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Three sermons lately preached at Boston. I. Showing the virtue of Christs blood to…Three sermons lately preached at Boston. I. Shewing the vertue of Christs blood to…
Three sermons lately preached at Boston. I. Showing the virtue of Christs blood to cleanse from sin. II. That natural men are under the government of self-love. III. That the Gospel is the means of conversion. : To which a fourth is added, to stir up young men and maidens to praise the name of the Lord. / By Solomon Stoddard A.M. Pastor of Northampton.Three sermons lately preached at Boston. I. Shewing the vertue of Christs blood to cleanse from sin. II. That natural men are under the government of self-love. III. That the Gospel is the means of conversion. : To which a fourth is added, to stir up young men and maidens to praise the name of the Lord. / By Solomon Stoddard A.M. Pastor of Northampton.
printed by B. Green for Daniel Henchman, 1717
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USE, I. Then there is great need that Parents should train up their Children religiously. Parents are generally careful to bring up their Children to some Calling, that they may be fitted to do Service to themselves, and others; but they should be careful to bestow religious Education on them. Prov. 22.6. Train up a Child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it. Eph. 6.4. Bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. Something is generally done that way, but with too much remissness. Neglects this way is one of the things, wherein the degeneracy of the Land doth appear: many Parents are not religious themselves, and it is no wonder that they are negligent in the Education of their Children. But there is great need of it; Children are corrupt by nature; though they have natural Consciences urging them to that that is good, yet they have depraved dispositions prompting them to evil. There is a natural contrariety in them to the ways of God. ⟨p. 102⟩Rom. 8.7. The natural mind is enmity to God. And there be many temptations to mislead them: There be a multitude of temptations to draw forth their corruptions; and there is need of more care than many Parents do take, that they may praise the Name of the Lord.
USE, I. Then there is great need that Parents should train up their Children religiously. Parents are generally careful to bring up their Children to some Calling, that they may be fitted to do Service to themselves, and others; but they should be careful to bestow religious Education on them. Prov. 22.6. Train up a Child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it. Eph. 6.4. Bring them up in the nurture and admenition of the Lord. Something is generally done that way, but with too much remissness. Neglects this way is one of the things, wherein the degeneracy of the Land doth appear: many Parents are not religious themselves, and it is no wonder that they are negligent in the Education of their Children. But there is great need of it; Children are corrupt by nature; though they have natural Consciences urging them to that that is good, yet they have depraved dispositions prompting them to evil. There is a natural contrariety in them to the ways of God.