How to do good to many, or, The public good is the Christians life…How to do good to many, or, The publick good is the Christians life…

Indeed in the choice of a Calling, employment and condition of life, and place for their Children, doing good should be preferred before their rising in the world: And they that justly endeavour to raise their Families in wealth, honour or power, should do it only; that they might do the more good. But it is Satan's design to turn all Gods mercies to the cherishing of wickedness, and even the Love of Parents to their Children to the poisoning of their Souls, the strengthening of their snares, and the hinderance of their own and other mens Salvation. But its shame and pity, that they who in Baptism devoted their Children to God, the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, renouncing the world ⟨p. 44⟩the flesh and the Devil, as under the banner of the Cross, should labour all their life, that impenitently at death they may leave all that they can get to such as in all probability will use it in pride, fullness and idleness, for the flesh, the world and the Devil, against him and his interest from whom they received it, and to whom both they and all they had were once devoted.

Indeed in the choice of a Calling, employment and condition of life, and place for their Children, doing good should be preferred before their rising in the world: And they that justly endeavour to raise their Families in wealth, honour or power, should do it only; that they might do the more good. But it is Satans design to turn all Gods mercies to the cherishing of wickedness, and even the Love of Parents to their Children to the poisoning of their Souls, the strengthening of their snares, and the hinderance of their own and other mens Salvation. But its shame and pity, that they who in Baptism devoted their Children to God, the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, renounceing the world ⟨p. 44⟩the flesh and the Devil, as under the banner of the Cross, should labour all their life, that impenitently at death they may leave all that they can get to such as in all probability will use it in pride, fulness and idleness, for the flesh, the world and the Devil, against him and his interest from whom they received it, and to whom both they and all they had were once devoted.