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Addresses to old men, and young men, and little children. In three discourses ...…
Addresses to old men, and young men, and little children. In three discourses ... To which may be added, a short scriptural catechism, accommodated unto their capacities. / By Cotton Mather.
Boston: printed by R. Pierce for Nicholas Buttolph, 1690
THE LITTLE CHILDS LESSON. › DOCTRINE. › Proposition 2: Proposition II.
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Secondly, They pay to God, the Reverence which is due unto a father. They dare not therefore […] rude, saucy, impudent, in the special presence ⟨p. 103⟩of the Lord; nor Talk, nor Sport, nor Sleep, when they should be worshipping of Him. 'Tis the voice of God in Mal. 1. 6. A son honoureth his father; if then I be a Father, where is my Honour? Gracious little Children give unto their God the Honour of a father; if they speak of God, it is in a most humble, serious, awful strain, they will not say, O God, or, O Lord, or say, God bless me, and, Lord bless me, with a frothy, carnal, heedless interjection; if they speak to God, it is with an exceeding veneration: while they are at prayer, they compose themselves unto a very diligent Attention and Intention of Soul; once more, if they hear from God, they set themselves as in the sight of him, who is greatly to be feared and had in Reverence; while they are in the Assemblies where the Word of God is Preached unto them, they would not use the least wildness for a thousand worlds.
Secondly, They pay to God, the Reverence which is due unto a father. They dare not therefore 〈…〉 rude, saw•y, impudent, in the special presence ⟨p. 103⟩of the Lord; nor Talk, nor Sport, nor Sleep, when they should be worshipping of Him. 'Tis the voice of God in Mal. 1. 6. A son honoureth his father; if then I be a Father, where is my Honour? Gracious little Children give unto their God the Honour of a father; if they speak of God, it is in a most humble, serious, awful strain, they will not say, O God, or, O Lord, or say, God bless me, and, Lord bless me, with a frothy, carnal, heedless interjection; if they speak to God, it is with an exceeding veneration: while they are at prayer, they compose themselves unto a very diligent Attention and Intention of Soul; once more, if they hear from God, they set themselves as in the sight of him, who is greatly to be feared and had in Reverence; while they are in the Assemblies where the Word of God is Preach'd unto them, they would not use the least wildeness for a thousand worlds.