Some general directions for a comfortable walking with God delivered in the lecture at…Some generall directions for a comfortable walking with God deliuered in the lecture at…

4 By a conscionable and constant care also, for the conversion, and ^bsalvation of their ^cchildren and servants. Every husband and head of Family is as it were, a Priest and Pastor in his own ^dhouse; and therefore, if he take not a course to catechize them, pray with them, prepare them for the Sacrament, and to bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, as the Apostle counsels, Ephe. 6. 4. to restrain them all he can from lewd courses, ill company, the corruptions of the time: but suffer them to have their swing in their youthful rebellions, unhallowing the Lords Day, Alehouse-hauntings, stubbornness against the Ministry, &c. until many times they swing in an halter, as they say: Let them then know, that all those sins they so run into, by such gross neglect and default, are set upon his score, and he must be exactly countable, and full dearly answer for them at that great and last Day. Nay let me further tell him that, which will make his ears to tingle, and heart to tremble, if it be not of Adamant, and his heartstrings turned into Iron sinews: Those his children and servants, which by his impenitent omissions and unconscionableness in this kind, have perished in their sins, will curse him for ever hereafter amongst the fiends in hell. They will follow thee up and down in that ever-burning Lake, with direful bannings, and hideous outcries; crying out continually: Woe unto ut, that ever we served such a wicked and wretched master, that had no care of the salvation of our souls, took no course to save us out of these fiery torments. Even thine own dear children in this case, will yell in thine ears, world without end: Woe and alas, that ever we were borne of such accursed parents, who had not the grace to teach us betime the ways of God; to keep us from our youthful vanities, and to train us up in the paths of Godliness! Had they done so, we might have lived in the endless joys of Heaven; whereas now damned souls, we must lie irrecoverably in these everlasting ⟨p. 250⟩flames. Oh, will they say, it was the bloody knife of our own dear parents unconscionable, and cruel negligence, that all our life long stuck full deep in our souls, and hath now strangled them with everlasting horror! That this must needs be so, ordinary observation, common experience doth too often confirm.