3 24 T'ireEtions for betting andkeeping! the Conditional force of their Parents faith, nor of their Baptifm : yet Deut. 6. & Eph. 6. And oft" in the Proverbs you may find that it is Gods arid Command that Parents fhould teach Gods word to their Children, and bring them up in the Nurture and Admonition of the Lord; yea with a prediction or half- promife, that if we train up a child in the way he fhould go, when he is old he fhall not depart from it, Prov. 22.6, Now its certain that Godwill ufually blefs that which he appointeth to be the ufual means, if it be rightly ufed : For he bath appointed no means to be tiled invain! I hope therefore by this time you fee, that in flead' ofbeing troubled that the workwas done on your foul by the means of Education, 1. You had more Reafon to be troubled if it had been done firm by the publike Preachingof the word : For it fhould grieve you at theheart to think, i. That you lived in an unregenerate Date fo long, and fpent your childhood in vanity and fin, and thought not feri- oufly omCod and your falvation, for fo manyyears together. 2. And that you or your Parents fin fhould provoke God fo long to withdraw his Spirit and deny you his Grace. 2. You may feealto what unconceivable thanks you owe to God who made Education the means of your early change. i. In that he prevented fo many and grievous fins which elle you would have been guilty of ( And youmay read in David( and Manafea cafe, that even par- doned fins haveoft-times very fad effects left behinde them. ) z. That you have enjoyed Gods Spirit and Love fo much longer then elfe youwouldhave done. 3. That iniquity rooknot fo deep rootingin you, as
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