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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.
Parental Wishes and Charges. › [On the Lords-Day Evening; To my YOUNG MEN.]
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.
Fifthly; Will you be sensible of it, O Young People? The Christless are under the Dominion of a worse Tyrant than the Devil himself: Sin, Sin, has Dominion over them that are without a CHRIST. It was said, Rom. 6. 14. Sin shall not have Dominion over you, for you are under Grace. But if you are not under CHRIST, you are not under Grace, and Sin will have Dominion over you, They that are without a CHRIST, say concerning Him, They will not have Him to Reign over them. God in His just Vengeance then says, If it be so, then let Sin Reign over them. Sin Sways the Sceptre in every Unconverted and Unsanctified Sinner. The filthy Lusts of Sin, the Desires of the Flesh, and the Desires of the Mind, are not only Raging but also Reigning in the Sinner, until he submit unto the Sceptre of the Lord JESUS CHRIST. He is, Tit. 3. 3. Serving diverse Lusts. A Miserable Vassal! He has no steps ordered in the Word of ⟨p. 52⟩God, but, Iniquity has Dominion over him. He is always toiling to Gratify his Loathsome Lusts; his Lusts precipitate him into Criminal and Multiplied Follies; he feels himself ruined by following the Dictates of his Lusts, and yet he can't help it, he must follow them. He knows that his Lusts damnify him in all his Interests, and yet he is hurried on unto Evident Confusion. Or, perhaps his Lusts put out his Eyes; but still he grinds for them, till he dies upon the spot. Judge, O all Young People that have come to any Exercise of Reason, Judge, whether this be not to be very Miserable?
Fifthly; Will you be sensible of it, O Young People? The Christless are under the Dominion of a worse Tyrant than the Devil himself: Sin, Sin, has Dominion over them that are without a CHRIST. It was said, Rom. 6. 14. Sin shall not have Dominion over you, for you are under Grace. But if you are not under CHRIST, you are not under Grace, and Sin will have Dominion over you, They that are without a CHRIST, say concerning Him, They will not have Him to Reign over them. God in His just Vengeance then sayes, If it be so, then let Sin Reign over them. Sin Swayes the Scepter in every Unconverted and Unsanctified Sinner. The filthy Lusts of Sin, the Desires of the Flesh, and the Desires of the Mind, are not only Raging but also Reigning in the Sinner, until he submit unto the Scepter of the Lord JESUS CHRIST. He is,