N29515:269
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. I know you have many other instances to give in proof of this; But proceed to another Argument.
Son. If the Scriptures are not the Word of God, then God hath left us no certain Rule of Faith and Practice.
Fa. What say you to Revelation?
Son. There may be twenty persons who may all walk in different ways of worship, and yet pretend they make Revelation their Rule: How shall I know which of these is in the true way?
Fa. Thou sayest right: He that says Revelation is his Rule, must do more to prove what he professes to be true, then any Impostor can pretend unto; that is to say, raise the Dead, and open the Eyes of the Blind.