them God can see as well in the Dark as in the Light When Dores and Windowes are shut and Curtains drawn Close at Midnight as well as at Noon Day on the House Top. Tell them God heareth what they say if they speak Never so Softly And knows what they Think if they think Never so Secretly And Tell them whatever they Think Speak and Act on Earth God writes in Heaven What is Good God looks upon with Love What is Evil God beholds with Hatred Thou art of Purer Eyes than to behold Evil †Hab. 2.13 God beholds NO Evil with an Eye of Approbation but ALL Evil with an eye of Observation in order to Damnation if speedy Repentance prevent it not How Dar'st thou Sin in Secret God doth See And Witnesse Jury Judge alone will Be. Fourteenth Doc 14. The uncertainty of Life Teach them to know the Brevity and Uncertainty of Life for Age and Youth Old and Insant Tell them in Golgotha are Sculls and in the Church Yard are Graves of All Sizes Solomon tells of a time to be Born and a time to Die but he tells us of no time to Live * Ecl. 3.2 Tell them Death is Most Certain and may be as Sudden as Certain One may be Alive Young Strong Well Sick Dead Damned and all in a Day or in an Hour 1 God the Donour and Preserver of Mans Life may Suddenly end it 2 The Devil the Envier of Mans Life may Suddenly end it as he did Job's Children †Job 1.10 3 The Wicked Satans Workmen may Suddenly end it he riseth up and No man is sure of his Life * Job 24.22 4 A mans own Relations may Suddenly end it as Cain who killed his Own Onely brother Abel †Gen. 4.8 5 A mans own Hand may Suddenly end his own Life Ahithophels councel to Others was as if a man had enquired at the Oracle of God * 2 Sa 16.23 but he could not councel Himself to keep from the Gallows It 's dangerous provoking GOD to displeasure God can make a man his Own Enemy his Worst Enemy his own Executioner here and his own Tormentor in Hell Fire for ever N B. Seeing Life is SO Uncertain and Short Preparation for Death is a Solemn Concern When men had Longer lives and Stronger limbs than Now men have they seemed to be more concerned with Death than Now men are The First purchase we read of in the Bible was a Burying Place not a Building Place viz Abraham for Sarah * Gen. 23.4 Lo I die in the Grave which I have Digged for me there thou shalt bury me said Jacob to Joseph †Ch. 50.5 Kings and Councellors built Desolate places for Themselves * Job 3.14 Joseph laid Jesus in his Own Tomb †Mat. 27.60 Few in our dayes dig their Graves before they are dead though the World it self be dying Fifteenth Doc 15. Teach them to know the Difference between Temporal Life and Eternal Life The Excellency of One above the Other e g. 1 Temporal Life is full of Corporal Labour * Eccl. 1.8 Eternal Life hath none of this There Remains a Rest †Heb. 4.9 it Ever Remains and Never Removes 2 Temporal Life is full of Mental Misery viz. Care Trouble Vexation Sorrow of Mind Man is Born to trouble * Job 5.7 He is of Few dayes and Full of trouble †Ch. 14.1 His dayes are Few and Evil * Gen. 47.9 Eternal Life is Full of Joy without Sorrow 3 Temporal Life is attended with the Misery of Penury Hunger Thirst Hunger without Bread Bread without Hunger are both Miseries Bread with Hunger is a Double Mercy which Many have and Few prize Eternal Life is free from both these Miseries of Hunger and Thirst They shall hunger NO more neither Thirst any more c †Rev. 7.16 4 Temporal Life is attended with many Diseases Eternal Life hath None All Diseases end at Death A Saints Funeral is the Funeral of All his Afflictions 5 Temporal Life is sometimes such that a man is Weary of it and wishes for Death Eternal Life will Never weary one to All Eternity 6 Temporal Life is but Temporal if it be the life of Methuselah it must Certainly end it may Suddenly end but Eternal Life is Eternal Not any thing in Heaven or Hell shall ever end it Sixteenth Doc 16. Of Heaven Teach them to know how Desireable Heaven is Tell them of its Titles viz The Kingdom of GOD The Kingdom of Heaven The Heaven of Heavens The Third Heaven A house Eternal in the Heavens That will never Decay or want Repair that the Inhabitant will never be Weary of or turned Out of Abrahams Rosom i e Sweet imbraces Eternal Glory Salvation with Eternal Glory An Eternal weight of Glory which will never weary to bear it but bare up above all weariness for ever A Crown of Life A Crown of Glory A City of pure Gold it's Streets pure Gold its Gates Pearl * Rev. 21.21 A City that hath NO need of Sun Moon or Candle †Ver. 23. For there shall be NO Night there * Ch. 22.5 Seventeenth Doc. 17. Of Hell Teach them to know how Dreadfull Hell is Tell them of it's Titles viz Destruction A Furnace Outer Darkness Damnation Everlasting Punishment Vnquenchable Fire A Place of Torment Wrath to Come A Prison Everlasting Chains Everlasting Burnings The Vengeance of Eternal Fire The Second Death A Lake of Fire The Bottomless Pit OH How do Persons Play with Scripture Thunder The Word Printed is like Fire Painted which they can See and Feel without Fear But could they Stand at the Gates of Hell and Hear the Damned Howl it would make their Hair stand an End and Fill their Hearts with Horrour But what shall we say of an Eternal BEING in that place of Torment The Damnation of Hell is beyond All Definition much harder to Define than the Spanish Inquisition Which a Painter despairing to do Did not picture One man with a Knife in his his Throat a Second with a Sword in his Heart a Third with his Arms Torn Off. But took a Table and Covered it all over with Blood crying out BLOOD BLOOD So may a Minister cry concerning Hell FIRE FIRE for a Definition of Damnation Eighteenth Doc. 18. Of temporal Judgements Teach them to know what Temporal Judgments God hath sent to Men Women and Children for Sin against God Tell them how God drowned the World with Water from Heaven * Gen. 7. And burned Sodom with Fire from Heaven †Ch. 19. And Drowned the Egyptians in the Red Sea And clave the Ground asunder to Swallow up Korah and his Company And slew a hundred fourscore and five Thousand in One Night by One Angel * 2 K. 19.35 And slew of Israel Five Hundred Thousand chosen men in One day †Ch. 13.17 Chap. 36.16 And gave All Israel into the
are of kinne to that cursed King who cut the Roll and cast it into the fire * Jer. 36.23 but it was rescribed and many like words added †Ver. 32. if man will diminish the Preceptive part God will adde to the Penal part of his Precept There were desperate Antinomians in Job's dayes e g He stretcheth out his hand against God * Job 15.25 Take this literally and so did Julian the Apostate when wounded in battell and bleeding to death he stretched out his hand to throw his blood up to Heaven Julian against Jesus saying in indignation to Jesus Theod l 3. Cap. 20. O Galilean thou hast overcome me And the Amalekites who when they could catch a Jew and kill him would cut off the part that received the Seal of the Covenant and with an out-stretched hand throw it up towards Heaven Jerom. with indignation against God for that institution Take it metaphorically and so doth he stretch out his hand against God who useth his Wits and Words against God as the Antinomian when he argueth against Gods law A man should not lift up hand word or thought against God but hand heart tongue and all For God but he strengthens himself against the Almighty †Job 15.25 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Shaddai Omnipotency it self who can do all things and yet what can the Almighty do for them yet he silled their houses with good things * Chap. 22. 