N29515:52
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.
5. Thy Portion's sure, and will endure▪ Nought can undo that youth Whom God doth learn, for to discern The worth of sacred Truth.
6. Take therefore care Learning's more ra•• Than Chains of purest Gold; Look, look about and find it out, Its worth cannot be told,
7. Consonants know, and Vowels […], •ay, learn rightly to Spell; Be not a Fool, but go to School, Till thou read English well;
7. Consonants know, and Vowels 〈…〉, •ay, learn r•g•tly to Spell; Be not a Fool, but go to School, Till thou read English well;