II. To train them up in the fear and nurture of the Lord. This duty the Apostle Paul in special presseth upon Parents, Ye Parents, saith he,1 bring up your Children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, q. •. Let your main care be, not how to make them rich, but religious, how to work the sincere fear of God into their souls, that as God of his infinite goodness hath made them your children by natural Generation, so you should strive and endeavour to make them his Children, by a godly and religious education. Austin in his fifth Book of Confessions,2 speaking of his Mother Monica, saith, That she travelled with greater care, and stronger pai• for his spiritual birth, than for his natural birth. And truly the like care and pains should be in all Paren•• towards their Children. Not thinking it sufficient that they have brought them up to some good Trade, whereby they may live another day: But they must likewise bring them up in the fear of God, teaching them so to serve him here, that they may live with him eternally in the Heavens.
II. To train them up in the fear and nurture of the Lord. This duty the Apostle Paul in special presseth upon Parents, Yee Parents, saith hee,1 bring up your Children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, q. •. Let your main care be, not how to make them rich, but religious, how to work the sincere fear of God into their souls, that as God of his infinite goodness hath made them your children by natural Generation, so you should strive and indeavour to make them his Children, by a godly and religious education. Austin in his fifth Book of Confessions,2 speaking of his Mother Monica, saith, That shee travelled with greater care, and stronger pai• for his spiritual birth, than for his natural birth. And truly the like care and pains should be in all Paren•• towards their Children. Not thinking it sufficient that they have brought them up to some good Trade, whereby they may live another day: But they must likewise bring them up in the fear of God, teaching them so to serve him here, that they may live with him eternally in the Heavens.
- 1Ephes. 6. 4.
- 2Majori solicitud•ne me parturicbat spiritu, quam carne, &c. Aug. Confess. lib. 5. cap. 9.
