Divine Conduct, or The Mystery of Providence

(8.) The consideration of the great day, sho••d move your bowels of pity for them. O ⟨p. 56⟩remember that Text, Rev. 20. 12, &c. I saw the dead small and great stand before God. What a sad thing will it be, to see your dear Children at Christs left hand? O friends, do your utmost to prevent this misery. Knowing the terrors of the Lord, we persuade men.

(8.) The consideration of the great day, sho••d move your bowels of pity for them. O ⟨p. 56⟩remember that Text, Rev. 20. 12, &c. I saw the dead small and great stand before God. What a sad thing will it be, to see your dear Children at Christs left hand? O friends, do your utmost to prevent this misery. Knowing the terrors of the Lord, we perswade men.

And you Children, especially you that sprang from religious Parents, I beseech you, obey their Counsels; and tread in the steps of their pious Examples. To press this, I offer these Consideration.

(1.) Your disobedience to them, is a resisting of Gods Authority, Ephes. 6. 1. Children, obey your Parents in the Lord: there's the Command: your rebellion therefore runs higher than you think. It is not Man, but God that you disobey; and for your disobedience God will punish you. It may be, their tenderness will not suffer them, or you are grown beyond their correction: all they can do, is to complain to God; and if so, he will handle you more severely than they could do.