Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…

5 Be often speaking before them of the great things the Lord hath done for his Church and people, both of old, ¹and in your days. This the Lord commanded the Israelitish Parents to do to their children,² which we find accordingly practised by them. As children generally have good memories, so they are excellent at the remembering of stories.

5 Bee often speaking before them of the great things the Lord hath done for his Church and people, both of old, ¹and in your daies. This the Lord commanded the Israelitish Parents to do to their children,² which wee finde accordingly practised by them. As children generally have good memories, so they are excellent at the remembring of stories.

1. 1Josh. 4. 6.
2. 2Psal. 78. 4, 5, 6.

6 Be patterns of piety and godliness unto your children. For the truth is, there is great force in Examples to draw others either to good or evil. And it is usually the disposition of Children to follow their Parents; And therefore how doth it concern Parents to look to their ways and courses, especially how they behave themselves before their children, who are much inclined to follow their example? Oh that all Parents would seriously think ⟨p. 144⟩of this, that the consideration hereof might reclaim them from all loose and wicked courses, lest by their evil example they make their children twofold more the children of Hell, than they were by nature!