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The A, B, C. of religion. Lessons relating to the fear of God, fitted…
The A, B, C. of religion. Lessons relating to the fear of God, fitted unto the youngest & lowest capacities. And children suitably instructed in the maxims of religion. : [One line from I John]
Boston, : Printed & sold by Timothy Green, at the lower end of Middle-Street, 1713
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
11. The Weakest, & even the Youngest People, and our Children while yet but Infants, may be taught, That there are Evil Practices, which will prove Dangerous to them; and What are those Evil Practices. The Fear of God will cause People to Shun those Evil Practices, which are Condemned in the Word of God. Even People of the Lowest Capacity may be taught that Lesson; Job XXVIII. 28. Behold, The Fear of the Lord, that is Wisdom; and to Depart from Evil is Understanding. Be the Capacity of People, never so Ordinary, yet they have something of the Divine Law Written upon their Hearts; The Finger ⟨image ?⟩of God has Written something of the Law on the Fleshly Tables. A Conscience will betimes begin to Work, in the Children of Men. A Conscience will tell them, while they are vet in their Childhood, that such and such Things are Evil Things, and that the Wrath of God will come on the Children of Disobedience, who do such Things. Let the Capacity of People be never so Low, yet they may learn this Lesson; I must not Venture to do any thing that is Condemned by the Light of God in my Soul. That Lesson is not too High for the Lowest Capacity; Job XXIV. 13. Wicked Men, They are of those that Rebel against the Light. But there are many special Cautions in the Word of God, which may be brought unto People of the Lowest Capacity; and it will he found, that their Conscience will agree to them; & so it will be found the Lessons will not be above them. All the Ten Commandments are such Things; They are Calculated for the Lowest Capacity Our Children may betimes learn the Ten Commandment▪ What is Forbidden and ⟨p. 11⟩What is Required in the Ten Commandments. In the Ten Commandments, there is done, what we read; Psal. LXXVIII. 5. God has appointed a Law, which He Commanded our Fathers, that they should make them known unto their Children. It would be a Sad Thing, if any Child of Seven Years Old, should be so Uncultivated, as to be Unable to say, the Ten Commandments, or to be Ignorant, what that Fear of God is, which is taught in the Ten Commandments.