` De 1900? ;. afZ familp Moot. 295 And is not this greater treachery and cruelty, than ifthey famifhed their bodies, or turned them naked into the world ? yea or if they murdered them, and eat theirfleth ? Ïf an 1nemmy did this, it were not fobad, as for a Parent todo it : Nay confider whether the Devil himfelf be not lefs cruel, in feeking to damn them, than thefe parents are ? TheDevil is not their Parent He bath no relation to them, .no charge of them, to educate and five them ; He is a known renounced ene- my: And what better could be expe&ed from him ? But for Father and Mother, thus to neglect, betray and undo theirChildrens fouls,' for ever ! i or them to do it, that fhoúld love them as themfelves, and bave the tendereft care of them i O worfe than devilith perfi- diouscruelty Repent, Repent, O you forfworn unmerciful mur-: derers of your Childrens fouls. Repent for your own fakes I Repent for theirfakes ! Andyet teach them and remember themof the Covenant which they made, and tell them what Chriftianity is. You have conveyed a; finful nature to them : Help yet to inftru& them in the way of Grace ! But how can we hope that you Mould have mercy upon your Childrens fouls that have no mercy on your . own ? Or that you íhould help then to that Heaven which youdefpife your felves ? Or fave them from fin, which is your own delight and trade ? S. Toar complaint is fad and : Rat I find that men think, that the Teaching of their Children, be- longeth to the Schoolmaf%er and the Minier only, and not to them. PO Parents, Schoolmafters and Paflors have all their feveral parts to do ; And no ones work goeth on well without the rest. But the Parents is the ñrit and grea-_ eft ofall. As when the lower School is to teach" Chil U 4 dren
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