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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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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. That I am •oo young, and that I may live many years in the World, and that hereafter it will be time enough: and 'twill be more proper •or me to m•nd such things when I am older, and of a riper Age.
Ch. That I am •oo young, and that I may live many years in the World, and that hereafter it will be time enough: and 'twill be more proper •or me to m•nd such thi•gs when I am older, and of a riper Age.
Fa. I have told you already, these Thoughts the Divil puts into your Heart; and therefore I charge you in the fear and dread of the great and terrible God of Heaven and Earth, not to close in with them; for he that tells you now you are too young, and 'tis time enough to mind the good of your Soul, and so seeks to destroy you, and split you upon the Rock of Presumption, will tell you, if you should live till you are older That then it will be too late, and that your Day is gone; and thereby endeavour to dash you against the Rock of Despair. Have I not told thee why thou wast made? And truly, Child, I can't ⟨p. 26⟩give better Co•nd Instruction, or Advice, then to do in this ca•e as a good Merchant's Factor doth use to do when he arriveth in a Foreign Country, who presently doth weigh and consider deeply for what cause he came thither, why he wa• sent, to what end, what to attempt, what to prosecute, what to perform, what will be expected at his Return by him that sent him. For such Cogitations (without doubt) tend to stir him up to set upon the Business for which he came, and not to employ his time in impertinences and trifling vanities. Will you not lay to Heart, why you were created and sent hither, until you are ready to depart from hence? Shall the business of your Great Master and Glorious Sovereign, be neglected, whilst your Service would be most acceptable to him. Suppose the Merchants