THE PARENTS PRIMER AND THE MOTHERS LOOKINGGLASSE OR Counsel for Parents in the Education of CHILDREN for their Temporal Spiritual and Eternal HAPPINESSE In a DIALOGUE between A MINISTER and a FATHER To which is added A Second Dialogue of the DECALOGUE And to that A Third DIALOGUE concerning The SABBATH-DAY By J WAITE Minister of Gods Word LONDON Train up a Child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it Prov. 22.6 The Father to the Children SHALL Make known thy Truth Isa 38.19 Bring them up in the Nurture and Admonition of the LORD Eph. 6.4 London Printed by J. A. for the Author and are to be sold by N. Ponder at the Peacock in the Poultrey and R. Janeway in Queens-head-Alley in Pater-noster-row 1681. To the Unskilfull Reader WHether I speak with Tongue or Pen I respect Them most who want my Help If you do so and can own Unskilfull for a Fit Title they say I am the Person for whose sake this Epistle is written And for your sake Let us desire the Expert Reader to dispense with your Passage through this Porch In which I desire You will remain my Scholar one hour and learn these Three Lessons First To know the Points used in Print 1 Lesson which are these Seven 1 A Comma It 's a Point at end of a Short Part of a Sentence without Perfect Sense And it 's a note of some little Pause Stop or Breathing in Reading It 's marked Thus 2 A Semicolon It 's a Pause a little longer than a Comma It 's marked Thus 3 A Colon. It 's a longer Pause than the former and it s a part of a Sentence that makes Sense without the Full Sentence yet so as the rest is expected to compleat it It 's marked Thus 4 A Period It 's a full perfect Point put at end of a compleat Sentence It 's marked Thus. Observe the Sense contained in a Sentence or you Read Confusion 5 A note of Exclamation or Admiration It 's put at end of an Expression uttered by way of Out-cry or Wonder It 's marked Thus As O how lofty are their eyes Pro. 30.13 6 A note of Interrogation It 's put at end of a Question It 's marked Thus As Why should we die in thy presence Gen. 47.15 7 Parenthesis It 's a Clause included or shut in with two Semicircles or half Moons though it give some Strength to a Sentence yet if left out the Sense remains Sound It 's marked Thus As Let me I pray thee drink a little water of thy pitcher Gen. 24.17 Second To know where the Emphasis layeth in a Sentence Emphasis is an Expression of the Mind by a Word expressed with some Earnestness or Force This Word I begin with a Capital or Great Letter Here note words which must alway begin with Capitals 1 The first Word of every Sentence Pro. 9.10 As The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom So if the Sentence begin with a Single Letter Pro. 1.5 Joh. 10.11 As A wise man will hear I am the good Shepherd O that they were wise Deu. 32.29 c. 2 The first Word of the Saying of an Other Related though it do not begin a Sentence As Joh. 7.46 The officers answered Never man spake like this man And many of them said He hath a Devil Chap. 10.20 21. and is mad Others said These are not the words of him that hath a Devil 3 The first Word or Letter of every Verse or Line in Poety As A man without learning Cato doth say May be compared to an Image of Clay 4 Proper Names 1 Of God as Jehovah Of Christ as Jesus Of an Angel as Gabriel Of Men and Women as Adam Abel Daniel Dorcas Of Countries as Asia England Spain Of Cities as London Jerusalem Of Towns as Barnet Bethany Of Places or Hills as Eden Sinai Of Rivers as Thames Jordan Cedron Of Months as Jan Feb Abib Of the four Winds as East W N S. Proper Names I put in Italian Different Letters and so to put other Names is Improper 5 Appellatives or Common Names which are common to all of that Kind 1 Of People as Jew Hebrew Gentile Heathen Christian Protestant Papist Pagan Indian Names of Arts as Printer Painter Mercer Grocer Of Dignity as Emperour King Q Prince Pope Duke Of Offices as Ambassador Priest Prophet Pastour Apostle Elder Deacon Judge General Captain Of Dayes as Sabbath Of Spirits as Angel Cherub Seraphim Devil Satan Note god if a false god must begin with a small letter But the true God with a Capital And Father Son Spirit Lord Christ Ghost when they Signifie the True God or the Persons in the Holy Trinity To which I adde Names of Books so many as are not Proper Names of Men and Women as Gen Exod And of Tongues as Hebrew Greek Latine English Most of these Names Proper and Appellative stand Thin in this Book In all these Words which always begin with Capitals the Emphasis seldom layeth when it doth I put that Word all in Capitals that you know it at ease When an other Word is all in Capitals it signifies the Greater Emphasis Now for