N29515:521
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. Only Godly Men and Women, or such who are truly converted, and are approved Members of Christ's Church.
Fa. What is required of them that come to the Lord's Table?
Son. They ought to examine themselves; it calls for due Preparation, viz. a sincere Confession of Sins, and godly Sorrow for the same▪ They ought to come with clean Hands, & a pure Heart; also forgiving all that have offended them; they must not eat with the Bread of Malice and Wickedness: Faith also is required in ⟨p. 101⟩the Death and Blood-shedding of Christ: And lastly, a Sin-loathing, and Self-abhorring of themselves.
Son. They ought to examine themselves; it calls for due Preparation, viz. a sincere Confession of Sins, and godly Sorrow for the same▪ They ought to come with clean Hands, & a pure Heart; also forgiving all that have offended them; they must not eat with the Bread of Malice and Wickedness: Faith also is required in ⟨p. 101⟩the Death and Blood-sheding of Christ: And lastly, a Sin-loathing, and Self-abhoring of themselves.