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Instruction for the ignorant being a salve to cure that great want of knowledge…Instruction for the ignorant being a salve to cure that great want of knowledg…
Instruction for the ignorant being a salve to cure that great want of knowledge which so much reigns both in young and old / prepared and presented to them in a plain and easy dialogue, fitted to the capacity of the weakest, by John Bunyan.Instruction for the ignorant being a salve to cure that great want of knowledg which so much reigns both in young and old / prepared and presented to them in a plain and easie dialogue, fitted to the capacity of the weakest, by John Bunyan.
London: printed for Francis Smith, 1675
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.
Q. Do you find many such little Children as I am serve God?
A. Not many; yet some I do, Samuel served him being a Child; when Josiah was young he began to seek after the God of his Father David: And how kindly did our Lord Jesus take it, to see the little Children run tripping before him, and crying Hosanna to the Son of David! 1 Sam. 3.1. 2 Chron. 34.3. Mat. 21.15, 16.
A. Not many; yet some I do, Samuel served him being a Child; when Josias was young he began to seek after the God of his Father David: And how kindly did our Lord Jesus take it, to see the little Children run tripping before him, and crying Hosannah to the Son of David! 1 Sam. 3.1. 2 Chron. 34.3. Mat. 21.15, 16.
Q. Then I am not like to have many Companions, if I thus young begin to serve God, am I?