Right thoughts in sad hours representing the comforts and the duties of good men…

Finally, Have we any Doubts about the Eternal Salvation of the Children which we have Bur•ed out of our sight? Indeed, as to grown Children, there is often too sad cause of suspicion or solicitude; and yet here, the Sovereign disposals of God must be submitted unto. Besides, Though it may be, we could not see such plain Marks and Signs of Grace in our Adult Children as we could have wished for, nevertheless they might have the Root of the matter in them. There are many Serious, Gracious, Well-inclined young People, who conceal from every body, the Evidences of their Repentance, the Instances of their Devotion. You cannot tell what the Lord did for the Souls of your poor Children before he took ⟨p. 53⟩them out of the World. Perhaps they sought, they found Mercy, between the Stirrup and the Ground. The Child of a Godly Parent, is not to be despaired of, though turned off the Gallows.

Finally, Have we any Doubts about the Eternal Salvation of the Children which we have Bur•ed out of our sight? Indeed, as to grown Children, there is often too sad cause of suspicion or solicitude; and yet here, the Soveraign disposals of God must be submitted unto. Besides, Thô it may be, we could not see such plain Marks and Signs of Grace in our Adult Children as we could have wished for, nevertheless they might have the Root of the matter in them. There are many Serious, Gracious, Well-inclined young People, who conceal from every body, the Evidences of their Repentance, the Instances of their Devotion. You cannot tell what the Lord did for the Souls of your poor Children before he took ⟨p. 53⟩them out of the World. Perhaps they sought, they found Mercy, between the Stirrup and the Ground. The Child of a Godly Parent, is not to be despaired of, thô turned off the Gallows.

But as to young Children, the Fear of God will take away all matter of Scruple in the Owners of them. Parents, Can you not sincerely say, That you have given, as your selves, so your Children, unto God in a Covenant never to be forgotten? Can you not sincerely say, That you have chosen God in Christ for the Best Portion, as of your selves, so of your Children? Answer to this: If your Children had been spared unto you, would it not have been your care to have brought them up in the Nurture and Admonition of the Lord? Would you not have used all Prayers and Pains to have engaged them unto the Service of the Living God, and unto a just prejudice against all the vile Idols and vain courses of the World? Then, be of good cheer: Your Children are in a better place, a better state, than you your selves are yet arrived unto. The Faithful God had promised, I will be their God, as well as thy God. O say, This is all my Desire,