Emphatical Words The Emphasis is tied to no Word whatever It is sometime in a Substantial Word Sometime in two or three such words together Sometime in a small Word as be do so no to at of off on in out as I will No more have mercy on the house of Israel In other place no hath no Emphasis as Pro. 3.30 Strive not with a man if he have done thee no harm In other place it 's in the Substantial word Mercy Mat. 15 22 as Have Mercy on me O Lord As when Sea-men are Sinking with this cry Mercy Mercy There is the Emphasis In other place by reason of the Excellent Emphaticalness of the Expression you may put it in This or That Word as you Will as I Will surely have mercy I will Surely have mercy I will surely have Mercy upon him saith the Lord Sometime the Emphasis Jer. 31.20 Is and is Not in the Same Word Pro. 31.2 in the Same Sentence as What my Son and what the son of my Womb To misplace it makes it give an unpleasant senseless sound as what the Son of my womb It 's in Vain to put Force upon a Wrong Word it 's like a Stroke at a Wooden Bell. These Emphatical Words observed will help you to understand the Sense And if besides the Words which constantly begin with Capitals there Be ever a Capital that is not Emphatical yet it 's Substantial and serves to shew the Sense as all Emphatical Words do Emphatical Words begun with Capitals avoids that Hodge Podge they make who put Half their Words in Different Letters Third To understand Abbreviation 3 Lesson or Shortning of Words which for Brevity Sake is used in Books Some of them are the First Letters of Latine Words which many Authors use but Explain not for their
all the Ten to signifie that Faith and a New Heart are necessary Antedecents for both Negative and Positive obedience to follow for a man must Be good before he can Do good Eight Note 8. Negatives include Positives Every Negative command includes a Positive command i e when God forbiddeth evil Expressely he biddeth good Implicitly e g Thou shalt have no other gods before me †Exo. 20.3 there is the evil of idolatry forbid Expressely thou shalt have Me for thy God there is the good of choosing God commanded Implicitly Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain * Ver. 7. this is the evil forbid thou shalt talk Vertuously and Graciously of thy God this is the good commanded Thou shalt not Kill commit Adultery Steal c †Ver. 13 14 15. these are evils expressely Forbid thou shalt Prevent murder adultery theft in Others by good counsel if thou canst this is good implicitly Commanded Positives include Negatives And Positive commands include Negative commands e g Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy * Ver. 8. there is good expressely Commanded remember it not to Prophane it with thy Own works words thoughts there is evil implicitly Forbid Honour thy father and thy mother †Ver. 12. is good Commanded dishonour them not is the evil Forbid Ninth Note 9. A negative includes negatives A Negative command includes Many negative commands The sin forbid is forbid in Act Word and Thought and the Occasion of it and whatsoever hath a Tendency to it And these Inclusive commands are Expressed as they are Branched out in the Bible e g Thou shalt have no other gods before me q d No National god imaginable no Personal or private god of wood to worship in thy House no god of Gold in thy Heart thy Self Wife Child House Land Friend Goods Gold shall not be thy gods as they will Be if loved more than Me. And see with what Caution the Occasion of idolatry is forbid in these Texts * Deu. 12.30 Thou shalt not Kill not with Hand Ch. 13.1 3. Mouth murder nor with Tongue to be a Mouth-murderer as some call a Slanderer and so we may call an evil Counceller Not with Heart to be a Heart-murderer he that hates his brother is a murderer †1 Joh. 3.15 Kill not by evil Counsel or bad Example neither Do nor Say any thing that may Tend to or Occasion thy neighbours death in Body or Soul Thou shalt not kill thy Self Not with violent Hands nor with Words spoken against thy own life nor by Carelesnesse of deaths and dangers nor by ill Diet not by Drunkennesse nor by Gluttony Plures periere Gula quam Gladio more die by the Board than by the Sword Thou shalt not commit adultery Not in Act nor in Heart whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his Heart * Mat. 5.28 Christ calleth a Thought an Act to signifie that Smal sin in Mans sight is Great sin in GOD's sight Thou shalt not occasion it by unclean Cogitations and Contemplations nor by adulterous Discourses with Delilahs Remove thy way F AR from her and come not nigh the door of her house †Pro. 5.8 Simile As he that carrieth Gun powder about him had need keep far