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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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3. With what a Cloud of Witnesses do the Holy Scriptures present us of Governors of Families, that have been greatly conscientious in their faithful discharge of this duty.1 We told you before of Abraham's Trained, Instructed, Catechized servants, Gen. 18.19. After him Joshua, who resolves that whatever others might do, he and his household would serve the Lord: though others should forsake the Lord, yet he like Noah and Lot, just in his Generation. Joshua doth not only choose to be saved by Jehovah, but to serve Jehovah: But more especially observe the latitude and circumference of his choice; I and my House: Not himself without his Family, much less his Family without himself; but himself and his Family; and first himself, and then his Family: We vvill serve the Lord. Lo here the firmness and stability of Joshua's choice: We will serve the Lord; not only we desire to do it, but we are fully resolved to do it.
3. With what a Cloud of Witnesses do the Holy Scriptures present us of Governours of Families, that have been greatly conscientious in their faithful discharge of this duty.1 We told you before of Abraham's Trained, Instructed, Catechized servants, Gen. 18.19. After him Joshua, who resolves that whatever others might do, he and his houshold would serve the Lord: though others should forsake the Lord, yet he like Noah and Lot, just in his Generation. Joshua doth not only chuse to be saved by Jehovah, but to serve Jehovah: But more especially observe the latitude and circumference of his choice; I and my House: Not himself without his Family, much less his Family without himself; but himself and his Family; and first himself, and then his Family: We vvill serve the Lord. Lo here the firmness and stability of Joshua's choice: We will serve the Lord; not only we desire to do it, but we are fully resolv'd to do it.