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A49812	A serious remembrancer to live well written primarily to children and young people, secondarily to parents, useful (I hope) for all : lastly, compendious remarks of the death of Jonah Lawson who finished his course upon earth the 23d day of the month called February, 1683, in the 14th year of his age / [by] Tho. Lawson.	Lawson, Thomas, 1630-1691.	1684 (1684)	Wing L727; ESTC R34960	10,152	32

tho' little yet becomes a Tree in the strange pregnancy of the Hebrew Earth Matth 13. Such is its quality as to quicken the Appetire warm the Stomach purge the Head causes Sneezing cures the Lethargy a drowsie forgetful Distemper c. So the Kingdom of God within you the Light of Life the Eye of the inward Man the Talent committed for improvement tho little yet in the improvement becomes great the Tree of Life is brought forth the Healer of Nations its Vertue Quality Influence and Operation is precious it begets a hunger and pure desire after heavenly Food it kindles a Spiritual warmness and fervency purges out Corruption the filth of Sin causes a spiritual struggling against what is Hurtful and Offensive and cures Man of his spiritual Lethargy his drowsie forgetful State wherein he forgets the Lord even to have the Lord always in his thoughts Leaven was in the three Measures of Meal before they were leavened yet though little it gradually diffuses its quality spreads it self thorough the same and makes them of its own Nature so Light shines in Darkness the The Kingdom of God is in Men though Pharisaical Unregenerate yet you that receive it comply with its heavenly Motions and quench them not cooperate with its Inspiration tho' little as I may say Yet the three Measures come to be leavened Body Soul and Spirit comes to be sanctified and preserved blameless 1 Thes 5.23 thus Compliers with divine Operations become Bearers of the Image of the Heavenly renewed transformed changed from Glory to Glory As he is saith John so are we in this World 1 John 4.17 So you that profess Christ the Pearl of great price be the wise Merchant sell all and buy it give up your Lusts Fleshly Desires Soul-murthering Concupiscence Pomp Vain-glory Ostentation sinful transitory Pleasures to the death of the Cross that you may read this Parable know this Pearl formed in you There is saith Wolfgangus Franzius and other Naturalists a shell-Fish which through Natures instinct desires warmness in the Spring thirsts after the Dew of Heaven opens and receives it Hereof is formed the visible Pearl said to be Alexipharmical effectual against Poyson and the Shell which brings forth this is called The Mother of Pearl Wait in the Light of Life follow Christ in the Regeneration to be the wise Merchant so this you read herein you thirst after spiritual Warmness after the Dew of Divine Grace herein your Hearts open incorruptible dew of Heaven you receive Christ the Pearl is formed in you Gal. 4.9 Here you become the Mother of Pearl Whosoever doth the will of my Father saith Christ the same is my Brother and Sister and Mother Matth 12.50 this purges out the Poyson of Sin Parents you who have known the healing Vertue of the Almighty be vigilant circumspect and tender over your Children by Example and Admonition for their establishment in Grace You that have known the healing vertue of Bethesda in the Mystery by Interpretation the House of God so that of Impotent or Strengthless you are become Strong in the Lord of Blind you are become clear-sighted in the Mysteries of the Kingdom of Halting Lame you are restored to Soundness so that you can run and not be weary in the course of Righteousness of Withered you are become Lively Fresh Tender full of spiritual Moisture Be circumspect and tender over your Children that they may be living Witnesses of the same healing Vertue You that have passed thorough Jordan in the Mystery the River of Judgment by Interpretation thorough Judgments have felt and received the Water of Lise whereby you are baptised into the one Body cleansed from the Leprosie of Sin Iniquity and Transgression are come to the good Land Plenteous in Milk and Hony Food of Heaven necessary to the heavenly Life you that are come to the City of Refuge You that are come to Christ Jesus the Ark of Safety more durable than Gopher-wood know your Rooms your heavenly Places there so that the deluge of Iniquity shall not over whelm you You that are Green Flourishing and Fruitful Branches of the True Vine Christ Jesus You that have known and know Christ knocking at the Door of your Hearts by Favours Mercies Judgments Chastisements Ministers Motions of his good Spirit and entertain him who comes not empty but with plenty of Grace Goodness and heavenly Treasures which he communicates and diffuses for the enriching of his Garden his little Flock You that are come to the Lord's Table and are nourished with his Bread hidden Manna Souls Food O let your Care and Souls desire be that your Children as Olive-Plants may sit at the same Table partake of the same Mercies Blessings Priviledges Favours and Spiritual Advantages with you and be living Witnesses of those precious Experiences which the good hand of God hath made you partakers of Through this gracious frame of Spirit Abraham obtained a good Report Shall I said the Lord hide from Abraham that thing which I