1In Catechizing of your Family, and teaching them the Principles and Fundamentals of Religion: Mans Innocency by Creation, Mans misery by the Fall, Mans Recovery by Christ, and the terms of the Covenant of Grace; the meaning of the ten Commandments, what sin in them is forbidden, what duties are required; this is Gods plain Injunction that you should do so, Deut. 6.6, 7, 8, 9. and the meaning of the Sacraments, Exod. 12.25, 26, 27. (1.2) To Teach them while they are young is a good means to make them good when they are old, Prov. 32.6. Train up a child in the way he should go when he is young, and he will not depart from it when he is old: but if you let them alone till they be accustomed to do evil, it will be hard to reclaim them, Jer. 13.23. Quo ⟨p. 188⟩semel est Imbuta recens, &c. (2.) This will be an effectual mean• to keep them from being seduced, and led away with Errors and false Doctrine. (3.) It will be great cruelty to the souls of your Children and Servants to neglect it. Will you carry your self towards your little ones, as the Ostrich doth towards her young ones, Job 39.14. Which (speaking of the Ostrich) leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in the dust. Ver. 15. And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them. Ver. 16. She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers.— (4.) It would be to break your Vow which you made when you brought your Children unto Baptism; Did you not promise they should forsake the Pomps and Vanities of this World, and that you would bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, and will you dedicate them to God in Baptism, and leave them to the devil all their life after?
1In Catechizing of your Family, and teaching them the Principles and Fundamentals of Religion: Mans Innocency by Creation, Mans misery by the Fall, Mans Recovery by Christ, and the terms of the Covenant of Grace; the meaning of the ten Commandments, what sin in them is forbidden, what duties are required; this is Gods plain Injunction that you should do so, Deut. 6.6, 7, 8, 9. and the meaning of the Sacraments, Exod. 12.25, 26, 27. (1.2) To Teach them while they are young is a good means to make them good when they are old, Prov. 32.6. Train up a child in the way he should go when he is young, and he will not depart from it when he is old: but if you let them alone till they be accustomed to do evil, it will be hard to reclaim them, Jer. 13.23. Quo ⟨p. 188⟩semel est Imbuta recens, &c. (2.) This will be an effectual mean• to keep them from being seduced, and led away with E••ours and false Doctrine. (3.) It will be great cruelty to the souls of your Children and Servants to neglect it. Will you carry your self towards your little ones, as the Ostrich doth towards her young ones, Job 39.14. Which (speaking of the Ostrich) leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in the dust. Ver. 15. And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them. Ver. 16. She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers.— (4.) It would be to break your Vow which you made when you brought your Children unto Baptism; Did you not promise they should forsake the Pomps and Vanities of this World, and that you would bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, and will you dedicate them to God in Baptism, and leave them to the devil all their life after?
- 1In Catechizing.
- 24 Reasons for Catechizing in Families.
