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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. When we feed our Children with more dainty Fare, trick them up with more gorgeous Apparel, and even loosen, and break the nerves of their Souls, and Bodies with too soft, and delicate an education, no way suitable either to our own Estates, or their Condition: Which was the serious complaint of Quintilian of old, and is the sin, and shame of this present Age. This, this is that sinful Indulgence here intended. This is that that too often occasions, yea inflames, and heightens our Children's daring Wickedness, and prepares them, makes them fit Vessels for Temporal, and Eternal ruin. Now concerning this I shall give you my thoughts under these two generals.
4. When we feed our Children with more dainty Fare, trick them up with more gorgeous Apparel, and even loosen, and break the nerves of their Souls, and Bodies with too soft, and delicate an education, no way sutable either to our own Estates, or their Condition: Which was the serious complaint of Quintilian of old, and is the sin, and shame of this present Age. This, this is that sinful Indulgence here intended. This is that that too often occasions, yea inflames, and heightens our Childrens daring Wickedness, and prepares them, makes them fit Vessels for Temporal, and Eternal ruine. Now concerning this I shall give you my thoughts under these two generals.
1. I shall lay before you plain Instances of this sinful Indulgence in three Parents, all of them Fathers, (for, after a most exact search throughout the whole Scriptures, I cannot find one, no not one of all the godly Mothers in Israel guilty of, or charged with this sin, Rebekah only excepted,) two of these Fathers were beyond all contradiction, truly, yea eminently godly, the third probably so, by the tender respect he showed the Levite: We begin with him.
1. I shall lay before you plain Instances of this sinful Indulgence in three Parents, all of them Fathers, (for, after a most exact search throughout the whole Scriptures, I cannot find one, no not one of all the godly Mothers in Israel guilty of, or charged with this sin, Rebekah only excepted,) two of these Fathers were beyond all contradiction, truly, yea eminently godly, the third probably so, by the tender respect he shew'd the Levite: We begin with him.