A25478:1094
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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4. Lastly, To fervent supplication add wary inspection. Keep a strict hand, 1and a watchful eye continually over those that are committed to your charge; your utmost care and vigilancy in this will be found little enough. How soon will those Gardens, that now look like a Paradise, be overgrown with weeds, if the Keepers thereof do not look to them daily? How soon is Childhood and Youth tainted with sin, if it be not narrowly watched? Be thou diligent therefore to know the state of thy Flock, and look well to thy Herds. Carefully observe the natural temper of your inferiors, you will by this the better know how to apply your selves to them in advice, reproof, correction. Observe the first sprouts and buds of what is either good or evil in them: encourage, commend, reward them in the one; curb, restrain, and prevent the further growth of the other. Do they begin to take God's Name in vain? Do they nibble at a lye? Doth Pride in apparel peep forth? Be sure to kill this Serpent in the very egg, to crush this Cockatrice in the Shell.
4. Lastly, To fervent supplication add wary inspection. Keep a strict hand, 1and a watchful eye continually over those that are committed to your charge; your utmost care and vigilancy in this will be found little enough. How soon will those Gardens, that now look like a Paradise, be overgrown with weeds, if the Keepers thereof do not look to them daily? How soon is Childhood and Youth tainted with sin, if it be not narrowly watcht? Be thou diligent therefore to know the state of thy Flock, and look well to thy Herds. Carefully observe the natural temper of your inferiours, you will by this the better know how to apply your selves to them in advice, reproof, correction. Observe the first sprouts and buds of what is either good or evil in them: encourage, commend, reward them in the one; curb, restrain, and prevent the further growth of the other. Do they begin to take God's Name in vain? Do they nibble at a lye? Doth Pride in apparel peep forth? Be sure to kill this Serpent in the very egg, to crush this Cockatrice in the Shell.
- 1Dr. Jacomb Dem. D•c 83.