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A43768	Conjugall counsell, or, Seasonable advice, both to unmarried, and married persons directing the first how to enter into marriage estate, and the other how to demeane themselves in the Christian discharge of all such duties as that estate of life blads them to, that God may have glory, the church edification, and themselves and families, present and future comfort, tending much (by the blessing of God) to a through reformation of all the enormities of these evil times / by T.H. ...	Hilder, Thomas.	1653 (1653)	Wing H1974; ESTC R20660	113,375	218

4 For these various waies are but meere figments and fruits of Addle braines though varnished with some splendent gilt of holiness and denominated New Lights and Divine Revelations I say beware of these for they are but the Devill peeping with a white Vizard to cover his all-silthy and deformed face stand upon your watch-Tower look out sharply lest you be led away by the error of the Wicked 2 Pet. 2.17 My deare Children labour to arme your selves against the croking Frogs of these last and worst times you are borne in an houre of Temptation you had great need to labour to trie the spirits 1 Ioh. 4.1 which that you may do you must follow the Counsell of Christ that is you must daily search the Scriptures Iohn 5.39 Imitate also the example of the Bereans who would not believe Paul and Sylas untill by searching the Scriptures they found the truth of what they delivered Acts 17 11. And the Holy Ghost commends and honours them for the same and this duty God did command his people of Old Isa 8.20 Leane not on your own understanding Pro. 3 5. Be not high minded but feare Rom. 11.20 Let him saith the Apostle that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall 1 Cor. 10.12 For there is a way that seemeth right but the end thereof are the waies of death Prov. 16.25 Beware of other mens sins and punishments Iudg. 4.7 Still walke with God as Enoch did Gen. 5.24 Graspe fast hold on Christ as the Church did and leane upon him Cant. 8.5 You are safe if Christ put forth his hand to you in your times of danger as he did to Peter Mat. 14.31 Endeavour to keepe a good conscience in your whole life Acts 23.1 which will be to you a continuall feast Pro. 15.15 so the Geneva Translation renders it Therefore hearken unto the Checks and Admonitions of it Sympathize with the Church and every particular Member therein in the times of Affliction Neh. 1.1 2 3 4. Amos 6.6 Rom. 12.15 Spend much time in the perusall of Orthodoxe Writers both Ancient and Moderne for next unto the Scriptures in both the Old And New Testament you shall find the most glorious beames and araies of light and truth shining from them to enlighten you in the way of truth and to heat and quicken your Affections to walke in the way that is called Holy I even beseech you to labour to gaine and to maintaine in your d●a●e hearts an invaluable and incomparable esteem of these Authors here mentioned and 〈◊〉 as they who are indeed all Reverend and sound Divines viz. Mr Perkins Bishop Hall Bishop Usher and in particular his body of Divinity Dr Preston Dr Sibbs Mr Nicholas Eyfield Mr Robert Bou●ton Mr Ieremy and Mr Daniel Dike Mr Symonds on the case and cure of a deserted soule Mr Smith on the Great Assize and Ursinus on the Sum of Christian Religion c. But on the contrary take notice it is your duty both to God and your own soules to labour to abhor with a kind of infinite detestation all hereticall and schismaticall yea all fanaticall and whimsicall Pamphlets Treatises and their Authors how specious soever Frontispieces and deluding Titles be for all such are but the Devils Factors Agents and Engins to seduce and poyson the judgements of poore ignorant soules that they may run with a full careere to the pit of hell to the high dishonour of God and their own inevitable destruction both of body and soule unlesse infinite mercy prevent these Vermine a●e like the Locusts Rev. 9.7.8 if not the same who have Crowns like Gold not Gold though they glister faces like men and haire like women but teeth like Lions These are Clouds without water c. and wandring stars c. Jude 12 13. These are they whose words f●et like a Canker 2 Tim. 2.16 17. These trouble Coasts you may know them by their fruit they still oppugne the faithfull Ministers of Jesus Christ and spit out of their black mouths many opprobrious false and diabolicall calumniations against them but their tongues and pens can be no slanders to them nor cast them out of the hearts of the reall godly party that thereby they may heave them out of the Ministry and make roome for their uncall'd and ungifted fraternity to possess their places if they can bring their cursed designes to passe and by this hellish meanes hinder the propagation of the Gospell and Gospell Ordinances and so foyst in their owne hell-bred inventions These my deare Children are such nonsensicall Ignoramus's and so full of blockish stupidity that they are many degrees worse than those Babel builders Gen. 11. from ver 1. to the end of ver 8. For they did desist from their worke of confusion when God