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Man ashiv le-Yahoweh, or, A serious enquiry for a suitable return for continued life,…
Man ashiv le-Yahoweh, or, A serious enquiry for a suitable return for continued life, in and after a time of great mortality, by a wasting plague (anno 1665) answered in XIII directions / by Tho. Doolittle.Man ashiv le-Yahoweh, or, A serious enquiry for a suitable return for continued life, in and after a time of great mortality, by a wasting plague (anno 1665) answered in XIII directions / by Tho. Doolitel.
London: printed by R.I. for J. Johnson, 1666
DIRECTIONS how to live after a wasting PLAGUE. › Part 4 › Section 16
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.
First, In instructing of them in the things of God: and training them up in the ways of God, this is the duty of both Parents, Pro. 1.8. My son hear the instruction of thy Father, and forsake not the Law of thy mother, Prov. 31.1. The words of King Lemuel, the P•ophesie that his mother taught him. This mothers might do when they are dressing of their Children. Do not think you do enough if you make provision for your children, and get a portion for them: Let me tell you, that is the le•st part of your duty, as hard as you ⟨p. 201⟩think it is; but, you must give them instructions, and that
First, In instructing of them in the things of God: and training them up in the waies of God, this is the duty of both Parents, Pro. 1.8. My son hear the instruction of thy Father, and forsake not the Law of thy mother, Prov. 31.1. The words of King Lemuel, the P•ophesie that his mother taught him. This mothers might do when they are dressing of their Children. Do not think you do enough if you make provision for your children, and get a portion for them: Let me tell you, that is the le•st part of your duty, as hard as you ⟨p. 201⟩think it is; but, you must give them instructions, and that
1. Timelily, before they are accustomed to evil; they are born in natural hardness, and, by frequent acts of wickedness they will contract habitual hardness; and then, if God clap upon their hearts judicial hardness, your Children are undone for ever: Children before they can go, can run from God; and, before they can speak plainly, can speak wickedly: Teach them not to be proud of their fine Clothes; teach them not Revenge, by giving you a stroke to beat others; these be the buddings of Pride and Revenge in little Infants.