O therefore what you do, do quickly, and do it, I say, with all your might, O pray, pray, pray, and live holily before them, and take some time daily, to speak a little to your Children, one by one, about their miserable Condition by Nature; I know a Child that was converted by this sentence, from a godly School-Mistress in the Country, Every Mothers Child of you are by Nature Children of wrath. Put your Children upon learning their Catechism, and the scriptures, and getting to pray and weep by […] Christ: take heed of their company; ⟨image ?⟩take heed of pardoning a lye; take heed of letting them misspend the Sabbath, put them I beseech you, upon imitating these sweet Children; let them read this Book over an hundred times, and observe how they are affected, and ask them what they think of those Children, and whether they would not be such? and follow what you do with earnest cries to God, and be in travel to see Christ formed in their Souls. I have prayed for you, I have oft prayed for your Children, and I love them dearly; and I have prayed over these papers; that God would strike in with them, and make them effectual to the good of their Souls. Encourage your Children to read this Book, and lead them to improve it. What is presented, is faithfully taken from experienced solid Christians, some of them no way related to the Children, who themselves were Eye and Ear witnesses of God's works of Wonder, or from my own knowledge, or from Reverend Godly Ministers, and from persons that are of unspotted reputation, for Holiness, Integrity and Wisdom; and several passages are taken verbatim in writing from their dying Lips I may add many other excellent Examples, if I have any encouragement in this Piece▪ That the Young Generation may be far more excellent than this, is the Prayer of one that dearly loves little Children.
O therefore what you do, do quickly, and do it, I say, with all your might, O pray, pray, pray, and live holily before them, and take some time daily, to speak a little to your Children, one by one, about their miserable Condition by Nature; I know a Child that was converted by this sentence, from a godly School-Mistress in the Country, Every Mothers Child of you are by Nature Children of wrath. Put your Children upon learning their Catechism, and the ••riptures, and getting to pray and weep by 〈…〉 Christ: take heed of their company; ⟨image ?⟩take heed of pardoning a lye; take heed of letting them mispend the Sabbath, put them I beseech you, upon imitating these sweet Children; let them read this Book over an hundred times, and observe how they are affected, and ask them what they think of those Children, and whether they would not be such? and follow what you do with earnest cries to God, and be in travel to see Christ formed in their Souls. I have prayed for you, I have oft prayed for your Children, and I love them dearly; and I have prayed over these papers; that God would strike in with them, and make them effectual to the good of their Souls. Incourage your Children to read this Book, and lead them to improve it. What is presented, is faithfully taken from experienced solid Christians, some of them no way related to the Children, who themselves were Eye and Ear witnesses of God's works of Wonder, or from my own knowledge, or from Reverend Godly Ministers, and from persons that are of unspotted reputation, for Holiness, Integrity and Wisdom; and several passages are taken verbatim in writing from their dying Lips I may add many other excellent Examples, if I have any encouragement in this Piece▪ That the Young Generation may be far more excellent than this, is the Prayer of one that dearly loves little Children.
