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Small offers towards the service of the tabernacle in the wilderness four discourses accommodated…
Small offers towards the service of the tabernacle in the wilderness four discourses accommodated unto the designs of practical godliness : preached partly at Boston, partly at Charleston / by Cotton Mather ; published by a gentleman lately restored from threatening sickness as a humble essay to serve the interest of religion, in gratitude unto God for his recovery.
Boston: printed by R. Pierce, 1689
THE GOOD MANS RESOLUTION. › Section 15 › Exception 2: The Second Exception.
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.
The Second Exception.
Another person will for this Cause Exempt himself.
The Inferiors in my Family are very Young. Tis too soon to begin with them; we shall only make them take the Name of God in vain by teaching them to talk like Parrots of Religion, before they can conceive better of it.
To this I answer, No, You can't begin with them Too soon. `Twas said in Isai. 28. 9. Whom shall he teach knowledge? Them that are weaned from the milk and drawn from the breasts. They are no sooner weaned but they are to be taught; and God may give them righter and riper Conceptions of things, than you are well aware. What says the Wise man, Trai• up a Child in th• way he should go. Let the first liquor that is put into them be sweet and good; and they will keep the tang of it all their dayes. Quo semel est imbuta recens—