Compassionate counsel to all young men especially I. London apprentices, II. students of divinity,…

Was it to serve the Flesh, the World, and the Devil, against our God, our Saviour, and our sanctifier? Or did the mistake of the Liturgy deceive you, to think that it was not you, but the God-Fathers, that were bound by Charge and Vow to bring him up in the Faith and Fear of God, and teach him all that a Christian should know for his Soul's Health: Was it not you that God bound to all this? The sin and misery of your Child now is so far your curse, as you are guilty of it and will add to your misery for ever.] Such are the sorrows that wicked Parents and wicked Children ⟨p. 48⟩do prepare, and heap on one another. Such miseries will come; but woe to those by whom they come, it had been good for that man that he had never been born.

§ 10. And it is no small grief to faithful Ministers, to see their labour so much lost; and to see so much evil among their flocks, and such sad Prognostics of worse to come. He is no true Minister of Christ (as to his own acceptance and Salvation) whose heart is not set on the winning, and sanctifying, and saving of Souls. What else do we study for, preach for, live for, long for, suffer for in our Work? All faithful-Teachers can say with Paul, that they are willing to spend and be spent for them, and now we live if ye stand fast in the Lord. 2 Cor. 12.15. 1 Thes. 3.8. He told them weeping of those that were Enemies to the Cross of Christ, whose God was their Belly, who glory in their shame, and mind earthly things, instead of a Conversation in Heaven. Phil. 3.18, 19. When God hath blessed us with the comfortable enjoyment of many ancient, holy Christians, who are the beauty and honour of the Assemblies, and Death calls home one of them after another to Christ, and the rest are ready ⟨p. 49⟩