A Body of Practical Divinity

Resp. 1. If you would have your Children honour you,

1. Be careful to bring them up in the Fear and Nurture of the Lord, Ephes. 6.4. Bring them up in the Admonition of the Lord. You conveyed the Plague of Sin to them, Ergo, Endeavour to get them healed and sanctified. Austin saith, his Mother Monica travelled more for his Spiritual Birth, than his Natural. Timothy's Mother instructed him from a Child, 2 Tim. 3.15. She did not only give him her Breast milk, but the sincere Milk of the Word. Season your Children with good Principles betimes, that they may with Obadiah, fear the Lord from their Youth, 1 King. 18.12. When Parents instruct not their Children, they seldom prove Blessings. God oft punisheth the carelessness of Parents with Undutifulness in their Children. It is not enough that in Baptism your Child is Dedicated to God, but it must be Educated for God. Children are young Plants which you must be continually watering with good Instruction. Prov. 22.6. Train up a Child in the way he should go, and he will not depart from it when he is old. The more your Children fear God, the more they will honour you.

1. Be careful to bring them up in the Fear and Nurture of the Lord, Ephes. 6.4. Bring them up in the Admonition of the Lord. You conveyed the Plague of Sin to them, Ergo, Endeavour to get them healed and sanctified. Austin saith, his Mother Monica travelled more for his Spiritual Birth, than his Natural. Timothy's Mother instructed him from a Child, 2 Tim. 3.15. She did not only give him her Breastmilk, but the sincere Milk of the Word. Season your Children with good Principles betimes, that they may with Obadiah, fear the Lord from their Youth,