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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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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.
PARENTS, These are the Cries, which the Souls of your Children make in your Ears; My Head, my Head! Oh! That you would fill my Head with the Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures! My Heart! my Heart! It will be a very Dungeon of Wickedness, if you do not by the Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures, purity it! It is a solemn Expression of the Martyr Cyprian. There are Parents, who so neglect their Children, that at the Last Day, their miserable Children will cry out, Parents sensimus Purricidas; OUR PARENTS HAVE BEEN OUR MURDERERS! PARENTS, Beware of, Coming under so Bitter a Condemnation. Let the Command of GOD, and the Promise of GOD, at last prevail with you. You have it in those Terms; Prov. 22.4. Train up a Child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it. God puts these Children into your Hands. He says, Here, Take this Child; Let it be taught the Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures. I will Reward all thy pains. Thy well-instructed Child, shall be thy Comfort, thy Credit, a Blessing to Others in the World. If it miss of Salvation, yet thou shalt have peace in thy mind, that thou didst thy Endeavour to make it Wise unto Salvation. But if it want Knowledge, and Saving Wisdom through' any gross Negligence of thine, thy punishment shall be terrible, in the Day of the Lords pleading with thee.
PARENTS, These are the Cries, which the Souls of your Children make in your Ears; My Head, my Head! Oh! That you would fill my Head with the Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures! My Heart! my Heart! It will be a very Dungeon of Wickedness, if you do not by the Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures, purity it! It is a solemn Expression of the Martyr Cyprian. There are Parents, who so neglect their Children, that at the Last Day, their miserable Children will cry out, Parentes sensimus Purricidas; OUR PARENTS HAVE BEEN OUR MURDERERS! PARENTS, Beware of, Coming under so Bitter a Condemnation. Let the Command of GOD, and the Promise of GOD, at last prevail with you. You have it in those Terms; Prov. 22.4. Train up a Child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it. God puts these Children into your Hands. He says, Here, Take this Child; Let it be taught the Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures. I will Reward all thy pains. Thy well-instructed Child, shall be thy Comfort, thy Credit, a Blessing to Others in the World. If it miss of Salvation, yet thou shalt have peace in thy mind, that thou didst thy Endeavour to make it Wise unto Salvation. But if it want Knowledge, and Saving Wisdom thro' any gross Negligence of thine, thy punishment shall be terrible, in the Day of the Lords pleading with thee.