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spirit_n	apostle_n	holy_a	prophet_n	5,466	5	6.3917	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51047	Christian advice both to old and young, rich and poor which may serve as a directory at hand, ready to direct all persons almost in every state and condition. Under XXVII general useful heads.	Mocket, Thomas, 1602-1670?; Cross, Thomas, fl. 1632-1682, engraver.	1671 (1671)	Wing M2303A; ESTC R217853	68,834	211

and condition to be always good and useful as David who served his generation Act. 13 36. and so fulfilled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all the wills of God ver 22. 20. Vse Recreations when nature requires in conventent places fit company and at convenient times and seasons not in times of mourning fasting or publike calamity never on the Lords day which is to be imployed in holy exercises Read and consider Isa 22.12 13. Exod. 20.8 and use them lawfully as recreations not as a trade or calling to refresh and make you more fit for the duties of your calling civil and religious not like him that is all day or a great part of it whetting his sythe but cuts down nothing or little But always let your recreations be only such as are lawful honest harmless of good report and sutable to the end you use them gravely and soberly as Christians Dicing carding mixt-dancing scurrilous sports and stage-plays are unbecoming the piety and gravity Christians should exercise in all their act on s if not simply unlawful for Christ ans 21. Think often of and prepare daily for suffering and death For our Saviour commands all that will be his Disciples to deny themselves and take up his cross and so follow him Luke 9.23 in respect of preparation and expectation for as Solomon tells us We know not what a day may bring forth Prov. 27.1 And the Apostle James also Chap. 4. ver 14. Therefore labour to get and clear up to your selves that you have true saving faith truly repented of your sins and have all other renewing and sanctifying Graces that you have an interest in Jesus Christ that your sins are pardoned the sting of death pulled out and all sufferings shall work together for your spiritual and eternal good See before in Adversity And then for death Know and consider that when where or howsoever it cometh it is to a true believer to a godly man only a means to put off the body of sin and to free the Soul from all sin both actual and original from Satans temptations from all worldly cares sufferings and sorrows from all toil and labour from all diseases distempers weaknesses and imperfections both of body and Soul a passage from natural life to eternal life from earth to Heaven from the company of evil and ungodly men and enemies for so many are in this world to have immediate and full communion with God the Father Jesus Christ the Holy Spirit and all the holy Angels Patriarks Prophets Apostles Martyrs and all other Saints departed in the faith And though you must part with many things desirable in this world and lovely as friends relations and some with riches honour and greatness in the world yet remember it is but for a time and to enjoy a far better estate incomparably better far better friends the most blessed and glorious Lord God the Heavenly Father Jesus Christ your husband Head Redeemer Justifier elder Brother the blessed Spirit your sanctifier and comforter godly relations and all the spirits of just men made perfect in Heaven and free from all the infirmities and corruptions they had while on earth which sometimes made the meetings of beloved and desired friends uncomfortable yea bitter as that of Paul and Barnabas two most godly persons and dear friends and companions Act. 15 37 38 39. And though the body shall go to the grave and see corruption yet it is but for a time God will destroy death it self and the grave raise up the body and glorifie it with the Soul to live for ever in Heaven in glory and happiness Hos 13.14 Phil. 3.21 1 Thes 4 15 16 17. Who after wearisome labour all day is unwilling to go to bed and rest Isa 57.1 2. why should any be unwilling to part with the worse for a state and condition that is every way incomparably better and everlasting wherefore comfort your selves and one another with these things and in an holy humble manner triumph over death and all worldly evils as the Apostle did 1 Corinth 15.54 c. 22. Married persons husbands and wives you know you are one flesh Gen. 2.24 And therefore your duty in common is 1. To dwell together that you may be mutual helpers one to another and to live chastly keeping each to other only keeping your bodies undefiled Adultery is a great sin to be punished with death Levit. 20.10 16. Whoremongers and adulterers God will judge Heb. 13.4 Consider Prov. 5.15 16 17 18 20 21. Drink waters out of thine own cistern c. 2. In a special manner to love one another above all other persons in the world and delight one in another above all others in respect of Gods command and because of their near union In this respect Solomon and God by him counselleth Prov. 5.18 Rejoyce with the wife of thy youth let her be as the loving Hand and pleasant Roe let her brest satisfie thee at all times This is the wives duty as well as the Husbands Love is the ground of all other duties and good carriages the bond of perfection it bindeth together all those duties that do or ought to pass between man and wife neighbour and neighbour Love provoketh constraineth to all duties where this is wanting all other duties will be wanting and often altogether neglected or slightly performed and where true love is there all other duties will be readily performed 3. To bear one with another and bear one anothers infirmities Gal. 6.2 Bear ye one anothers burden and so fulfil the Royal Law Jam. 2.8 4. To defend protect and preserve one anothers person good name credit and chastity 5. To nourish and cherish one another Eph. 5.29 No man hateth his own flesh but nourisheth cherisheth it Now husband and wife are one flesh and thus doing they do in effect preserve their own persons lives chastity credit comfort and nourish their own bodies This duty lieth on them at all times and in all estates and conditions in sickness and weakness in health in poverty lameness c. as well as in time of health strength beauty prosperity yea though the other party be not able or wilfully wanting to do his or her duty because of Gods command their near conjunction and solemn Matrimonial covenant to take one another for better for worse for richer for poorer c. 6. To be diligent provident careful to increase preserve that estate which God hath or shall give you the command of God reason and your own common interest mutually bind both to be as careful of the goods of the family as if they were their particular own goods and therein also to be helpful one to another 7. To govern the children servants and whole family wisely and discreetly for the good of the whole family and therein also to be helpful one to another 8. Especially to be the helpers one to another for the good of your Souls using all loving means to win and draw

