A Twisted Crown of Thorns ®

Im currently reading about puritans (and wow) it is challenging to learn about their high view of God. More so how they lived their lives. Here is a quote from Richard Baxter about parenting:

Parents! Your example and life are a continual and powerful sermon, which is always seen by your children! Parents! Your children have an everlasting inheritance of happiness to attain–and it is that which you must  bring them up for. They have an endless misery to  escape–and it is that which you must diligently teach  them. If you don’t teach them to know God, and how  to serve Him, and be saved, and to escape the flames  of hell–you teach them nothing, or worse than nothing.  It is in your hands to do them the greatest kindness or cruelty in all the world! Help them to know God  and to be saved, and you do more for them than if you  helped them to be kings or princes. If you neglect their  souls, and bring them up them in ignorance, worldliness,  ungodliness, and sin–you betray them to the devil,  the enemy of souls, even as truly as if you sold them  to him! You sell them to be slaves to Satan! You betray them to him who will deceive them and abuse them in this life–and torment them in eternity! If you saw but a burning furnace, much more the flames of hell would you not think that man or woman more fit to be called a devil than a parent, who could find in  their hearts to cast their child into it? What monsters then  of inhumanity are you, who read in Scripture which is the way to hell, and who they are that God will deliver up to Satan, to be tormented by him–and yet will bring up your children in that very way, and will not take pains to save them from it!

If you love them, show it in those things on which their everlasting welfare depends. Do not say you love them –and yet lead them unto hell!

Excerpt from More fit to be called a devil than a parent! via Truth Endures