A discourse concerning the Redeemer's dominion over the invisible world, and the entrance thereinto

Both of you have sprung of Religious, and Honourable Families, favoured of God, valued, and beloved in the Countries where he had planted them. They have been both, seats of Religion, and of the Worship of God. The Resorts of his Servants. Houses of Mercy, to the Indigent. Of Justice, to the vicious. Of Patronage, to the sober, and virtuous. Of good Example, to all about them.

Both of you have sprung of Religious, and Honourable Families, favoured of God, valued, and beloved in the Countries where he had planted them. They have been both, seats of Religion, and of the Worship of God. The Resorts of his Servants. Houses of Mercy, to the Indigent. Of Justice, to the vitious. Of Patronage, to the sober, and vertuous. Of good Example, to all about them.

You were, both, dedicated to God, early, and he gave early Testimony of his accepting the Dedication. He began with you both betimes, blessing your Education, and owning you for his, by disposing and forming your Spirits to own, betimes, the God of your Fathers. He hath ⟨p. 8⟩blessed you indeed, adding the spiritual Blessings in heavenly things, to your many earthly Comforts. Which Jabez might mean, not content, with a common Blessing; and the more probably, from the acceptance he found, 1 Chron. 4.9, 10. God granted his Request, as Solomon's, 1 Kings 2.10. When his Request was as little vulgar.

You were, both, dedicated to God, early, and he gave early Testimony of his accepting the Dedication. He began with you both betimes, blessing your Education, and owning you for his, by disposing and forming your Spirits to own, betimes, the God of your Fathers. He hath ⟨p. 8⟩blessed you indeed, adding the spiritual Blessings in heavenly things, to your many earthly Comforts. Which Jabez migh mean, not content, with a common Blessing; and the more probably, from the acceptance he found,