N01022:39
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
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APPLICATION.
And now; Hear the conclusion of the matter. Hear, and come to a Resolution.
First. Can you hear, That a CHRIST is the Work of God; and not resolve, To make it your work to study a CHRIST? Sirs, The study of a CHRIST, it should be our main Business, our main Delight. Oh! say with him; 1 Cor. 2. 2. I have determined not to know any thing, so much as JESUS CHRIST. God bring us to unite in this Disposition; That most Honourable and Magnificent Work of God, which there is in the CHRIST of God, Lord, my Spirit shall be Enquiring after it, and Affected with it, until I have no more Spirit left unto me!
Again. Can you hear, That a CHRIST is the Glory of God; and not resolve, To ascribe unto this CHRIST all the Glory that can be? Sirs; To be mightily taken with the Glory of a CHRIST, who is Altogether Lovely, tis the principal Action and Symptom of one that Believes to the saving of the Soul. Oh, come to a consort with the Heavenly Doxologies,