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

2. What is meant by that way wherein persons are to be trained up, or Catechized and initiated.

¹Sol. In the way he should go. — In the way or manner of his life, Gen. 43.7. in via sua, in his way, in his kind, and according to his capacity and measure, and suitably to the weakness and tenderness of his years, in the sound knowledge and practice of those truths and principles which may fit him for the service of his God and Generation here, and for the eternal enjoyment of his God hereafter. Let Paul interpret Solomon in his way: 1. In the nurture and admonition of the Lord, Eph. 6.4. i. e. in all profitable ⟨p. 205⟩instruction, suitable to a Child's age and state,² for the framing and moulding of him by knowledge unto a commendable and virtuous carriage, and for the doing of greater good in humane Society, when he comes to write himself Man: but especially in Religious instruction, ³in instruction in righteousness, 2 Tim. 3.16. In the words of Faith and of good doctrine, 1 Tim. 4.6. There is something more yet in the words,—ad os, supra os, Ar-Mont. upon the mouth of his way: A form of speaking frequently used in Scripture to note the suitableness or proportion of the thing, Exod. 16.21. according to the mouth of his eating, i. e. according to the measure of his eating. So