N29515:185
Instructions for children: or, The child's & youth's delight, teaching an easy way to…Instructions for children: or, The child's & youth's delight, teaching an easie way to…
Instructions for children: or, The child's & youth's delight, teaching an easy way to spell & read true English. : Containing the father's godly advice; directing parents in a right and spiritual manner to educate their children. : With a Christian catechism, wherein all the chief principles of true Christianity are clearly opened. : Together with many other things both pleasant and useful for the education of children. / Written by Benj. Keach.Instructions for children: or, The child's & youth's delight, teaching an easie way to spell & read true English. : Containing the father's godly advice; directing parents in a right and spiritual manner to educate their children. : With a Christian catechism, wherein all the chief principles of true Christianity are clearly opened. : Together with many other things both pleasant and useful for the education of children. / Written by Benj. Keach.
New York: printed by Will. Bradford, 1695
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.
Fa. That doth not mean form or shape:
Ch. Pray, Father, tell me who God is, and what the meaning is of that place of Scripture I mentioned▪
Fa. God is (as thy little Brother hath said) a Spirit; and a Spirit hath not Flesh and Bones as we have: Also the likeness and Image of God, is Righteousness and […] Holiness, together with a Sovereign Power and Authority over all Creatures and Things. An• […] this son•• God ma•• Man in his own ⟨p. 11⟩Image, and after his own likeness. Man was created holy & upright, and made chief Ruler and Governor of all Creatures and Things on Earth.
Fa. God is (as thy little Brother hath said) a Spirit; and a Spirit hath not Flesh and Bones as we have: Also the likeness and Image of God, is Righteousness and 〈…〉 Holiness, together with a Soveraign Power and Authority over all Creatures and Things. An• 〈…〉 this son•• God ma•• Man in his own ⟨p. 11⟩Image, and after his own likeness. Man was created holy & upright, and made chief Ruler and Governour of all Creatures and Things on Earth.