17 18. and yet what can the Almighty do for them Reason will tell a man the Almighty can do All things Reason differs the spirit of a Man from the spirit of a Beast what unreasonable blind beast is this then that thus argues If the Almighty can do nothing For he can do nothing Against a man and that I presume is their hope viz the Lord will not do good neither will he do evil * Zeph. 1.12 He runs upon the bosses of his bucklers †Job 15.26 alluding to the fierce assault of a Souldier The buckler is Defensive armour the bosse Offensive i e a Sharp Spike if a man come close it kills him God's Buckler is the Preceptive part of his law by which he defends his honour his Bosse is the Curse threat or Penal part by which he kills them that break his command e g Thou shalt not eat of the tree of knowledge there is the Buckler in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die * Gen. 2.17 there is the Bosse Adam runs upon it and dies for it Thus Job's Antinomian or ours his Cousin German He will offer violence to God and his Law with Gospel in his mouth He runs upon him even on his neck †Job 15.26 He will try a twich with God He would pull God out of Heaven and throw the world out at Window A Saint playes the man against Satan but he playes the Devil against God who makes his Law void Here is sin of a Size what blows big enough for sin So big it will puzzle an Apostle and a Philosopher too to define it Fath. What may be the Reason of our Antimian aversnesse to the Law of God Min. 1 Because of its Antiquity 1 R. and their Novelty They have an evil eye upon the O T for its Names-sake Upon this account they may slight God himself who is the Ancient of dayes †Dan. 7.9 And on this account they may slight the Gospel for that is as old as the Law as no doubt they will do when a New one comes up And on the same account they may slight their Own opinion for it 's as old as Adam's fall Adam was an Antinomian when he brake the Law It 's older than Adam's fall the Devil was an Antinomian when he tempted Adam to be of the like Religion ¶ 2 Because of its Purity 2 R. It is a sacred divine perfect pur * Ps 19.8 holy spiritual Law †Rom. 7.12 14. It binds hands feet tongue heart and All to holinesse Antinomians are Libertine who love not to be bound by the bonds of Gods holy commands but a David loves the law upon this account thy word is very pure therefore thy servant loveth it * Ps 119.140 ¶ 3 Because of their own Obscurity 3 R. and ignorance of its excellency That excellent office of the law viz to wound for Sin and send to a Saviour they are Strangers to They never saw their own sins in Gods Looking-glasse but other mens sins in the Devils Prospecitive-glasse Simile The young Blackmoor Simile and so are like the Black boy that fled from his Black father to his White mother not considering his Own blacknesse Antinomians slight the law as the Indians did their Gold when they knew not its worth And as a Natural man doth Gods gold i e Simile grace which is to him as drosse And as the Jews did Jesus not discerning his Beauty though altogether lovely †Cant. 5.10 The very Name of Jesus was hatefull to the Jews they could not call him by it but this fellow * M. 26.61 that deceiver †Ch. 27.63 and the Carpenter * Mar. 6.3 so is the very word Law contemptible to our Antinomians But this is madnesse with a Witnesse for without law what right hath a man to any good viz Temporal Spiritual or Eternal What right to house goods land without law or what Safety are lands or life in without law what right to Christ Heaven eternal life without law It is by Law that Christs righteousnesse IS righteousnesse i e by the law of Works It is by Law that Christs righteousnesse is a Christians righteousnesse i e by the law of Grace †Jer. 23.6 It is by Law that Christians are Saved i e the law of Faith and it 's by Law that sinners are Damned i e by the law of Works God imputeth righteousnesse by law and Saveth and God imputeth sin by law and Damneth and is LAW to be slighted He that breaks one breaks all * Ja. 2.10 Break one break all the breach of the ten commandments brings a man 10000 Talents into Gods debt by Law and is LAW to be slighted Little England hath a great deal of Rome in it and seeing darknesse is now a dayes so desirable it's to be wished these persons wish not for Popery and Tyranny who do so disgust this good word LAW for if a man would have laws against Theft nulled no doubt that man desires to be a Thief and so of any other such like desire to destroy Law It is no wonder these persons are in darknesse for they will shut their eyes against Scripture-light if it be contrary to their own conceptions Simile They are like the Elephant who makes the water Muddy that he may not see his Deformity They will search Scripture for what seems to suit with their sinfull minds but would bury the opposite truth in
oblivion They bring their opinions to the Word not to be discovered but covered and maintained and Role them through the Bible to see what Mosse they can gather to cloath them with Scripture with Scripture they will Not compare but run away with a Piece of a Scripture as the Devil did †Ps 91.11 Mat. 4.6 If these persons were Indians they were objects of pity but if they will shut their eyes in a land of light let them go into the land of darknesse as persons to whom is referved the blacknesse of darknesse for ever * Jud. 13. ¶ 4 Because of their Impurity and wickednesse 4 R. This cursed Doctrine of disowning the Law comes from a corrupt Heart and by such it shall be drunk Up and swallowed Down with delight Such are glad of a gospel that gives them liberty from Piety to live in Iniquity They love to hear a smooth Sermon to day to see a Play to morrow to go to a Dancing-school the next day Chrysostom's saying of Dancing though Chrysostome sayes Where dancing is the Devil is And to go Gaudy in their Garments for the sake of a little cursed credit among the carnal and this at Such a time when God is calling so loud for Sackcloth and Ashes And to neglect their childrens Souls when Papists are coming to cut their Throats and send them to Hell to howl there against their Parents for their Lawlesse life To say the law is no rule of life is for the Devil to speak with a Tongue of flesh enough to horrifie a mans heart to hear it Such in effect say Idolatry swearing Sabbath-breaking killing stealing whoring are no sin No wonder if such fall foul and become vessels for the Devil to empty his Excrements into until they are full and flow over A Story too true I knew a person Anno 1666 then a Preacher who in opposition to the use of the law in preaching said I hate the law of God as Poyson after which this preacher turned adulterer even when he had an amiable wife of his own What wonder it may be the man did it to bear his testimony against the law of God which he used to complain of as the cause of the corruptions of his heart God will one day roar like a Lion against these Rebels and rend the caul of their heart †Ho 11.10 Chap. 13.8 when he assaults ehm q d Was I 40 dayes and 40 nights preparing a Law for you to loath slight snuffe at and spit out your venome against Let such expect the Antitype of the 40 dayes deluge for their portion to last as long as everlasting N B They that forsake God's Law forsake God himself Rehoboam forsook the law of the Lord * 2 Chro. 12.1 what then Thus saith the Lord Ye have forsaken Me †Ver. 5. To the same purpose is this saying Ye are gone from mine Ordinances return unto Me * Mal. 3.7 q d In going from mine Ordinances ye are gone from Me. Some wicked men own God in Words and deny him in Works †Tit. 1.16 Antinomians deny God in Words and overpasse the deeds of the wicked * Jer. 5.28 Religion I value it not with the dust of my Shoes which I shake off as a witnesse against them It is worse to make the Law void than to make Heaven and Earth void †Luk. 16.17 and he that had rather overturn heaven and earth than his own rotten opinion I fear will