N29515:223
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. I hope I shall now, dear Father, more seriously consider and lay to Heart w•at you have said, and receive the instruction you have given m•; for I am sensible how short and uncertain my days are on Earth: But, pray Sir, have any Children so young as I am, attained ⟨p. 30⟩to the Knowledge of God and Jesus Christ? Doth God, I mean, call any so young?
Ch. I hope I shall now, dear Father, more seriouslly consider and lay to Heart w•at you have said, and receive the •nstr•ction you have given m•; for I am sensible how short and uncertain my days are on Earth: But, pray Sir, have any Children so young as I am, attained ⟨p. 30⟩to the Knowledge of God and Jesus Christ? Doth God, I mean, call any so young?
Fa. Yes, Child, and younger too, than thou art: Worth Mr. Janeway tells us of a Poor Child, not above five years old, who minded the good of his Soul more then all things in the World; and was greatly affected, by Considering what would become of him when he should die; and his Discourse made Christians stand astonished: He was wonderfully swallowed up with t•e love of Christ, in dying for Sinners, and with Tears would speak of it; before he was six years old, he made Conscience of secret Duties. And when he prayed, it was with such extraordinary meltings, that his Eve• looked red and sore with weeping for his Sins. The same Minister gives us an account of another Child, who ⟨p. 31⟩