What gracious parents may best do for the conversion of their children

What Gracious Parents May Best Do for the Conversion of Their Children is a searching, pastoral, and deeply practical work for Christian parents who long to see their children walk in truth.

Originally written by the Puritan pastor Thomas Lye, this modern English edition brings his counsel into clear contemporary language while preserving the force, structure, and biblical richness of the original. Lye addresses two destructive extremes in parenting—sinful harshness and sinful spoiling—and shows how both can wound children, weaken parental influence, and hinder the spiritual good parents sincerely desire for them.

Drawing carefully from Scripture, he calls fathers and mothers to examine their own hearts, repent where they have failed, govern with wisdom, discipline with tenderness, pray with perseverance, and seek their children’s conversion through faithful, God-ordained means.

This volume is especially valuable for parents of wayward or spiritually indifferent children, pastors counseling families, and believers seeking a more biblical understanding of authority, affection, correction, and grace within the home. It offers neither shallow reassurance nor simplistic formulas, but sober, compassionate guidance rooted in the Word of God and directed toward the glory of Christ.