from Fire so he that carrieth Corruption had need keep far from Temptation As when children meet a Horse Simile Cart or Cow they will if timerous run Ten times farther out of the way than need so let men learn to flee from Sin Keep thee Far from a false matter * Exo. 23.7 Avoid it passe not by it turn from it and passe away †Pro. 4.15 The law is Spiritual * Ro. 7.14 it forbids the Least evil motion and First carnal conception it commands our Spirits and Hearts to be holy it condemneth for the most Secret sin in the Soul It is called the Royal law 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Kingly law †Jam. 2.8 it is the law of the King of Kings No earthly Kings law can condemn a man for a secret thought against the King Dissimile but this Divine Law of the King of Heaven can and doth it condemneth a man for the most Secret thought against the Law-giver Tenth Note 10. A positive includes positives A Positive command includes Many positive commands e g Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy q d Remember it to Prepare for it to begin it Early to spend it in holy duties in holy discourses in holy meditations to be in the Spirit to cause all under you to keep it holy Honour thy Father and thy Mother Honour them in Deed in Word in Thought in their Presence in their Absence in their Old Age when tempted by the Devil and by the disobedient to dishonour them when they Please thee when they Displease thee Rebuke and Correct thee N B A Negative command inclusively commands All lawfull means to avoid the evil forbid and a Positive command inclusively commands All lawfull means to perform the good commanded On these things I have but Harped and Touched for One of these Ten Words is a great Text and to shew what is contained in a Commandment would make a long Sermon for thy commandment is Exceeding Broad †Psal 119.96 ¶ This tenth Note having some respect to the Sabbath A lesson for the Lords day leads me to leave this Lesson with you viz Fail not to learn your children to Reverence the Sabbath day FAR be it from you to follow our English Heathens Hatefull Heathens who let their children Loose to serve Satan on the Sabbath day Tell them of the Sore judgments God hath sent upon Sabbath-breakers for which Search the Scriptures and See the Practice of Piety Practice of Piety preferred one of the Best Books but one that ever was written and is like to rise up in judgment against many N B God delivered no other commandment as he delivered this for the Sabbath e g. 1 It hath a Memento presixt viz Remember 2 It is amplified with Arguments more than all the rest except the Second 3 It is delivered Positively keep it holy and Negatively thou shalt not do any work and so is no other commandment delivered FAIL not in this for the Fear of God this Glorious and Fearfull name THE LORD THY GOD * Deu. 28.58 Eleventh Note 11. Heaven and Earth made in Six dayes The GREAT GOD that was but Six dayes in making Heaven and Earth was twice Forty dayes and Forty nights in writing and delivering these Ten Words †Ex. 24.18 to remain a Law and Rule for mans life And Moses was as long waiting Ch. 34.28 prostrate on his Face fasting to receive them * Deu. 9.9 10 11 18. he did neither eat bread nor drink water but did uncessantly attend this Heavenly
to fall into the belly of Hell ¶ 2) Mr L consuted Mr L who keeps Never a day Sabbath but slights the Sabbath as Ceremonial is to consider 1 The Sabbath was not given first to the Jews or seed of Abram as Ceremonies were Sabbath was made for Man but it was given to Adam as a Publick person for him and his posterity to be obeyed whether man stood or fell and this in Innocency before Ceremonies were in use And though Adam was not subject to wearinesse before sin yet a Sabbath was suitable for him as a Sacred cessation from his calling So God gave Adam a Sabbath and Blessed it i e to make it a blessing to him that kept it and Sanctified it †Gen. 2.3 i e he set it apart for holy use 2 The Sabbath was Certainly observed from Adam to the Law on Sinai though not much expressed in Genesis which is but a very short Epitomy of 2000 years Acts in which time many excellent acts were done which are omitted and not recorded Abrahams observation of the Sabbath day is without dispute because he is so commended for keeping Gods commandments * Ch. 26.5 And that the Sabbath was known to Israel before Sinai you may See †Exo. 16.23 the breach of which command is counted as the breach of all * Ver. 28. 