The Communicant's Companion (continued)
souls' sake, that now you will turn to God, and fix for him, and set your faces heavenwards.
Come, and let us reason together a little, and I beseech you to reason with yourselves:
1. Are you not by baptism given up unto the Lord? Are not the vows of God already upon you? Is not your baptism your honor? Is it not your comfort? It is so; but you are unworthy of that honor, unworthy of that comfort, if, when you arrive at a capacity for it, you decline doing that for yourselves, which was done for you when you were baptized. How can you expect that your parents' dedication of you to God then, should avail you any thing, if you do not now make it your own act and deed? Might not your backwardness to confirm the covenant, by this solemn taking of it upon yourselves, be construed as an implicit renunciation of it, and be adjudged a forfeiture of the benefit of it? I believe you would not for a world disclaim your baptism, nor disown the obligation of it: you will not, I am confident you will not, throw off your Christianity, nor join with those that say, We have no part in David, or inheritance in the Son of David.
Come then and ratify your baptism; either let these articles be cancelled, or now, that you are of age, come and seal them yourselves; either be Christians complete, Christians by your own consent, or not Christians at all. The matter is plain; the bonds of both the sacraments are the same: you are under the bonds of the one, which I know you dare not renounce; therefore, come under the bonds of the other. Consider, take advice, and speak your minds.
2. How can you dispose of yourselves better now in the days of your youth, than to give up yourselves to the Lord? These are your choosing days; you are now choosing other settlements, in callings, relations, and