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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.
3. Compassionately; do not Correct your Children in the heat of Passion, but with bowels of compassion: when the Rod is in your hand, let there be tender love in your heart.
3. Compassionately; do not Correct your Children in the heate of Passion, but with bowels of compasion: when the Rod is in your hand, let there be tender love in your heart.
4. Discreetly; Observing the temper and disposition of your Child which you correct; if you Scourge, and frown upon one, as much as is needful for another, you will discourage him; if you scourge not another, more than this, that is more tender spirited, you will not break him: Correction is like a Medicine, in which the Physician hath respect to the constitution of the Patient. Children are like Herbs, some, if you cut and tread will grow again; but, if you do as much to other Herbs, you kill them.
4. Discreetly; Observing the temper and disposition of your Childe which you correct; if you Scourge, and frown upon one, as much as is needful for another, you will discourage him; if you scourge not another, more than this, that is more tender spirited, you will not break him: Correction is like a Medicine, in which the Physitian hath respect to the constitution of the Patient. Children are like Herbs, some, if you cut and tread will grow again; but, if you do as much to other Herbes, you kill them.
5. Seasonably; There is much wisdom in Parents, in timing their Correcting of their Children; if you correct them for some faults before others, you will discourage them; take the fittest season.