3 This command for a Sabbath is one of the Ten delivered on Sinai before Ceremonies Josephus's Sabbatical river that runs six dayes and rests one will rise up in judgement with Mr L and Mr A. and wrote on two tables of Stone and put into the Ark as no Ceremony ever was Mr L playes the Papist who takes away one and leaves but nine 4 Christs precept for Prayer to prevent flight on the Sabbath which flight was to be 40 years after Ceremonies ceased proves the Sabbath no Ceremony Pray that your flight be not in the Winter q d that will wrong your Bodies neither on the Sabbath †Mat. 24.20 q d that will wrong your Souls Mr A and Mr L are brethren both under a 7-fold deceit to undeceive them let us put them together again to consider viz God in wisdom did so order the change of the Day that though it occasioned two Sabbaths to come together yet there was not Two in a week nor a week without One to signifie there must be nor more nor lesse than One Sabbath in One Week Fath. What say you of Mr S and of the change of the Sabbath Day Min. As for Mr S who denies the change of the Day The chang of the Sabbath I say Though the Change of the Sabbath be not founded out with a Trumpet on Sinai as the Command of the Sabbath was yet have we so much in Scripture as may Satisfie concerning it They that say Give me a plain precept for a practice or I will not regard it may mean Honestly but they speak Ignorantly For if from a Text we can draw a direct sound Inference to prove a practice that being the Sense of Scripture is to be regarded as Scripture it self The sense of Scripture we are to seek as Silver and if this be not to be regarded its vain to use any Scriptural Reason or Argument in discourse as Paul used to do * Act. 17.2 Ch. 18.4 19. Ch. 24.25 or to Study and expound the Scripture by preaching Then put a Boy into a pulpit to read a Chapter for what other Sermon can an able Minister make if nothing but the very words of Scripture must be delivered But let us see some Scriptural proof for this practice ¶ 1 The stone the builders refused O T proof i e for a foundation for Faith and Practice is become the head †Ps 118.22 of the work of Redemption he hath laid the foundation and finished it by his Resurrection This is the day the Lord hath made i e the day of the week on which Jesus rose we will rejoyce and be glad in it * Ver. 24. i e to foresee it by Faith if we live not to see it by Sight Yet prayes pathetically and speedily for it Save now I beseech the O Lord †Ver. 25. God is the Lord which hath shewed us light * Ver. 27. i e to foresse this Day ¶ 2 Thus saith the Lord my salvation is near to come †Isa 56.1 i e Actually it was come before Virtually Blessed is the man that doth This and the son of man that layeth Hold on it that keepth the Sabbath * Ver. 2. i e a Sabbath in remembrance of Christ's Actual redemption ¶ 3 When these 7 dayes are expired i e Eight is a Sabbatical and Vital Number by the death and Resurrectiof Jesus it i e the Sabbath shall be upon the Eight day and so forward the first day added to seven is the eight day and I will accept you saith the Lord God †Ezek. 43.27 ¶ 1 After Jesus's resurrection he said to his Disciples All power is given to me in Heaven and in Earth * Mat. 28.18 which implies power to change the Sabbath And Christ gave them Commission to teach the Nations to observe all things whatsoever he had commanded them †Ver. 19 20. i e nor more nor lesse N B If Jesus did not ordain the first day Sabbath the Disciples by their practice have taught England and other Nations to observe a New Sabbath of their Own invention ¶ 2 The Disciples assembled on the first day and shut the doors for fear of the Jews i e because it was in opposition to their seventh day Sabbath and Christ came and Sealed their New Sabbath with his sweet presence * Joh. 20.19 20. ¶ 2 Jesus was seen of the Apostles 40 dayes speaking of the things pertaining to the Kingdom of God †Act. 1.3 of which the Sabbath is One and none of the least ¶ 4 The Disciples came together to break bread upon the first day of the week * Chap. 20.7 in remembrance of Jesus for whose sake they observed that day ¶ 5 The congregation and Collection of the Churches of Galatia and Corinth upon the first day of the week was by the Apostles order †1 Cor. 16.1 2. to these at Corinth by writing and saith he the things which I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord * Ch. 14.37 ¶ 6 John being in Patmos said I was in the spirit on the Lords day †Rev. 1.10 A desert Island in the Aegean Sea He does not give the day this name but the day on which he was in the spirit he Signifies by its name so well know to the Churches to whom he wrote i e the Lords day so called upon the same account as the Supper is called the Lords Supper viz because Jesus who is Lord of all did institute both to be kept in remembrance of him ¶ 7. The first day is