Spiritual Peace and Comfort, in Was doing it long : The ordinary way appointed by God for the doingof it firf},is the infrudion of Pa- rents: And(as I have fullier manifefted in my booji of Infant-Raptifr)ifParents woulddo their duties,they would lind, that The word publikely preached was not appointed to be the firfl ordinarymeans of Con- verfion,& faniification:but commonly,Grace would be received in childhood: I fpeak not of Baptifmal Relative Grace, conff}ingin the pardonofOriginal fin ; nor yet any infufion of Habits before they have the tire of reafon ( becaufe I fuppofe it is hid from us, what God Both in that,) Eut I fpeak of ac`lual t_.onverfion : and I prove that this fhould be the firft ordinaryway and time ofCotiverfion to the children of true Chriftians, becaufe it is the firft means that God bath appointed CO be ufed with them,Deut.6.6,7,8. Eph.6.4..Farents are command- ed to teach their children the LawofGod, urgent- ly, at home, and as theywalk abroad, lying down, and rifing up ; and to bring them up in the admoniti- on and nurture ofthe Lord, and to train up a child in the way ñahouid go, and thenwhen they are old they will not depart from it Prov.22. 6, And children are commanded to Remember their Creator in the clayey of theiryouth, Ecc1, r 2 r. And if this be Gods firf great means, then doubtlefs he will ordi- narily blefs his own means here, as well as in the Preaching of the Word. From all this I would have you learn this leffon That you ought not to trouble your Alfwithfears and doubts, leilyou are not truly Regenerate, becaufe you knownot the Sermon or the very time c maner ofyour (ónvtrfien q list find ;batyott have grace, and then, thordv
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