290 ' e 'íooog `3 anz family 'Book. are miferable. Therefore family duty muft be your work. 5. Holy (b) Families are the chief feminaries ofChrifts Churchon Earth, and it is very much that Iyeth upon them to keep. up the intereft of Religion in the world. Hence come holy Magiftrates , when Great Mens Children havea holy Education. And Owhat a blefling is one fuch to the Countreys where they are l Hence fpring Holy Paftors and Teachers to the Churches,who as Timothy,received holy inftruc ions from their Parents, and grace from the Spirit of Chrift, in their tender age.Many a Congregation that ishappily fed with the bread of life, may thank God for the en= deavoursofa poor ,man or woman, that trained up a (c) Child in the fear of God to become their holy faithful Teacher. Though Learningbe found in Schools, Godlinefs is oftner receivedfrom the Education of care- ful Parents. When Children and Servants come to the Churchwithcxad,rfandiwggodly prepared minds the la- bours of the Paftor will do them good ; theywill receive what they hear with Faith, love and obedience : It will be a joy to the Minifter to have fuch a flock ; And it will be joyful to the people that are fuch, tomeet to- gether in the facred affetnblies, to worfhip God with chearful hearts : And fuch worth ippers will be accepta- ble to God. But when families conic together in grofs ignorance, and with unfanelificd hearts, there they fit like Images, underfianding little of what is Paid, and go home little the better for all the laboursof (b) i rim. z. t 2. Detct.6.7. & 3o. 2. Pfalrra 747.1;. 9 Eph.6.4.,5,6. Prov.22. 6, 15. í 29. 15. t::-) 3. 13. CC) z T3m.3.15. the
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