The happy succession of a Christian Family. [ 1187]
IT was accompted a great honour,* 1.1 nay the very height of felicity, that in one house and race of the Curio's, there were known to be three excellent Orators one after another, by descent from the Father to the Sonne; And the Fabii afforded three Presidents of the Senate in course, one immediately succeed∣ing the other; the like hath been amongst us in severall high places of Go∣vernment and Judicature: But if this kind of succession be so Honourable, so happy; How happy, how Honourable doth the succession of Religion from Fa∣ther to Sonne make Families to be? there it is that the Name of Christ may be said to live for ever: ••iliabitur nomen ejus, so the words are,* 1.2 It shall be begotten as one generation is begotten of another, and so make a happy succession of Christs Name; so that it must needs be then a bless••d Tenure, where Christ is held in Capite; a happy Family, where Christ and the name of the Family go hand in hand together.