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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 3: Proposition III.
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, Very glorious is the privilege of those Little Children, that have and own God, for their Father. 'Tis a glorious privilege to be Interested in the fatherly Regards of the great God; but so these gracious little Children are.
Thirdly, Very glorious is the priviledge of those Little Children, that have and own God, for their Father. 'Tis a glorious priviledge to be Interested in the fatherly Regards of the great God; but so these gracious little Children are.
'Tis their privilege, that God has the Love of a Father for them. As 'twas said of a dutiful and a towardly Child, in Gen. 44. 20. His father loved him; unspeakably and infinitely more loving is the love of God unto all gracious little Children. A father loves his Children more than all his Riches in the world• and so does God love these Children more than the whole world besides; unto such a ⟨p. 114⟩Child, the great God says with a peculiar Emphasis as in Isa. 43. 4. I have loved thee!
'Tis their priviledge, that God has the Love of a Father for them. As 'twas said of a dutiful and a towardly Child, in Gen. 44. 20. His father loved him; unspeakably and infinitely more loving is the love of God unto all gracious little Children. A father loves his Children more than all his Riches in the world• and so does God love these Children more than the whole world besides; unto such a ⟨p. 114⟩Child, the great God says with a peculiar Emphasis as in