A75287:1285
Media: the middle things, in reference to the first and last things: or, The…
Media: the middle things, in reference to the first and last things: or, The means, duties, ordinances, both secret, private and public, for continuance and increase of a godly life, once begun, till we come to Heaven. Wherein are discovered many blessed medium's or duties, in their right method, manner and proceedings; that so a Christian (the spirit of Christ assisting) may walk on in the holy path, which leads from his new birth to everlasting life. / Drawn, for the most part, out of the most eminently pious, and learned writings of our native practical divines: with additionals of his own, by Isaac Ambrose, minister of the Gospel at Preston in Amoundernes.Media: the middle things, in reference to the first and last things: or, The means, duties, ordinances, both secret, private and publike, for continuance and increase of a godly life, once begun, till we come to Heaven. Wherein are discovered many blessed medium's or duties, in their right method, manner and proceedings; that so a Christian (the spirit of Christ assisting) may walk on in the holy path, which leads from his new birth to everlasting life. / Drawn, for the most part, out of the most eminently pious, and learned writings of our native practical divines: with additionals of his own, by Isaac Ambrose, minister of the Gospel at Preston in Amoundernes.
London: printed by John Field for Nathanael Webb and William Grantham, 1649London: printed by John Field for Nathanaell Webb and William Grantham, 1649
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2. The duties of Parents to the souls of their children, extends it self also to all times, as, 1. To their Infancy. 2. To their Youth. 3. To the time of Parents departure out of this world.
1. The first age of a child, is his infancy: and the first part of its infancy, is while it remaineth in the mothers womb. Now the duty of parents at that time are these: 1. That they pray for their children:1 Thus did Rebekah, while the children were quick in her womb. Those parents that neglect this duty to their children, consider not rightly that they are conceived in sin: and 2. That they make sure (so much as in them lies) that their children be born under the Promise, or under the Covenant, in respect of the Spiritual part of it: How? by making sure that they be under the Promise or Covenant themselves: If God in Christ be their God, they may have a comfortable hope, That God will be the God of their seed, according to the Promise, I will be thy God, 2and the God of thy seed.
1. The first age of a childe, is his infancy: and the first part of its infancy, is while it remaineth in the mothers womb. Now the duty of parents at that time are these: 1. That they pray for their children:1 Thus did Rebekah, while the children were quick in her womb. Those parents that neglect this duty to their children, consider not rightly that they are conceived in sin: and 2. That they make sure (so much as in them lies) that their children be born under the Promise, or under the Covenant, in respect of the Spiritual part of it: How? by making sure that they be under the Promise or Covenant themselves: If God in Christ be their God, they may have a comfortable hope, That God will be the God of their seed, according to the Promise, I will be thy God, 2