The works of the reverend and faithful servant of Jesus Christ M. Richard Greenham,…The workes of the reuerend and faithfull seruant af Iesus Christ M. Richard Greenham,…

The aptness in children to vice, as we may see by their tractableness in any profane or scurrile jests must make us take advantage, and exercise this¹ aptness in such things that are good, for no doubt, if children can say bald-head to Elisha, they can say Hosanna to Christ.

The aptnesse in children to vice, as wee may see by their tractablenesse in any prophane or scurrile iests must make vs take aduantage, and exercise this¹ aptnesse in such things that are good, for no doubt, if children can say bald-head to Elisha, they can say Hosanna to Christ.

1. 1Children apt to vice.

3 The office of the Catechist is to make his doctrine easy to enter by giving it an edge¹ in perspicuity, method, &c. and of the catechised often to go over the same thing, as a knife doth the whetstone, and to repeat and iterate it, till he have made it his own. This we see in the original words: specially the Greek [Greek or Hebrew] from the which we have our English word Echo, [Greek or Hebrew] is indeed to sound the last syllable, and such sounders happily there be enough, but it is to sound the whole after one: and such a repetition is required of the right Catecumenoi. Catechizing is thus distinguished from preaching. Preaching is the dilating² of one member of religion into a just treatise: Catechizing is a contracting of the whole into a sum. Preaching is to all sorts: catechizing to the younger and rude. Preaching is not exacted to be repeated: catechizing is exacted. We consider here in these three things. An argument or sum, the genus, the delivery of it to children: the first part of catechizing, the redelivery of catechumenoi, which is the second part of the catechism. For warrant in making sums we have Christ, who