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Show 89S J699· 1./'-r'V Chap. II. • Advice to Child~en: VoL. I. §. 7: Call up your Income and live on half, if you can one Third, referving the refi for Cafualties~ Ch:Hities, Portione. §: 8. Be plain in Cloths, Furniture and Food, but clean, and then the Courfer the better, the reft is Folly and a Snare. Therefore nex[ ro Sin, avoid Daintinefs and Choicencfs about your Perfon and Houfes. For if it be nor .an Evil in irfelf, it is a Temptation to it: and may be accounted a, Nell for Sin to brood ln. §. 9· Avoid Differences; what are not avoidable refer, and keep awards ftrifl:ly, and wichout Grudgings, read Prou, 18. 17, 18. C. 25. s . .Mat. 5· 38, ro 41. 1 Cor. 1. 10 ro q. Jr is good CQuntel. §. 10. Be fure draw your Affairs into as narrow a Compaf~ as you can and in Method and Proportion, Time and other Requifits proper for them.' §_ II· Have very !few Acquaintance, and fewer Intimates, but of tlte heft in their Kind. §· 12. Keep your own Secrets, and do not covet oth.ers, but if trufted never reveal them, unlefs mifchievous to fome Body \ nor then, befor; Warning to the Parry, to defill and repent. Prov. II. 13. C 2. 23. 'C. 25. 9 10. §. 1 3· Truft no Man with the main Chance, and avoid to be uu1tcd: I. 14. Make few Refolutions, but keep them !lriaty. . 15. Prefer Elders and Strangers on all Occafions, be rather laft thaQ fir in Conveniency and Ref peel: ; but firft in all Virtues. §. 16. Have; a Care of truiting to after Games, for then there is but one Throw for all; and precipices are ill Places to build upon. Wifdoni gains Time, is before Hand, and teaches to chufe feafonably and pertinently~ therefore ever ftrike while the Iron is hot. But if you lofe an Oppormniry, it differs, in this, from :1 Relapfe: lefs Caution and more refolution and Induftry muft recover it. §. 17· Above all, cemember your Creator: remember your felvcs :1nd your Families, when yoU have them, in the Youthful Time, and fore Part of your Life; for good Methods :1nd Habits ohtain'd then, Will make you cafie and happy the reft of your DJys. Every Eftate has \t's Snare: Youth and Middle· Age, Pltafure and .J.mbirion; Old Age, Avariu; Remember, I tell you, that Man is a Slave where either prevJils. Beware of the perni, .. cious Lufts of the Eye, and the Flefh, and the Pride of Life, 1 ]obn 2. 1 ), 16, q. which are not of the Father, but of the World. Get higher and nobler Ohjeas, for your immortal Part, 0 my Dear Children, and be not tyed to Things without you; for then you can never have the true and free Enjoyment of your felves, to better Things; no more than a Sla\'e in Jilgien, has of his HoufCor Family in London. Be free, live J.t Home, in your felves I mean, where lye greater Treafures hid, than in the Indiu. The Pomp, Honour, and Luxury of the \Vorld, are the Cheats, and the unthink~ ing and inconfidente are taken by them. But the retir'd Man, is upon higher Ground, he fees and is aware of the Trick, contemns the Folly, and bemoans the Deluded. This very Confideration, douhtlefs, produced thofc two Paffions, in the two greareft Gen11/u of their Time, Democri1111 and Heracbr11s, the one laughing, the other weeping, for the Madnefs of the World, to fee fo excellent and reafonable a Creature, as Man, fo meanly trifiing :mdflavifhly employed. *Co•lt1inhi5 Works, on A,riculture. §. 18. Chufe God's Trades before Men's; Adam was a GJJrJener, Cain a P/ov:man, and Abel a Groficr or Sberhcrd: Thefe began with the World, and have Jeaft of Snare, and moft of Ufc. When Cain became Murderer, as a Jf. winy Man faid, he turned a Builder of Cities, and quitted his Husbandry: lt1ecbanicks, as Handicrafts, are alfo commendable, but they are but a fe• cond Brood, and younger Brot hers. Jf Grace employ you not, let l\•ttturt JJnd ujef11l Arts, but avoid Curiofity there alf~ for it devours much Time to no Profit. I have fcen a Cleling of a Room, that coft half as mucb as the Houfc; a Folly and Sin roo. §. 19. Have but few Books, but let them be weH chofen and well read, whether of ReU~ious or Civil SubjeE\:s. Shun fantaft:ick Opinions: Mea.