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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43569	Advice to an only child, or, Excellent council to all young persons containing, the summ and substance of experimental and practical divinity / written by an eminent and judicious divine, for the private use of an only child, now made publick for the benefit of all.	Heywood, Oliver, 1629-1702.	1693 (1693)	Wing H1758; ESTC R18548	63,918	191

God for you is that you might be saved and thereupon I do Travel in Birth for you till Christ be form'd in you Wherefore as Paul wrote to Philemon though I might be bold in Christ to enjoyn you yet for Loves sake I rather beseech you being such a one as your Father the Aged and a Servant of Jesus Christ I beseech you not as he for an One Simus but for your self whom I have begotten and O that I could say had begotten again though it were in my bonds and so could in this respect further say in the words of that Apostle there Thou owest unto me even thine own self yea Daughter let me have joy of you in the Lord refresh my Bowels in the Lord which you will do if I may have confidence in your Obedience that you will do what I say which I may the more expect from you sith the Counsel I here give you is no other than what I have received from mine and your Heavenly Father and therefore I may say confidently of it what was said of Ahitophels that it is as if one had inquired of the Oracles of God for it is such as I had from the Word of God which is called the Oracles of God And though I be your Father yet I could willingly go down upon my knees to you begging of you for your Souls sake that you would embrace it which if you do then blessed are you among Women for God will guide you with his Counsel and afterwards receive you to Glory But if you refuse it you reject the Counsel of God against your self and this paper will rise up in Judgement against you CHAP. I. Of Covenanting with God in Christ 1. IN the first place I do beseech you in the Bowels of a tender Father and as you will answer the denyal of so reasonable a request at the Tribunal of God before the Soveraign Judge of Men and Angels that you would seriously intirely and unreservedly make an oblation of your self in Covenant a solemn Dedication of all your faculties both of Soul and Body to God the Father Son and Holy Ghost as your only God Redeemer and Sanctifier binding your self thereby to forsake that malicious Trinity the World the Flesh the Devil Resign up and make over your self wholly and intirely to the Lord to the obedience of him Subscribe to all his Laws bid an utter defiance to all his enemies out-brave all opposition and Triumph over all in the Lord. 2. Here let me remind you that this is that which I solemnly Covenanted in your behalf at your Baptism and you being come to Age are bound to perform and make good which if you should not do but recede from that engagement I should tremble to think how sad your case would be Had you died in your Childhood as my other Children did then you had reaped the benefit of the Covenant according to the faith of your own Parents but now you must stand or fall by your own faith sincere consent thereunto as the Child while an Infant is carried in the Mothers or Nurses Arms but when grown up must stand upon its own legs 3. I intreat you therefore I warn you as a Father do that first which must needs be done and is of greatest Importance the most momentous concern be sure that your Soul be safe and secure as to its everlasting condition Act Maries part by looking after the one thing necessary and therefore get to be in Covenant with God in Christ by your hearty consent thereunto for this is the true condition and certain evidence of your interest in the Covenant your Title to all the rich Legacies thereof as namely to God the Father Son and Holy Ghost as your Reconciled God and Father Redeemer and Sanctifier and consequently to all the saving Blessings and Priviledges both of the Kingdom of Grace and Glory which are all couched therein In the Covenant God the Father consents or enters into Bond in the sight and presence of Angels and glorified Souls to be our God Jesus Christ to be our Saviour and the Holy Ghost to be our Sanctifier in which compendious and immense grant all things are comprized that you can ask or think If you then reciprocally consent and engage your self to take God the Father to be your only God the Son to be your Saviour to save you from Sin as well as from Hell and the Holy Ghost to be your Sanctifier to make you by degrees perfectly holy then the Covenant is complete your Interest therein secure and your Title good to all the rich Blessings laid up in this Ark of the Covenant provided your consent be such as doth blossom forth into the duties which you consent unto and produce a renouncing of the World the Flesh and the Devil which is involved and enwrapped therein for you do not take God to be your God if you take him only to receive his pay and not to fight under his Banner against those his malicious enemies You do not take him to be your God unless you take him to be your All and be ready to renounce and forsake all for him and prefer him in your love and esteem above all things so as to let him turn the ballance and his interest to weigh down the Scales against all the World and unless you set him alone in the Throne in the highest Chariot to ride Triumphantly in the Soul over all enemies How readily doth the Wise Merchant in the Gospel sell all for the Pearl that is more precious than Rocks of Rubies and Mountains of Diamonds Thus it will be with you if your Covenant consent be not weak and languid but strong and well fixed Indeed a small rub may turn aside a Bowl that hath but a weak Byass but if it hath a strong one it will recover and get into its way again See then that your consent be so strong and full as may pass you under the bond of the Covenant and carry you over to God and Christ against all opposition But think it not enough that this Covenant be once made it must be often renewed and followed with an answerable practice 4. This is my first and grand advice yea the very Abridgment and Summ of all your duty this entring into keeping faithfully the Baptismal Covenant is your very Christianity real Godliness it 's your building upon a Rock your doing the one thing necessary and your giving to God the things that are Gods It 's a denying of your self taking up the Cross and following the Lord Jesus it 's a delivering of your self over to the Lord Jesus to be Married to him a taking him as your Husband to Love Honour and Obey him above all And to this Match you have my full and free consent yea my daily prayers for it O that as a spokesman for Christ I could tell how to woe for him and use such Rhetorick that I might prevail look

