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Corderius americanus. An essay upon the good education of children. And what may hopefully…
Corderius americanus. An essay upon the good education of children. And what may hopefully be attempted, for the hope of the flock. In a funeral sermon upon Mr. Ezekiel Cheever. The ancient and Honourable master of the Free-School in Boston. Who left off, but when mortality took him off, in August, 1708. the ninety fourth year of his age. : With an elegy and an epitaph upon him. / By one that was once a scholar to him. ; [One line epigram in Latin]
Boston: printed by John Allen for Nicholas Boone, 1708
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Be sure, A Doctrinal Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures is requisite, that we may be Wise unto Salvation. We read, 2 Cor. 4.3. If our Gospel be hid, it is hid unto them that be Lost. We must know Doctrinally the main Things that are communicated unto us in the Holy Scriptures. The Creation of Man by GOD; The Confusion of Man by SIN; The Redemption of Man by CHRIST. These are the main Things in the Holy Scriptures. If we are Ignorant of these Things our Ignorance will plunge us into Everlasting Darkness: Verily, It lays us in Chains of Darkness?
Be sure, A Doctrinal Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures is requisite, that we may be VVise unto Salvation. We read, 2 Cor. 4.3. If our Gospel be hid, it is hid unto them that be Lost. We must know Doctrinally the main Things that are communicated unto us in the Holy Scriptures. The Creation of Man by GOD; The Confusion of Man by SIN; The Redemption of Man by CHRIST. These are the main Things in the Holy Scriptures. If we are Ignorant of these Things our Ignorance will plunge us into Everlasting Darkness: Verily, It lays us in Chains of Darkness?
But then, a Practical Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures, is also requisite, We know to little purpose, except we Do according to what we know. We read, Joh. 13.17. Since ye know these things, Happy are ye, if you do them. Knowledge must be as John Baptist was to our Saviour, only a praecursor to Goodness; and we must say, That which comes after it is preferred before it. We must know the Truth and Walk […] the Truth. We must Know God, and Serve Him. We must Know Christ, and Grow in Grace. The Lamp is without Oil; it will go out in Everlasting Darkness, if the Knowledge be not soaked and dipped in Love. It was the saying of Maximus Tyrius long ago; Scientiae quis usus esse potest, nisi ea agamus? We must Know and Hear our Duty, and we must be Doers of the Word, and not Hearers only. Else we are ⟨p. 7⟩