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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86356	The good old vvay, Gods vvay, to sovle-refreshing rest: discovered in a sermon preached to the Right Honorable the Lord Maior and court of aldermen of the citie of London, at their anniversary meeting on Wednesday in Easter weeke at Christ-Church, Apr. 24. 1644 being the day of the monethly publike fast. By Thomas Hill B.D. Pastor of Tychmersh in Northampton shire. Imprimatur, Charles Herle.	Hill, Thomas, d. 1653.	1644 (1644)	Wing H2023; Thomason E48_4; ESTC R11496	52,548	61

the State what you have given to quench these sparkes ere they brake out into devouring flames And I question not but when ever the Chronicles of these times shall come to be written the zeale the fidelity the self-deniall the courage the diligence of this famous Citie will fil whole Pages with your just and due commendation Not only families but houses of Parliament not onely Countries but Kingdomes are sensible of your forwardnesse and doe daily blesse God for it Well! give mee leave now as a poore Minister of Jesus Christ to presse one thing more upon you viz. that you would erect some further monument holding a proportion with what you have done already something worthy of this religious this renowned Citie That you would lay a traine how to reduce poore soules that goe astray and how to bring them into a good way that leads to eternall rest It is my advantage that I have the opportunity to speake in such an auditory upon such an argument There is great reason that wee should take notice of what cost and charges you have beene at this last yeare in the foure Hospitalls of this Citie and in the maintenance of the great number of poore children and others I need not goe over all the particulars they have been read againe and againe to your honour many whose wounds have been healed by you are blessing God for you and many hungry bellies which you have fed are magnifying him and many children I hope are learning to blesse the name of that God that hath put it into your hearts to do so much good for them and I am confident you will heare comfortably of it hereafter at the day of Judgment Possibly all this may be done and yet some further care to bee taken for the reducing of soules into such a good way that might lead them to their eternall rest and to this purpose I will be bold to suggest some few directions First Lay a traine for the education of youth in the knowledge of this good way for the multiplying of such faithfull guides as may discover and lead others into this way It is a peece of Luthers counsell if ever you would have a good Reformation looke to the education of Children You cloath their bodies and you feed them It is mercifully done it is good Gospel fruit it is worthy of Christianity But I beseech you withall take care for their precious soules Acquaint them betimes with Gods wayes And you more especially that have the government of this famous City look to your Citie Schooles looke that there be principles of Religion as well as Learning laid and sown and scattered among these young Generations So you will lay a traine indeed to bring their soules into the good way and to this purpose provide that there may bee more faithfull guides to steere and direct them in this way That were indeed an enterprise worthy of such a Citie as this is Let us not bee ashamed to learne any thing from the Jesuites which is fit to bee learned from them who are most studious in this art they goe up and downe and observe what youths are most pregnant who are likely to bee good disputants and who are likely to bee good Statesmen and who are likely to bee good Oratours and out of each of these they will take a number whom out of the publique charge they will maintaine that their parts and abilities may bee improved to the greatest advantage both to themselves and the Common-wealth I doubt not but this City might honour God and honour themselves in some such course as this is In all your Hospitalls in all your Schooles let there bee a wise observing by those that are able to discerne what is the proper genius spirit and disposition of young Youths where is any of speciall parts that hath not onely seeds of piety but singular indowments of nature And though I would bee loath to presse upon so bountifull a City as this any thing that might adde to your vast charges which you have been already at yet I could wish with all my heart that some publique Stocks were raised in some way most suitable that such as I speake of might bee maintained and consecrated to the study of Learning and being sent to the Universities might prove in their generations faithfull guides in this good way God hath beene pleased already to shine upon us in the hopefull beginning of Reformation of Universities and every one of us in our way and place are to further that worke wherein we are all more or lesse especially concerned This will most Succesfully bee done by sending such persons thither as may bee most capable of improvement there which may not for want of parts bee discouraged from following those studies which shall there bee required of them and then for want of imployment in their studies runne-out into such vicious courses as may make them to rue the day that ever they came thither The rule which Parents have gone by formerly in making such and such Children Scholars has beene a respect to their owne education They have been Scholars it may be themselves and therefore thinke that their Sonnes however qualifed must needs be so also and others by very sinister respects Gentlemen if they have divers Children to make Scholars of those which are the youngest as a shift rather then a calling and somewhat whereby they might rather provide for their worldly subsistence then for the service of the Church Common-wealth Now that which I commend to your Wisdomes in this point of publique Education is to bee carryed by another Consideration to wit of the pregnancy of parts and capacity in Children such being cherished and promoted in Learning they may by Gods blessing prove able guides to bring others into the good way Secondly looke to your Family Religion For as your Schools have a subordination to Universities so Families to Schooles The reformation of the one will not so much availe without reformation of the other And both have a subordination to the Church To this intent let Masters let Parents Oh that Husbands and Wives likewise would love one anothers Soule so well as to bee quickning and helping forward one another in this good way I say let Masters let Parents catechise their Children and Servants and instruct them in the principles of Religion Doubtlesse this is the way to make them fit to bee usefull Church-members You expect the Minister should doe all truly there will not so much bee done unlesse you maintaine an harmony of Ordinances When a Minister shall Preach and Catechise and instruct in Publique and when a Father shall deale with his Children when hee commeth home in private and call them to an account of their profiting by the publike administrations Oh this harmony being maintained it will still lay a better traine how to reduce those that goe astray It is a most unhappy