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Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment. By Thomas Vincent, sometime Minister of Maudlins…
Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment. By Thomas Vincent, sometime Minister of Maudlins Milk-Street, London; ; [Three lines from Hebrews]
Boston: printed by Samuel Green for Benjamin Harris, 1690
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Christ's certain and sudden Appearance to Judgment. › Chapter 8
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3. Believing Parents will then accuse and witness against […] ungodly children and servants.
3. Believing Parents will then accuse and witness against 〈…〉 ungodly children and servants.
Lord, we endeavoured to bring them up in the […] and admonition of thee: we laboured to put good […] betimes into them: we dropped many wholesome instruction upon them: we prayed frequently for them, & with them and spake plainly and earnestly to them about their Soul concernments: we •old them of the immortality of the souls, the preciousness of their time, the evil of sin the need of thee, the excellency of grace, their danger of […] ⟨p. 68⟩the way to escape it; the glory of Heaven, the way to attain it: but alas, to the grief of our hearts, they shut their ears against all our instructions, and would take none of our reproofs or counsels, they would go foolishly and stubbornly on in a course of sin, and neither thy Law nor our Fear would restrain them.
Lord, we endeavoured to bring them up in the 〈…〉 and admonition of thee: we laboured to put good 〈…〉 betimes into them: we dropped many wholsom instruction upon them: we prayed frequently for them, & with them and spake plainly and earnestly to them about their Soul concernments: we •old them of the immortality of the souls, the preciousness of their time, the evil of sin the need of thee, the excellency of grace, their danger of 〈…〉 ⟨p. 68⟩the way to escape it; the glory of Heaven, the way to attain it: but alas, to the grief of our hearts, they shut their ears against all our instructions, and would take none of our reproofs or counsels, they would go foolishly and stubbornly on in a course of sin, and neither thy Law nor our Fear would restrain them.