A51848:849
Several discourses tending to promote peace & holiness among Christians to which are added,…
Several discourses tending to promote peace & holiness among Christians to which are added, three other distinct sermons / by Dr. Manton.
London: printed for Jonathan Robinson, 1685
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(3.) God would be a loser, if you be less resolute in owning God's Truth, than you were before. Oh take heed of daubing in Religion! we must hate all for Christ, Luke 14. 26. We must be as true ⟨p. 94⟩still to make good our Engagement to him. Wife and Children must be undervalued for the Gospel; we may be put to the trial, whether we will cleave to them or Christ, who is our choice Husband. The Bond of Religion is above all Bonds; all Bonds between Husband and Wife, Father and Children, end in Death; but the Bond of Christ is Eternal; your Children will not lose by your faithfulness to God.
(3.) God would be a loser, if you be less resolute in owning God's Truth, than you were before. Oh take heed of daubing in Religion! we must hate all for Christ, Luke 14. 26. We must be as true ⟨p. 94⟩still to make good our Ingagement to him. Wife and Children must be undervalued for the Gospel; we may be put to the trial, whether we will cleave to them or Christ, who is our choice Husband. The Bond of Religion is above all Bonds; all Bonds between Husband and Wife, Father and Children, end in Death; but the Bond of Christ is Eternal; your Children will not lose by your faithfulness to God.
2. Positively. Let God be a gainer.
(1.) By your daily praises and blessing God for his Providence, that hath brought you into this Relation. I obtained favour from the Lord.