The husbandmans calling showing the excellencies, temptations, graces, duties &c. of the Christian husbandmanThe husbandmans calling shewing the excellencies, temptations, graces, duties &c. of the Christian husbandman

VII. The seventh Rule for the Christian ¹Husbandman, is, Take a special care for the good of your Children; they are parts of you, they are the heritage of the Lord, they ⟨p. 259⟩are the hopes of the next generation, and unless they be well seasoned, all the riches you can spare them are cast away. If Religion were no reality, yet it's Policy to take pains in their education, least they be industrious to waste, that which you have been industrious to gather. 'Tis true, sometimes the pains of a Parent is lost, and the strictest Parent hath the loosest Child, but God hath said, Prov. 22.6. Train up a Child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it; and because it sometimes speeds well, therefore you should never be defective in your duty: Your Crop sometimes miscarries, and you lose your labour in the field, yet because it usually quits the cost, you plough and sow and hope the best: therefore for their sake, for your own sake, for the Lords sake, bring up your Children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord: 1. Drop in the saving principles of Religion betimes, instruct them concerning the woeful state wherein they were born, and how by repentance towards God, and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, they may come out of it; and do this with your utmost seriousness, affection, and frequency, and water your instruction with prayers and tears; bring good Ministers to them, and beg prayers for them, and let good books keep them company; When the learned Junius was dangerously bent in the business of Religion, his Father laid in every Chamber of his house a Bible, and meeting with the first Chapter of