...of parents, and upon the latter the Head of the church has more immediately enjoined this service. " Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath, but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord." Parents possess advantages for directing their offspring to the choice of...

...each other, but in thcir treatment of all under thcir eare, and in thcir treatment of thcir ncighbors. "Provoke not your children to wrath, but bring them up in the nurture and admonition -of the Lord," is one of the benevolent and important precepts of Christianity; and one...

...particular) promise. 3. That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth. 4. And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath, but bring them up in the discipline and admonition of the Lord. . 5. Servants, obey your worldly masters in worldly things,...

...preserving and improving one virtue is made the indispensable condition, and the means of practising1, many others ; for without early marriage, how can...children to wrath, but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord ; having them in subjection with all gravity : " (Ephes. vi. 4.) " If any provide...

...thou liest down, and when thou risest up." A similar charge is delivered in the New Testament — "And ye, fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord." This is represented as the ordinary method which be employs to perpetuate...

...against those truths, of whicK they heard much, but perceived no good effects." Scott. 4. Eph. vi. 4. Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath ; but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. Other Scriptures might have been adduced, but these are sufficient. To comprise...

...not depart from 'it ;" and there is avwise meaning in that apostolic exhortation. Eph. vi. 4, " And ye fathers provoke not your children to wrath, but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord." The first thing then that I would recommend to the attention of parents is,...

...father and thy mother, that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest live long on the earth ; and ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath, but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the L,ord." This is the advice of St. Paul to the several branches of a family, and to...

...children11. SECT. 2. That parents ought to give their children religious instruction and a good example. Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath, but bring them up in the nurture and ad monition of the Lord*. The Lord said, I know him, (Abraham) that he will command his children and...

...up." The spirit of Jesus in the New, delivers the same injunction by the Apostle Paul, Eph. vi. 4. "Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath; but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord." King Solomon, writing by the same authority, enforces the command by a powerful...