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A discourse concerning the Redeemer's dominion over the invisible world, and the entrance thereinto
A discourse concerning the Redeemer's dominion over the invisible world, and the entrance thereinto by death some part whereof was preached on occasion of the death of John Hoghton Esq, eldest son of Sir Charles Hoghton of Hoghton-Tower in the county of Lancaster, Baronet / by John Howe ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1699
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.
Let not Religion, Reason, Shame, and Common Sense, be so totally abandoned all at once, as that the same Persons shall take care to have their Children baptized into Christ's Name, and be taught to renounce, by their Deeds, that Great Name, almost as soon as they can pronounce the Word.
Let not Religion, Reason, Shame, and Common Sense, be so totally abandoned all at once, as that the same Persons shall take care to have their Children baptized into Christ's Name, and be taught to renounce, by their Deeds, that Great Name, almost assoon as they can pronounce the Word.
Where so direct a Course is not taken to make those of the succeeding Age ignominiously bad, yet how little is done, towards the making of them truly, and usefully good? Much Care is taken to shape, and adorn the out-side of the Man, how little to form, and furnish their Minds! Here, if they can be brought to make, or judge of a Verse, or a Jest, or a ⟨p. 198⟩piece of Wit, 'tis a great Attainment. Or if, at Home, they can have them taught so much Law, as shall, hereafter, enable them to squeeze their Tenants, and quarrel with their Neighbours, or so much of Behaviour, as shall qualify them to keep Gentlemen Company; Or if (as our pious Poet phrased it) they Ship them over, the thing is done. Then, they shall be able to talk a little of the Fashions of this or that Foreign Country, and make much the better Figure in their own.
Where so direct a Course is not taken to make those of the succeeding Age ignominionsly bad, yet how little is done, towards the making of them truly, and usefully good? Much Care is taken to shape, and adorn the out-side of the Man, how little to form, and furnish their Minds! Here, if they can be brought to make, or judge of a Verse, or a Jest, or a ⟨p. 198⟩piece of Wit, 'tis a great Attainment. Or if, at Home, they can have them taught so much Law, as shall, hereafter, enable them to squeeze their Tenants, and quarrel with their Neighbours, or so much of Behaviour, as shall qualifie them to keep Gentlemen Company; Or if (as our pious Poet phrased it) they Ship them over, the thing is done. Then, they shall be able to talk a little of the Fashions of this or that Foreign Country, and make much the better Figure in their own.