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... grace and salvation . It is in the power of parents , with the blessing of God , to do more to prevent the declension of vital piety , to suppress the preva- lence of religious errors , to advance the interests of truth and godliness ...
... grace and salvation . It is in the power of parents , with the blessing of God , to do more to prevent the declension of vital piety , to suppress the preva- lence of religious errors , to advance the interests of truth and godliness ...
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... grace and power . And the sooner , the more earnestly , and the more submissively , they do this , the more reason will they have to hope . Parental tenderness is the most pure , the most faithful , the most unwearied , when it is nour ...
... grace and power . And the sooner , the more earnestly , and the more submissively , they do this , the more reason will they have to hope . Parental tenderness is the most pure , the most faithful , the most unwearied , when it is nour ...
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... grace and supplication . Daily , in your families , let your children hear you pray , and pray for them . At some stated seasons of domestic devotion , perhaps on the Sabbath , let the burden of your prayer be for the blessing of God ...
... grace and supplication . Daily , in your families , let your children hear you pray , and pray for them . At some stated seasons of domestic devotion , perhaps on the Sabbath , let the burden of your prayer be for the blessing of God ...
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... grace . Remember them too , often , and particularly , and one by one , in your own pri- vate devotions . Frequently set apart days of spe- cial prayer for them , and sometimes days of prayer and fasting . There , let the affectionate ...
... grace . Remember them too , often , and particularly , and one by one , in your own pri- vate devotions . Frequently set apart days of spe- cial prayer for them , and sometimes days of prayer and fasting . There , let the affectionate ...
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... grace to arrest the progress of moral declension . In a little time , you would see it ravage , without mercy , this fair land , turning every part of it into worse than scenes of degeneracy , and super- inducing an age of darkness ...
... grace to arrest the progress of moral declension . In a little time , you would see it ravage , without mercy , this fair land , turning every part of it into worse than scenes of degeneracy , and super- inducing an age of darkness ...
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Popular passages
Page 42 - Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.
Page 29 - And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Page 49 - 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 49 - As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord ; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.
Page 49 - They shall not build and another inhabit ; They shall not plant and another eat ; For as the days of a tree are the days of my people And mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands They shall not labour in vain. Nor bring forth for trouble ; For they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord, And their offspring with them.
Page 49 - O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever ! Go say to them, Get you into your tents again.
Page 49 - For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring: And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses.
Page 49 - But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children; To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.
Page 48 - ... for I, the LORD thy GOD, am a jealous GOD, visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me ; and showing mercy unto the thousandth generation of them that love Me and keep my commandments.
Page 47 - How good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity ! It is like precious ointment : like the dew of Hermon, and the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion.