N29515:217
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
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so that they sin without any remorse of Conscience, and perish eternally. 7. And lastly, That I may prevail with thee to be holy betimes, or to fear the Lord now in thy youth; consider, Child, that God wi• bring thee for all thy youthful Lusts and vanities unto Judgment: Rejoice, O young Man in thy youth; let t•y Heart cheer thee in the days o• thy youth; and walk in the ways of thy Heart, and in the sight of thine Eyes; But know thou, for all these things, God will bring thee unto Judgment; Therefore remove sorrow from thy Heart, and ⟨p. 24⟩put evil from thy Flesh; for Childhood […], Eccles. 11.9, 10. What thinkest thou now (my dear Child) is it not […] f•r thee to hearken to the Counsel of thy Father, and mind that one thing needful, and with Mary choose that good Part? To prefer Heaven before Earth; and •he Joys above, before all the vain Joys here below. Is not the love of God, better than all the World?
so that they sin without any remorse of Conscience, and perish eternally. 7. And lastly, That I may prevail with thee to be holy betimes, or to fear the Lord now in thy youth; consider, Child, that God wi• br•ng thee for all thy youthful Lusts and vanities unto Judgment: Rejoyce, O young Man in thy youth; let t•y Heart cheer thee in the days o• thy youth; and walk in the ways of thy Heart, and in the sight of thine Eyes; But know thou, for all these things, God will bring thee unto Judgment; Therefore remove sorrow from thy Heart, and ⟨p. 24⟩put evil from thy Flesh; for Childhood 〈…〉, Eccles. 11.9, 10. What thinkest thou now (my dear Child) is it not fr thee to hearken to the Cousel of thy Father, and mind that one thing needful, and with Mary chuse that good Part? To prefer Heaven bfore Earth; and he Joys above, before all the vain Joys here below. Is not the love of God, better than all the World?