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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…
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. If not. If after all care, pains, prayer, faithfulness, the Crop should not answer the Seed, why this may relieve and support,1 that it is not through the Parents default. The Child dyes, but not by the Father's hand: He hath discharged his duty, and thereby in the sight of God, delivered his own Soul from guilt, though he could not deliver his Child's Soul from ruin. Where God sees such a willing mind, backed with sincere, utmost, constant endeavours, 2God accepts the faithful Parent according to that he hath, and not according to that he hath not. But
1. If not. If after all care, pains, prayer, faithfulness, the Crop should not answer the Seed, why this may relieve and support,1 that it is not through the Parents default. The Child dyes, but not by the Father's hand: He hath discharg'd his duty, and thereby in the sight of God, deliver'd his own Soul from guilt, though he could not deliver his Child's Soul from ruine. Where God sees such a willing mind, backt with sincere, utmost, constant endeavours, 2God accepts the faithful Parent according to that he hath, and not according to that he hath not. But
- 1Liberavit animam suam.
- 22 Cor. 8.12.
2. If the Lord please to smile on endeavours, into what a transport and ecstasy of joy will it raise the serious Parent, to see the corruption of his Child's Nature healed, to see saving grace wrought in his heart. If such a sight be so pleasing to Spiritual Fathers, to Paul,