that may tend to the glory of God and their Masters good for soul body or outward being in the world not in things sinful for we may not think that God would have any servant to obey his earthly Master contrary to his own will and rule who is the Supreme and absolute Lord over men and Creatures And when I say and use the word Masters I understand as the Apostle doth both Sexes the Mistress and Dame also as well as the man And great is the benefit servants procure to themselves by faithful obedience to their Masters Now for the manner of your obedience I must put you in mind of what the Spirit of God hath set down for your direction and practice 1. With fear and trembling Eph. 6.5 that is with an awful fear of offending or displeasing them in doing what is required for matter or manner for a slavish fear or dread is not here meant or allowed especially in Christian servants who are spiritually free but a careful reverential fear a fear of punishment or just displeasure as aforesaid is to be used Rom. 13.3 4. 2. In singleness of heart Ephes 6.5 Col. 3.22 that is truly sincerely from the heart not hypocritically or in dissimulation but heartily as in the sight of God who seeth and knoweth your hearts 3. Not with eye-service as men pleasers Ephes 6.6 that is not with a meer outward service only to satisfie the eye of man and to please man which is hypocritical or to be diligent nimble and careful while the Masters eye is upon them and when his back is turned and he gone to be idle lazie careless doing nothing at all or little or to halves which is Pharisaical a defrauding deceiving of the Master both which are hateful to God and displeasing to man A servant ought to do his Masters will and command heartily as to the Lord with care diligence and faithfulness when he is absent and far off as well as when he is present and looketh on because God requires it and seeth and will call him to account 4. With good will doing service as to the Lord and not to men Ephes 6.7 that is not only in singleness but also readily cheerfully and desiring that it may be for the Masters profit and benefit which argues a good will to their Masters 5. Not answering again Titus 2.9 that is not gainsaying reasoning and arguing cavilling against it yet may a servant and ought in some cases humbly to shew his reason against the doing of this or that or after this or that manner when he verily beleeves it to be sinful and unlawful or tending to his Masters prejudice and disadvantage as Naamans servants did 2 Kin. 5.3 13. 2. Be careful to serve your Masters with all faithfulness Tit. 2.10 1 Cor. 4.2 as it is said of Moses Heb. 3.5 Moses was faithful as a servant that is with faithfulness diligence and care to manage your Masters business as may be most for his benefit as Joseph did This faithfulness must appear in dealing truly with him in all things endeavoring carefully to keep preserve and manage your Masters goods to his advantage look to his cattle children person credit keep his secrets and do all things faithfully that you are intrusted to do not purloining imbezeling wasting or unnecessarily spending your Masters goods for that is dishonesty next door to robbery not suffering through your carelessness or negligence any hurt or damage to come to your Master or to any person or thing he hath for that is unfaithfulness and as you deal with others others no doubt will hereafter deal with you 3. Be careful to give all due reverence and respects hear what the Apostle saith 1 Tim. 6.1 2. Let as many servants as be under the yoke count their own Masters worthy of all honour Observe and understand that many of those Masters the Apostle then spake of were Infidels Heathens Idolaters and otherwise laid on heavy yokes which he expresses by the word yoke and their slavery by being under the yoke and though their servitude was an heavy burden a yoke to serve them which were Idolaters and enemies to the true God and Jesus Christ whom the Christian servants beleeved in loved honoured and served in their spirits and perhaps many of them in other respects very unworthy men yet being and while they were their Masters the Christian servants must count them and accordingly carry themselves towards them as worthy of all honor from them as their Masters and next under God over them And observe his reason which is very good That the Name of God and his Doctrine be not blasphemed v. 1. that is evil spoken of by the Heathen Masters for if they should refuse to serve their Masters or to reverence them though Infidels under pretence of their Christian liberty this would occasion their Infidel Masters to reproach the Christian Religion as if it taught them disobedience pride and undutifulness Much more then should Christian servants cheerfully and gladly serve and honour beleeving Christian-Masters especially such as are truly religious godly and conscientious as ver 2. shews And they which have beleeving Masters c. And this reverence must be inward in the heart otherwise it is hypocritical and must be expressed outwardly in their speech and words to them and of them behind their backs it must be also sparing humble mild the truth and at a fit season by forbearing to speak when the Master seems to be unwilling they should speak any more at that time Also in their behaviour and carriage dutiful submissive obeysance or courtefie to them standing modestly decently and humbly before them uncovered and the like usual reverend respectful carriages All which reverence and humble respects is due also from children to their Parents yea and also from wives in some degree to their own husbands who in many things have a joynt authority power with their husbands Eph. 5.33 therefore the rather is due from servants to their own Masters who are in a far inferiour condition th●n wives Wherefore sawciness boldness in speaking without respect as if equals replying again and again stoutness crosness that will not answer when they are spoketo or crosly or flee away in a passion or slap him in the mouth with a lye pride in not giving the title due to the Master because it may be he is poor or mean or not very wise muttering and murmuring are carriages very unworthy to be condemned though from a Christian servant to a Heathen Master much more if to a Christian Master worst of all if to a godly Master 4. Patiently bear reproofs and correction also if you meet with them even when you do well much more if for evil doing it is both a sin and shame to murmur complain or be impatient 1 Pet. 2.18 19. Servants be subject to your masters with all fear not only to the good and gentle but also to the froward for this is