N29515:475
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. Sir, I have often wondered at it, I must confess, and I have been a thinking it may be from God, as a Just Rebuke upon some of them, because they have Magnified Humane Learning (which is very good in its place) above what they ought; and have too much slighted •ome who have not such Humane Literature; for God would have no Flesh Glory in his Presence, but that he that Glorieth, may Glory in the Lord, • Cor. 2.2•.31.
Son. Sir, I have often wonder'd at it, I must confess, and I have been a thinking it may be from God, as a Just Rebuke upon some of them, because they have Magnified Humane Learning (which is very good in its place) above what they ought; and have too much slighted •ome who have not such Humane Literature; for God would have no Flesh Glory in his Presence, but that he that Glorieth, may Glory in the Lord, • Cor. 2.2•.31.
Fa. What other Reason have yo• thought of?
Son. It may be also as a Rebuke upon those good Christians, who have been too ready to Build their Faith upon Worthy men, upon the account of their Learning; & God would not have the Faith of his People stand in the Wisdom of Men, but in the Power of God, 1 Cor. 2.5. Besides, the Doctrine of self-denial is hard to learn.