Sermons on the Different States of Life, Vol. 2

Excerpt from Sermons on the Different States of Life, Vol. 2: Adapted to All the Sundays and Holydays of the Year But, Christian parents, is that the only end for which your children were entrusted and given to you by their Creator? Have they come into the world for no other purpose than to care for their bodies, which will one day become the food of worms? Is it their only object to earn their bread, and to live respectably in the eyes of the world? Have they not a soul - one only soul - one im mortal soul? Does not that concern you at all? Have their im mortal souls nothing to hope for, nothing to fear after this life? Faith, Where art thou? There is an eternal fire, to which your children may be condemned; forget it not. There is an eternal Heaven, in which they may rejoice; forget it not. To this latter they are called by God. They are entrusted to you by their Creator that they may attain it. The principal thing, the only object for which they are created, is to live piously, to fear and love God, and to be eternally happy. If they do not attain that end, it were better for them never to have been born. If you do not train them up for it, you are not the fathers and mothers, but the butchers and murderers of your children, whose souls God will demand from you. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.