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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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1. Eli. His Tragical Story we find 1 Sam. 2.12. to the 4th chap. v. last.
He had two Sons, Sons of Belial, a brace of Hell-hounds, Hophni and Phinehas, whose names do almost stain the Sacred Writ; wretches, that were as desperately lewd, as himself was eminently holy. And this appears on these accounts.
He had two Sons, Sons of Belial, a brace of Hell-hounds, Hophni and Phinehas, whose names do almost stain the Sacred Writ; wretches, that were as desperately lewd, as himself was eminently holy. And this appears on these acounts.
1. If the goodness of Example, Precept, Education, Profession, could have been Antidotes against the extremity of sin, these Sons of so holy a Father had not been so hellishly wicked: But now neither Parentage, nor Education, nor Priesthood, could restrain the Sons of Eli, ⟨p. 167⟩from degenerating into the Sons of Belial: Yea, their wickedness was most desperately improved, boiled up, and fermented to the highest Paroxysm.
1. If the goodness of Example, Precept, Education, Profession, could have been Antidotes against the extremity of sin, these Sons of so holy a Father had not been so hellishly wicked: But now neither Parentage, nor Education, nor Priesthood, could restrain the Sons of Eli, ⟨p. 167⟩from degenerating into the Sons of Belial: Yea, their wickedness was most desperately improv'd, boil'd up, and fermented to the highest Paroxysm.