do c. For I know that he will command his Children and his House-hold after him and they shall keep the way of the Lord to do Justice and Judgment Gen. 18. Now they that are of that Faith which gives access unto God Victory over the World they are of Abraham walk in his Footsteps and cannot but desire that their Children and all might grow up in Acquaintance with the living God so that every Christian Father being truely so he is in his Family an Overseer 'T was a Noble and Honourable Resolution in Joshua who said I and my Ho●se will serve the Lord Josh 24.15 As if he had said O ye Tribes of Israel if poyson'd with Incredulity and Ingratitude you Judge the living God who hath done Wonders for you hath given you a Land flowing with Milk and Hony Vineyards Olive-yards Springs hath given you Victory over your Enemies unworthy of your Service take your course yet this is my Resolution I and my House will serve the Lord. The Holy Men of God who in their respective Ages and Generations walked with God felt the sweetness of his comfortable Presence not as Neutrals and Temporizers who change their Religion as Times change their living concern was that their Children might walk in the same steps Yea all the Scriptures of Truth afford sufficient Testimonies hereof Train up a Child saith Solomon in the way he should go And when he is Old he will not depart from it Prov. 22.6 In what way should he goe In the narrow way that leads to Life in the way of Holiness in the fear of the Lord bearing the Cross of Christ where the Wisdom from above is received which seasons and sweetens unto God and Establishes in Righteousness and puts off the Deeds of Darkness and honours Man with an Innocent Blameless and Self-denying Conversation Come ye Children saith David hearken unto me I will Teach you the Fear of the Lord Psal 34.11 Who truly learns this Lesson 't will minister

A Serious Remembrancer To Live Well Written Primarily to CHILDREN And Young PEOPLE Secondarily to PARENTS Useful I hope for All. Lastly Compendious Remarks of the Death of Jonah Lawson who finished his Course upon Earth the 23d Day of the Month called February 1683. in the 14th Year of his Age. Non misere quisquam qui bene vixit obit O be wise-hearted knowing that beneath We always sail towards the Port of Death THO. LAWSON London Printed in the Year 1684. A Serious Remembrancer To Live well c. CHildren and Young People promise not to your selves many days you know not how near your Glass is run out when you shall be commended to Earthen Sheets to your long home Let not the Indulgence of Teachers nor the Example of the Multitude sunk in the Mire of Folly Vanity Youthful Lusts Intemperancy Unruliness of Mind Unstayedness Wantonness and of Unsavouriness be prevalent with you or give you encouragement to forget the Lord in your tender Years who made you to bear his Image to submit to his Scepter to live under his Holy and Righteous Government and Regiment in a word to serve him all the days of your appointed time in Newness of Life and not your selves who Crowns his Followers with Endless Peace and Spiritual Consolation and Enriches them with Durable Lasting yea Everlasting Treasures and Substance Superlatively Surmounting all Worldly Tempting Offers of Fading Wealth Pleasures or Honours 'T is a precious thing when Children and Young People like Gideon's Fleece drink up betime the Pearly Dew of Divine Grace and Heavenly Vertue so that their Spiritual Growth in the Faith tends Heaven-wards upright and tall of Stature Fruitful always Green and Flourishing as the Palm-Tree not bowed down with the weight of the Worldly Spirit or Earthly-mindedness Children and Young People promise not to your selves length of Days he that gives Life and Breath can take it when and how he pleases Read your Mortality in the Creation the fair Damask Rose soon withers the fairest Blossom is soon blasted the most fragrant Aromatical Flower quickly fades the Dewy Morning hastes away the Sun the glorious Lamp of the Firmament soon sets the Shadow is gone in a Moment Jonah's Gourd presently withered the Meadows graced with Smaragdine Greenness are quickly naked the melodious Bird now here is presently gone the Pearled Dew of the Spring soon ascends an Hour is but a short time or continuance the bubble of a Brook is soon dispersed the Course of a Shuttle is swift a Writing on the Sand is soon obliterated a Thought soon passeth away a Dream is soon gone the glyding of a Chrystal Stream soon passeth by an Arrow from the Bow of the Mighty is quickly gone the time betwixt Flood and Ebb is as no time the Spiders Web is soon rent Lightning from the Sky is soon vanished a Post is quick in his Course the Snow quickly dissolves whem Summer comes Such is the Life of Man of short continuance here upon Earth soon gone hence and seen no more Our Life saith Petrarch is a Race unto Death What then ought to be the Living Concern of every one Even to mind the One thing necessary To do that which is right in the sight of the Lord to give all diligence to make our Calling and Election sure faithfully to improve God's Gift to walk with him as Enoch did to grow in Acquaintance and in Favour with him to finish the short course of Life in the Holy Faith Reverence and Fear in the end to receive the Reward of the Righteous Everlasting Blessedness in the Fruition