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A39737 A sermon of the education of children preach'd before the right honourable the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen at Guild-Hall Chapel on Sunday, Novemb. 1, 1696 / by William Fleetwood ... Fleetwood, William, 1656-1723. 1696 (1696) Wing F1249; ESTC R15389 18,831 43

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Clarke Mayor Martis decimo die Novemb● 1696. Annoque Regni Regis Willielini tertii Angliae c.. Octovo THis Court doth desire Mr. Fleetwood to Print his Sermon 〈◊〉 before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Aldermen 〈◊〉 this City at the Guild-Hall Chap●el on Sunday the First Day of this ●●●ant November Goo●●…llow A SERMON OF THE Education of Children Preach'd before the RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORD MAYOR AND Court of Aldermen AT GUILD-HALL CHAPEL On SUNDAY Novemb. 1. 1696. By WILLIAM FLEETWOOD Chaplain in Ordinary to His MAJESTY LONDON Printed for Thomas Newborough at the Golden-Ball in St. Paul's Church Yard 1696. TO THE INHABITANTS OF THE United Parishes OF S. AUSTIN and S. FAITH HAving frequently intended with my self something of this Nature for Your particular Use and Service to whom You know I am more immediately related It was the easier to me to comply with Their Desires who were willing to have this Discourse publish'd because I knew I should thereby satisfie in part my own Intentions and Design of doing You good in this Instance and therefore though it be now Common yet I desire You earnestly to make it more particularly Yours by a close Application of it to Your selves I can't tell how a Minister can promise himself any Success in his Endeavours if the Parents will not believe themselves obliged as certainly they are by God's Commands to educate their Children well and bring them up in the Fear and Nurture of the Lord and by their Care at home in private fit them for those farthèr Instructions they are to receive in publick at the appointed Opportunities They are to sow the Seeds of Christ's Religion in the Childrens Minds and He must wisely cultivate improve and nourish them They are to lay the first Foundations in their Hearts and He must build thereon as God enables him That this might not be a Work of Difficulty either to Parents or to Children nor either of them left at an Uncertainty the One of Teaching and the Other of Learning what they ought the Church in Her great Wisdom hath collected in Her Catechism a short but full and comprehensive Summary of whatsoever a Christian is to believe and practise to his Soul's Health which all her Children are to learn remember and consider according to their Age and Understanding This is delivered in so clear a Method in Words and Sense so easie and intelligible that it is not above a very mean Capacity and yet the Matter is so solid and substantial that it is fit for the strongest Understanding the oldest Christian in the World need know no more than what he is to learn there in his Youth though he will know it better and more fully the longer he considers it so that the Parent whilst he is instructing the Children in it will be himself a gainful Learner more and more edified and grow continually in the Knowledge of his Faith and Duty The Neglect of this prescrib'd Course has been one great Occasion I believe of that wide Difference there appears of Private Peoples Judgments and Opinions in Matters of Religion they have taken in different Principles in their Youth and therefore as their Age advanc'd have drawn different Conclusions srom them the Effects of which have been exceedingly mischievous I do therefore advise and desire you all to teach your Children this judicious sound and truly Christian Catechism that savours nothing of a Party or private Spirit but is what they may and must depend upon to their Lives end When this good Ground-work is well laid you may with much more Ease form and fashion them to Vertue and Religion by putting them in mind of the Covenant they have made with God in Baptism by which they stand oblig'd to give themselves entirely up to Christ to look upon him as their only Lord and Law-Giver their Saviour and their Judge to believe whatever he reveals and to fulfil whatever he commands There also you will find the two Tables that contain their Duty towards God and towards their Neighbour and both of them explained with the clearest Brevity that can be found from whence you are to take occasion of exciting them to a most diligent Performance of them as also to rebuke and punish the Neglect or the Transgression of them There also they will learn the Lord's Prayer the Prayer that Christ himself the Son of God who knew the Father's Will and Man's Necessities the best of all Men living taught his Followers to use and therefore it is such you may be sure as is best fitted for our Purpose and such as is both for the Matter and the Manner acceptable to God the Father After this follows a short but full Account of the two Sacraments of Baptism and the Lord's Supper by which they learn the Manner how they themselves and all true Christians ever since our Saviour's Institution of it were initiated into Christ's Religion namely by being baptized in Water in the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost according to Christ's Command explain'd by the Universal Practice of the Church insomuch that they who have at any time denied or refused the Matter and the Form of this Sacrament have not been accounted Christians Here they see also what is signified by being thus baptized in Water namely the dying unto Sin and living a new to Righteousness i. e. the repenting of and forsaking all their past Sins and living for the time to come a Righteous and a Holy Life which is also the Meaning of becoming a New Man a New Creature a Regenerate Person and the like all which is engag'd for by every one at his Baptism and is to be remembred and perform'd for ever after Here lastly they will come to see the End of the Institution of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper the Cause and Purpose of its being ordained namely For the continual Remembrance of the Sacrifice of the Death of Christ and of the Benefits which we receive thereby i. e. to put them constantly in mind that Christ the Lord was crucified upon the Cross that this his Death was an attoning expiatory Sacrifice and accepted by God as such that for its Sake and Merit his Anger is appeas'd he is now reconcileable to all that will repent them of their Sins and forsake them and obey the Gospel he will forgive them the Penalty they had incurr'd and will moreover crown them in the World to come with Everlasting Happiness The Remembrance of this salutary Death and Sacrifice and the great Benefits deriv'd to us from and by it is the End of this Sacrament's being instituted by Christ and therefore to answer the End of this Institution they must come to the Sacrament and when they come the Bread broken is to remind them of the Body of Christ torn and suffering on the Cross and the Wine poured out is to remind them of the Blood of Christ that was there shed and then they are to