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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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2. Love your Children; hearken indulgent Parents, I say it again, Love your Children. Yea Love them, I say not more, but better, than ever yet you Loved them; you can never Love them too well. You may, and have Loved them too much. One saith well, None is to be Loved much, but He only, whom we can never Love too much. Love them with all the kinds, degrees, properties of Love before mentioned.
2. Love your Children; hearken indulgent Parents, I say it again, Love your Children. Yea Love them, I say not more, but better, than ever yet you Lov'd them; you can never Love them too well. You may, and have Lov'd them too much. One saith well, None is to be Lov'd much, but He only, whom we can never Love too much. Love them with all the kinds, degrees, properties of Love before mention'd.
1. Love them so, as to be tender of their Bodies, their outward man: let that want nothing, that is necessary, convenient, comfortable, suitable ⟨p. 177⟩to their age or quality: but above all Love their Souls, their inward man. The Cabinet must not be neglected, but the Jewel is to be most regarded. The Ring is to be only esteemed, but the Diamond in it, most highly to be prized.
The Love of our Children's Souls, is the very Soul, and Spirit, and Elixir of True parental Love. If we truly Love their Souls, we shall unfeignedly desire, and vigorously endeavour their Spiritual, and Eternal Salvation. If you Love their Souls indeed, your Hearts desire, and prayer to God for them will be, that they may be saved. Rom. 10.1. You will put forth your utmost affections, and strength, to lift them up out of that pit of Sin and Misery in which they lye, and to raise them into, and fix them in a state of Grace. If we do not really grieve to see our Children lye weltering in their Sins of Ignorance, unbelief, folly, profaneness, and so under the power and paw of Satan: If we do not faithfully labour to preserve them from perishing, but suffer sin upon them, pretend what we will, let us show never so much Love with our mouth, God says, we really hate them in our Hearts.