N00935:32
Agreeable admonitions for old & young. Or, Aged piety honoured, and early piety quickened.…
Agreeable admonitions for old & young. Or, Aged piety honoured, and early piety quickened. In a brief discourse, delivered, April 25. 1703. : [Two lines of quotation in Latin]
Boston: printed by T. Green, 1703
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II. Are the First Christians in a Society to be reckoned in the First Rank of Christians? Let this animate some in very Ungodly Families to become Godly Christians. It may be, some of you, My Hearers, belong to Families that have not one Regenerate Christian in them. Will You then be the First? Oh, what a Consolation would you find it in the issue, if you might be they, that shall First bring the Grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, into the Families whereto you belong? It is probable, that when that Heavenly Leaven is once gotten in, it will spread further, and seize upon more; but you will be the Morning Stars among those Children of Light. We read of Abraham; Rom. 4. 16. He is the Father of us all. Why because he was in some respects one of the First, that led the way in leaving all at the Call of God, in the Faith of His. Messiah. Thus, all that God will Effectually Call unto Himself out of thy Family, will […] thee, their Father, if thou art the ⟨p. 24⟩First of the Family, that answers His Heavenly Call.
II. Are the First Christians in a Society to be reckon'd in the First Rank of Christians? Let this animate some in very Ungodly Families to become Godly Christians. It may be, some of you, My Hearers, belong to Families that have not one Regenerate Christian in them. Will You then be the First? Oh, what a Consolation would you find it in the issue, if you might be they, that shall First bring the Grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, into the Families whereto you belong? It is probable, that when that Heavenly Leaven is once gotten in, it will spread further, and sieze upon more; but you will be the MorningStars among those Children of Light. We read of Abraham; Rom. 4. 16. He is the Father of us all. Why because he was in some respects one of the First, that led the way in leaving all at the Call of God, in the Faith of His. Messiah. Thus, all that God will Effectually Call unto Himself out of thy Family, will 〈…〉 thee, their Father, if thou art the ⟨p. 24⟩First of the Family, that answers His Heavenly Call.