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A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…
A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers
London: printed for Thomas Cockerill, 1676
Sermon 11: By what Scriptural Rules may Catechizing be be so managed, as that it may become most Ʋ…
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1. In the Truths and Worship of the true God. Thus Divines conclude that Adam instructed his Sons, 1Cain and Abel, to bring their Offerings to the Lord: And from Adam down along to Moses, for the space of two thousand years, how was the true Religion communicated, but by Oral Tradition from Parents to their Children? Gen. 18.19. I know Abraham, that he will command his Children, and his Household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do Justice and Judgment, that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him. In this Text we have Abraham's Testimonial subscribed by God himself: Wherein God
1. In the Truths and Worship of the true God. Thus Divines conclude that Adam instructed his Sons, 1Cain and Abel, to bring their Offerings to the Lord: And from Adam down along to Moses, for the space of two thousand years, how was the true Religion communicated, but by Oral Tradition from Parents to their Children? Gen. 18.19. I know Abraham, that he will command his Children, and his Houshold after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do Justice and Judgment, that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him. In this Text we have Abraham's Testimonial subscribed by God himself: Wherein God
1. Asserts what Abraham was for the present; a man of integrity, a man greatly beloved of God: I know Abraham, I know his judgment, I know his heart, I am well acquainted with the frame of his spirit, the inclination of his Will, the bent of his Affections; and I know him so well, that I cannot but highly approve, and dearly love him, and will trust him with an Arcanum, make him as it were of my Privy Council, in imparting to him my great design concerning wicked Sodom.