A30736:26
A Serious advice to the citizens of London
A Serious advice to the citizens of London by some ministers of the Gospel in the said city upon occasion of the horrid murder and dreadful death of Nathaniel Butler, an high malefactor.
S.l. : s.n., 1657
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Catechize your children and servants; instruct them in the fundamentals of religion; would you keep them from error in the Head, from looseness in the life, make conscience of this duty. How excellent, how necessary, how profitable is this ordinance, and yet how sadly is it neglected, we may in a great measure blame you for the many Heretics, and erroneous persons, with whom we swarm in these days.
Catechize your children and servants; instruct them in the fundamentals of religion; would you keep them from error in the Head, from loosness in the life, make conscience of this duty. How excellent, how necessary, how profitable is this ordinance, and yet how sadly is it neglected, we may in a great measure blame you for the many Hereticks, and erroneous persons, with whom we swarm in these dayes.
Read and open the Scriptures to them, but do this with all humility and sobriety, or else there will be danger. These are the Magazine, the Treasury of all knowledge, able to make you and yours wise to Salvation; ⟨image 8⟩Let the word of Christ dwell richly in you; and in all that belong to you
Read and open the Scrptures to them, but do this with all humility and sobriety, or else there will be danger. These are the Magazine, the Treasury of all knowledge, able to make you and yours wise to Salvation; ⟨image 8⟩Let the word of Christ dwell richly in you; and in all that belong to you
See that they frequent the public Ordinances let them follow you to the house of God, not out of state, but in love to their souls; and when they are there, see they keep there, that they do not run out again to Ale-houses and Taverns (as too many do, to our grief and your shame be it spoken) when a public Ordinance is ended, call them to an account see what they remember, wherein they profit, how they relish the word; this is to do good indeed to their souls.