never find a place in Heaven nor on Earth long but in Hell ere long ¶ 5 Because of the Judgments of God which Antinomians are under 5 R. and they are two-fold 1 The judgment of Delusion for their transgression They have chosen their own wayes and their soul delighteth in their abominations I also will choose their Delusions * Isa 66.3 4. They received not the love of of the truth that they might be Saved and for this cause God shall send them strong delusion that they all might be Damned †2 Thess 2.10 11 12. If once persons are made drunk with the wine of the wrath of God in the cup of an imaginary gospel of liberty then the Law is spewed out and cast behind the back like a mad man Simile who cares not if he straw the street with Pearls 2 The judgment of Prophanation Sometimes God punisheth Sin with Sin i e one sin with another for sin he gives up to sin for the practice and Pleasure of sin God gives up to the Power of sin this is the way to prepare for the greatest plague in Hell Better be under all Job's boils and Pharoh's plagues and all the Tyrants in Turkey An unparallel'd plague than under this judgment of the Powr of sin though it be to the sinner a Pleasure ¶ To these judgments of Delusion and Prophanation is linked the judgment of eternal Destruction Man chooses his abomination God chooses his Delusion and God will choose his Destruction Let no man think to choose his work and his wages his sin and his sorrow if man will choose his Sin God will choose his Sword and sharpen it for the Slaughter to cut in pieces the Sinner * Ezek. 21.10 Fath. It 's a sad case to be in I told Mr A a piece of my mind one day and he was angry and said I had learned by Lesson of my Legal Preachers Min. Angry Silly folly what kind of angry folly is this for a man to shew me a piece of Pitch and be angry because I say it 's Black Legal Preacher They that call a Minister Legal Preacher because he uses the Law lawfully know neither Law nor Gospel and had need begin at great A. If a man be Practical he will seem to be Legal though he be indeed Evangelical Holy E Hunt That holy man at Hitchin E Hunt when I first knew him and observed how much he delighted in Gods law and did in heart and life adhere to holinesse I feared he did rest in his own righteousnesse But when he came to declare his Conversion and his Opinion in point of Justification he made it appear that he trusted in Christ only for That and that he was in Practice an excellent Person The Lord make Me and Mine and You and Yours like him And let Mr A say what he will I say a mans spirit thoughts words works are No more to be approved than they are Legal Legality a glory a mans legality is his glory which is to the Antinomian a Mystery Fath. Mr. A saith he hath fulfilled the law in Christ hath Justification and Sanctification alike in Christ and needs none in himself in heart or life which he saith is to Me a Mystery Min. A mystery of iniquity of which let me make a discovery Righteousnesse for Justification is resident in Christ Righteousnesse for Sanctification is resident in the Christian Mr A saith they are both
not expressed It is now a Maxime viz If the day begins in the morning Jesus did not rise on the first day Fath. Mary's coming to the sepulchre in the morning seems to signifie Jesus was to rise in the morning Min. Not at all it was not the least sign of his rising in the morning nor came they with any expectation of his Resurrection but to anoint him †Mar. 16.1 as if he had been to lay in the grave as another dead man When Jesues foretold his rising from the dead his Disciples questioned what the rising from the dead should mean * Chap. 9.10 When Jesus told them he should be mocked spitted on scourged put to death and rise the third day they understood none of these things †Lu. 18.34 And when they saw he was risen yet they knew not the Scripture that he must rise again from the dead * Job 20.9 Fath. But the plainest proof for Christs Resurrection in the morning you leave out †Mar. 16.9 Min. It seems you will bring it in but it will do you no service for the support of this opinion Take this Text as translated viz When Jesus was risen early and the Sense is when it was early Jesus was risen which does no more prove Jesus rose in the morning than to say at noon Jesus is risen proves he rose at Noon Or than that saying the next Even the Lord is risen * Lu. 24.34 proves he rose that Even Or that expression of Paul so long after Christs Resurrection now is Christ risen †1 Cor. 15.20 proves Jesus rose just then Fath. When then do you suppose Jesus rose Min. I do more than suppose for I am fully satisfied Time of Jesus's rising that Jesus rose from the dead in the Even when the Jews Sabbath ended and our Sabbath began for it is the Resurrection of Jesus that causes the Jews Sabbath to cease and gives Being and Beginning to our Sabbath which begins at â—â—en as I have proved This opinion of Christs â—â—â—ng at Even I will prove by the same Scripturâ— you produce to prove he rose in the Morning viz Jesus was risen early the first day * Mar. 16.9 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies both early and morning Sometimes when fo is translated morning it signifies a time long before day eg 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the morning rising up a great while before day †Mar. 1.35 The first day does not properly expresse the Original 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the first of the Sabbath ie the first Time or beginning of the Sabbath N B I am A Ω the beginning and the end the first and the last * Rev. 22.13 beginning and first are One end all last are One and all signifie Christs Eternity the former signifies he is From everlasting the latter that he is To everlasting This is to shew you that by first the beginning of the day is intended And this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 first is sometimes translated beginning eg the latter end is worse than 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the beginning †2 Pet. 2.20 And thus we are to take this Text * Mar. 16.9 Jesus rose early a great while before day at the first or beginning of the Sabbath If some Critick was in our company he would tell us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sabbath signifies sometimes a week e g 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I fast twice on the Sabbath †Lu. 18.12 i e two dayes a week Here its necessary to understand it a week for its improper to say I fast twice a day but there is no necessity of such a Sense here * Mar. 16.9 yet if I grant it all is One for the beginning of the week and of the Sabbath is at the Same time ¶ For farther satisfaction N B Jesus was Buried at Even And it was at the very End of the day for the day being almost at end and Christ with his companions still on the Crosse the Jews being netled with fear they should hang there on their high Sabbath besought Pilate that their legs might be broken †Job 19.31 and so dispatched Then came the Souldiers and braks the legs of the theeves * Ver. 32. but seeing Jesus dead brake not his legs †Ver. 33. but one of them with a spear pierced his side * Ver. 34. q d Thou hangest here like a hypocrite feigning thy self dead to save thy Shanks but I will give thee a touch shall try thee Now in the place where Jesus was crucified was a garden and in the garden a sepulchre there laid they Jesus for the sepulchre was nigh at hand †Ver. 41 42. They hurried him into that hole being hard by and had not time to carry him farther because their Sabbath was about to begin Luke saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Sabbath began to shine * Luk. 23.54 i e with Star-light At this Juncture of time when that day ended and the next began