The father cannot save or answer for the child, or the child
for the father; but in the sin thou sinnest thou shalt die; and in the
righteousness thou doest, through Christ Jesus, thou shalt live: for it
is the willing and obedient that shall eat the good of the land. Be not
deceived, God is mocked. Such as all nations and people sow, such they
shall reap at the hand of the just God. And then your many and great
privileges, above the children of other people, will add weight in the
scale against you, if you choose not the way of the Lord. For you have
had line upon line, and precept upon precept, and not only good doctrine
but good example; and which is more, you have been turned to, and
acquainted with, a principle in yourselves, which others too generally
have been ignorant of: and you know you may be as good as you please,
without the fear of frowns and blows, or being turned out of doors, and
forsaken of father and mother, for God's sake and his holy religion; as
has been the case of some of your fathers in the day they first entered
into this holy path. And if you, after hearing and seeing the wonders
that God has wrought in the deliverance and preservation of them, through
a sea of troubles, and the manifold temporal, as well as spiritual,
blessings that he has filled them with, in the sight of their enemies,
should neglect and turn your backs upon so great and near a salvation,
you would not only be most ungrateful children to God and them, but must
expect that God will call the children of those that knew him not, to
take the crown out of your hands, and that your lot will be a dreadful
judgment at the hand of the Lord: but, O that it may never be so with any
of you! The Lord forbid, saith my soul.
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