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The Saints' Everlasting Rest
The saints everlasting rest, or, A treatise of the blessed state of the saints in their enjoyment of God in glory wherein is showed its excellency and certainty, the misery of those that lose it, the way to attain it, and assurance of it, and how to live in the continual delightful forecasts of it and now published by Richard Baxter ...The saints everlasting rest, or, A treatise of the blessed state of the saints in their enjoyment of God in glory wherein is shewed its excellency and certainty, the misery of those that lose it, the way to attain it, and assurance of it, and how to live in the continual delightful forecasts of it and now published by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed by Rob. White for Thomas Underhil and Francis Tyton, 1650
THE SAINTS Everlasting REST. PART. III. › Chapter 12 › Section 13
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1SECT. XIII.
- 1§. 13.
2. Some will further object, and say, It is the Work of Ministers to teach both us and our children, and therefore we may be excused.
2. SOme will further object, and say, It is the Work of Ministers to teach both us and our children, and therefore we may be excused.
Answ. 1. It is first your duty, and then the Ministers; It will be no excuse for you, because it is their Work, except you could prove it were only theirs: Magistrates must govern both you and your children, doth it therefore follow that you must not govern them? It belongs to the Schoolmaster to correct them, and doth it not belong also to you? There must go many hands to this great Work, as to the building of a house there must be many Workmen, one to one part, and another to another; and as your corn must go through many hands before it be bread; the Reapers, the Threshers, the Millers, the Bakers, and one must not leave their part, and say it belongs to the other: so it it is here in the instructing of your children: first, you must do your work, and then the Minister must do his; you must be doing it privately night and day; the Minister must do it publicly, and privately as oft as he can.
Answ. 1. It is first your duty, and then the Ministers; It will be no excuse for you, because it is their Work, except you could prove it were onely theirs: Magistrates must govern both you and your children, doth it therefore follow that you must not govern them? It belongs to the Schoolmaster to correct them, and doth it not belong also to you? There must go many hands to this great Work, as to the building of a house there must be many Workmen, one to one part, and another to another; and as your corn must go through many hands before it be bread; the Reapers, the Threshers, the Millers, the Bakers, and one must not leave their part, and say it belongs to the other: so it it is here in the instructing of your children: first, you must do your work, and then the Minister must do his; you must be doing it privately night and day; the Minister must do it publikely, and privately as oft as he can.