The Children of the Godly Man

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James Hosie

Puritan Board Freshman
If it is the sign of a godly man to promote grace in others, then how much more ought he to promote it in his near relations. A godly man will be careful that his children should know God. He would be sorry that any of his flesh should burn in hell. He labours to see Christ formed in those who are himself in another edition.

The time of childhood is the fittest time to be sowing seed of religion in our children. ‘Whom shall he make to understand doctrine? Them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts’ (Isa. 28:9). The wax, while it is soft and tender, will take any impression. Children, while they are young, will fear a reproof; when they are old, they will hate it.

It is pleasing to God that our children should know him early in life. When you come into a garden, you love to pluck the young bud and smell it. God loves a saint in the bud. Of all the trees which the Lord could have chosen in a prophetic vision (Jer. 1:11), he chose the almond tree, which is one of the first of the trees to blossom. Such an almond tree is an early convert.

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