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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.
Faith. Godliness deprives us of no lawful Delight and Pleasure which others enjoy; and I hope thou wilt not say, That stolen Waters are sweet, &c. That pleasure which is had in a sinful way, will be bitter sauce in the end: And ⟨p. 37⟩then again, Religion hath its peculiar Pleasures, which wicked ones never tasted of? What is so sweet as God's Love! His Favo•r is better than Life. There is in this a Soul satisfying good, and Soul-filling, and a Soul-delighting sweetness, and that which will abide good always; good and sweet, when all the Things and Enjoyments of this World, will be bitter: Sinful pleasures, are Soul-defiled, Soul-debasing, nay, Soul-damning Pleasures: They bring shame and confusion sometimes here, and eternal shame and ruin hereafter. Never say now any more, I am too young to seek after God, to learn to be good, and virtuous. Art thou old enough to serve the Devil, and too young to serve and honour God? Nay, old enough to be damned, and too young to be saved? O take heed you spend ⟨p. 38⟩not your time in idleness and in play with wicked Children: I charge you as ever you hope for Mercy, and would have my love, do not dare to take God's Name in vain, nor tell a Lye to escape the Rod, nor break the Lord's Day, nor fall out and quarrel with your Brothers and Sisters, nor give them the Lye, nor no other evil Words. My sweet Child, be dutiful and obedient to your Parents. O learn to pray and pour forth your Heart to the Lord: Will you do it? I charge you think upon it: Now begin presently, defer it not one day longer What do you say?
Fath. Godliness deprives us of no lawful Delight and Pleasure which others enjoy; and I hope thou wilt not say, That stolen Waters are sweet, &c. That pleasure which is had in a sinfull way, will be bitter sawce in the end: And ⟨p. 37⟩then again, Religion hath its peculiar Pleasures, which wicked ones never tasted of? What is so sweet as God's Love! His Favo•r is better than Life. There is in this a Soul satisfying good, and Soul-filling, and a Soul-delighting sweetness, and that which will abide good always; good and sweet, when all the Things and Injoyments of this World, will be bitter: Sinful pleasures, are Soul-defiled, Soul-debasing, nay, Soul-damning Pleasures: They bring shame and confusion sometimes here, and eternal shame and ruin hereafter. Never say now any more, I am too young to seeke after God, to learn to be good, and virtuous. Art thou old enough to serve the Devil, and too young to serve and honour God? Nay, old enough to be damned, and too young to be saved? O take heed you spend