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A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved
A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.
London: printed by J.A. for John Dunton, 1683
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Sermon 7: Quest. What may gracious Parents best do, for the Conversion of those Children whose wi…
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I. Of the First Truth.
1. The first Truth supposed: viz. That it hath been, is, and may be the Lot of gracious Parents, to have unconverted, wicked Children. Let me add, of the Best of Parents to be afflicted with very wicked, yea the worst of Children.
1. The first Truth suppos'd: viz. That it hath been, is, and may be the Lot of gracious Parents, to have unconverted, wicked Children. Let me adde, of the Best of Parents to be afflicted with very wicked, yea the worst of Children.
Had not Adam, an envious, murderous Cain? Gen. 4.8.11. The first branch of the Universal Root wholly rotten? Noah, a cursed† Ham? Abraham, a mocking, persecuting Ishmael? Gen. 22.9. Gal. 4.29. Lot, a Moab, and Ammon, the Sons of Incest, and the Fathers of an Idolatrous brood, that to the death hated Gods chosen Israel? Gen. 19.37, 38. Isaac, a profane Esau? Gen. 25.25. Heb. 12.16. Eli, two Sons, Hophni, and Phinehas, both Sons of Belial, prodigies of Lust, and Wickedness?