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A farewell-sermon preached at the first precinct in Northampton, after the people's public rejection…A farewel-sermon preached at the first precinct in Northampton, after the people's publick rejection…
A farewell-sermon preached at the first precinct in Northampton, after the people's public rejection of their minister, and renouncing their relation to him as pastor of the church there, on June 22, 1750. : Occasioned by difference of sentiments, concerning the requisite qualifications of members of the church, in complete standing. / By Jonathan Edwards, A.M. ; [Twelve lines of Scripture texts]A farewel-sermon preached at the first precinct in Northampton, after the people's publick rejection of their minister, and renouncing their relation to him as pastor of the church there, on June 22, 1750. : Occasion'd by difference of sentiments, concerning the requisite qualifications of members of the church, in compleat standing. / By Jonathan Edwards, A.M. ; [Twelve lines of Scripture texts]
Boston: printed by S. Kneeland over agianst the prison, 1751
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Let me now therefore, once more, before I finally cease to speak to this Congregation, repeat and earnestly press the Counsel, which I have often urged on Heads of Families here, while I was their Pastor, to great Painfulness, in teaching, warning and directing their Children; bringing them up in the Nurture & Admonition of the Lord; beginning early, where there is yet Opportunity; and maintaining a constant Diligence in Labours of this Kind: Remembering that, as you would not have all your Instructions and Counsels ineffectual, there must be Government as well as Instructions, which must be maintained with an even Hand, and steady Resolution; as a Guard to the Religion and Morals of the ⟨p. 32⟩Family, and the Support of its good Order. Take heed that it ben't with any of you as it was with Eli of Old, who reproved his Children, but restrained them not; and that by this Means you don't bring the like Curse on your Families, as he did on his.
Let me now therefore, once more, before I finally cease to speak to this Congregation, repeat and earnesty press the Counsel, which I have often urged on Heads of Families here, while I was their Pastor, to great Painfulness, in teaching, warning and directing their Children; bringing them up in the Nurture & Admonition of the Lord; beginning early, where there is yet Opportunity; and maintaining a constant Diligence in Labours of this Kind: Remembring that, as you would not have all your Instructions and Counsels ineffectual, there must be Government as well as Instructions, which must be maintain'd with an even Hand, and steady Resolution; as a Guard to the Religion and Morals of the ⟨p. 32⟩Family, and the Support of its good Order. Take heed that it ben't with any of you as it was with Eli of Old, who reproved his Children, but restrained them not; and that by this Means you don't bring the like Curse on your Families, as he did on his.
And let Children obey their Parents, and yield to their Instructions, and submit to their Orders, as they would inherit a Blessing and not a Curse. For we have Reason to think from many Things in the Word of God, that nothing has a greater Tendency to bring a Curse on Persons, in this World, and on all their temporal Concerns, than an undutiful, unsubmissive, disorderly Behaviour in Children towards their Parents.