N29515:503
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. 'Tis a Figurative Speech; he says also in another Place, I am a Vine, a Door, a Way, &c. He is called, a Rock, 'tis said that Rock is Christ, 1▪ Cor. 10.4. Which Scriptures, are all to be taken figuratively; This is my Body, 'tis as if he should say, this is a Sign or Figure of my Body, for 'tis called Bread before it was Blessed, and also after it was Blessed; and 'tis called Bread, which the Disciples did eat, 1 Cor. 11.26. The Bread which we bless, is it not the Communion of the Body of Christ? &c. ⟨p. 98⟩1▪ Cor. 1• 16. Besides, 'tis against •eason and our very Senses, to believe it to be any other thing.
Son. 'Tis a Figurative Speech; he says also in another Place, I am a Vine, a Door, a VVay, &c. He is called, a Rock, 'tis said that Rock is Christ, 1▪ Cor. 10.4. Which Scriptures, are all to be taken figuratively; This is my Body, 'tis as if he should say, this is a Sign or Figure of my Body, for 'tis called Bread before it was Blessed, and also after it was Blessed; and 'tis called Bread, which the Disciples did eat, 1 Cor. 11.26. The Bread which we bless, is it not the Communion of the Body of Christ? &c. ⟨p. 98⟩1▪ Cor. 1• 16. Besides, 'tis against •eason and our very Senses, to believe it to be any other thing.
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