of God Children and Young People and whosoever reads this that you may be honoured with the Blessedness and Happy End of the Righteous take Counsel and comply with God's way and means that leads to this Blessedness Consider John's Record of the Eternal Word who said In him was Life and the Life was the Light of Men Mark this His Life is the Light of Men Of what Men Of every Man that comes into the World yea Light which is of the Life shines in Darkness in Hearts darkened by Satan the Captain and Ring-leader of his wretched Captives and Slaves but Darkness Satan's Captives comprehends not the Light nor such as walk in it John 1.4 5 9. This Record of John evidently holds out the Quality of the Light to be of the Life a Pure Divine Heavenly and Essential Principle and the Universality of it in every Man And Paul was sent To turn People from Darkness which comprehends not the Light nor the Leadings and Operations thereof nor the Children of Light to the Light which comprehends Darkness and the Children of Darkness Acts 26.16 17 18. So Children and Young People come out of Darkness out of defiling Self to the pure divine essential Principle in you be ye separate from Darkness to the Light of Life then are you Separatists indeed and shall grow up in the Saving Knowledge of the Lord of the Mysteries of his Kingdom and of the things that concern your Peace and Everlasting Well-being And as you keep to and continue in the pure Principle of God in you it will shew you Sin and Evil every vain Thought Desire Imagination and Unrighteous Inclinations and secretly check and reprove you when you enter into the same for the Reproofs of Instruction are the way of Life it will kindle you into desires after Innocency and beget in you a hunger after Righteousness and you will come to be weaned from the vain Ways Customs Fashions Sports and Pastimes of the World and being established in Grace you come to know what the true Worship is even in Spirit and in Truth that Repentance which is never to be repented of the pure and undefiled Religion which keeps out of the Spots of the World the Fear of the Lord which is the beginning of Wisdom even that Fear which tendeth to Life where strong Confidence is here the Fountain of Life is known here every Evil Way is hated and the Snares of Death are escaped John bare Record that Christ lighteth every Man and Christ informs us who are Lovers thereof and who are not Every one that doth Evil saith he hateth the Light and will not come to it lest his Deeds should be reproved but he that doth Truth cometh to the Light that his Deeds may be made manifest that they are wrought in God John 3.20 21. Evil cannot be wrought in the Light nor Good without it Children and Young People who are inwardly touched to make a Good Confession of the Pure Divine Principle in you not by Verbal Demonstration only but by willing and ready Obedience and Subjection to its Commands in faithful Wrestling against the Evil it manifests whether Thought Word or Deed and pressing after the Good Vertuous and Sober Life it calls for persevere in this Grace so shall you be living Witnesses of precious things yea that ye are God's Workmanship The Shunamite's Child being dead Elisha stretched

Comfort when other Lessons invented by Man will signifie nothing but be a Burthen Ye Fathers c. saith Paul bring up your Children in the Nurture and Admonition of the Lord Ephes 6.4 Such as are careless upon this account 't is an evident token they are not truly season'd unto God for they that are they cannot but desire the Spiritual and Eternal well-being of their Children Now you Parents truly made alive by the Quickening Word who Live Move and have your Being in God be concern'd for your Children that they may witness the same Travel when the Keepers of the House shall tremble and the strong Men shall bow themselves and the Grinders cease because they are few and those that look out of the Windows be darkned in a word when Old Age hath seized on you so as you wait for and expect the Dissolution of your Earthly Tabernacles 't will minister much Comfort and Consolation to you that you feel your Children growing up in Innocency Branches of the true Vine Christ Jesus and in them after your Bodies are commended to Earthen Sheets you as I may say Live Ambrose in his Funeral Oration upon Theodosius a Christian Emperor said Theodosius a great Emperor is gone from us but he is not wholly gone for he hath left us his Children in whom he lives still Or if according to the good Pleasure of the Almighty you Survive your Child or Children 't will be great Comfort and Satisfaction to you that such a Child or Children in that exercise in the least measure feels the sustaining and comforting Presence of the Lord so that you have ground to believe that Child or those Children go hence in the favour of the Lord. This was my Exercise of late I had a Son one only Son whose name was Jonah by Interpretation a Dove who in Nature I believe much answered his Name who tho' Educated in a mixed School where his Progress was above what could reasonably be expected from his Years was so acted and preserved as that in the days of his short Age I never knew him at variance or strife with any or bring any complaint against any Scholar or Servant I kept I never to my knowledge found a Lie in his Mouth or sought