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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
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.
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.
Son. Then Father, if you please to hear me, It is clear and evident, since Miracles are no where to be found, if the Scripture be not our Rule, or of Divine Authority, God has left us no certain Rule at all; and that infinite Wisdom should deal thus with Mankind, is absurd and unreasonable to conceive. But I have one Argument more: If the Scriptures be not the Invention of Men, then it must be from God alone: If of Men, they must either be good Men or bad Men. Good Men they could not be; for nothing could be more opposite to Goodness, nay to common Honesty, than to assume the Name of God, and falsely feign Miracles, and cheat People of their Souls. Again, on the other hand, bad Men could not be the Devisers of so holy a Book; can any Man think, that wicked Deceivers