come down to me and be near to me and there will I nourish thee and he did so Gen. 47. 12. and Obed was a restorer of life to old Naomai whose life had been long a lifeless life as it had been joyless and a nourisher of her old Age Ruth 4. 15. See Davids love herein 1 Sam. 22. 3. And Christs also the mystical David Joh. 19. 27. This the Apostle commends as a thing not only good before men but also acceptable unto God 1 Tim. 5. 4. and Christ reproves the neglect of it Math. 15 4. and Paul calls such 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without natural affection Rom. 1. 30. 2 Tim. 3. 3. The stork hath a singular affection to the Aged sire as Pliny Relateth Lib. 10. Cap. 23. The contrary carriage

that I refer you to that Religious Duty of Meditation which followeth here there is another Conversation of your Tongue as to that I refer you to that Religious Duty of Conference which followeth also in ' its place here As to your Conversation in natural and civil Actions which is not my present Work I refer you to my Crown and glory of a Christian from Page the 78. to Page 121. Wherein you have directions to guide you therein 2. Religious Duty in the Walk of a Christian is therefore a comprehensive Word and contains in it the All of mans duty both to God and to Man as the first Table in the Decalogue is before the second Table First in Order because first in nature and Excellency I shall begin therefore with your duty to God in Religious Actions And first with Meditation which is a Scripture duty Phil. 4. 8 that all the Sons and Daughters of Abraham should live in the practice of as Isaac did Gen. 24. 63 the heir of Abraham you must walk in Abrahams and in this Son of Abrahams steps in this World If you would lodge in Abrahams bosome that Synonymon of Heaven in the World to come alas those licentious times have almost Antiquated the power and practice of this Religious Duty in which you should be conversant all your days This holy Patriarch was not of so loose a mind as those in our loose times that would spend the evening of the Sabbath in Sports and pastimes for he spent the Evening in holy Meditation 3. The Word Shuach in the Hebrew Signifies to speak with a low voice as in the heart and the Word in the Septuagins 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Signifies a satiating Soliloquy as if Isaac had his fill of Divine talking both with his God and with his own heart It was his holy Exercise and Recreation thinking the latter part of the day as fit for Acts of Holiness as the former part was It was a pleasant and delightful pastime as the Greek Version is to the Patriarch and he found more heart-Ravishing complacency in it then can be found in all the delights of the Sons of Men and no less it was to the Prophet who professes he found more transcendent sweetness in Meditating on the Word then in the honey or in the honey-comb Psal 19. 10. 94 19. 139. 17. 119. 103. he found marrow and Gold yea better in it 4. Oh then do you account it your duty and your priviledg to take a few turns daily upon this Mount Tabor of Divine Contemplation which is an Heaven upon Earth a beginning of the beatifical vision an Employment as it is in a manner without the body plainly Angelical 't is an handsel of Happiness and a Foretast of Heavenly Joy Oh who would not but be an Anchorite to be pent up in the Voluntary Prison-walls of this Religious Action and to say with Peter 't is good being here No doubt but Moses was ravished in Spirit all the 40. days he conversed with God yet longs he still for more crying I beseech thee shew me thy glory Exod. 33. 18. 5. Objection but you will say how can such a duty be so delightful that is so difficult to this I Answer by Similies difficulty and delight may be found in one and the same Action there may be difficulty in the beginning and delight in the progress and ending the root may be Bitter and the fruit Sweet 1 Simile 'T is in this duty as it is in the heating of an Oven the first kindling of the fire in it may be not only difficult but painful the fewel must be set on fire and then it must be blown up with labour into a Flame after that the Oven begins well to warm the fewel will then catch and kindle of it self no sooner is a stick thrown into the Oven but presently 't is all on a blaze So where there is but a little sparke of grace in the heart at first it requires some paines to blow it up into a Flame but when the heart is once heated with the true Flames of Love then doth it enflame all the thoughts and sets the affections on fire insomuch that then this duty will not only be without difficulty but with much delight 6. 