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The saints everlasting rest
The saints everlasting rest: or, A treatise of the blessed state of the saints in their enjoyment of God in glory: extracted from the works of Mr. Richard Baxter, by John Wesley, M.A. late fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford.
Philadelphia: printed by Prichard & Hall, 1790
Part 2 › Chapter 12: An Advice to some more particularly to help others to this Rest.
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.
5. The last whom I would persuade to this great work of helping others to the heavenly rest, is parents, and masters of families. All you that GOD hath entrusted with children or servants, consider what duty lieth on you for furthering their salvation. That this exhortation may be the more effectual with ⟨p. 242⟩you, I will lay down several considerations for you seriously to think on.
5. The last whom I would persuade to this great work of helping others to the heavenly rest, is parents, and masters of families. All you that GOD hath intrusted with children or servants, consider what duty lieth on you for furthering their salvation. That this exhortation may be the more effectual with ⟨p. 242⟩you, I will lay down several considerations for you seriously to think on.
1. What plain and pressing commands of GOD are there, that require this great duty at your hand! Deut. vi. 6, 7, 8. And these words which I command thee this day shall be in thy heart, and thou shalt teach them diligently to thy children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou li•st down, and when thou risest up. And how well is GOD pleased with this in Abraham, Gen. xviii. 17.19. Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do? For I know him, that he will command his children, and his household after him, that they shall keep the way of the LORD. Prov. xxii. 6. Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it. So that you see it is a work that the LORD of heaven and earth hath laid upon you; and how then dare you neglect it?