A75287:1293
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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5. Let Parents reprove and correct their children for sin; and that the Lord may sanctify this correction unto them, Consider this, O ye parents, Do you observe such and such sins in your children? enter into your own hearts, examine your selves, whether they come not from you: Consider how justly the hand of God may be upon you: and when you are angry with your children, have an holy anger with your own selves, and use this or the like Meditation with your own souls, Lord, shall I thus punish my own sin in mine own child? shall I thus persecute the corruptions of mine own ancestors? how then mayest thou be displeased with me for the too carnal conception of my own child? It may be, I then lay in some sin, or I asked it not of thee by prayer: Be merciful to me, O Lord, and in thy good time, show thou pity on me and my child!
5. Let Parents reprove and correct their children for sin; and that the Lord may sanctifie this correction unto them, Consider this, O ye parents, Do you observe such and such sins in your children? enter into your own hearts, examine your selves, whether they come not from you: Consider how justly the hand of God may be upon you: and when you are angry with your children, have an holy anger with your own selves, and use this or the like Meditation with your own souls, Lord, shall I thus punish my own sin in mine own childe? shall I thus persecute the corruptions of mine own ancestors? how then mayest thou be displeased with me for the too carnal conception of my own childe? It may be, I then lay in some sin, or I asked it not of thee by prayer: Be merciful to me, O Lord, and in thy good time, shew thou pity on me and my childe!
6. As children grow in years, and in the knowledge of Christ, and of justification by Christ, let Parents train them up in the exercise of all Duties, as Prayer, Meditation, Self-Examination, Watchfulness, and all means public and private: if this be done, the world to come may reap the benefit of their education; such children as you bring up, such parents will they be (when you are gone) to their children; and such children shall they have, who are parents in the next generation, &c. You then are the very making or marring of the world: but on the contrary, if this be neglected, the rich man shall rise up against you in the day of Judgement, and condemn you; for he being in hell, had a care of his fathers house, that they might be forewarned, he desired Abraham to send Lazarus to his brethren, to testify unto them that they came not to that place of torment; but you will not admonish your children, you will not teach them Moses and the Prophets; you will not show them the danger of Gods heavy displeasure hanging oer their heads; you will not, whilst you live, lead a good example before them: O you may fear that your children