Propositions

98 As little children, whether in teachableness to good, or reformablenes from sin, are either won by affair word, or allured by a trifling benefit, or awed by a check, or feared by a frowning look, or stilled by seeing another beaten before them, or else quieted with the rod: So if we be children, either the promises of God must affect us, or the mercies of God must allure us, or his threatenings in his word must awe us, or his angry countenance must fear us, or his correcting of others must humble us; or else the corrections of God upon ourselves, must pull us down: but as those children are of most liberal and ingenious natures, who are rather allured with fair words, than driven to duty with the rod; for they are most gracious, which are most broken with the conscience of their unkindness; more provoked by the promises ⟨image 30⟩of God, than by all the curses, thunderings, and threatenings of the Law: but they that are affected with neither degenerate yet from the affection of children.

98 As litle children, whether in teachablenes to good, or reformablenes from sinne, are either woone by afaire worde, or allured by a trifling benefite, or awed by a check, or feared by a frowning look, or stilled by seeing another beaten before them, or else quieted with the rod: So if we be children, either the promises of God must affect vs, or the mercies of God must allure vs, or his threatnings in his word must awe vs, or his angry countenance must feare vs, or his correcting of others must humble vs; or else the corrections of God vppon ourselues, must pull vs downe: but as those children are of most liberall and ingenious natures, who are rather allured with faire words, than driven to dutie with the rodde; for they are most gratious, which are most broken with the conscience of their vnkindnes; more provoked by the promises ⟨image 30⟩of God, than by all the curses, thunderings, and threatnings of the Lawe: but they that ar affected with neither degenerate yet from the affection of children.