"Remember my love to each of the children," and then mentions each of the first seven by name, "Esther, Elizabeth, Anne, Mary, Jonathan, Eunice and Abigail." He goes on: "The Lord have mercy on and eternally save them all, with our dear little Jerusha. The Lord bind up their souls with thine and mine in the bundle of life." Ask the children, he continues, "if they desire to see their father again, to pray daily for me in secret; and above all things to seek the grace and favor of God in Christ, and that while they are young."26 In a later sermon Timothy preached that a husband's love for his
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