to cloke any thing I disliked but would nakedly and simply declare Truth I never heard as much as Mass or Mary proceed out of his Mouth or any Oath too common in many Schools having learned his Yea and Nay in a word as he was comfortable to us in his Life so in his Death also He was wonderfully afflicted with the Small-Pox and when we judged he was past the heighth thereof he came to be sadly troubled with Flegm with a Scowring and great Thirst which in a few days carried him away the nearer he drew to his end the more he called for my company and was not willing to want me The Night before he died I being beside him John the Son of Lancelot Fallowfield came in and said Jonah How dost thou He answered I am well Spiritually but indifferent in Body presently after he said Father talk with me I said to him Jonah What shall we talk on He said I know not Then being afflicted for him and silled with Love to him I said Jonah thou knowest I was never harsh but always tender to thee he said It is so Then I said Jonah we will talk of another Kingdom Our continuance here is very little think of that City whose Builder and Maker is God This World is but at the best a Bitter-Sweet but Heaven is nothing but Joy Have God in thy Thoughts Then he answered Ay Father and I hope I have little to answer for and that I have a good Conscience I have abhorred Lying and Swearing and what I saw to be Evil and I am willing to die if it be his pleasure or to live to praise him His Sister Ruth weeping beside him he said to her Weep not I hope we shall meet in a better place Soon after he uttered these words to the Lord The time thou hast appointed for me on the Earth give me Grace to praise thy Name Presently after as answered from above he said O sweet God A little after I coming to him he said to me Father Pray for me His last words a very little before his departure were to me and to his Sister Ruth So so I am coming I am coming I must yield I must yield Tho' his Affliction was exceeding great yet he never utter'd one word savouring of Impatiency and Vanity but such was his Patience and such things so tenderly and savourily dropped from him as wrought me into that Frame of Spirit as freely though dearer to me than all visible and transitory things to commend him to the Lord touched with much Confidence of his future Happiness And I wish I may never forget his finishing of his Course neither do I remember it but I am bettered by the remembrance thereof I remember what David said to Solomon in order to the Building the Material Temple Vp and be doing and the Lord will be with thee 1 Chron. 22.16 So you that read this Vp arise from Death to Life be doing work in the Life so the Lord will be with you to the Building a Temple without Hands knowing your Bodies the Temple of the Holy Ghost you feeding on Heavenly Food cannot but desire that others may partake with you Abraham's Sons and Daughters in the Faith are not Nabal's Fools and Churles but desire that others may feed of their Morsels partake of Spiritual Blessings with them so I conclude with Joachim Camerarius Vos virtutis iter gnatis monstrate Parentes Ipsa Aquila ut pullos fida volare docet Ut canere alma ocept pullos Philomela tenellos Sic gegitor gnatos format ipse pius Which thus I English You Parents teach your Children Vertue 's way As Eagles teach their Young to fly not stray As Nightingales do teach their Young to sing So Parents Just wash theirs in Vertue 's Spring After this I had written looking among his Papers I found several Affectionate Epistles written in Verse to one John Hall School-Master in Cleeve-Land his Quondam School-fellow a thing I never put him on nor encouraged him to and Verses upon several Subjects most of which his Sisters knew the time and occasion of writing them he wrote this following upon Man's Mortality Death puts an end to all that do remain Or which this mortal wretched World contain Croesus his Riches nothing can prevail Against the Darts of Death when they assail 'T is to be moved by no means at all Nor any spares but brings to all a fall The lofty Monarch it nothing doth regard Nor from poor Irus poverty 's debard It can be shunned by no Man's intreaty Of high and low at length it makes a booty The strength of Milo nothing doth prevail The Streams of Eloquence at length must fail What if a Prince heap Silver up and Gold Yet he must be interr'd within its Fold What if a Mortal very learned be Yet he of Death gets not the Victory What if a Poor Man with Intreaty strive Those his Intreaties keep not him alive He that of Death to get the Victory Contends he weaves th' Web of Penelope Seeing 't is so be mindful of thy end Thy few Days here in Vertuous Living spend Upon another Subject he wrote thus Humility the Spring of Vertue is Humbling thy self Vertue thou canst not miss Delight in Vertue Vice be sure to shun He 's happy that a Vertuous Course doth run One Night this Winter some Scholars in my absence propounded Questions one to another upon which he went to the Table and wrote these following A Virgin rare that 's past compare Doth in few places dwell But always she a Friend will be To those that love her well After a little season he said This Virgin is Wisdom which comes from above which indeed too few entertain but such as do she is their Guide and Leader to Life Eternal THE END