was Jesus buried Ergo Jesus must needs rise in the Even to complete the time Prefixt for his laying dead Fath. If Jesus rose in the Even he lay but a day and a night in the grave for he was buried at end of the Sixth day and by your count rose at end of the Seventh day how then did he fulfill his word in rising on the third day Min. Jesus did fulfill his word and we must believe it if we understand it not more than the mystery of the Trinity But why do you say Jesus died on the Sixth day Fath. O! the Scripture is plain he died the day before the Seventh day Sabbath And I have seen it thus confirmed by the learned viz Adam fell on the Sixth day proved by this Text †Ps 49.12 and the Paschal lamb was slain on the Sixth day and Jesus died on the Sixth day and all about the same hour These are Parallel proofs Adam's fall on the Sixth day and the Lambs death on the Sixth day prove Jesus's death on the Sixth day and Jesus's death on the Sixth day proves Adams fall on the Sixth day as Jesus must dye virtually that day and hour Adam sinned so actually that day and hour of the week This mutual harmony makes all very clear Min. As pithily proved as if you had said The King of Spain and forty thousand men Went up the Hill and then came down agen What a fine story is here and very clear as sometime a thing looks for want of light to look on it Simile There is a sort of rotten wood that shines at Night but you see no lustre in it at Noon That the Paschal lamb was slain on the Sixth day as saith your Author see his pithy proof * Ex. 12.6 which Text tells the day of the Month not of the Week And whether he falsisies Ainsworth on Exod Pag. 37. Ainsworth whom he quotes
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
English Reader The most Necessary of all which to know are These c et caetera and the rest or and so forth Sc scilicet to wit Viz Videlicet to wit or that is to say i e id est that is e g exempli gratiâ as for example q d quasi dicat as if he should say And the same q d serves for as if She should say as if You should say as if They should say as if I or We should say It is easily understood in Reading N B Nota Bene Mark this well O T Old Testament N T New Testament Q Question A Answer Ob Objection Sol Solution D Doctrine R Reason U Use For you to Learn these Lessons Three As easie is as A B C. Which you may Learn with little Leasure Then Read with Knowledge Profit Pleasure As for Hebrew Greek and Latine Words which I lay in your Way they will be no Stumbling-block except you will Make them so For you have it in English which you may Read on without Stumble or Stop And I desire you may So Read as to Reap much Good Fruit by the Labour of Your Loving Friend J W. London May 26. 1681. The General Contents of the First Dialogue A Salutation and Preambulation to the Education of Children Parents equally concern'd in Education Education reduced to two General Heads viz. Instruction and Correction First Instruction The word opened 1 Gen. Head Instruction by Doctrine and Example 1 By Doctrine The word Doctrine opened What D to instruct Children in Twenty Documents for Instruction by D. The Scripture to be Searched for more Any thing in the Bible Vseful even the words of wicked men Devils Proper Names 2 Instruction by Example Word opened Example by Works and Words Circumstances of Education Seven Direction if Children Will or Will not hear The Parent Corrected for Carnal Language The Second General Head viz. Correction 2 Gen. Head Correction twofold viz. with Word and Rod. 1 Correction with Word Six Directions for Word Correction 2 Correction with the Rod Scriptural Account of Rod fourfold The Parallel of Rod and Staff Seven Directions for Rod Correction Fourteen Ob against Rod Correction Answ Two ways great wasters of Time and many more wicked ways Witnessed against Advice of a Civil Secular Concern delivered in 12. Documents The danger of Riches discoursed Counsel concerning Childrens Children PRAYER for a Blessing on Education Prayer For and With Children 1 Prayer For them in Private Ten great effects of Prayer consider'd to encourage to Prayer Time and Times in a day for Private Prayers 2 Prayer With Children in Family Ten directions for Family Duty Objections against Family Duty Answ Parents to take their Children into their Closets and Pray with them there Parents to teach Children to Pray Objections against that Answer'd Parents to procure the Prayers of Praying Persons for their Children Ten Corollaries to quicken Parents to their Whole Duty contained in this Conference THE PARENTS PRIMER AND THE MOTHERS LOOKING-GLASSE In a Dialogue between A MINISTER and a FATHER Minister GOd Save you Sir with your good Wife Whither are you walking this way this morning Father To See Mr. C. What News Sir Min. News I said in my heart what I should have When will this Common Question be out of use Since the Popes Plot appeared the Protestants have spent more Time in Talking of it than All the Papists in England are worth And you living so near us are like our London Christians and they Too like the Athenians who spent their time in Nothing else but to Tell or to Hear some New Thing And if there be no New we talk over the Old without End And every Day is alike If this was the way to do our work viz Self-Examination Humiliation and Reformation for the Sins that provoke God to suffer this Bloody Beast thus to Push at us I would not Oppose it But it 's the way to Hinder Every good work in Heart and Life And to render us Ridiculous to the DEVIL and the POPE to see what a Talking Trade we drive and how we spend our Dayes while Death lies at our Doors Fath. I confess we spend Too much Time that way Min. Confession without Reformation Preambulation is to Poor Purpose Are these two little Lads which follow you Your Children Fath. Yes they are both mine Min. Can you tell me any Good News of Them Fath. They are Pretty good Boys when they Please Min. They had need be made Better to which end I pray what Good Discourse have you had with them by the way for you are now come a Mile from Home Fath. OH HO I have told them the name of yonder Church Steeple And of That I point at with my Cane And of yonder High Brick House with abundance of Chimneys Min. And is this the Best Discourse you have had Fath. The Best yes truly What Discourse should a man have with Children Min. What Discourse Godly Discourse Fath. What with Children Min. Yes with Children to Choose Fath. What Reason is there for That Min. There is Great Reason for it which I shall not Now Render but one thing I shall Render which is Greater than Reason Fath. What is that I pray Min. God's Solemn Command And these words which I command thee this day shall be in thine Heart Deu. 6.6 7. And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy Children and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine House and when thou walkest by the Way and when thou liest Down and when thou risest Vp Fath. I believe Few Fathers or Mothers do so Min. In that you believe Truth but it 's Sad Truth to believe yet Too True I may well say For of othis I have made Much Observation for Many Years in Many Countries in Professing Families without number After all which Observation I may say with Solomon There is an evil which I have seen under the Sun Ecl. 6.1 and it is Common among men Such men have Many a Day been to me an Amazing Consideration viz That ever Persons professing Faith in gods Word of Truth which testifieth the Misery of ALL Mankind that their Children are in a Sad Condition is one part of their Profession who have been Sensible of their Own Misery and Instruments to bring Poor Children into a Miserable World in a Miserable Condition and yet so Careless to bring them Out of this Condition And so little concerned for a Safe passage Out of this World over Hell to the desired Haven Ezek. 19.14 this is a Lamentation and Shall be for a Lamentation Fath. But some Count that this Command was given to the Jews only Min. Read and Compare these two Texts * Deut. 4.10 Ch. 6.7 and you will see it is the Moral Law or Ten Commandments that Parents are Commanded to teach their Children To say This Law belongs to the Jews only is plainly to say We Gentiles are Lawlesse And may
