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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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4. Exhort, admonish, reprove, rebuke, chastise, offending Children, but then still Remember, whose deputy you are, whom you represent, even your heavenly Father. Fury is not in him, Judgment is his strange work: But he delights in mercy. When he is as it were forced to put forth his Anger, he then makes use of a Fathers rod, not an Executioners Axe; Psal. 89. from 30. to 35.1 He will neither break his Children's bones, nor his own Covenant. He lashes in Love, Heb. 12.6. Rev. 3.19. in measure, in pity, and compassion. In all their Affliction he is afflicted. Every stroke on his Child's back recoils on his own Bowels: and if the member be gangrened, and there is an absolute necessity to cut it off, to save the Life, the Soul of his Child, then like a Chirurgeon, who is the Father of the Patient, He makes use of the Saw, not forgetting, that he is now cutting off his own flesh, and would never do it, but for the Child's good; Rom. 8.28. Go you, and do likewise.
4. Exhort, admonish, reprove, rebuke, chastize, offending Children, but then still Remember, whose deputy you are, whom you represent, even your heavenly Father. Fury is not in him, Judgment is his strange work: But he delights in mercy. When he is as it were forced to put forth his Anger, he then makes use of a Fathers rod, not an Executioners Ax; Psal. 89. from 30. to 35.1 He will neither break his Childrens bones, nor his own Covenant. He lashes in Love, Heb. 12.6. Rev. 3.19. in measure, in pity, and compassion. In all their Affliction he is afflicted. Every stroke on his Childs back recoils on his own Bowels: and if the member be gangren'd, and there is an absolute necessity to cut it off, to save the Life, the Soul of his Child, then like a Chyrurgeon, who is the Father of the Patient, He makes use of the Saw, not forgetting, that he is now cutting off his own flesh, and would never do it, but for the Childs good;