N29515:547
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
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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.
Ans. The whole Word of God is of use to direct us in Prayer, but the special Rule is that form of Prayer which Jesus Christ taught his Disciples, Mat. 9.6.
Qu. May all Persons (Sinners as well as Saints) use those words, or pray so as Christ taught his Disciples?
Ans. No verily, Ungodly and Sinners ought not so to Pray.
Quest. Why so?
Ans. Because they cannot go to God as to a Father, they may Pray ⟨p. 105⟩to him as to a Merciful Creator; but not as to a Father, because they are not his Children; also, they cannot Pray, Forgive us our Trespasses, as we forgive them that Trespass against us, because many of them do not forgive such who Trespass against them.