· fure both Religtoc and Le;uning by Pr;l8:icc; reduce all to that, for that brings VoL. J; Advke to Children. brings a real Benefit to you the ll. . 899 Rreadi~g many Books is but a faking ~tf :~: ~~u:{ and a Snare. And indeed 1699 eadtng your felves and Nature in the D r 10 roo much from Meditation ~ trueft human Wifdom. The s'pirit of a eMtngt :nd Condu8: ~fMen, is th~ Chap II and fnore true Knowledge comes b . a~ nows the Th1n~ of Man . • Reading ; for much Read in is :t cJ Mednauon and jufi: Reflefhon than b, the natural Candle; which gis thn RPP[;effionf of the Mind, :tnd extingui(b~ the \Vorld. e ea on .D fo many fenfelefs Scholars in §. 20 .• Do not that which you 6Iame in h ther, wh~ch yo~ would not another lhould danot er. Do not that toano~ not that In Gods Sight you wo ld M o to you. But above all Do §. 21. And that ' u not . an fhould fee you do. ' fuch a Share of TiJ'eof::tyoorder a_ll Thtngs profitably, divide your Da ~ Proportion for your Bufi!er~: ~net~~~~nt, and Worfhip of God: Sulb lS firft to be done; fo much Ti~e fi tc remember to ply that firfi: which ing, Vifit, f.!! c. In this be :firft, and~~~ {o~ur ~e~veJ• te it fo.r Study, Walk· cut ?if many Impertinencies :tnd Inter:u r!en s now tt, and you will of Ttme to your fClves which Peo l Kuons, and fave a Treafure A~d to be ,more exaa, cfor much lieli~ t~i~ unaccountabJJ lavi(b away. Time, tho a Day require hut a Line . )A~eep a fhortJournal of your §. 22. Keep clofe to the Meetin 's ~a{! ' vantages flow from it. them, ~o fee.l ~he. Heavenly Life in lour He od s Piople, wait diligently at Words m Mintfiry, and you will rofit arts. ook for that more than but defpife not loftrumenrs Man ~r W moft. YAbove a1l look to the Lord Learned or Unlearned. • oman, oung or Old, Rich or Poor: §. 23. Avoid Difcontented Perfo 1 r, I Abhor Detrafl:ioo, the Sin of F~j~~unA e s tlo nfodrm or Reprove them. Men. nge s, an the wor.O: of Fallen §. 24. Excufe Faults in others own rhe . them againfi: your felves as you 'w ld h m 10 your felves, and forgive Judge forgive you. Rea'd Prov 1 ou ave your Heavenly F:trher and and dwe11s upon that Patrage of ·hJ'-Ir'a and Af,•tt. 6i 14, I). Chrift returns the hardeR Leffon to Man that of aU ye~, aCove a 1 the reft, ForgivenefS, §. 2s. Be natural. Lo~e or er rearures moft needs it. of Natur~l AJfeit:ion, 'i, a Ma~keofn~r;:ft~c 3 'f~trbme~ber, that to be void Let not Time, I c-harge you: wear our N Y Y t e Ap~file, 2 Tim.;.;. !o Cllfi:o~, but it is an ill o~e therefore £tllre; .It may K1_ndred accordjng tn Famtlies ar this Day : Havd a C:ue of .0 ow lt not. Ic IS a great Fault lefnefs. Live ae near as you can V1fit u, and lhun [hat unna[ural Care~ mu"icate with kind Hearts to o~e anoth~fte~, porrefp~nd ofrner, and comgives you; and don't be clofe nor hoarJ' In /oporuon to what the Lord had no Right or Claim in one' another a up. rom one another as if you tender Father and Mother. . ' nd dtd not defcend of one moft §. 26. What I write is to yours a 11 . Children. And in Cafe a Prodigal (h;u1J we as you, tf God gives you not his Folly an Excufe to be firange or cl fiver ag~r among them, make to more Evil ; But (hew Bowels as t]. b 0 e! an ° to expofe fucb an one into ill Company whom with L~ve he ; j d.td td th~ You~g Man th:tt felt t Eufeb. £ct. · fends his SWJ and _Rain upon a~]. ec aime • a ter hll Example that ~~~·z!-i~tJ· §. 27. Love Stlence, even 10 the Mind . f; Th Words to the Body troublefome mu hl Sor k" oughu are to that, as fpends, and in many Thoughts as ~ell a~ W ~a m~, as. m~ch Thinking; lence is the reft of the Mind, ~nd is to th gr.'! t ehe IS Sm. .True Si~ Body, Nouri£hment and Refrefhment It .e ptrtt, w. at Sleep 15 to the ly, keeps Secrets, avoids Difpures, a~d pr;!e~t~rS~ Vt$.ueJ; ~[ coverspfol~ Jo. 19. c. 12. 1;_ c. 13, 3. c. 18. 6 7 c 1 8 • u o 13. 5· rov; §· 28. The Wifdom of Nat·o 'r· : 7·h2• ·p . ' and pithy. colle€1 d 1 I ns Ies tn t eu roverbs, which are brief reltions fo~ human tife . eayrn thhem, Mthey ~re ~arable Meafures and Di~ S k" • ou ave uch Jn Lmle · they 'fa.ve Ti nd pea mg I and, upon Occafron, rna)' be the fullell add fafell Anfwer~ a ' s y 2 .. • §. 2)' |