N29515:412
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. He desires as much to have his Sins mortified as to have them Pardoned; to be freed from the filth of them, as from the guilt of them, in a word, to be made Holy ⟨p. 78⟩as well as to be made Happy; to be Sanctified here, as well as to be Saved hereafter, Psal. 71.6.7·8. Mat. 5.6.
Fa. What sign else can you give of a Person who hath the Grace of True Repentance wrought in him?
Son. He loves the Law & Word of God because it is pure; he likes the purity of its Precepts, as well as the sweetness of its Promises; and to live to God on Earth as well as to live with God in Heaven; to glorify him here, as well as to be glorified by him hereafter, Psal. 119.1, 40, 16.7. Psal. 73.24. Heb. 12.14. Phil. 3.10.
Son. He loves the Law & Word of God because it is pure; he likes the purity of its Precepts, as well as the sweetness of its Promises; and to live to God on Earth as well as to live with God in Heaven; to glorifie him here, as well as to be glorified by him hereafter,