N01022:46
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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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.
Charge the Children, Charge them, to Learn CHRIST, and Prize CHRIST, and Give themselves up to CHRIST. Set before them the Tenders of a CHRIST; and ask them to Accept what is Tendered; Leave them not until they have declared unto you their Acceptance of it.
Charge the Children, Charge them, to Learn CHRIST, and Prize CHRIST, and Give themselves up to CHRIST. Set before them the Tenders of a CHRIST; and ask them to Accept what is Tendred; Leave them not until they have declared unto you their Acceptance of it.
Bring the Children to CHRIST. We read, Mat. 19. 13. There were brought unto Him little Children. Oh! Bring every one of them unto him, and Cry unto him with a wondrous Importunity; Lord, Lord, Let my Children be thine. Cause them to Know thee, Love thee, Glorify thee! Be thou Precious to them; Do thou take them under thy Conduct; Guide them by thy Counsel; Bring them to thy Glory. And bring the Children under the Word of CHRIST. See that they Read the Word, see that they diligently attend on the Preaching of the Word. After the Word has been Preached unto them, do you speak to them of it, and mind them, what they should now go alone, and beg of God in fervent supplications. Restrain them from those Licentious Practices, to which our Young People so much abandon themselves, on the Evening after the Lords Day; the most Criminal Evening, they say, in all the Week. Our Children will be Ruined, Religion will be lost among our Children; except those ⟨p. 32⟩Licentious Practices be retrenched and reformed.
I Bless God; some of our Young People, do make a more Profitable and Commendable Improvement of that Evening. They Associate and Assemble in that Evening for Exercises of Piety. May their Example Encourage Others to the like Exercises. […] is pity but the Visits of their Pastors […] to them, as they have time and strength for it, with suitable Exhortation, may give Encouragement unto them. No Pains, no Pains, are too much, that our Children may have a CHRIST Effectually set before them.