A Sons Patrimony and Daughters Portion, Title page 1 – Imprimatur
A SONS PATRIMONY AND DAVGHTERS PORTION;
Payable to them at all times, but beſt received in their firſt times, when they are young, and tender: Laidout without expence of money, only in the improving time and words with them, Contained (in an anſwerableneſſe to their Ages) in two VOLUMES:
In the firſt, The PARENT is taught his duty, to teach it his child betimes, To heare, To ſpeak, To doe; when and where to put him to ſchoole; after that to a Calling, which muſt be fitted to his inclination, as a garment to his back; for the childes inclination makes the ſureſt indenture to binde him to his Trade. In all this he may be taught in a way (if the Parent will apply his minde to underſtand, and to put the more obſervation upon it) as plaine, eaſie and familiar as the way hee walkes in.
In the ſecond, The CHILDE is taught to know himſelfe and God; To take direction from His mouth, for his ſafe paſſage here through all his Ages, and therein how to anſwer all his relations, that when he ceaſeth to live here, he may live for ever with the LORD.
PSAL. 34. 11. DEUT. 12. 28.
Come ye children harken unto me, I will teach you the feare of the Lord, that it may goe well with you, and with your children after you for ever, when thou doeſt that which is good, and right in the ſight of the Lord thy God.
CHRYSOST. As our Seminaries or ſeed plots, are, ſuch are the Land and Nation: As the Parents, houſe and ſchoole are, ſuch are the Town and City.
Publiſhed in the yeare of hope and expectation, that the private houſe and ſchoole ſhall be reformed, much out of order now, and quite beſides the Rule.
Printed for T. Vnderhill, and are to be ſold at the Bible in Woodſtreet. 1643.
A Premonition to the PARENT.
TO undeceive you herein (for we hate deceit in any thing) know, That this book was publiſhed 3 yeers ago; but, through a miſtake in the Author, not acquainted with the myſterie of Stationing, or ſelling books, it was pent up in a chamber ever ſince; & there it had lain ſtill, had not he been moved about it (by a zealous well-wiſher to the good of parent and child both) To give the purpoſe and intendment of all that in the Title, which is largely treated on in the book. This the Author hath done in truth & ſincerity, not making ſhew in the Title of more, then is not truly in the book. Some paſſages there are in the book, perhaps too high, raiſed above thy reach & capacitie; but wherein thy duty lies, and that is all along, there it is as plain as is the beaten way, if you come with a reſolution to obſerve, and mark it: if not, I know not what is eaſie, but our own way, and that tends directly to deſtruction. Truly, to ſpeak my mind what I think, this is it; That this time is the ſeaſon for this book; for probable it is, we wil harken to it now, becauſe we ſmart now; pain and ſorrow is upon us from what we fear, yea & frō what we feel too: likely it is we will harken now, or never: And if we do ſo, we muſt needs learn, That all this evill is from our little houſe within the breaſt, and the greater houſe without. Let every man doe his own work, his duty, reform there, where God hath made him overſeer, then the work is done, the ſword will be ſtill. And this is the ſcope and purpoſe of the book. A word is enough to the wiſe, eſpecially ſuch, who are made wiſe by blows.
VVEE, whoſe names are under-wrirten, well acquainted with the ſcope and purpoſe of this Book, Tending to an an orderly proceeding in a well-Timed Reformation of our ſelves firſt, and our children betimes, doe give our atteſtation thereunto heartily and in all faithfulneſſe.
Edm: Calamy
Iohn Goodwin.
Ioſeph Caryll.
Ier. Burroughes.
Will. Greenehill.
A CHILDES PATRIMONY LAID OVT VPONUPON THE GOOD CVLTVRE OR TILLING OVER HIS WHOLE MAN.
The firſt Part, Reſpecting a Childe in his firſt and ſecond Age.
Whom thou haſt borne unto me. Ezek. 16.
In the feare of the Lord is ſtrong Confidence, and his Children ſhall have a place of refuge. Prov. 14. 26.
Filium pater, &c. A Parent muſt offer his Childe to the Lord, he muſt not deferre; that as he hath been a means to give it a life here, he may conferre ſomething toward the obtaining for it a better life hereafter. Chryſolog. Serm. 10.
foreign. Nazianz. orat. 20. p. 323.
London, printed by I. Legatt. 1640.
Imprimatur
Iune 28. 1639. Tho. Wykes.