Certain sermons, first preached, and after published at several times, by M. Thomas Gataker…Certaine sermons, first preached, and after published at severall times, by M. Thomas Gataker…

And in it consider we, according to our former Division;

And in it consider wee, according to our former Division;

Branch 1 First, the Agent, or person teaching, King David himself. As^h Solomon his Son, though a King, scorned not the title of a Preacher; so David his Father, though a worthy Prince, thought no scorn to play the part of a Schoolmaster, to be a Teacher of Children, even of petty Scholars, of little ones.

Branch 1 First, the Agent, or person teaching, King David himselfe. As^h Salomon his Sonne, though a King, scorned not the title of a Preacher; so David his Father, though a worthy Prince, thought no scorne to play the part of a Schoolemaster, to be a Teacher of Children, even of pety Scholers, of little ones.

1. hEccles. 1.1, 12.

Doctrine 4 Whence observe we, that Teaching even of Children is no base profession; it is that, that may well beseem even the greatest. Abraham, though aⁱ Prince of God, or^k a great Prince, yet was careful himself ⟨p. 9⟩