had confounded their Language But these Impostors though the Lord have divided their tongues and so hath answered the Prophet Davids Imprecation Psa 55.9 that they speak not the same things yea and their hearts too that they walke in contradictory waies one from the other and all from the Rule of truth yet most pertinaciously with browes of brasse they proceed to bring paultry trash and filthy Rubbish to patch up their tottering structure founded on the sand to be a habitation for dolefull Creatures c. Isa 13.21 And for such as the Holy Ghost mentions in Rev. 18.2 But downe must their Chaos go Mat. 7.26 27. And all their vile plants must be pluck'd up Mat. 15.13 But to conclude this particular these Sons of Belial are false Meteors and can metamorphose a reall Saint into a Devill and a Devill incarnate into a Saint These persons are good Arithmeticians for they are well vers'd in the rules of Addition and Substraction nay and in the black art of Detraction too and whether they are acute both in the Theory and Practique part of Division or not let all moralized men much more reall Christians judge These persons can and do put darknesse for light and light for darknesse c. In one word their aime is to extinguish the power of godlinesse and to procure liberty for all licentiousnesse which God prevent But to proceed onward Set not your Affections on things beneath but on things above Col. 3.2 For the love of the world and worldly things is an enemy both to God and your own soules Iames 4.4 1 Tim. 6.9 10. But cast your selves in the use of lawfull meanes upon God for all outward things for he careth for you 1 Pet. 5.7 And be content to be at his allowance and with your present condition Phil. 4.12 1 Tim. 6.8 Heb. 13.5 In all your Afflictions exercise much patience Pro. 24.10 Iames 5.10 Heb. 12.1.2 Yet be much in Prayer for deliverance Psal 50.15 Also mind for this purpose the Title immediately before Psa 102. As touching your duties to your Parents I omit the hinting at them here but refer you to that part of the ensuing Treatise where there is something spoken more at

Consort of Sir Thomas Sackvill of Selscombe in Sussex Knight of the Honourable Order of the Bath the unworthy Author wisheth all Happiness Externall Internall and Eternall through Jesus Christ our Lord. Madam THe Subject matter upon which the Genius of this Discourse doth spend it selfe is within very few daies of as great Antiquity as Time it selfe Gen. 2.24 compared with Chap. 1.27 and shall continue till the extirpation of Time againe in this Terrestiall World Luke 17.26 27 30. Very conspicuous it is blessed be God that on this Theame there are many Learned and Elaborate Treatises now and of long time since Extant unto all which this may serve only as a darke colour to set them forth the more Illustriously And truly but upon the maine consideration exprest in the other Dedicatory Epistle this should have been stifled as an Abortive Child never to have seen the Sun But since Divine Providence will have it exposed to open view and that in a Criticall Age My desire hath been to take a faithfull witnesse instead of Witnesses to Record Yet to denominate it by some other name than Mahcr-shal-al-hash-baz Isa 8.2 3. Madam I beseech your Ladiship to excuse my boldness in making use of your Name for the end before hinted at I am able to affirme it as a truth that I have not thus done in a rash and inconsiderate way but upon advised and mature deliberation and serious consideration two motives I shall make hold to insert which have been prevalent with me this way viz. First that by long and comfortable experience I have found in your Ladiship both the Theory and Practique part of Religion The forme and power of Godlinesse Orthodox Principles in relation to faith and zealous endeavours to walke up to them in holinesse of life Truly I have great ground and confidence and do therefore believe that God hath been pleased to honour your Ladiship in keeping your heart upright with him and keeping you from deviating from the Rule of truth both in faith and life in this houre of Temptation which is come upon all so on your selfe to try you whether you are Gold yea refined Gold or impure filthy and abominable drosse or not 1 Pet. 1.7 Doubtlesse Madam you are none of them the Spirit speaketh expresly of 1 Tim. 4.1 It is a most choice expression of our Lord Jesus Christ Luke 5. ult which by way of allusion too I desire to make use of and I am confident may be applicable to your Ladiship No man saith he having drunke Old Wine straight way desireth to drinke New for he saith the Old is better Madam It is well known unto and confest by the Learned that in Scripture-language that by Wine and strong drinke many times Errours are intended And that by drunkennesse staggering and vomiting the intosticated braines of false Prophets Heretiques and Seducers are pointed out Isa 28.78 Chap. 29.9 10. Ah doubtlesse should God plague the drunkards of this Nation both in a corporall and spirituall sence there are and that of the latter sort more than a good many would lye under the lash of Divine vengeance but is Gods patience