Agreeable admonitions for old & young. Or, Aged piety honoured, and early piety quickened.…

IT is a memorable passage in Eusebius, One of the Ancients; The Greatest Philosophers among the Gentiles, tho they talked much about the Immortality of the Soul, and the Felicity of the Future State, yet by their Lives they made it appear, that they did not Believe their own Talk, they really looked on it as a Trifling Report; But, Says he, among us Christians, the very Boys & Girls, being assisted by the Power of our Blessed Saviour, make it apparent, not only ⟨p. 4⟩by their Words, but also by their Lives, that they have a powerful Belief of their having Immortal Souls, and of their coming to Eternal Blessedness in the World to come. Thus we find, even the children in the Primitive Churches, commended by one of the Renowned Fathers. May the Lord so Bless thy Children in the midst of thee, O NEW ENGLAND, that boy may deserve such a Commendation!

IT is a memorable passage in Eusebtus, One of the Ancients; The Greatest Philosophers among the Gentiles, tho they talk'd much about the Immortality of the Soul, and the Felicity of the Future State, yet by their Lives they made it appear, that they did not Believe their own Talk, they really look'd on it as a Trifling Report; But, Sayes he, among us Christians, the very Boyes & Girles, being assisted by the Power of our Blessed Saviour, make it apparent, not only ⟨p. 4⟩by their Words, but also by their Lives, that they have a powerful Belief of their having Immortal Souls, and of their coming to Eternal Blessedness in the World to come. Thus we find, even the children in the Primitive Churches, commended by one of the Renowned Fathers. May the Lord so Bless thy Children in the midst of thee, O NEW ENGLAND, that boy may deserve such a Commendation!

It is a most agreeable, and a most profitable Thing, for the Ministers of the Gospel, whose Love to the Lord Jesus Christ obliges them to Feed His Lambs, to take every Occasion, for the pressing of Early Piety. Methinks I see a fair Occasion for it, in the Text, which from The Gospel of the Ephesians, now falls into our Hands. Our Apostle mentioning the Great Things done by the Grace of God, for His Chosen People, he proceeds, more particularly, to mention the Subjects, upon whom the Triumphs of Grace are multiplied. These are first, the Elect of God among the Jews; and then, the Elect among the Gentiles. The Former are designed in the words now before us; And, Behold a singular Privilege of the Jewish Converts. It is proposed as a singular Privilege