2 Simile 'T is with your heart as it is with that wax which hath been laid in cold places it thereby becomes hard and unpliable to your hand insomuch that it will break rather then bend but if laid a while in the Sun or by the fire or if wrought a while in your warm hand then doth it soften and become pliable and so capable of any Impression Thus will it be with you in this Divine duty the greatest difficulty lyes in your entrance into it for corrupt nature and carnal principles will put forth a repugnancy against it and therefore flesh must be put to silence in this blessed duty which is mainly the exercise of the Spirit in you the experience of all ages tells you as well as your own 3 Simile that the entrance into Learning is attended with difficulties and discouragements but when once the Nut-shell is crack'd and the sweetness of the Kernel tasted then do youth pass through all difficulties with delight till at last they become Famous Instruments in Church or State 7. 4 Simile This duty is indeed as the climbing upon some high Tree Monument or Mountain all hard Work but then there is a blessed compensation for all your paines at the top of all these First at the top of this Tree of life there be the choicest fruits to nourish up your Soul to eternal life Secondly at the top of this Monument of mercy you have the most lovely and Soul-refreshing and heart ravishing prospect even transforming and transfiguring you into the glory of it Thirdly at the top of this Mountain of God and of Holiness you may behold not only the Kingdomes of this lower World and the Vanity of them quite contrary to the Devils land-skip showed to your Lord but also the glories of a better World as Moses from the Top of Pisgah the upper land of Canaan that transendently flows with Milk and Honey Digging in Mines of the Earth a pressing of grapes in the Wine press c. Are both hard works yet finding fine Gold in the Mines of the Scriptures by this Spiritual digging and a rich Wine flowing from this blessed Wine-press of Divine Meditation will make a satisfactory Amends for all your paines at last 8 Having removed this Objection out of your way as Amasa's body was out of the Armies way that their March might not be hindred 2 Sam 20. 12 13. Let us now proceed to shew as I st how pleasant this duty is so 2ly how profitable both to your self and to others 1. Io your self upon a twofold account 1. For preventing evil Belzebub that Prince of Flies cannot Fly blow your heart so long as it is boiling a good matter

obtained favour of the Lord Prov. 18. 22. as this calls for abundance of praise to your God so for abundance of prudence to your Consort which is the weaker Vessel and so ought to be handled as a Venice glass with all tenderness even as Christ and his Church Eph. 5. 29. 10. The sixth Direction is if God make you the head and Governour of an house and Family then learn in the first place to rule your little house well to wit your self he that hath no rule over his own Spirit is very unfit to take the rule over others Prov. 14. 29. 16. 32. and Eccles 7. 9. Anger may rush into a wise-mans bosom but it shall not rest there he dare not let the Sun go down upon so evil a guest and Counseller sury dwells and domineers in no house or heart not only till the Sun go down a whole day but while it go round a whole year Eph. 4. 26. but where a fool is the Master of the Family a troubler of his own house that brings all to nothing Prov. 11. 29. his livelihood by a secret curse Vanishes into Smoak and if not his life by fretting yet his liberty goes away for he shall be servant to the wise in heart none Triumphed in Rome but such as had five Victories nor you in Heaven without Victory over your five senses 11. The seventh Direction is be careful to lead an Exemplary and a convincing Life that you may be a pattern of Piety to your whole Family patterns are so prevalent both to good and evil that Pelagius did think though amiss Sin came into and is continued in the World by imitation and not by propagation be sure you shew Piety at home as well as abroad 1 Tim. 5. 