their priviledge Yea it is so if well improv'd else none at all 2 Pet. 2 1 2 3. Truly there are many of these persons who do not only paddle at the Swine Trough but sw●ll till they swell and then vomit out their filth to the dishonour of God and the detriment of many poore ignorant soules Madam these are bad and therefore sad Times For reall Christians every where may too too palpably see many formerly seeming tall and well rooted Cedars green and flourishing now blown up by the roots all their fruit leaves blasted withered and fallen off and nothing remaining but vaine Notions and high swolne conceits not for want of Ignorance such as the Prophet speakes of Isa 65.5 What Agur also speakes Prov. 30 12. is worth our observation neither must we forget what Jude affirmes in verse 19. of his Epistle Madam there are some are so impudent as to averre that none do so much hate the Power of Godlinesse as the old English Puritan but it is well observed by the most intelligible that their tongues can slander no man But it is a truth that the old English Puritans do abhor such power of Godlinesse as too many of these men hold forth which is eminently taken notice of to be Pride Experientia docet Malice Selfe-Interest Designes to exalt themselves to high places Partiality Uncharitable censuring such as are more unblameable than themselves and fashioning themselves according to this world both in antique attire and manners c. But if any say to me as the Lawyer did to our Lord and Saviour Luk. 11 45. I will not answer as Christ did 46. yet let him that readeth consider it as Christ also said in another case Mat. 24.15 But this I will say the Lord grant them sound Conviction and through Conversion the fruit of which is new●esse of heart and life and then doubtlesse all that are the reall godly party will give them not only the right hand of fellowship Gal. 2.9 but also their very hearts and soules for the Gospell sake Ah what need have all Christians to labour for humility and selfe-deniall and to walke close with God according to Divine prescriptions which will be a very choise and effectuall meanes to prevent apostatizing Madam In that God hath been pleased to be so gracious to you as to keepe you from defiling your garments by walking in by-waies It is a very cleare demonstration that the ground-work of your Profession hath been laid on the Rock of Ages And hence it is that your structure stands firme and unshaken in these stormy times of diversity of opinions especially in relation to fundamentall truths for in points meerely circumstantial Christians ought to beare one with another and not to be disjoyn'd in affections to each other they agreeing in the maine And hence it is in the first place that I have gathered up some encouragement to presume thus upon your Ladyship by this bold Intrusion But Secondly When I weigh with my selfe the many and ponderous favours which so undeservedly on my part I have received under God at your Lad●ships hands I stand convinced that all possible gratitude is due from me unto you But that this presumption of mine may even in the least measure be esteemed of to such an end it only rests in your Ladiships Candid Acceptation of it Which Acceptation of Yours I most humbly beg for without it I am at an exceeding great stand in this particular Madam be pleased therefore I beseech you so far to deny your selfe as to cast a favourable aspect upon this poore ensuing peece which under God will be some supportation to it for truly it is a weake and poore Babe But how can it be otherwise when the worthlesse Author of it is not only full of Imbecillity but is weakenesse it

such as are offenders in this kind and such are all servants that discharge not the duty here mentioned Now if servants would know how and in what way this duty should be performed for their help therein I refer them to those means briefly nominated for direction to children in the performance of this very duty to their Parents and by the way it is worth observing that in a reall and true sence it may be said and proved that Masters c. are Parents to then servants as well as to their children yet with a great deale of difference In the second place it is the duty of servants to be obedient unto their Maners c. This duty hath some affinity with the former for if servants do not readily obey their Masters they cannot honour them they rather vilifie them and expose them to contempt and disgrace there are many Scripture texts that offer themselves to confirme this truth Servants be obedient to your Masters according to the flesh Eph. 6.5 Servants obey in all things your Masters according to the flesh Col 3.22 Exhort servants saith Paul to be obedient to their Masters in all things not answering againe Tit. 2.9 The Apostle Peter doth further presse this duty Servants saith he be subject to your Masters with all feare not only to the good and gentle but also to the froward 1 Pet. 2.18 From all these places you may see this duty hath the Word of God for its foundation The Centurion which we read of in the Gospell had choice servants for their readinesse to obey him for he tels