A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…

2. Superiors in the Family, and these are Parents, and Family Governors: to whom we may adjoin School-masters and Tutors. These all are concerned in this great duty of Training up and Catechizing those that are committed to their Charge and Conduct.

1. How deeply Parents are obliged to this Duty, is written as it were with a Sun-beam in the Scriptures, where we find Precepts, Presidents, Arguments, more than many to evince it.

¹1. Precepts. The Israelites are bound to tell in the ears of their sons, and of their sons sons, what things the Lord had wrought in Egypt, that they also might know Jehovah to be the Lord. The Parents are bound to be Expositors of that great Rite of the Paschal Lamb, and of the Stones set up in the midst of Jordan. Bound also to teach their Children the words which they heard from the Lord their God in Horeb, even the Ten Commandments. How doth this Duty sparkle with a Radiant Lustre in that great Text, Deut. 6.6, 7? These words which I Command thee this day shall be in thine heart, ⟨p. 209⟩and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy Children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine House, and when thou walkest by the way, ²and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. It is the Eternal God that here gives forth his strict Command to Parents. These words, all these words, Precepts, Promises, Threatenings, shall be in thy heart, not in thy head only, so as to know, but in thy Heart to affect. An Heart inflamed with the Love of God and his Truth,