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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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We read of such a thing as that; Isa. 65.20. The Child shall die an hundred years old. You may Die in your Childhood: But you should be ambitious, that if it should be so, you may die an hundred years old; have as much Knowledge and Virtue, as many men of an hundred years old. It was a brave stroke in an Epitaph, on a Child; Praeterquam aetatem nil puerile fuit. Some of you can Construe it. I will do it for them that can't.
We read of such a thing as that; Isa. 65.20. The Child shall dy an hundred years old. You may Dy in your Childhood: But you should be ambitious, that if it should be so, you may dy an hundred years old; have as much Knowledge and Vertue, as many men of an hundred years old. It was a brave stroke in an Epitaph, on a Child; Praeterquam aetatem nil puerile fuit. Some of you can Construe it. I will do it for them that can't.
Except his Age, the Lovely Lad Nothing that looked like Childhood had.
Except his Age, the Lovely Lad Nothing that look'd like Childhood had.
The Small as well as the Great, are to Stand before the Judgment-Seat of God. Oh, That while you are yet Small, you would be Greatly Affected with the Day of Judgment. If you go on to do amiss, think, I know that for this, God will bring me into Judgment. The Holy Scriptures give you the Knowledge of such a thing.