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The bright star which leadeth wise men to our Lord Jesus Christ, or, A…
The bright star which leadeth wise men to our Lord Jesus Christ, or, A familiar and learned exposition on the ten commandments gathered from the mouth of a faithful pastor by a gracious young man, sometime scholar in Cambridge.The bright star which leadeth wise men to our Lord Jesus Christ, or, A familiar and learned exposition on the ten commandements gathered from the mouth of a faithfull pastor by a gracious young man, sometime scholler in Cambridge.
London: printed by John Harison for Thomas Man, 1603London: printed by Iohn Harison for Thomas Man, 1603
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A second duty of thankfulness is to pray for their parents. As in Tim. 2. He commands that prayers be made for all in authority, And if any must pray for those that be further of in common weal, much more for those that are nearer in the family. Therefore this is a fault to be greatly condemned in many, that can see their parents faults and speak of them too much, but cannot find time to fall down before God, and beseech him to heal their nature and help them out of their sins. Many have lived a long time with their parents yet cannot say that they sent up an hearty prayer to heaven for their parents, so unnatural and unthankful be they.
A second dutie of thankefulnesse is to pray for their parents. As in Tim. 2. He commands that prayers be made for all in authoritie, And if any must praye for those that be further of in common weale, much more for those that are nearer in the familie. Therefore this is a fault to bee greatly condemned in many, that can see their parents faults and speake of them too much, but cannot finde time to fall downe before God, and beseech him to heale their nature and helpe them out of their sinnes. Many haue liued a longe time with their parents yet cannot say that they sent vp an heartie prayer to heauen for their parents, so vnnaturall and vnthankefull be they.
The use of all these duties to those whose parents are not alive, is to look that their sins be not alive after their parents death. And therefore to examine themselves, whether they have been faulty in any of these things, and if they do repent for it, and desire pardon, else they be liable to two plagues. First that their children should take their parents quarrel in hand, and requite their wicked dealing in what ever duty they have ⟨p. 7⟩failed, and have not repented of it. And secondly, that as honouring parents, brings a long and happy life; so their dishonouring their parents should make them have a short life and miserable, or if a long life, yet full of Gods curses for their unrepented sonne. Therefore let such as be now fatherless, mark themselves, and finding that their children are stubborn against them, and unthankful and rebellions every way, as many may see it openly and woefully, let call themselves back, and see what kind of children they were before, how they behaved themselves to their parents, whether they were not all together faulty in this point. If it be so, let them confess that their own sins have found them out, and are turned open, let them acknowledge that God is just, and hath given the same measure into their bosoms; their own evil is fallen upon their own heads, they digged a pit in their youth, and now in their age are fallen into it. And thus much of the duties of children.