N01022:25
Parental wishes and charges. Or, The enjoyment of a glorious Christ, proposed, as the…
Parental wishes and charges. Or, The enjoyment of a glorious Christ, proposed, as the great blessedness, which Christian parents desire, both for themselves, and for their children. In a discourse, now put into the hands of such parents, as would be assisted in their duty, by putting such things into the hands of their children. : [Two lines of quotation in Latin]
printed by Timothy Green, 1705
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Where does the POWER of God appear in the Glory of it? Oh! the Glorious Power, that caused our Immanuel to be Born of a Virgin! And that United […] Man unto the Second Person in God! Behold, a Person of such a rare Constitution, that it might be said, There is One who was born about Seventeen Centuries ago; and yet, He is from Everlasting […] Everlasting. It might be said. There […] One who slept in a Cradle; and yet, the Heaven of Heavens cannot contain Him. […] might be said, There is One who died […] a Cross, and lay in a Grave; and yet, •e is forever ••dg'd in the Bosom of God. ••d shed his Blood; and yet his Divinity ⟨p. 14⟩suffered not. Man fills Heaven […] Earth; and yet his Humanity has not […] Ubiquity. Oh! the Glorious Power tha• Constituted such a Person! Oh! the Glorious Power that carried Him through' hi• vast Undertaking to Redeem us, and Raised Him from the Dead, and set Him in the Heavenly places! None but a Gabriel, a Name confessing the Power of God were proper to bring the Tidings o• such a Redeemer!
Where does the POWER of God appear in the Glory of it? Oh! the Glorious Power, that caused our Immanuel to be Born of a Virgin! And that United 〈…〉 Man unto the Second Person in God! Behold, a Person of such a rare Constitution, that it might be said, There is One who was born about Seventeen Centuries ago; and yet, He is from Everlasting 〈…〉 Everlasting. It might be said. There 〈…〉 One who slept in a Cradle; and yet, the Heaven of Heavens cannot contain Him. 〈…〉 might be said, There is One who dy'd 〈…〉 a Cross, and lay in a Grave; and yet, •e is forever ••dg'd in the Bosome of God. ••d shed his Blood; and yet his Divinity ⟨p. 14⟩