Christ that if he bid one go he went and if another come he came and if he bid his servant do this he did it we must not doubt of the truth of what he said though he spake those things to illustrate and set forth the power of Christ over all sicknesses and all things for he doth acknowledge that that sicknesse that had arrested his servant was the servant of Christ that as it did afflict his servant when Christ commanded it so to do so it must leave his servant and depart when Christ should require the same Mat 8.8 9. It were much to be wish'd that every Master had such a servant or such servants as this Centurion had there would be more quietnesse in Families and better successe in all their imployments than now there is But many servants in our times will go and come at their owne pleasures and do what is good in their owne eyes Their Masters must be subject to them and not they to their Masters but such servants will be the greatest losers at last Marke what the Apostle saith Obey them that have the rule over you and submit your selves for they watch for your soules as they that must give an account that they may do it with joy and not with griefe for that is unprofitable to you Heb. 13.17 which is an exhortation in generall yet it concernes servants in speciall Servants must not do any thing contrary to their Masters minds though they give no particular command to the contrary Elisha did not command his servant Gehazi not to go after Naaman to receive a gratuity yet he went and did receive a Talent of Silver and two changes of rayment of him but he could not crack of his profit as we say for he had the plague of Leprosie with them into the bargaine 2 Kings 5.20 22 24 25 26 27. Can any man with any shew of reason conceive that this example of disobedience in Gehazi to his Master and of the severe hand of God on him for it doth stand upon Record for nothing Whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning Rom. 15.4 And this was written to terrifie rebellious and disobedient servants whereof the world is full but gratious servants will learne and practice better The third duty of servants to their Masters In the third and last place it is the duty of servants to their Masters to shew all diligence fidelity and faithfulnesse in the discharging their businesses and answering the trust committed to them and that as in the presence of God When the Apostle in that place of Eph. 7.5 9. which we made use of before had exhorted servants to be obedient to their Masters according to the flesh with feare and trembling in singlenesse of heart as to Christ he addes Not with eye-service as men pleasers but as the servants of Christ doing the will of God from the heart the very same you find in Col. 3.22 In Tit. 2.9 10. Exhort servants saith the Apostle to be obedient to their Masters not purloyning but shewing all good fidelity that they may adorne the doctrine of God When servants serve their Masters not with eye-service but with all faithfulnesse and singlenesse of heart with a good conscience they also serve Jesus Christ who will plentifully recompence the same either in temporall or spirituall blessings or in both he is a blessed servant who obeyes his Masters commands chiefly in relation to Gods injunctions such a one no doubt was the servant of Abraham and Jacob to his Father Laban and Joseph to Potiphar and after to the keeper of the prison Gen. 30.27 Chap. 39.3 ult There be divers waies and meanes by which servants must shew themselves faithfull to their Masters and Dames First by praying for them Secondly by being diligent in the dispatch of their businesse Thirdly by preserving their Estates and in helping to encrease them Fourthly by labouring to protect their persons from violence to their power And fifthly by labouring to preserve their reputations in order whereunto they must keep their secrets undisclosed and their infirmities from being published But such servants as walke in waies contrary hereunto it were incomparably better for a Christian Housholder to have them out than in his Family and indeed it were far better that such servants should lye under the cudgell of a Turkish patron than set their feet under an honest mans Table Thus we have with much brevity past through the duties which servants owe unto their Masters and Dames First they must labour to honour them Secondly they must submit to them and obey them Thirdly and lastly they must shew all diligence fidelity and faithfulnesse to them in doing their businesse and in answering the trust committed to them Now to come to a full period of all and conclude we shall endeavour to make some application of that which hath been before laid down by way of duty Use 1 In the first place this may serve for just reproofe to most men in our times who do thrust themselves into the honourable Estate of Marriage without any consideration at all as if it were an estate fit for every man that will to enter into Truly I do exceedingly like those sweet expressions in the Preface to the ancient Forme of Marriage in the Church of England where having affirmed the Estate of Marriage to be honourable