N29515:188
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. Do all Men retain this Image of God still?
Fa. No, Child, Mankind is degenerated, and hath lost the Image of God.
Ch. Pray▪ Father, tell me how Man came at first to lose the Image of God.
Fa. Man lost Gods Image by his Sin: Adam, who was the first Man God created, brake God's Commandment, in eating of the forbidden Fruit; and thereby defiled and Polluted himself and all his posterity: And so long as Men continue in an unconverted Stat•, being under the power of Sin and natural Depravity, they more resemble the Devil, o• have more of his Likeness, than of the Image and Likeness of God in them.
Fa. Man lost Gods Image by his Sin: Adam, who was the first Man God created, brake God's Commandment, in eating of the forbidden Fruit; and thereby defiled and Poluted himself and all his posterity: And so long as Men continue in an unonverted Stat, being under the power of Sin and natural Depravity, they more resemble the Devil, o have more of his Likeness, than of the Image and Likeness of God in them.