N29515:716
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.
Youth, My Heart shall cheer me in my Youth▪ I'll have my mind too, in good Truth: What e'er seems lovely in in mine Eye▪ My Self of it I can't deny; •n my own ways I still must wa••, And take Delight amongst •oung Folk; Who spend their Days in Joy and Mirth▪ There's nought like that, I'm sure, on Earth▪ Thy ways, O Christ! are not for me, They with my Age do not agree: If i unto thy ways should cle•ve, No more good Days then shall I have.
Youth, My Heart shall chear me in my Youth▪ I'll have my mind too, in good Truth: What e're seems lovely in in mine Eye▪ My Self of it I can't deny; •n my own ways I still must wa••, And take Delight amongst •oung Folk; VVho spend their Days in Joy and Mirth▪ There's nought like that, I'm sure, on Earth▪ Thy ways, O Christ! are not for me, They with my Age do not agree: If i unto thy ways should cle•ve, No more good Days then shall I have.
Christ, Wouldst thou live long & good Days see? Refrain from all iniquity▪ True good alone from me doth flow. It can't be had in things below.
Christ, VVouldst thou live long & good Days see? Refrain from all niquity True good alone from me doth flow. It can't be had in things below.