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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
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Fourthly. The Fear of God has this Lesson in it, than which there can be nothing more easy to learn; Parents must be Obeyed; God will not bear to see Parents Wronged and Grieved by a Disobedient Off-spring. Where are the Children so Blockish, as not to be aware of this? Children owe much Obedience to their Parents. Disobedient, Disingenuous, Disobliging Children, know themselves to be, what they ought not to be. Undutiful Children, are Self-Condemned, and know that they do not their Duty. ⟨p. 15⟩Obedience, and Reverence, and Recompense to Parents, one would think, there should scarce be any Need of teaching them. There is no Mystery in this Matter; Tis no Sublime abstruse Notion; Tis not a Deep Thing that cannot be fathomed; The short Arm of a Child may fathom it; Honour thy Father and thy Mother, that thy Days may be long in the Land. By that time the Child shall have Knowledge to Cry, My Father, or my Mother, it may have this Knowledge with it, I must do, as my Father, and as my Mother bids me! Ere the Children go off our Knees, we may learn them this Lesson; Eph. VI 1. Children, Obey your Parents in the Lord, for this is right.
Fourthly. The Fear of God has this Lesson in it, than which there can be nothing more easy to learn; Parents must be Obey'd; God will not bear to see Parents Wrong'd and Griev'd by a Disobedient Off-spring. Where are the Children so Blockish, as not to be aware of this? Children owe much Obedience to their Parents. Disobedient, Disingenuous, Disobliging Children, know themselves to be, what they ought not to be. Vndutiful Children, are Self-Condemned, and know that they do not their Duty. ⟨p. 15⟩Obedience, and Reverence, and Recompence to Parents, one would think, there should scarce be any Need of teaching them. There is no Mystery in this Matter; Tis no Sublime abstruse Notion; Tis not a Deep Thing that cannot be fathomed; The short Arm of a Child may fathom it; Honour thy Father and thy Mother, that thy Days may be long in the Land. By that time the Child shall have Knowledge to Cry, My Father, or my Mother, it may have this Knowledge with it, I must do, as my Father, and as my Mother bids me! Ere the Children go off our Knees, we may learn them this Lesson; Eph. VI 1. Children, Obey your Parents in the Lord, for this is right.