Wesley Corpus

Treatise Serious Thoughts Godfathers And Godmothers

AuthorJohn Wesley
Typetreatise
YearNone
Passage IDjw-treatise-serious-thoughts-godfathers-and-godmothers-003
Words124
Social Holiness Trinity Catholic Spirit
If then you that are parents will be so wise and kind to your children as to wave every other consideration, and to choose for their sponsors those persons alone who truly fear and serve God; if some of you who love God, and love one another, agree to perform this office of love for each other's children; and if all you who undertake it perform it faith fully, with all the wisdom and power God hath given you; what a foundation of holiness and happiness may be laid, even to your late posterity ! Then it may justly be hoped, that not only you and your house, but also the children which shall be born, shall serve the Lord. ATHLoNE, August 6, 1752.