Useful instructions for a professing people in times of great security and degeneracy

6. See to your own lives, that they be exemplary to your Children, if you teach them never so carefully, yet if you unteach them again by your vain conversation before them, its little the better; think how much advantage you put into Satan's hands against your Children, to draw them into sin by your example, he knows well enough what a taking argument this is with Children.

6. See to your own lives, that they be exemplary to your Children, if you teach them never so carefully, yet if you unteach them again by your vain conversation before them, its little the better; think how much advantage you put into Satans hands against your Children, to draw them into sin by your example, he knows well enough what a taking argument this is with Children.

7. Rest not satisfied, but be constant and earnest with God for your Children till you see Christ formed in them, as knowing that till then they are in Satan's Kingdom, and under his Jurisdiction. Oh what bowels of affection, what […] requests might this providence arm us withal! how strong might it make us with God for our Children! O pity them in a state of unregeneracy: Christless souls are naked souls, and therefore lye open to the enemy; cease not therefore night nor day begging for them. See in this providence their danger, and let it quicken you to importunacy.

7. Rest not satisfied, but be constant and earnest with God for your Children till you see Christ formed in them, as knowing that till then they are in Satans Kingdome, and under his Jurisdiction. Oh what bowels of affection, what 〈…〉 requests might this providence arm us withall! how strong might it make us with God for our Children! O pity them in a state of unregeneracy: Chri••less souls are naked souls, and therefore lye open to the enemy; cease not therefore night nor day begging for them. See in this providence their danger, and let it quicken you to importunacy.