A practical commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and uses upon the first…A practicall commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and vses upon the first…

3. In respect of Parents, it is an irrecompensible injury you offer to your Children, if you have begot them into the World sinful and wicked, as we are by nature, and do not seek by all means to redress this evil, they will cry out against you for Judgement; therefore that they may not curse you at the last day, let it be your care to bring them up in the knowledge and fear of the Lord.

3. In respect of Parents, it is an irrecompensible injury you offer to your Children, if you have begot them into the World sinfull and wicked, as we are by nature, and doe not seek by all means to redresse this evill, they will cry out against you for Judgement; therefore that they may not curse you at the last day, let it be your care to bring them up in the knowledge and fear of the Lord.

What course may we take thus to redress young Infants?

What course may we take thus to redresse young Infants?

1. Teach them the Principles of Religion, their Baptism, that will teach them they are unclean by Nature, and that they are cleansed by the Blood of Christ; they were Baptized into the name of God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, therefore learn them to know God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost, and that will make them think of it, when they see others baptized, Prov. 22.6. Train up a Child in his way wherein he should walk, and he will keep it to the end; nurture him, or initiate him in the trade of his way, in the original it is, in the mouth of his way, that is, at the beginning of his way, set him right at the first in his way, and he will keep to the end; if a Traveller be set right in his way at first, it will help him the better to keep his way all his Journey; so set a Child in a good way, learn him to cease from evil, and to do well, and he will the better keep that way in his age, as David teacheth,