Why will you let the Pains, the Prayers, the Tears, the Desires, the Hopes of your Fathers that begot you, and your Mothers that bare you, to be lost and frustrated? If your Parents be yet alive, would it not be the Joy of their hearts, to see that God had Circumcised yours? And if they be dead, will you not be afraid to meet them at the Tribunal of Jesus Christ, in an Unregenerate condition? It was no small mercy to you, that God should make you to be the Seed of the Righteous: and it will be no small aggravation of your sin, if you ⟨image 3⟩should not be a Righteous Seed. Perhaps besides your immediate Parents, your Forefathers and Ancestors were such as walked with God in their several Generations; and so godliness hath (through Free Grace) been, as it were, entailed upon your House, from one Age to another. Now what a dreadful thing would it be, if any of you should cut off the entail of Godliness! or that you should go to Hell, whose Parents are going, or gone to Heaven!
Why will you let the Pains, the Prayers, the Tears, the Desires, the Hopes of your Fathers that begot you, and your Mothers that bare you, to be lost and frustrated? If your Parents be yet alive, would it not be the Joy of their hearts, to see that God had Circumcised yours? And if they be dead, will you not be afraid to meet them at the Tribunal of Jesus Christ, in an Unregenerate condition? It was no small mercy to you, that God should make you to be the Seed of the Righteous: and it will be no small aggravation of your sin, if you ⟨image 3⟩should not be a Righteous Seed. Perhaps besides your immediate Parents, your Forefathers and Ancestors were such as walked with God in their several Generations; and so godliness hath (through Free Grace) been, as it were, intailed upon your House, from one Age to another. Now what a dreadful thing would it be, if any of you should cut off the intail of Godliness! or that you should go to Hell, whose Parents are going, or gone to Heaven!
