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The bright star which leadeth wise men to our Lord Jesus Christ, or, A…
The bright star which leadeth wise men to our Lord Jesus Christ, or, A familiar and learned exposition on the ten commandments gathered from the mouth of a faithful pastor by a gracious young man, sometime scholar in Cambridge.The bright star which leadeth wise men to our Lord Jesus Christ, or, A familiar and learned exposition on the ten commandements gathered from the mouth of a faithfull pastor by a gracious young man, sometime scholler in Cambridge.
London: printed by John Harison for Thomas Man, 1603London: printed by Iohn Harison for Thomas Man, 1603
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Secondly, it must be done with great compassion and mercy, not in bitterness to ease ones self with the pain of the child, which is too barbarous cruelty. For in truth commonly, there is good cause why the father should be as much grieved or rather more then the child, because for the most part he doth but correct his own sins in his son; for if the child be curst and froward, is it not because he hath seen the parents brawling and contentious? if he lye, hath not his father given him a pattern of dissembling, and if he swear being young, are not oaths too reef in the family among elder folks? if he rail and speak evil, was not his parents dealing a president to him? Lightly, there be but few ill humours in the child, which he did not draw from the parents, and that ill sap which doth appear in the bud came first from the root. Therefore in pity, as smiting at themselves and their own sins, they must give chastisements to their children.
Secondly, it must be done with great compassion and mercie, not in bitternesse to ease ones selfe with the paine of the child, which is too barbarous crueltie. For in truth commonly, there is good cause why the father should be as much grieued or rather more then the child, because for the most part he doth but correct his owne sinnes in his sonne; for if the childe be curst and froward, is it not because he hath seene the parents brawling and contentious? if he lye, hath not his father giuen him a patterne of dissembling, and if he sweare being young, are not oathes too reefe in the familie among elder folkes? if he rayle and speake euill, was not his parents dealing a president to him? Lightly, there be but few ill humors in the child, which he did not draw from the parents, and that ill sappe which doth appeare in the bud came first from the roote. Therefore in pitie, as smiting at themselues and their owne sinnes, they must giue chasticements to their children.
Thirdly, it must be done with prayer, that God will give them wise hearts, to give most due and seasonable correction, and their children also soft hearts, to receive it with patience, and to their profit. Be it, that the child do well deserve correctio, yet to fly upon him in a passion, this is too beastly a rage. for a cow will not rush upon her calf in fury, nor a sheep will not deal so with her lamb, and indeed this doth but harden