prayer †Col. 4.1 2 i e For them and With them Note these Phrases Cornelius prayed to God alway * Act. 10.2 Pray without ceasing †1 Thes 5.17 Thou shalt eat bread at my table continually * 2 Sa. 9.7 Was Mephibosheth such a Cormorant as to eat bread at David's table Day and Night is a man to do Nothing but Pray as if he was an Angel who hath no earthly trade to follow No the Sense of these Sayings Alway Direct 2. without Ceasing Continually is Do it Daily at Set Times ¶ 2 Choose the Fittest and Best part of these times i e Early in the morning and Early in the evening Then are you like to be Best disposed and your Service Best accepted They that seek me early shall find me †Pro. 8.17 Direct 3. ¶ 3 Choose the fittest Place Christ commends a close Closet to a Christan as a fit place for private prayer * Mat. 6.6 Such a place is also fittest for a Family which is freest from noise Distracting thoughts will come in too Soon though they be not sent in by Sounds and caused by Clamours abroad Direct 4. ¶ 4 Be not hindered by Trifles that is hatefull to God He that will not go to Heaven till there be nothing in the Way is Never like to come there Direct 5. ¶ 5 Lay all businesse By during the Time of the duty Order your Fire to be freed from that evil kind of Fore-cast of placing some Vessel upon it to be Stirred or Tended upon and took Off in prayer Cursed fore cast Some fore-cast is as good as Work but this is worse than Nought ¶ 6 Gather all your Family together Direct 6. to prayer Gather the people together Men and Women and Children and thy Stranger that is within thy gates that they may Hear and Learn and Fear the Lord †Deu. 31.12 All Judah stood before the Lord with their Little-ones their Wives and their Children * 2 Chro. 20.13 Both Young men and Maidens Old men and Children let them Praise the name of the Lord †Psal 148.12 13. Direct 7. ¶ 7 And Far be it from you for Ever to separate your children from Gods Service as some do who for a peaceable preparation for prayer Pack their children to Bed at 5 6 7 8 9 10 years of age with such a Salvo forsooth They will Cry or Sleep or Something and disquiet in duty Strange peace is This the way to train up a child in the way he should go is This the way to bring Up in the Nurture and admonition of the Lord If they Cry or Sleep it 's the Parents fault Late prayer or some disorder is the Matter Serve GOD and the Soul before you serve the Body Go to prayer before Supper And make a Law viz They that Cry shall be Whipt and they that Sleep shall go Supperlesse to Bed And do not drive your children away before the Duty Odious Order as if they were Dogs and leave your Dogs in their room as if they were Christians as some do Both which are abominations I have heard of a Youth who was Converted by an expression in prayer It was because he heard it If he had been Packed to Bed that night before Prayer to the prevention of his conversion doubtlesse it had pleased the Devil to Purpose Direct 8 ¶ 8 Take heed of praying To persons Cauttion instead of praying For them i e by affected Phrases and tinkling Tones Hatefull is that prayer to GOD which is devised formed and phrased to please Man And No better are the Prayers of some persons The Devil is such a Chymist he can extract evil out of Good and Poyson a person with his Own Prayers by puffing him up with Pride in them Direct 9 ¶ 9 Precede Prayer with the Word The word and prayer are put together * 1 Tim. 4.5 Read a Chapter before Prayer And speak something to your Family from what you read Direct 10 ¶ 10 And let me commend the Annual reading over the Bible in a Family for a good Custom which may be thus performed There is in the O T Chapters 779. Psalms 150. Chapters and Psalms 929. In the N T Chapters 260. In both O T and N T Chapters 1039. In both O T and N T Chapters and Psalms in all 1189. There is in a Year 365 Dayes In Bissextile A Rule to read the Bible or Leap-Year 366. Read 3 Chapters a Day and read so many Psalms a Day when you are at them as to read them all in 20 Dayes in Bissextile and in 19 Dayes in another Year this reads the Bible through in a Year except One Chapter which is easily added to the last dayes Task Or if you have Bentley's Bible it hath 375 Leaves If you read one leafe a Day this does it except 9 leaves in Bissextile and 10 leaves in another Year which is not one leaf a Month more than one a Day In a word one quarter of an hour in 24 hours with a ready Reader reads the Blessed Bible in a Year And which of us does not trifle away Ten Times more Time than so Unworthy is that Person of the Name and far from the Nature of a Christians who thinks SO little time too Much to spend in Reading God's Precious Pure Blessed Word Thus far of Family Duty Fath. But hear me before you proceed any farther I am unfit for Family Duty because of my weaknesse to perform it Min. If you know what you say and be as Willing as Weak it is well for then you will venture on your Duty and trust to Gods Stregth which will carry you through what Ever he calls you to Sufficient for satisfaction is that One Promise as thy Dayes So shall thy Strength be †Deu. 33.25 Let the weak believe and say I am Strong * Joel 3.10 But tell me true is there not somewhat else at bottom Fath. Truly there is I am ashamed to pray in my Family among my Servants Min. Now you say Something though worse than Nothing The former was Weaknesse this is Wickednesse Ashamed to speak to GOD to serve GOD to be like GOD what ashamed of GOD OH dreadfull read this Text and Tremble Whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words of him shall the Son of man be ashamed when he cometh in the Glory of his Father †Mar. 8.38 According to Christs glory will the shame of such be i e Infinite To see what a glorious Person is ashamed to Own them To see what a Master they have been ashamed to Serve To see shamefull Spewing upon their Glory * Hab. 2.16 Shame is the punishment prepared for Christs implacable enemies HIS enemies will I cloath with Shame †Psal 132.18 It s like clothes 1 They are Visible so is Shame Simile 2 Unseparable while the Person is visible Dissimile so
ready at his Back to try his work So let a Christian have the Law not only in his Heart and Head but also under his Eye in the Bible that standing Rule that Sure word more to be regarded than what is spoken with an audible voice out of Heaven †2 Pet. 2.18 19. The commandment is a Lamp and the law is Light * Pro. 6.23 Simile the Sun is not more necessary by Day nor the Moon by Night nor a Candle in a Coal-pit or dark Dungeon than the Law without which the world would be a Hell Dr Luther 2 They are ruled by the law written in their hearts How shall we know whether these Persons pretences are pure To the Law if they speak not according to this WORD be they men or Devils or Angels there is no Light in them Heb 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 no morning Junius nulla lucis scintilla not a spark of light †Isa 8.20 N B. There is an Outward law written in the Bible and an Inward law written in a true Christians Heart the Outward law is the rule of Life not the Inward for the outward is Perfect the inward Imperfect The outward law is to Rule the inward and the inward is to be Ruled by the outward That the law is written in the Heart that loves it not as