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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B03435	A fathers advice to his son at the university: wherein is hinted some general directions, which may be usefully read by persons of any age or sex.		1693 (1693)	Wing F553A; ESTC R176976	82,678	160

plainly holds forth the duty of Christians in their whole life is uncontraverted● clear from the Scriptures and all Debates 〈◊〉 religious matters that have not the alone prospect of bettering and advancing of Knowledge are certainly not allowable And as your heart● all times ought to be over-filled with true love 〈◊〉 God and such as bears his Image so especially be respective to the Ministers of the Gospel being Ambassadors for Christ and Administrator of the Ordinances appointed by him in the Ne●● Testament as the Apostle enjoyns 1 Thes 5 1●● I beseech you brethren mark them which labour amongst you and are over you in the Lord and adminish you and esteem them very highly in Love for the works sake And let not the infirmities of any 〈◊〉 them procure in your heart any disrespect to th●● holy Calling But mind what the same Apostle saith 2 Cor. 4.7 That we have this Treasure in earth en Vessels that the exeellency of the power may be 〈◊〉 God and not of us 13. As you are to have a Pity and Love eve● towards such as altogether wants Religion 〈◊〉 worships God not truly as he hath appointed 〈◊〉 his Word so ye would altogether avoid the least of Animosity with such as with Charity 〈◊〉 may judge differs only anent Church-government or any thing else not inconsistent with the salvation of their Souls not doubting but ye will sin● at the day of Judgment that the many Niceitie● which a great part do but too much concern themselves in are the effects of want of Charit and a gospel Frame and disposition of heart 14. The wickedness of our hearts is such as doth altogether unfit for the doing of Duty Have we any prosperity in the enjoyment of health or any thing desireable in the world we are seldom or never in a frame for rightly acknowledging God for his Mercies and improving them to the end of our having thereof And if Providence tryst our being crossed in what is delightful to us how ready are we to dejection of mind and what does unfit for Duty let every Dispensation of God to you-ward lead you to the consideration of failings in your bypast life and stir you up to a suitable walk under what you are trysted with Endeavour an equality of Temper in all your ways if Dispensations any ways prosperous be your Lot consider you have them from God and humbly acknowledge his Mercy in what ever you meet with and if what is more cross befal you repine not thereat but mind that the worst of Conditions is above your desert Seek of him with earnestness that you may truly learn his holy Will in all his Dispensations and in Prosperity or Adversity let all your care be to know what ye are called to as Duty and to endeavour with diligence the doing thereof even in things relating to this life then with chearful Submission leave the event of all your concerns to God who is wonderful in goodness to such as fear and trust in him 15. When the Lords day is come remember to keep it holy as God has expresly appointed in his 4th Command And in order thereto prepare your Heart for the Duties thereof before it approach for however a great many in this Age may contravert the Morality of that Precept for the due observation of the Sabbath yet may you be satisfied with what is fully held forth by I may say all the most serious and godly of Divines that it is from the Practise no● only of the Primitive Church being the mospure of Christians but even of the Appostles wh● were immediately inspired of God and whose Example we are bound to follow And as the due Observance of the Sabbath under the Law was enjoyned under the certification of gre●● wrath from God as in Nehemiah 13. cap. v. 17. and 18. What evil is this that ye do and propha●● the Sabbath did not your Fathers thus and did 〈◊〉 our God bring all this evil upon us and upon this C●ty yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profanity the Sabbath So the Promises to the doing there of were great as in Isa 56.2 Blessed is the m●● that doth this and the son of man that layeth hold●● it that keepeth the Sabbath from polluting it A●● 58.13 14. If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath and from doing thy pleasure on my holy day a●● call the Sabbath of the Lord a delight the holy of the Lord honourable and shalt honour him not finding thi●● own pleasure nor speaking thine own words then sha●● thou delight thy self in the Lord and I will cause th●● to ride upon the high places of the earth and feed the with the heretage of Jacob thy father for the mou●● of the Lord hath spoken it Yea not only from History the judgments of God upon Sabbath-breakers are manifest but such as are of small Experience may evidently perceive the dreadful consequences thereof in the confession of almost all Malefactors that comes to publick Execution It is tr●● such as are pleased to have no respect to the d● Observation of the Sabbath and to object again● the obligation upon Christians for keeping it holy doth answer to that of its being so generally confessed by dying Penitents that the same flows but from their Education and its being inculcat in them to be so sinful but what answer will such I may say prophane Wretches give to this so palpable Evidence of God's displeasure with the profanation of that Day that He in his over-ruling Providence often permits notorious Breakers of the Sabbath to fall in such sins as even brings them to open and shameful Punishment in this World And albeit the ways of God's Providence are not to be fathomed and gross Sinners of every kind do's in things relating to this life Die without any appearing Marks of God's displeasure which may fully satisfie all rational Persons that there is a Judgment to come so the temporal Calamities sometimes trysting Sinners in this World are an Earnest of what shall be Dispensed at that dreadful Day to such and it may plainly appear to you that the Cavilling against the Obligations for keeping Holy the Sabbath of our Lord is of the Devil being that only such as want tenderness of Conscience and Love not to live in any thing according to the Rules of the Gospel do thus declare themselves whereas Persons whose hearts are God-ward however their Frailty may hinder the due performance of their Duty are ever ready to acknowledge their Obligation to the observation of that Day to be kept a Sabbath Holy to the Lord. Yea Sir Matthew Hale late L. Chief Justice of England whose Memory is Savoury to all good men that knew or heard of him in his Directions to his Children for keeping the Lords Day doth press it upon them for several Reasons and in one whereof he saith because I have found by long and sound Experience that the due observance of that

