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A Christian Directory
A Christian directory, or, A sum of practical theology and cases of conscience directing Christians how to use their knowledge and faith, how to improve all helps and means, and to perform all duties, how to overcome temptations, and to escape or mortify every sin : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.A Christian directory, or, A summ of practical theologie and cases of conscience directing Christians how to use their knowledge and faith, how to improve all helps and means, and to perform all duties, how to overcome temptations, and to escape or mortifie every sin : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1673
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Part 4 › Chapter 6: Directions to School-masters, about their duty for Childrens souls.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
§. 5. Direct. 5. Besides the forms of Catechism, which you teach them, speak often to them some serious 1words, about their souls and the life to come in such a plain familiar manner as tendeth most to the awakening of their Consciences, and making them perceive how greatly what you say concerneth them. A little such familiar serious discourse, in an interlocutory way, may go to their hearts, and never be forgotten; when mere forms alone are lifeless and unprofitable. Abundance of good might be done on Children, if Parents and Schoolmasters did well perform their parts in this.
§. 5. Direct. 5. Besides the forms of Catechism, which you teach them, speak often to them some serious 1words, about their souls and the life to come in such a plain familiar manner as tendeth most to the awakening of their Consciences, and making them perceive how greatly what you say concerneth them. A little such familiar serious discourse, in an interlocutory way, may go to their hearts, and never be forgotten; when meer forms alone are lifeless and unprofitable. Abundance of good might be done on Children, if Parents and Schoolmasters did well perform their parts in this.
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§. 6. Direct. 6. Take strict account of their spending the Lords day! How they hear, and what they1 remember; and how they spend the rest of the day. For the right spending of that day, is of great importance to their souls! And a custom of play and idleness on that day, doth usually debauch them, and prepare them for much worse. Though they are from under your eye on the Lords day, yet if on Monday they be called to account, it will leave an awe upon them in your absence.