written in the Bible I utterly Deny Apage if the heart be not on the Law the law is not on the Heart 3 They are acted by a principle of love As if a Person should professe to love his Prince beyond him who in All points punctually obeys his Princes laws yet will not this person regard his Princes laws for his Love forsooth must be his Supream Law Whether this person have any love to his Prince or no I will not determine but this is certain his Prince hath one Singular Self-conceited Subject A piece of Pride to whom he may say Love me and love my law They that love God love his law as saith the man after Gods own heart O how love I thy law * Psal 119.97 there is NO more Lord-lovers than law-lovers Some professe love who have none some deny it who have it how shall we know who loves Christ this critical Question Christ himself resolves He that hath my commandments and keepeth them He it is that loveth me †Joh. 14.21 4 They are led by the Spirit of God How shall a man know he is led by the Spirit of God but by the Word of God i e as it leads him according to the Word Beleeve not every spirit but try the spirits whether they are of God * 1 Joh. 4.1 We must try the spirits by the Word and not the word by the spirits 5 They delight to do the will of God How shall a man know the Will of God but by the Word of God and how shall a man delight in the Will of God without delight in the Word of God if a man delight not in the will of God in his word for Direction how shall he delight in the will of God in his rod for Correction e g Suppose God WILL take away Health Wealth Wife Child If once persons are puffed up with Pride they are soon filled with Swelling words of vanity †2 Pet. 2.18 Fath. It is clear to me that the law as written in the Bible is a Christians rule of life Q. is it a rule of life for a Carnal man too Min. The law is for a rule of Life to all men Living who have it A Rule for All. Jesus himself was not excepted when under it * Gal. 4.4 N B Man is to be considered in a twofold State precedent to a State of Grace 1 In innocency In this State the law as a C W was mans rule Of life and For life so long as he Obeyed he lived 2 In a Fallen state The condition of the C W was such that the Least sin Brake it and brought man under the Curse of it Before sin man was under the Blessing of the covenant after sin man was under the Curse of the C W and this is the Case of all Carnal men In this State the M L is a rule of Moral Life And the more exactly to his light a Moral man is ruled by it the more he is to be Commended though thereby he is not Justified And it is in a Sense a rule To life eternal i e as it is a School-master to direct to Christ to be Justified by Faith And this it doth Occasionally by shewing Sin and Wrath without a sight of which what cares a Sinner for a Saviour God likeneth his Law to a Looking-glasse †Jam. 1.23 Simile A glasse by shewing the Spots in the Face Occasionally directs to water to cleanse though water be not seen in the glasse A sense of a Disease directs to the Doctour for Cure Simile though the Doctour be not seen in the disease So the Law though it do not Verbally bid one go to Christ or shew the way of Salvation by it's light yet the law of the Lord is perfect converting the Soul * Psal 19.7 But if this should never be for some men were never made to be saved †2 Pet. 2.12 yet the Law is to be their rule of life and by shewing what is Good and Evil it is to restrain them from Evil and to constrain them to Good and the more a man is thus ruled by the Law the more Mercy may he expect here and the lesse Misery here and hereafter Fath. How was the M L a rule of life to the Jews before Christs death Q how were they under it as we are Since his death Min. The Jews were like Rebekahs Twins two manner of people * Gen. 25.23 viz Carnal and Spiritual The carnal and wicked though Externally and by Profession under a C G were under the Curse of the Law and for the Future it was to Fare with them as with those that never were under that C G. Behold the dayes come saith the Lord that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised Egypt and Judah and Ammon c for these nations i e Egypt and Ammon are uncircumcised i e in Flesh and the house of Israel is uncircumcised in Heart †Jer. 9.25 26. So we in our Congregational Reformed Gentile Church some Wise some Foolish virgins * Mat. 25.2 The wise are under the Law for rule of life the Foolish for all their Church member-ship are under the Curse of the Law ¶ 2 The Jews were under the law to Terrifie and Humble them to prepare them for Christ and So are we Not that the work of the law in humiliation of Heart and reformation of Life makes a Sinner acceptable to Christ as if Worthy because of this Humility But it makes Christ acceptable to a Sinner Simile as a Physitian
Christ was preached to them not only Ceremonially but also Doctrinally but yet Mystically He was called a Rod a Branch †Isa 11.1 Water Wine Milk * Ch. 55.1 a Fountain †Zec. 13.1 this was mystical Doctrine their ignorance of which is sometime bewailed Ah Lord God! they say of me Doth he not speak Parables * Ezek. 20.49 N B The Gospel to the Jews was like an inestimable treasure in a dark gay Glasse Simile overlaid with fair Flowers painted with Pictures to signifie the Substance within but they like children were apter to eye the Out-side than the Inside The Gospel to Us is like the same treasure in a Clear glasse Simile plain without gays and pictures so that we can see the inside Simile Or it 's like the same treasure in an open earthen vessel or Shell as the word signifies †2 Cor. 4.7 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Testa A Shell Moses put a vail over his Face and when Moses is read the vail is upon their Heart i e their minds were blinded * Ch. 3.13 Hence little Faith much Fear darknesse and dread dwell together Zion said The Lord hath forsaken me †Isa 49.14 they would conclude it from a crosse Providence e g The Lord is with thee thou mighty man of valour and Gideon said Oh my Lord if the Lord be with us why then is all This befallen us but now the Lord hath forsaken us * Judg. 6.12 13. Thus subject were they to slavish fear and a spirit of bondage But we being under a clear Gospel have much light light and joy are joyned together †Ps 97.11 peace cometh by the knowledge of God * 2 Pet. 1.2 If a fearful child meets his father in the Dark Simile he dreads him as Death for thinks he that man will Kill me but if he meet him in the Light he runs into his Arms. Hence Christians under clear Gospel light are said to have the Spirit of Adoption crying Abba Father †Rom. 8.15 i e Father Father child-like with much freedom from fear This is called the Spirit of the Son God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts crying Abba Father * Gal. 4.6 The excellency of which Spirit appears in this viz it acts a Soul to own God as a Father under the most Dismal dispensation like the Spirit of the Son under the Fathers wrath crying My God my God though as forsaken in that dismal Dooms-day of his Death which made the air Dark and the earth Quake Howbeit some Persons at Times did Act faith very Nobly under the Law also e g When death is at the Door if Esther the Queen will not speak a word to the King for life Noble Acts. yet Mordecai will beleeve Deliverance shall arise for the Jews from another place †Est 4.14 David will not fear when his Sins compasse him about * Ps 49.5 nor when all Nations compasse him about like Bees †Psal 118.10 nor if the Earth be removed and the Mountains into the midst of the Sea * Ps 46.2 If Gods Zeal Strength Bowels Mercies and all are restrained yet Evangelical Isaiah will say to God Doubtlesse thou art our Father †Isa 63.15 16. Shadrach Meshach and