Help for distressed parents. Or, Counsels & comforts for godly parents afflicted with ungodly…

'Tis true, That the Eternal Election of God, most generally falls upon the Children of Godly Parents. We read in Psal. 103. 17. The Mercy of the Lord is from Everlasting to Everlasting, upon them that Fear Him, and His Righteousness unto Children's Children. Though they are not only, yet they are chiefly, the Children of Godly Parents, whom the Lords Everlasting Purposes of Mercy take notice of. The Line of Election, does generally run in the Book of Life, after that manner, Mine Elect and their Off spring with them, are the Blessed of the Lord There are whole Constellations of passages in the Bible, which do signify thus much unto us, That where God has Chosen any to Salvation, He generally Chooses others from the House which He has thus graciously begun to Look upon. And I humbly conceive, that if an Account should now be taken of all that Fear God in the World, they would mostly appear to have sprung ⟨p. 13⟩from the Loins of God fearing Ancestors. 'Tis also true, That among the Children of Godly Parents, the most by far do Really become, The Lords for ever, and go to Heaven, where they shall be, For ever with the Lord. We read, in 1 Cor. 7. 14. about the Children of the Faithful, They are Holy. The Children of Godly Parents, we are bound in a Judgment of Charity to reckon, as much belonging unto the Lord, as Themselves. The most of them do Die in their Infancy; and God forbid, that we should imagine a Believer to have no better ground of Hope for his Departed Offspring, than an Infidel. But of those that Live to be Adult also, very many, if not The most come to Serve the God of their Fathers. Insomuch, that our Brethren of the Antipoedobaptist Persuasion, have no more Argument against Infant Baptism, from the Apostasy of those whom we Baptise in Childhood, than we might have, to speak of those that are Baptised in Riper Years. This I am sure of; 'Tis a Popish and a Cursed LYE, that the Children of Ministers do usually miscarry more than Others; every Day confutes the LYE.

'Tis true, That the Eternal Election of God, most generally falls upon the Children of Godly Parents. We read in Psal. 103. 17. The Merey of the Lord is from Everlasting to Everlasting, upon them that Fear Him, and His Righteousness unto Childrens Children. Though they are not only, yet they are chiefly, the Children of Godly Parents, whom the Lords Everlasting Purposes of Mercy take notice of. The Line of Election, does generally run in the Book of Life, after that manner, Mine Elect and their Off spring with them, are the Blessed of the Lord There are whole Constellations of passages in the Bible, which do signifie thus much unto us, That where God has Chosen any to Salvation, He generally Chooses others from the House which He has thus graciously begun to Look upon. And I humbly conceive, that if an Account should now be taken of all that Fear God in the World, they would mostly appear to have sprung