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A85259	Friendly advice in the spirit of love unto believing parents, and their tender off-spring in relation to their Christian education. By J.F. and R.S.	Field, John, 1652-1723.; Scoryer, Richard, 1648?-1715.	1688 (1688)	Wing F864; ESTC R177042	8,569	23

like allurements of Satan they are sometimes drawn away to their own Souls hurt and grief of their tender Parents and Friends And therefore lend not an Ear to him herein for Satans design is only to draw thee into and continue thee in Sin that thou might be hardened against God the reproof of his Spirit in thy heart and the reproos and Counsel of thy Friends and tender Parents and you may read the fearful portion of such Prov. 29. 1. But if thou stand in awe of God and abides in his fear thou wilt be preserved out of these and all evil things and will be taught to deny them and wilt receive Wisdom from God who is the fountain of it to order thy Affairs with discretion and will learn by it to honour thy Father and thy Mother according to Gods Command to be subject to your Tutors respectful to your Elders loving to your Friends and Companions and this will close that evil Eye Which Satan is ready to open in you to look at this thing in one and that in another and to make an ill use thereof And therefore live in Gods fear that preserves you out of these things and you will have Gods blessing obtain his Favour feel his Presence be servants in his House yea heirs of his Kingdom and inheritors among the Saints in Light and receivers of a weighty Crown of Glory as ye live and dye in Gods fear And therefore this is the summ and conclusion of the whole matter as Solomon said fear God and keep his Commandments for this is the whole Duty of Man. So in that true love and tenderness in which I began I shall conclude with hearty desires that you all may love and imbrace that good Spirit of God in your own hearts that inclines to love Vertue Temperance Meekness Gentleness Humility and the fear of God and will if you 'l love and obey it bring forth in you the fruits of his Spirit which is in all goodness and then you 'l not reject this Counsel and Advice of him who is your real and allured Friend John Field POSTSCRIPT ANd to shew that it hath been the care of reputed Heathens as well as Christians that their Children might be well Educated and gave their Advice accordingly Take these following Instances Plutarch a Heathen School-Master to the Emperiour of Trajan in his Book concerning the Education of Children before he proceeds to many good precepts for the vertuous Education of Youth more grown up Advises that even Nurses retrain from telling Children Fables And Phocylides also instanced by him saies that one ought to teach one even when a Child things that are good History Walden Book 1. of their Doctrine c. 3. p. 22. We must serve our Fathers and Mothers with all out Power never debatinging or question with them with hard and bitter Speeches but we must answer them humbly and hearken lovingly to their Reprehensions we must likewise honour them by Administring unto them things necessary for this Life For Fathers and Mothers have nourished their Children with their own Flesh their proper substance and Children nourish their Parents with that which is without their flesh being impossible they should restore to them those benifits they have received of them And touching the Instruction we have received of our Parents we must obey them in whatsoever shall tend to our Salvation and to a good end And p. 38. of the same Book a certain learned Father saith that costly Apparel Superfluity in Diet Flay Idleness and Sleep fatten the Body nourish Luxury weaken the Spirit and lead the Soul into death And therefore they commend a spare Diet Labour short Sleep and poor Garments Oh! that all People and Children and especially those that profess the Holy Truth would follow the good Counsel and take the wholsesome advice of these People who were under such a Godly care for their tender Offering Surely I may say of them they would not adorn their Daughters with Gold or put them on Gold Chains nor their Sons into slanting curled Periwiggs who gave this Christian Advise which indeed that Truth which Almighty God hath blessed a Remnant with the knowledg of answers unto and will no doubt lead all them that heartily love and saithfully follow it into that Plainness which becomes them that are of Jacobs the Plain Mans seed and preserve every such one from going into or practising those things that the unchangeable Spirit of God in and through the Apostle of Christ advised unto as in 1 Pet. 3. 