Abed-nego will believe in their God in the very Face of the furious King and at the Mouth of the Seven-fold fiery furnace * Dan. 3.16 And Daniel will do the like in the lions den †Ch. 6. And some did Noble acts by faith a Catalogue of which we have upon record * Heb. 11. ¶ 6 The Jews were under the M L as pointing at Christ to Come to justifie by blood not then in Being e g If a man sin against any of the ten commandments of the Lord and his sin come to his knowledge by the law is this knowledge of sin and by it is the Conscience troubled he shall bring his Sin-offering a Kid of the goats a Male without blemish and kill it and his sin shall be forgiven him †Lev. 4. Thus the M L by its Scourge sent the Sinner to the C L the Sacrifice and Type of Christ and the Type pointed to Christ himself then to come for they drank of that Spiritual Rock that followed them †1 Cor. 10.4 Before faith came i e faith in Christ actually crucified we were kept under the Law shut up to the faith which should afterwards be revealed * Gal. 3.23 i e when Christ the Object of faith should be revealed as manifest in the Flesh and So believed on in the world †1 Tim. 3.16 faith in Christ actually crucified Christ was Virtually crucified from the foundation of the World And under the Law they were Virtually redeemed from the Curse of the Law but not Actually redeemed but when the fulnesse of time was come God sent forth his Son made of a woman made under the law Actually to redeem them that were under the law * Gal. 4.4 5 ¶ 7 The Jews were under many and great Promises of temporal Blessings annexed to their obedience to the Law even a full land flowing with Milk and Honey the glory of all Lands †Ezek. 20 6. Thus we are not under the Law as the Jews were Of the great judgments they were under the execution of for their Disobedience to the M L I say nothing but they happened to them for Ensamples or Types and they are written for OVR admonition upon whom the Ends of the world are Come * 1 Cor. 10.11 ¶ N B A threefold Affirmation Under the Ministry of the Gospel the C W requires as perfect obedience of them that are under it as it did under the ministry of the Law 2 Under the ministry of the Gospel there is as high a degree of Holiness required of justified Persons as there was under the ministry of the Law It 's a Mad mistake to think the Law requires obedience to the law A mad mistake but the Gospel requires no obedience to the law 3 Under the Ministry of the Gospel the Law is to be preached to prick the Heart and prepare for Christ as Peter did by charging the Jews with the Murder of Jesus †Act. 2.36 37. They that say Nay in effect say Peter Paul Jesus himself James and John whom he Surnamed the sons of Thunder * Mar. 3.17 were all a company of Dunces in their Doctrine Therefore to say Before Christs death the Jews were all by nature under the law as a C W A 3 fold Folly but we are all freed from it since Christs death under the Gospel Or 2 They in a State of nature or in a justified State were under the law for a rule of life but not we Or 3 They were under the law to humble and prepare them for Christ but not we these are false foolish
would make us tremble to see persons come to Sermons as if they came for Shows and appear on Galleries as if they were on a Stage in Smithfield Fair to act a part in a play And how is it possible these painted persons should be reproved by a preacher who appears in a Pulpit in a monstrous Periwig a Crown of Pride N B If these persons preach not pride Down their hearers go down to Hell if they do at all attempt it it 's impudence in them and so it is to speak any word in the name of God †Ps 50.16 O what a Shame is it for a man to pretend to have the spirit of God and yet go as if destitute of the dictates of Nature for doth not even nature it Self teach you that if a man have long hair it is a Shame unto him * 1 Cor. 11.14 A shame if it be his Own which God and nature have given him much more it it be another mans hair which comes not from God nor nature but Art that coins a man for the Court or makes him liker a Courtier than a Preacher Scripture phrase Gods word in such a mans mouth is as a Jewel of Gold in a Swines Snout †Pr. 11.22 Simile And in handling it such do Swine-like musle a Pearl up and down the Mire The lip of the Leper was to be covered * Lev. 13.45 and the unclean spirit was to hold his peace †Mar. 1.25 Brethren to these in iniquity are such Ministers who suffer their Wives and Daughters to go like Ladies of honour as if they came from a Court to wait on a Queen or were of Madam Guins Gang though maintained byu the Congregation ¶ But O how perillous is Pride or Sin in such persons The perill of pride when the Priests were to go into the Tabernacle said the holy Lord God They shall wash their hands and their feet that they Dis not and it shall be a Statute for Ever to them * Exo. 30.21 When the Priests sons were wicked in worship there went out Fire from the Lord and devoured them and they died before the Lord †Lev. 10.1 2. a prodigious plague If the Priests daughter did commit fornication she was doomed to the most dismal death viz to be burnt with fire * Lev. 21.9 when others did not die at all for fornication †Ex. 22.16 though they did for adultery * Lev. 20.10 These prodigious plagues shew how hatefull sin is in Such more than in others With such Ministers we may rank such Members who being Coached to their meetings suffer their Coachmen to sit at an Ale-house in Sermon-time and to sit drinking at the Table of Devils while they sit at the Lords Table AY Sir you can shake your Head and sit Silent but I must Speak these things stink up to Heaven The sins of professors of Religion make religion Stink in the nostrils of the prophane †Gen. 34 30. and make professors themselves stink in the nostrils of God * Isa 65.5 Let such preachers and professors take heed the Holy God who hates pride in a high degree do not speedily Spew them out of his mouth By reason of proud persons God may say to London Behold this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom Pride c * Ezek. 16 49. PRIDE was one of the Engines that pulled down the fire of God from Heaven to burn them down to Hell A proud person is in a Perillous condition especially if a Preacher or a Professor But whosoever it be the higher in Pride the lower and farther from God the liker the Devil and the nearer Hell Yet a proud man is above God for God will have his will in nothing but what is good and just but a proud man will have his will right or wrong How can a proud person receive any grace from God Bernards Simile God is the Fountain his grace and mercy to man is the Stream as in a water-course the Stream can rise no higher than the Fountain from whence it comes so grace can rise no higher than God which a proud man is above N B Pride lifting up so high will let fall full low at last he that is above God will doubtlesse fall below the Devil ¶ Beware of World-likenesse Caution Likenesse in Christians to the world in Sin causes likenesse in Sorrow When the small Pox or the great Plague rages the Reason why God puts so little difference between the Egyptians and Israel is because Israel differs so little from Egypt They Live alike and Die alike Some professors promise themselves safety in Pestilence from this promise viz 1000 shall fall at thy side and 10000 at thy right hand but it shall not come nigh thee * Ps 91.7 but why because thou hast made the Lord the most high thy habitation †Ver. 9. this is a dwelling in God by a holy life It is a promise of preservation with a condition such expect it without why not Salvation too without believing Sir I see by your looks I have said more of preachers than hath pleased you but if persons will not be reproved and