delight in God Musick upon the Water sounds louder and is much sweeter than upon the Land Joy upon the Waters of Godly Sorrow is most sweet and pleasant Chrysostom calls sorrow for sin the Mother of Joy I assure you God never commanded sorrow for sin barely for it self but only in order unto joy 2. God would not have any of his People lead sad drooping and melancholy Lives for thereby they would dishonour their heavenly Father and disparage his House keeping as if there were not Bread enough in their Fathers house but rather a want of Necessaries there Yea it would make the World ready to think that he were a hard Master toward them and Jesus Christ an unkind Husband If a Wife be always sad and sit puling and whining will not every one be ready to say that she hath a bad Husband This Sackcloth doth not become the Court of the King of Saints nor beseem those that live within it Spiritual Chearfulnese is that which becomes Religion sets a gloss thereon and makes it shine gloriously and look most amiably in the Eyes of the World and may cause them to fall to love with it 3. But whatsoever the Wor think of Religion it is not of a melancholy temper but of a sanguine complexion It may well say to them Call me no more Marah i. e. Bitterness but call me Naomi which signifies Pleasantness for it is of all others the most pleasant and delightsom Life i. e. in respect of inward complacency and gladness though not in respect of passionate joy or mirth All her ways are ways of pleasantness and all her paths are peace Prov. 3.17 Thus the way of Religion is strawed with Roses with inward peace and tranquillity Walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comforts of the Holy Ghost are claspt and laid together Acts 9.31 Christians have meat to eat that the World knows not of What means this Musick said the Elder Brother of the returning Prodigal There 's the White-Stone and the New Name that none know but they that have it Rev. 2.17 There 's hidden Mannah for their Souls to feast upon 4. And indeed how can a believing Soul that walks closely with God chuse but rejoyce when it is always in the presence of God and Christ Can the Children of the Bride-chamber mourn while the Bridegroom is with them Matth. 9.15 It is reported that our Saviour when he was on the Earth had such a chearful Countenance that the Jews that lived in his days when they found themselves sad and melancholy would say to one another Come let us go and look upon Mary 's Son that we may be chearful How true that is I know not but this I am sure that looking upon Jesus Christ by an Eye of Faith will make a Soul rejoyce abundantly Tho' now you see him not yet believing you rejoyce with joy unspeakable and full of glory 1 Pet. 1.8 Joy comes in by believing Actings of Faith will cause Jesus Christ to set abroach this Royal Wine of Joy for you which will never be a-tilt but alway run fresh while you act Faith to draw A believing Soul hath a Bird in its own bosom that makes most sweet and pleasant Melody Faith spies out God's Love in all things sees all providential Dispensations come from God as a Token of Love and so rejoyceth in all When a Wife receiveth but a small thing from her Husband abroad as a Token of Love she rejoyceth more in it than in forty times more which she had at home before But most of all Faith sees Love of God shine forth in the Gifts of Grace and Priviledges of Heaven Hath God given you the rich Jewel of Grace a Patent for Heaven a Grant of the Priviledges of his Court the Right of Adoption to the being a Daughter of God You have abundant cause to rejoyce and triumph in him and to glory in the God of your Salvation 5. You see what kind of joy and delight it is that I have here commended to you It is not an Enthusiastick joy or delight through irrational raptures which reason can give no account of but it 's a rational solid complacency of the Soul in God nor is it a meer sensual joy It 's not the joy of those merry ones of the Age that spend their Life in vain and sinful pleasures whose mirth is madness as the Wise man calls it Eccles 2.2 Mad men will laugh and hoop and hollow as if they were full of joy but who knows not that their condition is very sad In the midst of laughter the heart is sad and the end of that mirth is heaviness Prov. 14.13 Do not the jolliest sinners find a damp after all their mirth and alas their mirth will last but a while their feast will be soon over the cloth will be shortly drawn the musick shall cease to play at their doors and then nothing shall be heard but lamentable out-cries bitter wailing and gnashing of the Teeth for ever I have been the longer on this that I might keep you from that prejudice against Religion which is in the hearts of most as if it were a sad and a melancholy life as if the bitter herb of Grace would poison the flower of all their Mirth And for the same reason I shall add another Advice a-kin to this CHAP. XI Of Praise and Thankfulness to God 1. LIve a Life of Praise and Thankfulness to God This inclines the Soul to a holy rejoycing in God Let him have your admiring Praises continually O steep your thoughts in the Love and Mercies of God! Say often with your self O what hath God done for me what great Mercies hath he offered and tendred to my Soul what a mercy is it that I am alive that he hath bore with me thus long and waited for my Repentance what astonishing riches of Love and Free Grace is it that I am on this side Hell and that there is an Alsufficient Saviour provided for me I 'll therefore live to the praise of his Glory and bear witness to his transcendent Excellency 2. Give God both tongue and heart to praise him Anatomists observe that the tongue of man is tyed to the heart by a double string May not this intimate that God would have the tongue as well as the heart a stringed Instrument of his Praise But yet he regards not the Praises of the tongue at all if you do not make melody in your heart unto him What doth God require of you for all his mercies and loving-kindnesses but only praise Some hold their Lands by paying the Rent of a Pepper-corn or the like We hold all that we have from God who requires only that we should pay this poor Qui● rent a Pepper-corn of Thankfulness which if we pay daily to him he will give in more mercies Trumpeters delight to sound where they may have an Eccho and God to give where he may have an Eccho of Prase God is