Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment

3. Believing Parents will then accuse and witness against their ungodly children, and servants:

Lord, we endeavoured to bring them up in the nurture and admonition of thee; we laboured to put good principles betimes into them; we dr•pped many wholesome instructions upon them; we prayed frequently for them, and with them, and spake plainly a•d earnestly to them about their soul-concernment; we told them of the immnr•atity of their s•uls, the preciousness of ⟨p. 86⟩their time, the evil of sin, their need of thee, the excellency of grace, their danger of Hell, the way to escape it, the glory of Heaven, the way to attain it; but alas, to the grief of our hearts, they shut their ears against all our instructions, and would take none of our reproofs or counsels, they would go foolishly and stubbornly on in a course of sin, and neither thy law, nor our fear would restrain them.

Lord, we endeavoured to bring them up in the nurture and admonition of thee; we laboured to put good principles betimes into them; we dr•pped many wholsome instructions upon them; we prayed frequently for them, and with them, and spake plainly a•d earnestly to them about their soul-concernment; we told them of the immnr•atity of their s•uls, the preciousness of ⟨p. 86⟩their time, the evil of sin, their need of thee, the excellency of grace, their danger of Hell, the way to escape it, the glory of Heaven, the way to attain it; but alas, to the grief of our hearts, they shut their ears against all our instructions, and would take none of our reproofs or counsels, they would go foolishly and stubbornly on in a course of sin, and neither thy law, nor our fear would restrain them.