reformed when such a Plague of darknesse is approaching us from the Pit to prepare us or Ours for that place of torment we may write the Red Crosse on our doors Fath. Let than passe I spake only against Pride but I fear we have some who hear to Poor purpose besides such Proud persons Min. Now you talk of such hearers and put it into my head I tell you here are such Parcels as I could not have believed to be in London had I not heard and seen it eg ¶ 1 Some are pleased with their pure gospel 1 Sort of simple hearers without Law or Duty with faith without works Let a Minister tell them a story of Christ's benefits c they think All is their own Poor deluded creatures where is their Faith they must shew it by their Works if God may be Judge * Ja. 2.18 If their gospel Minister should preach duty so necessary and presse the power of godlinesse they would leave him for a Legal preacher not enduring such sound Doctrine for want of sound Hearts ¶ 2 Other judge of a Minister 2 Sort. by the multitude of his auditors being albe to give no other account of him than he who hasteth to some Hurly-burly or Tumult in the Street viz he runs because he sees others run before him If this be a rule to judge a Minister by we may cry up the Quakers and other who are unsound in Fundamentals for such have the great Assernablies ¶ 3 Other are taken with Tones 3 Sort. and Accents as if the life and power of Preaching lay in Points and Tittles for if a Sermon be Substantial yet if not Tonical it s to them a Toy Or let the same sounding Sermon be delivered
called Sabbath in several Scriptures e g 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the beginning of the Sabbath * Mar. 16.9 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the First of the Sabbaths †Joh. 20.1 Cardinal for the Ordinal i e the New Sabbaths Paul went into the Synagogue on the Jews Sabbath day * Act. 13.14 and preached Jesus and when the Jews were gone out of the Synagogue the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Sabbath between †Ver. 42. See his Sermon from Ver 15 to Ver 42. i e between two Jewish Sabbaths which Sabbath was the first day and that was the Reason the Gentiles durst not name it till the Jews were gone out Thus far for Scripture Proof now for some Scripture Paralle ¶ 1 The seventh-day was kept in remembrance of God's Creation Scripture Parallel the first day is kept in remembrance of a New Creation by Christs Redemption As soon as man sinned there was Virtually a dissolution he and the world was at an end with him So as Christ was Virtually slain from the foundation of the world there was Virtually a New creation by prevention of a dissolution of the Old for by him all things consist * Col. 1.17 This new creation was called the world to come †Heb. 2.5 2 Paral. ¶ 2 The seventh day was kept in remembrance of Gods rest from his work of Creation the first day in remembrance of Christ's rest from his work of Redemption that all men should honour the Son even as they honour the Father * Joh. 5.23 As from the conclusion of the Creation men were to honour the Father with a day in remembrance of That so from the conclusion of Redemption are men to honour the Son with a day in remembrance of That When God had actually finished his work of Creation at end of the Sixth day he instituted a Sabbath the Seventh day so when Jesus had actually finished his work of Redemption at end of the Seventh day he instituted a Sabbath on the First day ¶ 3 The seventh day was kept in remembrance of a Delivery from Slavery †Deu. 5.15 3 Paral. so is the first day to be kept And though all men are not free indeed by Christs redemption so as to obtain Salvation yet is he in a sense the Saviour of all men * 1 Tim. 4.10 and may command all men to keep this day in remembrance of him N B When the seventh day Sabbath was in use it was said the government Shall be upon his shoulder †Isa 9.6 the government is not Now in the hand of God as Creatour but in the hand of Jesus as Redeemer for the Father loveth the Son and hath given all things into his hand * Joh. 3.35 which he will deliver to the Father at last day †1 Cor. 15.24 Judgments of God ¶ The Judgments of God which on the first day have befallen the prophaners of it will One day be a Witnesse for it though at present the plague of Pharoh be so upon the hearts of prophane and professing people that they are not moved at them viz 1 Gods judgments on mens houses and goods by fire e g Teverton Chesterton London though in this last Hell-born bloody Sinners were the Instrumental cause yet the inhabitants Sin was the Meritorious cause 2 On Sabbath-breakers Bodies who by the formidable hand of God have been struck Dead on this day in the very Act. 3 On Sabbath-breakers Souls who have proudly pretended to keep every day such have been and are commonly Cursed and Blasted and with all their Blaze brought to nought To which 1 adde 2 Queries for consideration and one Assertion for full satisfaction ¶ 1 Was not the Fourth command for a Sabbath Day placed among and one of the Ten 1 Q. to signifie it is Originally and Essentially Moral and Perpetual and sometimes put among Ceremonial Sabbaths * Lev. 23.2 3 4 5 6 7. to signifie that in respect of that circumstance of Time it was Typical and subject to change viz with respect to the Day ¶ 2 Did not Adam fall on the Sabbath Day 2 Q. and so break the first Sabbath that ever was made and if so did not that signifie the day was mutable as the fall and breach of the Tables containing the C W with Adam signified the mutation of that Covenant and the making of a New C from the beginning ¶ A first day Sabbath is in a Sense of as great Antiquity Assertion as the first Sabbath ordained for Adam in Innocency Though that was at the end of Gods Works it was at the beginning of mans Life God Ended his week with a Sabbath but man Began his week with a Sabbath It seems he was made at end of the Sixth day to begin his life on the Seventh day which was his First day though he was made a moment before the day began Adam was a Type of Jesus who began his New Life at his Resurrection with a Sabbath the first day of the week And so must we begin our week with a Sabbath a day for God First which is Certainly more acceptable to God than to serve our selves Six dayes first and then put off God blessed for ever with an Od day at last So much for the change of the Sabbath Day Fath. I am satisfied in the change of the Sabbath but I am at a losse to know when the Sabbath begins but I think it s not much matter for that so that a man keeps a day Min. HOW keep a Sabbath and not know when it begins nor ends nor Care to know consequently you will not care to know when Christ rose from the dead for his resurrection gives beginning to the Sabbath Nor will you care to know how long he lay dead What grown like Gallio †Act. 18.17 Simile Sir I am sorry to hear such an ungracious speech fall from your lips Suppose your self taken by cruel Turks a most loving friend to rescue you falls into their hands himselfe in which Skirmish you escape But for your sake he is cruelly used wounded mangled imprisoned in a dismal dungeon So many dayes Then escapes acquaints you with it and desires you for his sake to keep a day in remembrance of his deliverance beginning at the time when it was What would you not care to know when to begin nor End nor how long your friend lay bound truely you deserve to be retaken by the Turks without remedy Fath. I perceive by this you hold Jesus went to Hell but that many Divines deny and so do I for its contrary to Christs words upon the Crosse viz To day shalt thou be with me in Paradise * Lu. 23.43 If Christ went to Heaven how could he go to Hell Min. If he went to Both it s not so great a mystery as the Trinity God is