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Early piety, exemplified in the life and death of Mr. Nathanael Mather, who ...…
Early piety, exemplified in the life and death of Mr. Nathanael Mather, who ... changed earth for heaven, Oct. 17. 1688 whereto are added some discourses on the true nature, the great reward, and the best season of such a walk with God as he left a pattern of.
London: printed by J. Astwood for John Dunton, 1689
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
RULE IV.
Let us remember the profitable Instruction of them that wish well unto us.
There is a twofold Instruction which young Persons among us are made partakers of: There is Pastoral Instruction, and ⟨p. 83⟩there is Parental Instruction, under which you sit. Regard this Instruction, lest you mourn at last, and say, How have I hated Instruction, and not obeyed the voice of my Teachers!
You enjoy Pastoral Instruction, O despise it not! You have with Sermon after Sermon been publicly and solemnly called upon to Remember God. Besides this, I have personally treated with some scores of you, about your Eternal Welfare, and I hope I may live to visit every one of you for this end, earnestly and urgently beseeching of you to be Reconciled unto God. It was of old enjoined in Deut. 31. 12. Gather the People together, Men and Women, and Children, that they may hear, and learn, and fear the Lord: Behold, the Children as well as the Adult have been advised here, to Remember the Lord. What is now the effect of it? I will for once wax bold with you, and say as Dying Bolton said unto his Children, Children, let any of you meet me at the day of Judgment in a Christless unregenerate estate if you dare! I will testify against you, I say again, I will testify against you before the Lord Jesus, if you do.