N29515:713
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.
DEVIL The •esolution which you take, Sweet Youth doth me most merry make; Thou shalt become my lovely •oy, •nd I will fill thy Heart with joy, ⟨p. 145⟩If thou my Counsel wilt Embrace. And shun the ways of Truth and Grace: And learn to lye▪ to curse and swear, And be as Proud as any are; And with thy Brothers wilt fall out; And Sisters with foul Language flout: Yea, fight and scratch, and also bite; Then in thee I will take Delight. If thou wilt be Ruled by me, An Artist thou shalt quickly be In all my ways, which lovely are, There's few with thee who shall compare. Thy Parents always disobey; Don't mind at all what they do say. Tho' they should whip thee very sore, Be worser for it ever more. And rather hate them in thy heart, For all the Counsel they impart: And also pout and sullen be, And thou shalt be a Child for me. when others Read▪ be thou at Play; Th•nk not on God▪ don•t Sigh nor Pray; Nor be thou such a silly Fool To mind thy Book or go to […] […] fear not ⟨p. 146⟩And what Earth yields or can afford, I'll give to thee upon my Word Come •ow to me, uphold my Crown; And I•ll raise thee to high renown.
DEVIL The •esolution which you take, Sweet Youth doth me most merry make; Thou shalt become my lovely •oy, •nd I will fill thy Heart with joy, ⟨p. 145⟩If thou my Councel wilt Embrace. And shun the ways of Truth and Grace: And learn to lye▪ to curse and swear, And be as Proud as any are; And with thy Brothers wilt fall out; And Sisters with foul Language flout: Yea, fight and scratch, and also bite; Then in thee I will take Delight. If thou wilt be Rul'd by me, An Attist thou shalt quickly be In all my ways, which lovely are, There's few with thee who shall compare. Thy Parents always disobey; Don't mind at all what they do say. Tho' they should whip thee very sore, Be worser for it ever more. And rather hate them in thy heart, For all the Counsel they impart: And also pout and sullen be, And thou shalt be a Child for me. when others Read be thou at Play; Thnk not on God dont Sigh nor Pray; Nor be thou such a silly Fool To mind thy Book or go to fear not