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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. Love your Children, but love them in God, and for God. Love his image in them, more than your own. In a word, Let Gods Spirit be the Principle, Gods Word the Rule, Gods Example the Pattern, and his Glory the end of your dearest Love to your dearest Children. Love them, as God Loves his Children. But How?
(1.) God so loves his Children's persons, as that he infinitely hates their sins. Nay, because he loves their persons, for that very reason he hates their sins. Because I love my Child, therefore I hate the Toad, that I see crawling on his bosom: God doth infinitely love his People, and yet, in this Life, he shows more hatred against the Sins of his own People, than he doth against the Sins of any other men in the World.
(1.) God so loves his Childrens persons, as that he infinitely hates their sins. Nay, because he loves their persons, for that very reason he hates their sins. Bacause I love my Child, therefore I hate the Toad, that I see crawling on his bosom: God doth infinitely love his People, and yet, in this Life, he shews more hatred against the Sins of his own People, than he doth against the Sins of any other men in the World.
1. Here, He afflicts all his own people for sin, one way or other: Every Mothers Son of them, Heb. 12.6, 8. Job 10.14. Isa. 31.9. & 48.10. but is patient towards the wicked: lets them run riot without control.