3 4. Dear Friends MY sincere desire and earnest breathing unto God hath been is and I hope ever shall be that we may every one both Male and Female of all degrees who have received the Truth in the love of it encrease in faithful obedience unto the same so shall our strength in the in ward man be renewed and our understanding more and more divinely opened and kept open by which we shall be in a fit Capacity to see and discern the deep workings of the Mistery of Iniquity at all times who is not wanting now in a season of outward Liberty to use his endeavours to draw forth the mind from its inward retirements and constant watchings in the Spirit Light and Life which we have in Measure received from the Father of Lights into a careless easeful state to whom the wo is and a standing idle in this day to lose our reward Now this I can truly say that the Lords Arm of Power is not shortned that it cannot save but as we have known it revealed for our deliverance and have in Measure witnessed Salvation by it so it is the same now as ever it was ready and able to preserve the mind and keep it out of the snares which the Enemy lieth to catch us in But this Principally I have to signifie that the Enemy is not contented to seek our hurt alone but also he hath a deep design upon our tender Children the Off-spring of our Bodies endeavouring to corrupt them by drawing forth their Minds after the Vanity and Folly Customs and Fashions that is found without in the World that lieth in Wickedness that so he may thereby harden their hearts and turn them against the appearance of Truth within themselves that so the holy seed which God hath sown may not spring up in them to prepare them in their tender years as Vessels for the Lords own use nor to know and remember the God of their Fathers and that they may not succeed them as true Heirs of the blessings of the most High nor be faithfull witnesses in their Generation in a Holy Life and Conversation Of this I am deeply sensible and have more then an Ordinary exercise for the youth of our time because of which I am drawn forth in Bowels of tender love earnestly to intreat and beseech all believing Parents to put too their help as the Lord shall enable who is ready and willing as we breath to him with might and power to work against this Enemy and endeavour to undermine his wicked designs First in being good Examples of Vertue and Piety to our tender Children and shuning every appearance that tends to the contrary And secondly not to be overcome with an extream of love or fondness because thereby many times and too often such things are overlookt and past by which in the very bud ought rather to be discountenanced with reproof or correction as tending to the strengthening of the Enemy in his wicked designs as above mentioned Oh that there were not cause for me to break forth into a Lamentation for the sake of many poor Children who are hurt through their Parents extream love or foolish fondness over them but Oh! my Soul hath and doth lament over them Saying if there be any Truth in this Proveth that it is possible to kill with kindness I am sure with grief do I mention it that many tender Children are like to be distroyed by this extream Fondness from their fond Parents except it be prevented by a timely Moderation And sure I am the Lord is displeased with such Parents whoever they are whether Rich or Poor for he is no respecter of Persons for tho this Proverb shall be no more used Jer. 31. v 29 30. In those days they shall say no more the Fathers have eaten sower Grapes and the Childrens Teeth are set on Edg But every one shall dye for his own iniquity every man that eateth the sower Grapes his Teeth shall be set on Edg. Yet where Parents through neglect of their duty of being good Examples to their Children in a holy life and Conversation in the fear of God to give good Counsel and instruct their Children in that which is good and encouraging them therein warning them of evil reproving them and correcting for the same I say where Parents are thus negligent of their Duty to their tender Children the Enemy doth prevail and bring to pass his designs leads them down to the Chambers of Death and Darkness where the Wo and Misery is the blood of such Children will be required at their hands Eze. 3.18 When I say unto the Wicked thou shalt surely die and thou givest him not warning nor speakest to warn the Wicked from his wicked way to save his life the same Wicked Man shall dye in his Iniquity but his blood will I require at thine hand But when Parents performs their Duty towards their Children by letting their Light shine forth before them in a Holy Life and Conversation not sparing good Counsel and Instruction in that which is good warning and correcting them for Evil yet notwithstanding their Children turns their back on the good Counsel and persist in their Iniquity and turns not from it they shall dy therein and their blood shall lie at their own Doors and their Parents shall be clear Eze. 3.19 Yet if thou warn the Wicked and he turn not from his Wickedness not from his Wicked way he shall dye in hit Iniquity but thou hast delivered thy So●● From one that hath an exercise in body and spirit for the sake of such Parents and Children as cause the Truth to suffer in themselves and others because of their undutifulness to God and each other Richard Scoryer Wansworth the 15th 7th Month 88. 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