N29515:261
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.
Fa. Yea, doubtless, my Son, Go• would never have suffered such Book to continue from the beginning of Time, falsely pretending his Nam• and Authority: I am glad to h•• thee mention this; proceed.
Fa. Yea, doubtless, my Son, Go• would never have suffered such Book to continue from the beginnin• of Time, falsly pretending his Nam• and Authority: I am glad to h•• thee mention this; proceed.
Son. Sir, the Scripture did no• only survive, notwithstanding a• the Arts, Contrivance and Malice of Men and Devils; but hath tri•umphed over all opposition; mean, the blessed success the Gospel hath had in converting s• many thousands, though accounted by the wise Men of the World foolishness, proves its Divin• ⟨p. 53⟩Authority, especially considering the Publishers of it were generally but weak, ignorant and illiterate Persons, as Fisher-men, Tent-makers, &c.
Son. Sir, the Scripture did no• only survive, notwithstanding a• the Arts, Contrivance and Malic• of Men and Divils; but hath tri•umphed over all opposition; mean, the blessed success the Go•spel hath had in converting s many thousands, though accouned by the wise Men of the Worl foolishness, proves its Divin