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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.
Precepts for Children.
TO learn to Read good Child, give heed, For 'tis a precious thing: What may compare, with Learning rare? From hence doth Virtue spiring.
2. In time of Grief, i• yields Relief; Yea▪ in Adversity 'Twill cheerful make, when Friends forsake, And when dear Parents dye.
2. In time of Grief, i• yeilds Relief; Yea▪ in Adversity 'Twill cheerful make, when Friends forsake, And when dear Parents dye.
3. When Foes annoy▪ 'twill yield thee Joy▪ With much Delight and Pleasure: If Poor thou be, this will to the Exceed all earthly Treasure.