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A65690	Comfort for parents, mourning over their hopeful children, that dye young In a funeral discourse upon Jer. 31. xvii. And there is hope in thine end, saith the Lord. By Thomas Whitaker, minister of the Gospel at Leeds, in York-shire.	Whitaker, Thomas, 1650 or 51-1710.	1693 (1693)	Wing W1713; ESTC R221995	29,944	125

Dawnings of that Glorious Day but to breathe after clearer Discoveries of the Love and Favour of God in and through a Saviour This must certainly be a Frame of Soul that carries not a little Encouragement in it It 's a very encouraging Symptom in grown Persons and much more in Children What was it but the sweet Breath of a Gracious Heart when the Holy Psalmist address'd himself in such a Pathetick Prayer to Heaven Psa 106.4,5 Remember me O Lord with the Favour of thy People Oh visit me with thy Salvation that I may see the Good of thy Chosen Two Evidences of a Sincere Gracious Soul are observable in the Prayer First That no less would satisfie his Panting Heart than the Favour that was peculiar to God's own People the good of his Chosen And secondly that could not content him neither but he must have the sensible Refreshing Evidence of that Favour Such Heavenly Breathing have sometimes appear'd in young ones that nothing could satisfie them but some chearing Glimps of the Salvation of God and what can be the Spring of such Divine Bubblings but an Heart season'd with an Heavenly Tincture from above It 's an Argument that Christ lies near the Heart when the Desires are so strong after Clearness of Interest Heaven must both be understood and valued where the Soul is so sollicitous for a sure and clear Title and would not only have some Hope but rejoyce in Hope in the Glory of God 11. Willingness to be gone to be with Christ is the last Gracious Symptom I shall mention It 's not to be doubted but Death in its self must be as terrible to Children as to others The Separation of two such dear Intimates as Soul and Body cannot but look with a frightful Aspect upon them as well as more grown Persons the utter Extinction of all Worldly Relations and Earthly comforts cannot but be very unwelcome and uneasie to Flesh and Blood Isa 38.11 To be taken from the Land of the Living and lodged in the Dark and hideous Mansions of the Grave where they shall see Man no more with the Inhabitants of the Earth cannot but make recoil in them as well as others And yet it 's very remarkable how welcome this Grim and Melancholy Messenger has been to some young Ones and how willing have they been to leave the World and to go to the House prepared for all Living tho' they have but just begun to taste the Sweet and Pleasure of the World and have felt little of the Bitter to wean their Hearts from it yet how contented have they been to bid it Farewel with all its Delights and Pleasures and have entertained Death with a very sweet and resigning Composure of Mind Now what could thus reconcile the King of Terrors to them but the Thoughts and hopes of something beyond the Grave to recompence the loss of what they leave here It 's an argument of their Faith that they believe a future State and that the Happiness thereof infinitely exceeds all the Felicities of this present state of Time It 's an Evidence they have got some Peep within the Vail where they have seen great and wonderful Things far surpassing all the Enjoyments of this lower Region It 's a demonstration of their Love to and Valuation of Christ that they esteem the Fruition of him more worth than all the World and are willing to be absent from the Body that they may be present with the Lord. 2 Cor. 8. 5. It 's an argument they have some Inin God as their God they are so willing to go to Him though it be through such a Gloomy Passage And that they love their Fathers House since the Messenger is so welcome tho' but a frightful One that 's sent to fetch them thither It 's an intimation they know and have felt something of Heaven when they can be so content to exchange Things seen for unseen the visible sensible Comforts of this World for the invisible Delights of Heaven In a Word I'ts an evident Proof that Christ is their Life their Joy their Hope their Happiness their Portion their All when they can so freely throw off all the Courtships of Flesh and the World Phil. 1.23 that they may be with their Exalted Redeemer as the best of all The pale Horse of Death could not meet with such a welcome and submissive Reception but that he carries them thither whither their Hearts are already gone And siher their Hearts are Above it is an Argument their Treasure is there also It is not to be expected that Children should hove such clear and explicite Apprehensions as more mature Christians But however when they know so much as to esteem it a Being with Christ and upon that account not only Heaven is truly desirable but Death is welcome as the Way thither it cannot but be reckon'd as a very hopeful Presage And what can suggest more affecting and refreshing Hopes to Mourning Parents than to see their departing Children thus preter being with Christ before their Continuance in this Vain and Changeable World Thus I have endeavoured to take afflicted Parents by the Hand and to lead them to some of those Cordial-Springs of Hope which may minister good Encouragement as to the good Estate of their Dying Children And tho' it 's a rare Happiness to find all these Blessed Symptoms in a sweet Conjunction yet where there is any of them it may give some Support and Hope And the more that appears the higher may our Hopes advance towards an holy Confidence 2. I come now to shew In what respects these Grounds of Hope in Dying Children minister Matter of Support and Comfort to their Surviving Parents and Relations 1. Having such Grounds of Hope Parents may be satisfied that their Children are not lost but laid up It 's a Thought that oftentimes perplexeth the Minds of tender Parents not a little what becomes of their dear Children when they go hence into what Hands they fall and whither they are transported and carried And that which renders the Parting many times more Bitter and Afflictive is the Perplexity of this But having the forementioned Grounds of Hope the Perplexity is presently removed Your Children though gone out of your Sight and Care yet they are not lost but safely lodg'd up Not lost among the Infernal Apostate Fiends of Hell those Robbers and Murderers of precious Souls Malach. 3.17 but safely laid up amongst God's Jewels who will have them all forth-coming another Day Psal 57.4 Not lost in Satan's Territories among those raging Lyons of Prey but happily conducted to their Heavenly Father's Bosom where they are laid up in Peace and Safety As God has stamped the Lineaments of his own Image upon them in True though not in such Large Characters so will he not take care of those whom he has set his own Child's-mark upon Will he lose his Children whom he hath adopted into the Line of

