N29515:186
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.
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.
Ch. Do all Men retain this Image of God still?