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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.
Object. 2. Some further object, it is the work of ministers to teach both us and our children, and therefore we may be excused.
Answer 1. It is first your duty, and then the minister's. It will be no excuse for you, because it is their work, except you could prove it were only theirs. Magistrates must govern both you and your children: doth it therefore follow that you must not govern them? It belongs to the s••••lmaster to correct them, and doth it not belong also to you? There must go many hands to this great work; as to the building of ⟨p. 250⟩an house there must be many workmen, one to one part, and another to another, and one must not leave their part, and say it belongs to the other: so it is here in the instructing of your children; first, you must do your work, and then the minister must do his: you must be doing it privately, night and day; the minister must do it publicly and privately, as oft as he can.
2. But as the case now stands with ministers, they are disabled from doing that which belongs to their office, and therefore you cannot now cast your work on them. I will instance but in two things.