A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved

¹2. Not to discourage, dishearten, dispirit them; Col. 3.21. Fathers provoke not your Children, least they be discouraged. [Greek or Hebrew]. There is nothing, that doth more deject, and sink the heart of a poor Child, specially if ingenious, and of a softer, and more meek temper, than the severe rigour, and roughness of a Father. It quite unsouls the poor Child, when in the countenance, and deportment of his Father, to whom of all men in the World, he should in reason be dearest, he sees nothing but anger, and aversation. It intimidates the Child, destroys his mettle, and courage for any honest, or honourable undertaking; smothers, yea extinguishes all his fire, and vivacity, transforms him into a mere sot, mope, dullard, block, utterly unfit for use, and service: nay more, it often throws him into the deepest gulf of grief and melancholy, sickness, death, and then, it may be, when too late, the unhappy Parent will see cause to relent, and abhor himself for his unjust severity.

¹2. Not to discourage, dishearten, dispirit them; Col. 3.21. Fathers provoke not your Children, least they be discouraged. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. There is nothing, that doth more deject, and sink the heart of a poor Child, specially if ingenious, and of a softer, and more meek temper, than the severe rigour, and roughness of a Father. It quite unsouls the poor Child, when in the countenance, and deportment of his Father, to whom of all men in the World, he should in reason be dearest, he sees nothing but anger, and aversation. It intimidates the Child, destroyes his mettle, and courage for any honest, or honourable undertaking; smothers, yea extinguishes all his fire, and vivacity, transforms him into a meer sot, mope, dullard, block, utterly unfit for use, and service: nay more, it often throws him into the deepest gulph of grief and melancholy, sickness, death, and then, it may be, when too late, the unhappy Parent will see cause to relent, and abhorr himself for his unjust severity.

1. 1Nè animam despondeant.