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adult agency argument baptized become believe brought called child childhood Chris Christ Christian education Christian families Christian nurture Christian parents Christian piety church church of God connection conversion covenant declension depravity disciples Discourses divine doctrine duty EDWIN HUNT effect endeavor error evil exercise expected fact faith fathers federal headship feeling foundling hospital germ German Reformed church give God's godly gospel grace grow growth habit heart holy Holy Spirit hope human impressions individual infant baptism instrument Justin Martyr live manner means means of grace mind moral nature never object opinion organic laws organic power organic unity ourselves pentecost persons practical preaching present principle proper reason regard regeneration religious result revival of religion rite sanctified scene Scripture sense soul speak spirit supernatural supposed thing thought tian tion tism trained true truth Unitarians unto view of Christian virtue whole worship
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Page 30 - Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations...
Page 30 - When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice ; and I am persuaded that in thee also.
Page 205 - For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
Page 72 - God leaps from the stars, or some place above, to do a work apart from all system, or connection with his other works. Religion is thus a kind of transcendental matter, which belongs on the outside of life, and has no part in the laws by which life is organized, — a miraculous epidemic, a fireball shot from the moon, something holy, because it is from God, but so extraordinary, so out of place, that it cannot suffer any vital connection with the ties, and causes, and forms, and habits, which constitute...
Page 215 - And all that believed were together, and had all things common, and sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need ; and they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart, praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.
Page 66 - The Lord hath not set up churches only that a few old Christians may keep one another warm while they live, and then carry away the Church...
Page 187 - Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil. But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.
Page 63 - Therefore it is apparent, that the ordinary appointed means for the first actual grace, is parents' godly instruction and education of their children. And public preaching is appointed for the conversion of those only that have missed the blessing of the first appointed means. Therefore if you deny your children religious education, you deny them the first appointed means of their actual faith and sanctification ; and then the second cometh upon disadvantage.
Page 25 - I have used concerning the organic connection of character between the parent and the child, it is not designed to assert a power in the parent to renew the child, or that the child can be renewed by any agency of the Spirit less immediate, than that which renews the parent himself. When a germ is formed on the stem of any plant, the formative instinct of the plant may be said in one view to produce it; but the same solar heat which quickens the plant, must quicken also the germ and sustain the internal...
Page 30 - Declarations like those in the eighteenth chapter of Ezekiel, ' the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father,' — ' the soul that sinneth it shall die...