A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…

2. Parents either do, or should principally aim at the Spiritual and Eternal good of their poor Children: And what more profitable and effectual way to promote this, than pious instruction and education? The Earth often proves according to the seeds cast into it: The Vessel usually retains a smack and tincture of that with which it was first seasoned. What Blessings might Parents prove to their Children? What excellent things might be effected by them, if they did but take the advantage of their tender years, and then resolvedly set themselves to bring them in to God.

2. Parents either do, or should principally aim at the Spiritual and Eternal good of their poor Children: And what more profitable and effectual way to promote this, than pious instruction and education? The Earth often proves according to the seeds cast into it: The Vessel usually retains a smack and tincture of that with which it was first season'd. What Blessings might Parents prove to their Children? What excellent things might be effected by them, if they did but take the advantage of their tender years, and then resolvedly set themselves to bring them in to God.

3. Parent cannot but love themselves, their own peace, their own comforts, their own delights; and what more probable means to advance these than the pious education of their children? which fully appears by this Dilemma, either their conscientious endeavours prove successful or not?

3. Parentt cannot but love themselves, their own peace, their own comforts, their own delights; and what more probable means to advance these than the pious education of their children? which fully appears by this Dilemma, either their conscientious endeavours prove successful or not?