N29515:227
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.
Faith. Will you say and hold? Take heed you do not forget your Promise: Give your self up my Child, to reading God's Word and other good books; and labour to be deeply affected with ⟨p. 35⟩your lost and undone Condition without Christs; and attend upon the Ministry of Christ's painful Labourers; and never be contented nor rest, until you can say, Christ's is yours. Ah! See how his Arms stand open to embrace you! He calls thee, wilt thou not go to him? My Child, remember God says, Tis good to bear the yoke in your youth, Lam. 3.27, 'Tis not only good to submit to his Yoke, and to his Authority, to obey his Commands, but to do it betimes. O shake off the Devil's Yoke, Sins Yoke, and the Worlds Yoke, and put on Christs Yoke. The longer a Person wears the Yoke of sin, the harder it will be to get it off: Christ's Yoke is easy, and the more easy it will be to put it on now, than it will be hereafter: A Plant which is newly set, is more easily removed, then when ⟨p. 36⟩it has taken root: If they break a Horse to the Harness, or a Bullock to the Yoke, as one observes, 'tis while they are young. 'Tis good to bear the Yoke in thy youth, because 'tis God's Will, God's Command; and also because it will bring so much good, Peace, and comfort, to thy own Soul; and not only Peace, but profit also: In keeping thy Commandments, there is great Reward, Psal. 19.11. O there is Pleasure, Child, & profit too, in God's Ways! No sweetness like Divine Sweetness!
Fath. Will you say and hold? Take heed you do not forget your Promise: Give your self up my Child, to reading God's Word and other good books; and labour to be deeply affected with ⟨p. 35⟩your lost and undone Condition without Christs; and attend upon the Ministry of Christ's painful Labourers; and never be contented nor rest, until you can say, Christ's is yours. Ah! See how his Arms stand open to embrace you! He calls thee, wilt thou not go to him? My Child, remember God says, Tis good to bear the yoak in your youth,