Moses His Choice - With His Eye Fixed Upon Heaven; Discovering the Happy Condition of a Self-Denying Heart; Delivered in a Treatise Upon Hebrews II. 25, 26 #226704

Nor to fitch an Honorable Family. Pfal,7 it isfaid, The name of Chril't lhould endure For ever 3 Filiabitur nomine ejnsfi the word: are,it [hall be begotten at one generation is begot ten of another, and fl) there [hall be a [u name. It is a mofl blejflzd thing when in a Family there is a begetting of the name ofchri/l, and [o it is left unto the [ucceeding generation, as the name of the Family is left unto it: Pliny tear us, that it was accounted a great honor, yea the height of felicity, that in one hou/e the Curio's, there were known to be three excel lent Gtators one after another,by defient from the Father to the Son; and that the Fabii a threefpre/idents of the Senate, in tour/e one imme diatelyjitcceeding the other. If this [uccefiion beflr honorable, [0 hapfy how honorable, how happy dot ion of Religion from Father to San, ilies to be?