and the Prophets and for the histocal part of the Bible I think it not so necessary that you do so often read it After your reading endeavour to enlarge your self in Confession and Prayer to God and lift up your heart not only in a general acknowledgment of his mercies but in particularly acknowledging him for the mercies you are ever meeting with In your Petitions pray for all especially these you have interest in and such as are in Authority yea omit not your very Enemies and forget not to be earnest with God in behalf of his Church and People And certainly you cannot better at some times conclude your wandering and sinful Prayers then in the words of that unconceivable excelling Prayer of our blessed Lord and Saviour Our Father c. You would endeavour duly to perform the duties of Prayer Reading and Meditation at the times set a part by you and not to omit them unless some special Reason occur obleiging you to alter in which case you would redeem the lost occasion by a new opportunity albeit I be not against the length of Prayers when fitness of frame and occasion enables you to enlarge therein yet I incline you should for ordinar be frequent albeit succinct in that Duty and besides the ordinar times for your Divotion Evening and Morning you would not only throughout the day be frequent in ejaculatory Petitions to God but as occasion offers of any privacy you would upon your Knees with thankfulness of heart humbly put up your desires to God for strength against your Corruption and a supply of your Souls wants which upon little Recollection you will always find to be many 4. When you eat or drink neglect not that Christian Practice of seeking a Blessing before your doing thereof and giving of Thanks after your partaking of what God in great merey has bestowed upon you it may truly be said to be a Christian Practice being as you may be satisfied from the Evangelists the Custom of our blessed Saviour But as ye are called to avoid Formalitie in Christian Duties so ye would especial-beware of it in this the Corruption of our wretched Hearts prevailing but too much to our being formal in the Duties we more frequently g● about it is to be feared that the Motives to this Duty with the most part is allanerly Custom or to shun some kind of publick Reproach that attends the neglect thereof And alas too seldom are our hearts intent upon what we are doing therein I desire ye may seriously mind that it is not Words but the Heart that God requires and whether by your self alone or as the mouth of others that with you doth partake of what he in Mercy gives be serious in expressing succinctly desires suitable to the occasion and especially if you do it with and for others I am satisfied of its being very suitable for Persons qualified at some occasions to enlarge in that Duty but I think it would be done with discretion for unless some singular Circumstance require it or that the Speaker be satisfied of an inclination in these that joyn with him to go along heartily in the Petitions put up to God not directly tending to the craving of a Blessing to or giving Thanks for the present Mercy He would beware of doing what the unsuitable frame in others and very likely in himself may be but a Snare to the Company Indeed we are not only in all our Approaches to God to forbear the doing thereof so as may evidence Formality and want of Attention to the Duty we go about but even in the most single Petition we put up it were fitting we did so express a sense of our own unworthiness and Gods infinite Goodness for which at all times we should praise him yet our Experience from a smal Observation may satisfie that tediousness therein reaches not to bring the hearts of these that should joyn in it to a serious doing thereof 5. With your Petitions in Prayer and at other occasions either in word or thought magnifie the Name of God for his Mercies they are unexpressibly Great in all that occurrs to us but oh the Greatness of the Love of God! in sending His Son to satisfy Divine Justice for wretched miserable rebellious Man Forget not at all times the Praising of God by word and in thought Our most Blessed Lord in that excelling Pattern of Prayer doth begin and conclude with the Father's Praise and surely the duty of Praise is of all that is required by God of Man what do's most immediatly tend to His giory what we are else call'd to do or seek of Him hath the immediat tendency to our own or our Neighbour's Well but our conscientious hearty praising of God of all Duties do's most directly glorify Him and it is the beginning here what shall be the delightful and ever continuing work of such as shall in and through Christ at the Great Day of His appearance be accepted of Him to all Eternity I have told you of my unfitness to direct you particularly in your duty God-ward and I pray God for Christ's sake give you knowledge in Duty and sanctify your heart let the World have nothing of the room of Christ therein for it is unspeakably vain and wicked Solomon doth uncontravertedly hold forth the vexatious Vanities incident to the life of Man and it is certainly evident there is nothing truly desireable but an Interest in Christ and that they are only happy whose God is the Lord and not only is the Evidence of an Interest in Christ desireable but it is attainable as is plain from the Mouth of our Blessed Lord who says what all the enemies to the use of Marks or Evidences can lay no exception against Mat. 6.21 For where your treasure is there will your heart be also And I recommend to your serious perusal Mr. Gu●hrie's Tryal of a Saving Interest which will direct you therein and the Means for attaining to it 6. Let your whole walk throughout the day be as I have hinted to you have upon your heart the awful sense of Gods presence wherever you are or whatever you do or think I deny not but the World may and must be minded by you but still in its place secondarly and subordinatly for what is the World to your Soul What is Bread or Cloaths or Money or a house or Lands to an everlasting Kingdom Let the Lord have the whole ordering of you make no Purchase but where God who is present allows of the Bargain and go about no Business concerning which you cannot say I am herein trading for God That is your doing either what immediatly tends to his Glory or your serving Him in your Station and Calling as he hath appointed by the 15 Psalm you will see what is acceptable to God 7. Meditation is a Duty in which there is much delight to such as seriously practise it and it is what will truly tend to the bringing your heart