The Godly Man's Picture

2. By endeavouring to bring up our Children in the fear of the Lord, we shall provide for Gods glory when we are^† dead. A godly man should not only honour God while he lives, but do something that may promote Gods glory when he is dead: Our Children being seasoned with gracious Principles, will stand up in our room, when we are gone, and will glorify God in their generation. A good piece of ground doth not only bear a fore-crop, but an after-crop; he that is godly, doth not only bear God a crop of obedience himself while he lives, but by principling his Child with Religion, he bears God an after-crop when he is dead.

2. By endeavouring to bring up our Children in the fear of the Lord, we shall provide for Gods glory when we are^† dead. A godly man should not only honor God while he lives, but do something that may promote Gods glory when he is dead: Our Children being seasoned with gracious Principles, will stand up in our room, when we are gone, and will glorifie God in their generation. A good piece of ground doth not only bear a fore-crop, but an after-crop; he that is godly, doth not only bear God a crop of obedience himself while he lives, but by principling his Childe with Religion, he bears God an after-crop when he is dead.

1. †Celebre honoris divini trophaeum, etiam mortui in altum feremus.

Use 2. Let all who have Gods Name named upon them,¹ do what in them lies to advance Piety in others: A Knife touched with a Lodestone will draw the Needle; he whose heart is divinely touched with the Lodestone of Gods Spirit, will endeavour to draw those who are near him to Christ: The Heathen could say, We are not born for our selves ^*