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TO be the Children of Godly Parents, is a great mercy, because such make conscience of providing for the good of their childrens Souls and Bodies; they are conscienciously bound to educate their Children in the fear of God, and to match
and settle them so as they may be incouraged in those hings: And so also to provide for their bodies to breed them in honest Callings, and to leave them as much outward E∣states as they can, they are conscienciously bound to Im∣prove their Estates in an honest way for for their Chil∣dren, Prov. 13.22. A Good man leaveth an Inheritance to his Children; strives so to do; however his Holiness and Sincerity is an Inheritance to them; Believers consider that place seriously, 1 Tim. 5.8. But if any provide not for his own; and especially to those of his own house, (or kindred) he hath denied the Faith, and is worse than an Infidel; In∣fidels have a natural tye on
them to provide for their Families, but Believers have both a Natural and Consci∣entious tye to provide for theirs; Therefore it is a mercy to be the Children of such.