N29515:708
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.
A short Dialogue, showing the Woeful s•ate of an Ungodly Youth.
A short Dialogue, shewing the W•ful s•ate of an Ʋngodly Youth.
Youth, Those days which God to me doth send, In Pleasure I resolve to spend: Like as the Birds i'th' lovely Spring, Sit Chirping on the Boughs, and Sing; Who straining forth their warbling Notes, Do make sweet Music in their Throats. So I resolve in this my Prime, In Sports and Play to spend my Time; Sorrow and Grief I'll put away▪ Such Things agree not with my Day: From Clouds my Morning shall be free, And nought on Earth shall •rouble me. I will embrace each sweet Delight T•• Earth affords me, Day and Night. T•o Parents Grieve, and me Correct; […] their Counsel will Reject; I matter not so I can have My lovely Sports▪ and Pleasures Brave▪
Youth, THose days which God to me doth send, In Pleasure I resolve to spend: Like as the Birds i'th' lovely Spring, Sit Chirping on the Boughs, and Sing; VVho straining forth their warbling Notes, Do make sweet Musick in their Throats. So I resolve in this my Prime, In Sports and Play to spend my Time; Sorrow and Grief I'll put away▪ Such Things agree not with my Day: From Clouds my Morning shall be free, And nough• on Earth shall rouble me. I will embrace each sweet Delight T Earth affords me, Day and Night. To Parents Grieve, and me Correct; their Counsel will Reject; I matter not so I can have My lovely Sports and Pleasures Brave