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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
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.
Application.
1. Let all Parents endeavour that their Children may be those gracious Ones which may know God for their Father. Methinks, you that are the Fathers of these poor little Creatures, if you had any bowels in you, should be concerned that they may have an Heavenly Father, to do that which you ••sire, but, cannot perform for them. Let me […] Name of God, lay before you two or three […] •••estions to be thought upon.
1. Let all Parents endeavour that their Children may be those gracious Ones which may know God for their Father. Methinks, you that are the Fathers of these poor little Creatures, if you had any bowels in you, should be concerned that they may have an Heavenly Father, to do that which you ••sire, but, cannot perform for them. Let me 〈…〉 Name of God, lay before you two or three 〈…〉 •••estions to be thought upon.
[…] have you no Kindness for your poor children ⟨p. 117⟩'Tis by your means, that they are now born defiled, depraved, horribly polluted, with Original Sin, and fearfully perishing under the wrath and curse of God; and what amends will you make 'em, for this infinite wrong? It was the law for a man that had wounded another, in Exod. 21. 19. He shall cause him to be throughly healed. And will you do nothing towards healing those prodigious wounds, which your Falls have caused your Children to lie bleeding under? Your poor Children, can you endure to see them starving, burning, dying before your Eyes? but thus they are till by Conversion they are become gracious little Children. We read in