teug pow Danz ,JYainítp?Zook. 297 Many call for Church- Reformation, and State-re- formation, who yet are the plagues of the times them (elves; and will not Reform one little family. if men wóuld Reform their families, and agree in a holy edu- cation of their Chíldfen, Church and State would be foon Reformed, when. they were made up of fuck, re- formed Families. S. Iprayyou fet me down f ichInirutlions together,ad youthink, 4, concerning all my duty to my Children : thatl may do mypart, and ifany of them perifh, their damnationmay not be longofme. P. T. Be lure that you doyour part in entring them at firft into the Baptifmal Covenant. That is ; i. See that you be true toyour Covenantyour felf: For the pro- mile is made to (e) true Chrifiaans and their feed. No man can fincerely and rightly confent to the Covenant for his Child, that doth not confent to it for himfelf. "Do not think /that ' his (f) bare being the Child of°Godly parents is his full Condition of Right to the benefits ofthe Covenant. That isbut the fundamental part : But you muf alto Rçlually dedicate him to God (inBaptifm, when it may be had : and when it cannot, yet in the fame Covenant, which Baptitrn folemnizeth.) As you are a W licver;' he and all th.t you have, are Virtually devoted to God ; But betides that there muff be an Atlual dedication of him. The Child ofa fie- lever aclttallyofer`ealor dedicated to God, is a htful Receiver of Baptifm and its benefits. 3. Underftand (e) R®w.5.12,16,I 7,I 8. Eph.2,.d3.Gen.I 74,131It. (f) Deut.Zo.IÓ,II,I'.R65. II.I^ ohn 3.3, 5. f0.79:3ai4. lat.2$.19,2o. Cr.7 Well
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