4. and be not like the stage-Players that act the part of both great and good men upon the stage but follow them into the Tiring-House where they dis-robe themselves and then it will appear they are but very Rogues and vile-Varlots every man is what he is at home and in private If Godliness be writ in a fair Character and in large and lovely Letters in the leaves of your life 't will invite your Children and Servants to Read like and love it who otherwise possibly would never have heeded it the Master of a Family is the Ordinary Looking-glass whereby the whole Family do dress themselves Regis ad exemplum totus Componitur Orbis as is the politick-head so are the People the body and as is the domestick-head so usually is the houshold good or evil as it is with a fish if the head be sweet all 's sweet if it stink all 's putrifying The Office of an head is great in guiding and going before the whole body in Josephs dream Gen. 37. 9. behold the Sun the Moon and the Stars c. the Father of the Family should be as the Sun full of Heavenly light in himself and communicating of his light to enlighten the Moon his wise and the Stars of several Magnitudes his Children yea and the Air and the Earth too to wit all his Servants 12. The eighth Direction is if you be the Wise or Mother of the Family you must be of a wise Conversation which wonderfully wins as well as wooes all you are related to towards Conversion as well as Conviction 1 Pet. 3. 1 2 3 4 5 6. you must be as the Moon in Josephs dream shining out in your Orb in your husbands absence and yet vailing to him as the Moon to the Sun when he is present and in his power being Subject to him in all his lawful commands or restraints O that you may be fair as the Moon Cant. 6. 10. Shining bright in all Vertues and Graces while you are ordering your Family-affaires as Sarah and Abigail c. And though you may have sometimes a dark side towards the Earth yet as the Moon in her very Ecclipse you may have a bright side towards Heaven which may never be Ecclipsed you should be to your Husband what Davids harp was to Saul in his fury and Phrensy 1 Sam. 16. 23. when your Husband is at any time as who is not at some time transported into passion see that you cast Milk and not Oile upon the flames of his Anger that you may quench that fire and not more enflame it by adding another fire your own anger to it 't was once a blessed Expedient in a godly Couple though both Cholerick to live lovingly together for forty years without ever any fallings out betwixt them by yeilding evermore to each others passions and never being angry both together 13. The ninth Direction is to both the Sun and the Moon the Husband and the Wife jointly that you live together as heirs of the grace of life that your Prayers be not hindred 1 Pet. 3. 7. Alas you are Men and Women Subject to many passions and infirmities Act. 14. 15. Jam. 5. 17. and not Angels freed from all frailties of the Flesh and therefore you have need to be enriched with all grace whereby you may perform the duties enjoy the comforts undergo the cares and resist the Temptations that do attend your persons and conditions as becommeth the Gospel you profess Phil. 1. 27. and your praying much with and for each other without hindrance 1 Pet. 3. 7. will with Gods blessing wonderfully encrease and Spiritualize your mutual affections one to another either jarring will make you leave praying or praying will make you leave jarring Isaac and Rebeccah were the most loving Couple we Read of Gen. 24. 67. For they were a praying Couple Gen. 25. 21 22. he prayed for his Wife constantly as the Hebrew signifies and she prayed down her passions prudently he got the mercy desired and she the Oracle Abraham obeys God in things grievous to him Gen. 21. 11 22. 2 3. and Sarah hindered him not by saying why do you so for she was a straight Rib and Satan cannot use it to break the head As the Husband must be a Son of Abraham so the Wife must be a Daughter of Sarah 1 Pet. 3. 6. O happy house with such Couples and where there is but one will the Wives swallowed up in the Husbands and the Husband in the Lords will 14. The tenth Direction to both is neglect not to let up the Worship of God in your Family this is not only to entertain the Ark of God but even God himself the Ark was the sign of Gods presence no sooner is David settled on his Throne but he will settle Religion and therefore sends for the Ark 2 Sam. 6. 1 2 3. 'T is come to Obed edoms Ver. 10. And brought a blessing with it thither V. 11. David then crys O when wilt thou come unto me Psal 101. 2. he would have the blessing Ark come to his house as well as to Obed-edoms and not only the Ark of God but also God himself Arise thou and the Ark of thy strength Psal 132. 8.