Corderius americanus. An essay upon the good education of children. And what may hopefully…

Name: Corderius americanus. An essay upon the good education of children. And what may hopefully…
Author: Cotton Mather

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]

Cotton Mather 1663–1728Boston: printed by John Allen for Nicholas Boone, 1708

[6], 34 p. ; 15 cm. (8vo) · 13k words · Evans 1361

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An ESSAY upon Well-Taught Children; And upon an Able and Faithful T… › DOCTRINE. That Saving Wisdom is to be fetch'd from the Knowledge of…: DOCTRINE. That Saving Wisdom is to be fetch'd from the Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures…

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First; The HISTORIES of the Holy Scriptures; We are to Teach Them unto our Children. Children are naturally taken with Histories. Now, instead of Corrupt Stories, and Idle-Fables, Why should we not single out the Histories in the Holy Scriptures for them? Only, It would be advisable always to clench the Histories, with some Admonitions of Piety, which are to be gathered from them. There are none of those Histories, but it may be said upon them; Psal. 19.11. Thy Servant is warned by them.

First; The HISTORIES of the Holy Scriptures; We are to Teach Them unto our Children. Children are naturally taken with Histories. Now, instead of Corrupt Stories, and Idle-Fables, Why should we not single out the Histories in the Holy Scriptures for them? Only, It would be adviseable always to clench the Histories, with some Admonitions of Piety, which are to be gathered from them. There are none of those Histories, but it may be said upon them; Psal. 19.11. Thy Servant is warned by them.

:62p. 9–10

Secondly; We are to Teach our Children the PRINCIPLES of the Holy Scriptures. Tell the Children, What the Holy Scriptures have Taught us to Believe thou GOD, and ⟨p. 10⟩His Perfections, and His Works: About the Fall of Man, and the Method of his Recovery out of that miserable Fall; About the Lord Jesus Christ, Who He is, & what He has done, and what He will do, for His Chosen People. We read, That the Principles of the Doctrine of Christ; are the Milk for Babes. That these things may be the better taught, an Orthodox CATECHISM, is to be Employed. They should say their Catechism, and be Rewarded when they can say it. But then, we should put Lesser Questions unto them; unto which, their YES, or NO, will give us to perceive, Whether they understand what they say. Canvas• the matter with them. Ask them several things about it. Cause them to take much Notice of it. See whether they have taken a Right Notion of it. We read,

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