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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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and take heed you do not learn of the wanton and vain ones of the times; Don't gad abroad like Jacob's Daughter, to behold the Daughters of the Land, lest you are one way or another defiled; and particularly be content with modest Apparel, and labour after the Ornaments of the inward Man. Let your Souls be adorned with Grace, which will make you amiable in the sight of God, and all holy Men: Get your Sins mortified, and you will soon see what Habit will best become you. If the Heart be but healed of its inward Pride, that will soon put a curb to the Excesses of the outward. Nothing God hates more then Pride and a haughty Heart.
and take heed you do not learn of the wanton and vain ones of the times; Don't gad abroad like Jacob's Daughter, to behold the Daughters of the Land, lest you are one way or another defiled; and particularly be content with modest Apparel, and labour after the Ornaments of the inward Man. Let your Souls be adorned with Grace, which will make you aimable in the sight of God, and all holy Men: Get your Sins mortified, and you will soon see what Habit will best become you. If the Heart be but healed of its inward Pride, that will soon put a curb to the Excesses of the outward. Nothing God hates more then Pride and a haughty Heart.
Daugh. But, pray Sir, doth not God allow some things for Ornaments?
Fa· Yea, doubtless God hath allowed of some Ornament, Gen. 24. 23. Isai. 61.10. But whatever pretends to Ornament, which is inconsistent with Modesty, Gravity and Sobriety, or is not according to Godliness, is instead of an Ornament, a Defilement. Modesty will teach you not to expose those parts to view, which no necessity, no good end nor use can justify: Who dares plead for that which exposeth persons to Sares and Temptations, and Religion to shame and reproach? Some now-a-days that attend on Sermons in Christian Assemblies, do more become Play Houses, and yet brazen it out in the face of the Preacher! O horrid Impudence! Godliness teaches not to lay out so much Money to adorn the Body,