N29515:212
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. My Child, I know there are great multitudes of wicked and ungodly Children; and wo last thou be wicked as well as they? And because they serve the Devil, would you serve him? If you do so, you may lie in Hell with them at last; therefore matter it not, Child, tho' they laugh at you & reproach you; for blessed are they that are reviled & reproached for Christ's sake.
Fa. My Child, I know there are great multitudes of wicked and ungodly Children; and wo last thou be wicked as well as they? And because they serve the Devil, would you serve him? If you do so, you may lie in Hell with them at last; t•erefore matter it not, Child, tho' they laugh at you & reproach you; for blessed are they that are reviled & reproached for Christ's sake.
Ch. But, Father, do not some People find Mercy with God when they are old, who never minded to seek after God whilst they were young?
Faith. God hath not promised that they who seek him late, shall find him; but his Promise runs to them that seek him early, Prov. 8 17. But, Child, God doth not, it may be, afford some the means of Grace whilst they are young; they may live in some ⟨p. 20⟩d•rk corner: Nor does he call all a• […] t••rd Hour. But, Child, you do not know whether yo• shall live till you are old; and if death comes and c•ts you off in yo sins, what will b come of you then? Many go dow to Hell with their Bones full of the sins o their Youth; Do you not see many little Graves, as well as great ones?