Cloud that God has drawn over you be Dark yet it s not all Darkness it has its Bright as well as its Dark Side And while the One ministers matter of Sorrow to you the reviving Beams of the Other may give you Light and Comfort in the midst of your Sorrows 2. Bless God that hath given you such Hope instead of Grieving and Repining for what you have lost Adore Divine Goodness for what you have left you You have lost a Child but you have a Legacy of Hope left you to help you to bear your Loss Be more in Blessing God for the one than in mourning for the other It might have been otherwise with you that you neither might have had Child nor Hope But since God has been more gracious to you take heed of carrying it as if either you had no sense of Divine Goodness or your Relation Dyed without Hope As there is a Debt of Tears owing to your Hopeful departed Children so there is a Debt of Thankfulness owing to the God that made them such Be not over-liberal in paying the One while in the mean time you forget the Other Tho' God have taken away the tender Olive-Plants that should have adorned your Tables yet as good old Jacob said in another case it 's enough that you have a Comfortable Hope that they are transplanted to a richer Table in their Father's Kingdom They have taken their flight never to make their Return to Earth any more But it 's enough that you have Hope in their Latter End Bless God for and comfort one another with that Hope 2. Give me leave now to improve this Point more generally to all to whom it may be useful and that 1. To Parents 2. To Children 1. Here 's Matter of Exhortation to you Parents That you would use the utmost care in the Holy Education of your Children that whether they live or die you may have Comfort if they live you may have Comfort in their Lives if they die you may have Hope in their Death Or however you may have this Support in your own Spirits that you have discharged your Duty As soon therefore as they arrive to a Competent measure of Capacity take all Opportunities prudently to instil Divine Truths into their Minds such as their tender Years are most capable of receiving that their Minds being so early tinctured with things of Eternal Moment may derive a suitable Impression to their Hearts Take all convenient Seasons to acquaint them that there is a Great and Glorious though invisible God who made all things and curiously formed them in Secret and formed an Immortal Spirit within them to know and love to live unto and live with Him in an Everlasting State Be telling them as they are able to bear how their Natures are depraved and fallen off from their God and Happiness and that thereby they are become Children of Wrath by Nature and obnoxious to the Judgment and Curse of an offended Majesty Acquaint them with what Condescension to their Capacities you can what guilty perishing Creatures they came into the World by reason of Sin and if it were not for Infinite Goodness that they might have been tumbled into Hell as soon as ever they drew their First Breath Tell them that in this miserable State they might have lived and died without Remedy had not Infinite Compassion provided a Saviour to deliver poor Guilty Souls from going down to the horrible Pit Inform them with what plainness and distinctness you can possibly use who this Saviour is and what he has done and suffered and what he is still a doing in order to the Recovery of lost undone Souls Tell them that they even they must have an Interest in this Saviour or they are undone for ever and that the way of coming to an Interest in Him is by an Humble casting themselves upon his Blood and Grace for the Pardon of their Sins and the Healing of their Corrupted Natures Such Truths as these labour to possess and season their early Thoughts withal Only in the doing thereof use all the Prudence and Gentleness and Condescension you can that you neither overcharge them with too much at once nor confound them with Things that their Capacities cannot reach unto And who knows how this Divine Leaven may under the Influence of the Heavenly Blessing diffuse its powerful Vertue thro' their Tender Souls As soon as they begin to talk learn them to talk in the Language of Canaan and not of Ashdod in the Dialect of Heaven and not of a Prophane World that their early Breath be not corrupted with the rotten Communication of the Children of Belial 2 Kin. 2.23 Let it be your Pious and Early Care to teach them their Catechism as being the most familiar and methodical way of Instruction and content not your selves that they learn it by rote but labour to conveigh the Truths therein to their Understandings and Affections As soon as possible also learn them to Pray and in order thereunto Pray with them your Selves and acquaint them both what need they have to Pray and how they must address themselves to God in this Solemn Duty Carry them as soon as you can judge it convenient to the Publick Worship and Ordinances of the Gospel and esteem it a Mercy that you may carry your Young and your Old with you Observe them with what Reverence and Attention they carry themselves while they are there and call them to an Account what they have brought with them when they come home and take Advantage of what they remember though it be the less to improve it to further Instruction Above all inure them to their Bibles betimes and direct them to such Places as may be most fitted to their weak Capacities and if in their Reading any thing offer it self which may afford special Instruction to them improve it to that end And thro' Divine Goodness some Grains of the Immortal Seed may take Root e're you are aware In a word Train them up to all Religious and Divine Exercises that their tender Years are capable of And cease not to water all with your Prayers and Tears for an happy Success Would you have your Children Comfortable in Life and Hopeful in Death let these be the Particulars of your Serious and Early Care And the more effectually to excite you thereunto let me offer to you the following Cosiderations 1. Without this Religious Care of Education you cannot expect the Comfort you desire neither in their Life nor Death I know there is nothing more Natural than for Parents to place a great deal of Hope and to prosmise to Themselves large share of Comfort from their Rising Off-spring When you are pressed down with the Pains and almost wearied with the Care that 's laid out upon them this sweetens and alleviates all But seriously consider with your selves what just Ground have you for such Expectations without a Conscientious Endeavour to render them such as you