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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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3. Possibly, while you have been speaking, God hath answered; as he did, Jer. 31.20. Is Ephraim my dear Son, is he a pleasant Child? No, no, he is naught, he is a Prodigal. True! but yet he is a repenting, a returning Prodigal; though not a pleasant Son, yet a Son, a Child, and therefore since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still; Therefore my Bowels are troubled for him, I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the Lord: Read, consider, and often Pray over those pertinent Texts, Deut. 32.36. Isa. 63.15, 16. Hos. 11.7, 8, 9. Luk. 15.19, 20. All this is true to a repenting Ephraim, but my Child lies stinking in his filth.
3. Possibly, while you have been speaking, God hath answer'd; as he did, Jer. 31.20. Is Ephraim my dear Son, is he a pleasant Child? No, no, he is naught, he is a Prodigal. True! but yet he is a repenting, a returning Prodigal; though not a pleasant Son, yet a Son, a Child, and therefore since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still; Therefore my Bowels are troubled for him, I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the Lord: Read, consider, and often Pray over those pertinent Texts, Deut. 32.36. Isa. 63.15, 16. Hos. 11.7, 8, 9. Luk. 15.19, 20. All this is true to a repenting Ephraim, but my Child lies stinking in his filth.