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The Saints' Everlasting Rest
The saints everlasting rest, or, A treatise of the blessed state of the saints in their enjoyment of God in glory wherein is showed its excellency and certainty, the misery of those that lose it, the way to attain it, and assurance of it, and how to live in the continual delightful forecasts of it and now published by Richard Baxter ...The saints everlasting rest, or, A treatise of the blessed state of the saints in their enjoyment of God in glory wherein is shewed its excellency and certainty, the misery of those that lose it, the way to attain it, and assurance of it, and how to live in the continual delightful forecasts of it and now published by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed by Rob. White for Thomas Underhil and Francis Tyton, 1650
THE SAINTS Everlasting REST. PART. III. › Chapter 11 › Section 18
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Answ. First, It is fit that husbands should be able to teach their wives, and parents to teach their children; and God expecteth they should be so, and therefore commandeth the inferiors to learn of them. But if they through their own negligence do disable themselves, or through their own wickedness do bring their souls into such misery, as that they have the greatest need of advice and reproof themselves, and are objects of pity to all that know their case, then it is themselves, and not you, that break Gods order, by bringing themselves into disability and misery.
Answ. First, It is fit that husbands should be able to teach their wives, and parents to teach their children; and God expecteth they should be so, and therefore commandeth the inferiours to learn of them. But if they through their own negligence do disable themselves, or through their own wickedness do bring their souls into such misery, as that they have the greatest need of advice and reproof themselves, and are objects of pity to all that know their case, then it is themselves, and not you, that break Gods order, by bringing themselves into disability and misery.
Matter of mere order and manners must be dispensed with in cases of flat necessity. Though it were your Minister, you must teach him in such a case. It is the part of parents to provide for the children, and not children for the parents: and yet if the parents fall into want, must not the children relieve them? It is the part of the husband to dispose of the affairs of the family and estate; and yet if he be sick or besides himself, must not the wife do it? The rich should relieve the poor: but if the rich fall into beggary, they must be relieved themselves. It is the work of the Physician to look to the health of others: and yet if he fall sick, some body must help him, and look to him. So must the meanest servant admonish his master, and the child his parents, and the wife her husband, and the people their Minister, in cases of necessity. Secondly, yet let me give you these two cautions here.
Matter of meer order and manners must be dispensed with in cases of flat necessity. Though it were your Minister, you must teach him in such a case. It is the part of parents to provide for the children, and not children for the parents: and yet if the parents fall into want, must not the children relieve them? It is the part of the husband to dispose of the affaires of the family and estate; and yet if he be sick or besides himself, must not the wife do it? The rich should relieve the poor: but if the rich fall into beggery, they must be relieved themselves. It is the work of the Physitian to look to the health of others: and yet if he fall sick, some body must help him, and look to him. So must the meanest servant admonish his master, and the childe his parents, and the wife her husband, and the people their Minister, in cases of necessity. Secondly, yet let me give you these two cautions here.