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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.
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.
Thirdly, They yield to God the submission which is due unto a father. They will by no means dispute the will of God, but render a most full, profound, absolute Obedience thereunto. Our Lord Jesus could say unto God, as in Luc. 22. 42. Father, not my will, but thine be done; and gracious little Children will herein say after that Holy Child Jesus. As for the will of God in his Precept, they are very ready to do it; they say, Lord, what wouldst thou have me to do; and they do whatsoever they understand he does bid; they would fain do, The thing that good […] and what the Lord ⟨p. 104⟩has required of them. As for the will of God in his Providence, they are very ready to bear it; they say The will of the Lord be done! and they bear what strokes, what pains, what sorrows, his Rod may lash them with; so they are subject unto the father of Spirits, and live.
Thirdly, They yield to God the submission which is due unto a father. They will by no means dispute the will of God, but render a most full, profound, absolute Obedience thereunto. Our Lord Jesus could say unto God, as in Luc. 22. 42. Father, not my will, but thine be done; and gracious little Children will herein say after that Holy Child Jesus. As for the will of God in his Precept, they are very ready to do it; they say, Lord, what wouldst thou have me to do; and they do whatsoever they understand he does bid; they would fain do, The thing that good 〈…〉 and what the Lord ⟨p. 104⟩has required of them. As for the will of God in his Providence, they are very ready to bear it; they say The will of the Lord be done! and they bear what strokes, what pains, what sorrows, his Rod may lash them with; so they are subject unto the father of Spirits, and live.